Just a few months after receiving tax breaks from the Niagara County Industrial Development Agency for two of his six new projects in Western New York, Trammell notified the agency
To the Editor:
We are cooperators living in the Amalgamated Houses, a limited equity, affordable housing co-op, at the edge of Van Cortlandt Park. This diverse, vibrant community is on the brink of bankruptcy and foreclosure.
The renovation of the aging McCarley Gardens low-income housing project is complete, after earlier stumbles, but the effort to expand the community with a six-story apartment building remains stalled by
The governor’s State of the State address will include proposals to discourage landlords and insurance companies from business practices rooted in anti-voucher bias.
(re: “Adams moves to remove sidewalk sheds,” Aug. 17)
We all want sidewalk sheds down, including building owners. What neither the recent Riverdale Press story nor the letter published by Mayor Eric Adams the week before mentions is that owners pay for shedding, including a rental fee every month that shedding is up. There may be a very small number of owners who deliberately keep sheds up to avoid repair costs, but for most owners, it is the process that takes time.