Skyline tenants, neighbors give City Hall an earful: ‘It’s very dangerous in there’
Updated May 10, 5:43 PM;
Posted May 10, 4:18 PM
Syracuse, N.Y. Ann Marie McCheyne is fed up with drug dealing at her apartment on the fifth floor of the Skyline Apartments. She uses a wheelchair, lives alone and has to keep her wits about her each time she leaves.
“It’s very dangerous in there,” the 71-year-old testified in a packed nuisance abatement hearing Monday morning. “You can very easily get in trouble.”
Recently, she returned home to find about a dozen people lined up in front of the apartment she’s most afraid of, she said. Strangers on the floor sometimes ask her unsettling questions, like whether she lives alone, and knock on her door late at night.