‘Reliving history’: Residents fear I-81 project could displace communities
Elizabeth Billman | Senior Staff Photographer
Rather than being abruptly displaced like when the viaduct was initially constructed, residents living by I-81 would be progressively pushed out.
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As a child, Deanna Holland’s mother lived where the parking lot for Upstate University Hospital now sits. Her home was destroyed to make room for Interstate 81.
Like 1,300 other Syracuse residents, she was forced to leave her home so the state could construct the highway, which splits through Syracuse’s Southside neighborhood.
Now, nearly 55 years later, the state plans to remove and replace the deteriorating section of the raised highway. Holland, who lives less than a quarter of a mile from I-81, fears her community could face the same fate as her mother.
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Updated Feb 23, 2021;
Syracuse, N.Y. A 17-year-old boy was shot Tuesday afternoon on the South Side of Syracuse, according to Syracuse police spokesman Sgt. Matthew Malinowski.
Officers responded to the 4300 block of South Salina Street for a reported shooting at about 2:07 p.m., Malinowski said. They found the teen with a gunshot wound to the midsection and he was taken to Upstate University Hospital, according to Malinowski.
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