OGDENSBURG â Calling the âunmaintainedâ buildings of the St. Lawrence Psychiatric Center a public safety threat, City Council on Monday night will vote on whether to pass a resolution requesting the state take âimmediate actionâ to address the various deteriorating buildings on psychiatric center land.
The state âabandonedâ the St. Lawrence Psychiatric Center in the early 1980s, according to the resolution, and as a result, dozens of old, deteriorating stone buildings remain. The buildings have been empty since the mid-1990s, when the centerâs operations were consolidated into new buildings. Those new buildings stand among the abandoned ones.
âI just really think they have become a blight,â Councilor and Deputy Mayor John A. Rishe said of the abandoned buildings, âand Iâm concerned, given their further deterioration and that some of them are collapsing â they have become a bit of a hazard.
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OGDENSBURG — Wreaths were placed at a memorial for veterans at Ogdensburgh Cemetery to honor those who served their country at a Memorial Day ceremony held by the VFW Post