Unbelievable photos of conditions in the building

[Clipper]

cnycentral.com/news/local/its-time-to-step-up-green-national-could-face-more-legal-action-over-skyline-apartments

I recently saw photos on a couple of different occasions from a couple of different Syracuse media sources. The sights were shocking and unbelievable. Piles of garbage, feces, and syringes in the stairwells, and dangerous unhealthy litter in the hallways also.

It seems that the elderly lady murdered there recently is not shocking to those that live there. I guess assaults and robberies are not uncommon. The number of calls to that address that the police had responded to is absolutely shocking and the code violations noted on inspections. Some of the violations noted are listed here: "Complaints range from raw sewage to bed bugs, roaches, drains clogging, mold in the tug, no hot water and the heat not working properly. Last month, there were reports that the floor and elevator was not cleaned up after a woman was stabbed. Less than a month ago, garbage, needles, vomit and dirty diapers were reported along with stairwells caked with feces and urine."

cnycentral.com/news/local/67-violations-31-failed-inspections-as-photos-reveal-filth-inside-skyline-apartments

NOBODY should have to live under those conditions and it seems that the slumlord corporation that owns the building isn't stepping up to correct or improve the conditions. I is only a matter of time before the building is labeled as unsafe for habitation and those people living there have to be moved and re-housed somewhere else. With the size of the building and number of tenants that seems like it would be an nearly impossible undertaking.

[artsyone]

Green National LLC from Syracuse has quite an extensive portfolio of Properties in Syracuse, and from what I have heard, living conditions in them are not good. Green Nat. has been getting away with this for many years, skimming the top off of Section 8, Social Services and HUD. Also, that this has been allowed to happen, despite the rigerous rules of running HUD and Sec 8 housing, is a mortal sin. Sec 8 and Green, as well as HUD, had to all be it together for this to occur. Who was wiping whose butt will remain to be seen. This situation has been extent for a long time...I heard that Skyline was in deep doo doo at late as ten years ago, so this is no surprise to me. Where there is $$$ in the trough, you can be sure there will be snuffling pigs. The building should be condemmed and the tenants moved. It can be done over time. It has been done here with the Olbiston, which was owned by Hasids from NYC. They let the building deteriorate over time because they could not force the tenants out and believe me, I was there and I saw all the dirty deeds go down. I would not give you ten cents stuffed up a rat's pink patoot for these slum lords, yet they proliferate. Tenant/landlord laws are a tangle, a mishmash of rules that often are not understandable and full of loopholes to boot. To digress: Let me tell a bit about the Olbiston in 2000, which many may not know and this has nothing to do with the Jewish people as a whole, it has to do with certain persons who feel they are entitled to "screw over others", irregardless. The building , which was deteriorating, was sold to a Hasidic Realty firm, in 2001, or thereabouts. At this time there was a lot of racial hatred, including murders, in the Hasidic community in Brooklyn and many of the people were relocating to other small towns around New York State. The new owners purchased the building with there eye on evicting all the tenants and establishing a new Hasidic community in Utica. Long story short, for many reasons , this was untenable and never happened. Then they flipped the building again to some other family members, then they abandonded it, for all practical purposes. All this went on over 21 years, they were constantly in court up here, but like the Greens, they had the bucks and the influence to stall forever. This is how these buildings deteriorate. Skyline is no exception.

[BHU]

It's hard to believe that in the year 2021 people are living under conditions such as that. This is third world stuff & we're getting there. One councilor said the city may seize the building? Yeeeea, sure they will.

[artsyone]

The city of Syracuse may sieze Skytop?

[Clipper]

If the city seizes it what the hell will THEY do to it? If it is infested with drug dealers, gang people, and other low-lifes that crap in the stair well, leave dirty syringes in the hallways, and assail other residents I don't see intervention such as seizing is going to make much difference unless they station police officers IN the building 24/7 and then there will have to be a major investment to make the place livable again. It has probably gone beyond the point of a simple clean up and remodel, not to mention getting the problem tenants and non residents that are causing the dangerous atmosphere out of there.

Sadly those buildings get old and have problems and they deteriorate to a point where some slumlord real estate entity buys them up and does nothing except collect rent until they either burn or become unfit for human habitation. I find it very sad that the Olbiston has been let go to the point it has. The beautiful marble floors and gorgeous woodwork, not to mention the unique architectural beauty have been left to go to hell.

Time moves on and so do the people. People would rather live in a townhouse or modern apartment complex now rather than living in an old building like the Olbiston. They want off street parking, grassy areas to walk a dog and a place for kids to play.

Places such as the buildings on Bleecker St. where PB lives are destined to meet the same fate if someone doesn't step in and step up to make the necessary improvements and insure a safe and secure atmosphere for the tenants.