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.
Skyline tenants shared their concerns at a nuisance abatement hearing for the 365-unit complex.
Sandi Tuori, daughter of alleged murder victim Connie Tuori, spoke at the hearing about building conditions.
Credit Scott Willis/WAER News
Sandy Tuori Bell is the niece of Connie Touri, the 93-year-old woman found killed in her apartment in March. She says conditions at the Skyline Apartments are dangerous and unsanitary.
“Nuisance is the legal term being used today, but that falls short of describing the utterly deplorable conditions at the Skyline. Any actions taken against (building owners) Green National will not bring our aunt back, or lessen the pain associated with her death,” she said.