22 minutes into last Thursday's edition of Tom Depietro's typically soporific, self-absorbed two-hour weekly gab fest show on local radio station WGXC, our recently deposed Common Council "president" had this to say to his guest from Catskill (and his audience of four) about the city he still lives in and once wielded far too much power over: I JUST HOPE CATSKILL DOESN'T GO THE WAY OF HUDSON... IT'S A MESS OVER THERE.
Yesterday, HUDseen noticed a third broken or missing very new plastic paid parking sign needing replacement atop an ancient parking meter pole. Two days ago, I noticed that the sign -- in front of a business on Park Place -- was badly bent and leaning back, more so than it had been when I took a picture of it two weeks ago. Closer inspection showed that the plastic sign was also badly cracked, though I was not able to take a picture of it.
The people that have been recently nailing and screwing their plastic business signs to National Grid's utility poles all around town use a ladder for one reason only: to keep their signs out of the reach of anyone wanting to easily pull them down. And anyone can remove signs on poles without being arrested; they are no one's property once they are on the poles. Unfortunately, the only solution to this new problem -- which appeared suddenly this year -- lies with Hudson City Hall.
Last night at 6:00, I came across a parked car completely blocking the new sidewalk that the Pocketbook people forced on the city to make way for their drop-off drive-thru area. The driver of that car (with an Arkansas plate) won't be the first guest of the hotel, wellness center, restaurant, bar, etc. to have no idea that the concrete area is a sidewalk meant for pedestrians and not a place to park their car, mainly because there is no curb between the brick drive-thru and the concrete sidewalk. What a disgraceful, disrespectful mess the Pocketbook has created for the neighborhood (with the blessings of the Planning Board)!
Late yesterday afternoon, several hours after HUDseen reported on the broken single-sided paid parking sign in front of 720 Columbia, I noticed that it had been replaced with a double-sided sign.
22 minutes into last Thursday's edition of Tom Depietro's typically soporific, self-absorbed two-hour weekly gab fest show on loca...
