Sure, Why The F Not? It's Just A Sidewalk (Or A Residential Street)! It's Just Hudson!

 

All pictures taken this week.

In my estimation, Hudson is becoming a less livable, less walkable, less interesting, less clean, less attractive, less stable and less friendly place to live.  Much like America in general.  The city has also gotten a lot noisier.  Too much damn traffic, too much of it passing through town on the way to elsewhere (State Street is a major artery for vehicles passing through town).  And the signs on and near the sidewalks... don't get me started.  No one at City Hall or on the Common Council seems to care or be paying attention enough to care about any of it.

Is This The Result We All Wanted? Or Is This The Result Only Joe Ferris Was Hoping For?

A few days following HUDseen's May 15th piece about the ugliness surrounding the e-scooter sidewalk rental business that had just popped up in town, an article appeared in the Register-Star regarding the city forcing the owner to remove her scooters and signs while they looked into the legality of her business.  Apparently, the main (or sole) issue was that the signs associated with the scooters were in historic zones.  And, apparently, Code Enforcement soon gave the scooter lady the approval she needed, possibly just with a sign permit, and back the fleet of scooters and plastic lawn signs -- now with one large A-frame sign -- came to 3 or 4 locations on our sidewalks along Warren Street.

I took these pictures in the past few days.

Park In Traffic Lane, Buy Garbage Bags! No Need For Flashers!

 

Heck, what's the big deal? It only took two or three minutes!  Maybe four tops!

Closed? Again? Such Professionalism!

 

And no one from the Police Department a few steps away will be able to help you.  Sorry!  Come back on Tuesday if you can.  Maybe someone will be here to help you.

New Year, New 7th Street Park! It's Always Something!

The situation with regular "patrons" in the 7th Street Park has taken on a different tone this year.  Gone from the north side of the park are Michael Madison and his gang of "patrons."  In their place are 6 or 7 "patrons" who have set up camp in the southwest corner of the park in the shade of trees and with the help of folding chairs (during the day only, it seems).  This new lair shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone -- including our mayor, the police chief and the DPW superintendent -- since there are plenty of options for "patrons" to utilize free electricity in the south side of the park.   

Now Albany Is Our Inspiration! Are you as PROUD as Captain Miller Is?

During last night's SAFETY Committee meeting  -- where there was plenty of talk about issues having nothing to do with safety --  the head of our law enforcement department, HPD Chief Mishanda Franklin, revealed two interesting things about the remaining ten parking kiosks that still have yet to make their way onto sidewalks 16 months after they were delivered to the city in early February of last year.  Actually, she announced three things of note. 

Need To Dump A Body? How About Just A Couch or Two?

Since I first came across the city's most ideal midnight dumping area a few weeks ago, several discarded items have been added to it.  Given the fact that there are no signs or video cameras anywhere nearby, it seems that Joe Ferris, Rob Perry, Mishanda Franklin, Nick Fox and the whole cast of characters supposedly governing the city are perfectly fine with you, me and everyone else living in and around Hudson dumping trash in that quiet no man's land on the 2nd Street extension.  Go ahead, it's city property!  Drop a couch or broken chair or two (or large bags of fresh garbage!) down there some night instead of taking it to the transfer station to pay for it to be disposed of properly.  You know Rob Perry won't mind, and neither will Joe Ferris.