Sunday, July 11, 2021 - 5:05 pm
BY JIMMY LAWTON
North Country This Week
OGDENSBURG — Some Ogdensburg officials are calling on the state to clean up the long vacant buildings at the St. Lawrence Psychiatric Center.
Ogdensburg City Council is set to act on a resolution calling on New York State to take action on “the blight and public safety threat caused by their unmaintained property at the St. Lawrence Psychiatric Center.”
The city says that the state has taken no action to stabilize buildings on the SLPC property that have been vacant since the early 1980s.
“The State of New York continues to neglect these buildings to the pointthat they have become a public health hazard and a blight on the City of Ogdensburg,” the resolution says. “No funding has been appropriated tosave these historical treasures, despite the fact that the State set up and operates a historic preservation program and office.”