The Last Thing 6th & Columbia Needs...

 

... are any crosswalks or stop lines at all!  Everything is fine there!  Don't waste the money and effort!  Stick to Warren!

Caught At His Own Game On His Own Street While The Common Council Twiddles Its Thumbs!

Anyone who contends with overnight on-street parking (and plenty who don't) knows that you risk a $15 WRONG SIDE parking ticket from HPD if you fail to adhere to whatever overnight parking rule exists on your street (odd/even is not the only rule), regardless of signage or no signage.  Additionally, just about everyone on the planet knows that the reason for the overnight parking rules is twofold: to allow the Hudson DPW street sweeper to do its thing outside of winter, and for DPW to be able to plow streets of snow to the curbs within two nights.  That's it; it's not complicated: Stay out of the way of the sweeper and the plows or you will be ticketed.   All streets need to be swept; all streets have an overnight parking rule of one sort or another.

Insightful Information That Our Police Chief and The So-Called SAFETY Committee Apparently Don't Want Any Of Us To Be Aware Of!

Listed below is what just about anyone would regard as important Hudson Police Department activity data covering the month of May 2026.  Except, it seems, for our own police chief. In her (yet again) ridiculously brief so-called HPD report at last month's meeting of the so-called SAFETY Committee, Mishanda Franklin didn't mention any data related to crime and quality of life issues, what her department is doing to prevent crime, what her department is spending time doing, nor if there are any concerning crime and quality of life issue trends in Hudson.  Apparently, everything is fine in town and there is nothing to worry about.  Hooray for us! 

Closed Again? Why?

It's been about a month and a half since HUDseen last wrote about the Hudson Parking Bureau not being available to the public (closed) for a few days.  Something is not right over there at 701A Union. *

"Melted"? "Removed"? Is That So, Rob? Are You 100% Certain Of This?

During his DPW report to the Infrastructure Committee (CODE is gone! Out! Done! Moved!) last Monday, DPW Superintendent Rob The Slob Perry described his department's recent replacement of the angled pedestrian crosswalk across Warren just west of City Hall Place.  It turns out that crosswalk in front of Hudson Hall was never ADA-compliant, so it should never have been installed in the first place (it's been around in one form or another for several years).  Time to try again.  Once the new crosswalk was installed straight across Warren east of City Hall Place, Rob explained, "the one by the Opera House was melted and removed."  Perry was kind enough to include a picture of a portion of our new crosswalk but failed to include one of the "melted and removed" former crosswalk if only because there was nothing to take a picture of. Or so he wanted the committee members and the public to believe.

Syracuse Has Had A Police Review Board For Over 30 Years! Where Is Hudson's PRB?

 

Given the Hudson Police Department's sordid past, isn't it long past time for the public to be involved in, and made aware of, misconduct claims and investigations at HPD?

The State of Rope? Not So Good!

One and a half of the three blocks of upper Rope Alley are closed to through traffic this weekend due to a recent sinkhole and a house demolition done weeks ago.  The entire 600 block of Rope was closed off on Thursday morning after DPW excavated the sinkhole behind 610 State (which HUDseen wrote about on Tuesday), covered it with plywood, and never came back yesterday to continue work.  Why they didn't wait until Monday to begin is beyond me.