Series Sunday: Revisiting Schenectady’s recruitment of Guyanese-Americans 20 years later | The Daily Gazette
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If they aren’t already, Guyanese-Americans are widely considered Schenectady’s largest ethnic group, says former Mayor Al Jurczynski, who’s credited with the city’s recruitment of them from the commercial and residential Richmond Hill section of Queens in 2002.
They were drawn, in part, by property-investment opportunities. At the time, Schenectady offered rundown homes for as cheap as $1 to people who could prove they had the wherewithal to bring them back to life while adhering to code restrictions, then-city development director Jay Sherman said.