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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 eas...

City Hall wants to keep Skyline under its thumb for at least a year Posted May 11, 2021 Syracuse, N.Y. — City officials hope to keep the owners of the Skyline Apartments complex under a microscope for at least another year, saying owner Green National has not demonstrated it can provide safe, clean housing there weeks after a 93-year-old woman was found murdered. Security and maintenance issues persist at the 365-unit Skyline complex, tenants and neighbors said in a four-hour nuisance abatem...