It's Nice To Know That At Least One Officer At HPD Reads HUDseen!

It's no coincidence that less than 48 hours after HUDseen pointed out the long-term parked black Mini Cooper on South Front Street with just one three-week-old ticket on it that it was BOOTed by HPD.  They had obviously let this one slip through one of the many cracks that are prevalent in HPD's enforcement of overnight parking.  

Had this car instead originally been parked, say, on January 1st in the 500 block of State Street, it would have been ticketed every other night so often and so regularly that it would have been considered abandoned by Captain David Miller and likely towed and impounded within two or three weeks.  Probably in January!  But because it was parked on Front Street, it evaded the grasp and eyes of HPD.  It didn't look like an abandoned vehicle (so new and shiny!), so they ignored it.  For months.  That is, until HUDseen pointed out the flaw and inconsistency that car represented.  And the general incoherence and mess that overnight parking enforcement clearly is.

Can't Afford The Gas No More While Whiteys Flyin' Round The Moon! **

 

** I couldn't pass up using the title -- ripping off Gil Scott-Heron's wonderful poem Whitey On The Moon -- even though it isn't 100% accurate.  Victor Glover, a Black astronaut, is up there on Artemis II along with three White astronauts zipping around the moon.  And why exactly are they up there, and why do we care?  To forget our troubles down here?

I Don't Know Which Look Is Worse! Do You?

The ugly house at 251 Columbia Street was demolished several years ago, likely in 2018 or 2019.  What has followed is a prime example of what we're up against with City Hall's lack of attention to important matters and details.  Yet again, HUDseen must state the obvious:  NO ONE AT CITY HALL IS PAYING ATTENTION!

For the past 5 years or more, the "vacant" property has been an eyesore of its own, covered in black plastic sheeting weighted down by cinder blocks and "protected" by orange plastic netting.  Actually, calling it an eyesore is being charitable. The plastic cover was the owner's idea of weed control, which worked pretty well.  It also kept Code Enforcement at bay.

Number Six (At Least)!!!!!! Hooray For Stupidity and Wasted Money! And More Plastic Crap For A Landfill Quickly Filling Up!

 

When They Can't Pay Attention, We Pay the Price

 

This parked car that I came across on the even side of South Front Street today had an overnight $15 WRONG SIDE PARKING ticket on its windshield. It looked familiar.  When I saw that the ticket -- which is yellowed and has been shat on by a bird -- was issued by a Hudson cop early in the morning on March 15th, I realized that I had noticed the ticketed car when I biked by it about a week ago.  Fifteen bucks is a pretty good parking deal for someone on a 3-week (or longer) trip away from Hudson, starting with a train ride on Amtrak.  It's a fantastic deal!  It's unheard of, actually!  And, apparently, HPD has no problem with that deal that loses the city money.

The Big Dig Is On! (And The Fibs Continue)

Our $125,000 DPW Superintendent is a strange bird, isn't he?

One week ago, eleven days after Harry Howard Avenue at the flats along Underwood Pond was closed to all traffic because of sudden major road failure there, Rob Perry made an announcement on the city's website about the situation.  Perry had had over one week to assess the very serious situation. (While Perry's name was not included on the "Harry Howard Avenue Closure Update," it certainly couldn't have come from anyone but him.) 

It's Getting Better All The Time!

 

The new 4-foot-wide concrete sidewalk on North 6th Street between Prospect and Washington was created late last fall by the new business complex known as Pocketbook Hudson. But our code is explicit: new sidewalks must be no less than 5 feet wide.   A four-foot-wide sidewalk does not allow two people to walk side by side comfortably, safely or possibly at all.  The Code Enforcement Department is literally directly across the street from the city's latest non-compliant pedestrian sidewalk.