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.
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 abatement hearing Monday. That’s despite added police patrols, the recent hiring of a 24-hour security company and increased efforts by Skyline staff to keep common areas clean.