Have You Seen It, Felt It Or HEARD It Yet? Rob Perry Hopes You Have!

 

They Sure Do Like Their Chain Link Fences, Don't They? Aren't We So Lucky!!!

If you suddenly notice a lot of chain link fencing,
you have probably arrived in the Galvan District.  Concrete 
barriers and gravel sidewalks are dead giveaways too!

We need more fences and more NO TRESPASSING signs,
 not fewer!  Rather than make 618 State habitable,
the city prefers that Galvan fence the building off.  This way 
no one will ever work on it or live in it, solving our
housing crisis.

This Galvan fence arrived at 4th & Columbia 
a week or two ago.

Fenced in area where three perfectly good houses stood until 
Galvan decided a few years ago that they had to go.   
City Hall and the Planning Board agreed.

Intentional or Unintentional Inexplicable Omission?

If, as I understand it, the Front Street portion of the DRI Streetscape project was meant to improve the sidewalks and make things generally safer for pedestrians on both sides of the street, including at every intersection on the east side, it seems that someone has made a rather large, inexcusable error on South Front Street.  Because, as I noticed today, where the portions of sidewalk on the east side of Front Street meet both Cherry Alley and Union Street there are still no pedestrian curb ramps to be had.  With the four curbs anywhere from 4 to 7 (!) inches above the street surface, it's difficult to imagine that this was an intentional omission, as if someone told Luizzi not to touch those four curbs or that those intersections were just left off of the plans as if everything was fine with them and anyone in a wheelchair could safely and easily navigate the four street/sidewalk transitions, one of them at 7 inches in height. 

"NO RECORDS"? NO TICKET? NO BILL? NO CONSEQUENCE? NO PROBLEM?

Nearly 11 weeks ago, just before noon on Saturday, March 1st, a driver attempted to back up his pickup truck and attached trailer to get in front of a garage near the southwest corner of 6th & State. From across the street, I heard the sound of metal on concrete, a loud KA-LANG. I looked up and noticed that there was no longer a stop sign at the corner.

Advertise For A Car Wash, Injure or Kill A Pedestrian or Two! Destroy A Car or Two! Kill A Bicyclist! Hooray!

A sign or two on the sidewalk 
wouldn't do.

The sign was an advertisement for a $10
car wash at the other end of the block.  An 
obscene display of disrespect.

City Hall continues to have a culture of
disregard, if not disdain, for pedestrians and,
generally, safe streets. These pictures prove it.

The Hudson Fire Department's car wash was held from
noon until 4 today.

 

Hudseen Quiz Time! And More Fun Observations and Pictures Of A City In Decline!

In your lifetime, how many public parks have you entered where one of the first things that greeted you, if not the first thing, was a PORTA JOHN?

We're In Good Hands, Don't You Worry (Even If We Are Missing a Great Cop)!

Talk about dysfunction and a city that isn't interested in paying attention to quality-of-life issues!