Syracuse's streets are full of cars driven by law-breaking suburbanites www.syracuse.com/crime/2025/1...

hot damn, was not expecting this brutal takedown of Strathmore in a profile of the Liverpool Mayor

this screen grab deserves a pulitzer

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ooh well done

obsessed with this 1970s poster of Syracuse's parochial league

all my conversations with car drivers since they put in the school zone cameras

once again asking for a travel/lifestyle/culture print publication (like Southern Living) focused on the Great Lakes Basin

these prepper ads on the ACC network are how you know this isn't a serious conference

Syracuse used to celebrate October 1 as the anniversary of Jerry Henry's rescue from slave catchers. It feels more relevant this year. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_R...

we're posting blogs again inthesalt.city/2025/09/30/c...

riding Centro to the NYS Fair is great because you'll be on the bus with a bunch of people who never ride the bus all talking about how easy and convenient riding the bus is

ran into the thing this past weekend where you can't use the Onondaga Lake Trail when there's a concert because they ran the trail through the amphitheater very annoying! makes you wonder if Onondaga County actually values 'greenways and blueways' as transportation infrastructure

1990 population: Providence, RI - 160,728 Syracuse, NY - 163,855 *Providence restores its downtown canal* 2020 population: Providence, RI - 190,934 (+19%) Syracuse, NY - 148,620 (-9%) 🤔

considering that James St between Grant/Midler has the Curd Nerd (a cheese monger), Papa John's (most items on their menu include cheese), Luv Handles (frozen yogurt, a dairy product similar in some ways to cheese), and Walgreens (frozen cheese products), hard to argue this ISN'T a cheese district

I hate shakespeare so fucking much

main takeaway from 81 construction is that Erie Blvd could absolutely take a road diet between Almond and Beech

just talked to a guy who grew up in Westcott south of Euclid a few decades ago, said the area used to be a 'real neighborhood' because it had a bunch of stores where kids could hang out he rattled off a few I'd never heard of, including this one on the NE corner of Euclid and Strong

New York State and Onondaga County with population density by census tract represented in 3D

hadn't run into problems with the census adding noise to its data until this week looking at 3d maps of pop density by block at least twice in Onondaga County, the census assigned population to 'blocks' that are really just highway medians since the blocks are so small, the density really pops

the thing about this that makes me think it won't work is there's no word that rhymes with 'Hogan' such that you could make as snappy a slogan as "write down Byron Brown"

a house cannot be in the shadow of a lake unless it is underwater

I get the idea that this is a bad move because SHA is in such disarray that the front runner in the mayoral election said she'd fire ED Bill Simmons but that's exactly why SHA retaining ownership of the buildings can be good: it's subject to real public oversight www.syracuse.com/news/2025/07...

OCDC leadership says its the responsibility of anybody who doesn't like their endorsements to join the committee but why would someone want to join an org that doesn't share their values and has repeatedly demonstrated its own irrelevance? www.syracuse.com/politics/cny...

take a look at this tiny ass zinnia

this is true and it's why ReZone needs some reform administration policy is that Syracuse's new zoning code doesn't allow the construction of two-family homes with party walls because ReZone doesn't ever list 'two-unit, attached' as an allowed use pretty short-sighted, but pretty easy to fix too

looking at the SDC project site plan, and there's something kind of weird about modern architects/landscape architects that makes them allergic to building to the lot line at intersections

if OCDC leadership is mad that the Democratic electorate doesn't like their designees, then they should recruit better candidates centralcurrent.org/syracuse-dem...

after 4 days of not moving a single muscle to avoid overheating, my cat has transformed into the tasmanian devil

my wife just said post standard articles are like reading a middle school essay, and yea that is how it feels sometimes

just noticing that Pat Hogan got three more votes than Hasahn Bloodworth

dot density map of Syracuse common council primary votes

dot density map of Syracuse mayoral primary votes

OCBOE, please, we need election results with more usable data formatting

wild how 80 degrees and 60% humidity at 9am on a June morning feels like something to celebrate

so glad Mo Brown's on this app you're not getting this kind of detailed, statistical local elections content anywhere else

good news for OCDC who will just need to designate the incumbent in order to avoid another humiliating repudiation by their electorate when Syracuse votes for mayor four years from now

this is a Good Cause win in Syracuse

railroad rails pulled up from Canal Street for the I81 project

this is canary in the coalmine stuff for Micron growth just turning into an expensive, unsustainable, inequitable sprawl bomb

there shouldn't be a mural on this wall because this wall shouldn't be visible because the corner of Walton/Fayette should be a big apartment building not a parking lot www.syracuse.com/entertainmen...

there should be an online calendar of every fish fry and chicken barbecue in Onondaga County

very James Street experience today of taling a closer look at all the little white flowers that had bloomed in the planting strip overnight and realizing they were all packing peanuts

FUCK THIS

holy cow

so much pedestrian activity on Euclid that the sidewalk isn't wide enough to fit everybody walking there, so people walk in the planting strip and trample the grass have heard of desire paths, but what is this, a desire width?

snow gets a bad rap, but I for one am thankful for how bright it feels on this sunny mid-January morning