Blueprint 15 aims to protect East Adams residents after I-81 overhaul
Elizabeth Billman | Senior Staff Photographer
The nonprofit recently received a $1 million dollar grant, which it will use to kickstart several anti-displacement strategies in the neighborhood.
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UPDATED: Feb. 26, 2021 at 2:45 p.m.
To Arlaina Harris, the best way to effect change in the East Adams Street neighborhood is by empowering its residents.
Harris, who grew up on Syracuse’s Southside, is the director of community partnerships at Blueprint 15, a Syracuse nonprofit aiming to revitalize East Adams. The area is a portion of the former 15th Ward, a predominantly Black neighborhood destroyed by the construction of the Interstate 81 highway in the mid-20th century.
Onondaga County to provide 1,100 vaccines to public housing residents, new Americans
Updated Feb 02, 2021;
Syracuse, N.Y. More than 1,000 people in public housing and refugee neighborhoods will receive coronavirus vaccines today and tomorrow, according to Onondaga County officials.
More than 500 people were scheduled to get their first dose of the Pfizer vaccines at Toomey Abbott towers today. Those people were selected by the Syracuse Housing Authority and included people in adjoining ZIP codes who signed up for the OnList, according to a news release from the Onondaga County Executive’s office.
Tomorrow, at least 600 people are scheduled to receive vaccinations at Dr. Weeks Elementary School, an effort to reach Syracuse’s refugee community. These recipients were referred via community organizations, according to the news release.
NY bringing Covid-19 vaccine into public housing, churches for seniors
Updated Jan 23, 2021;
Posted Jan 23, 2021
Gov. Andrew Cuomo gave an update on Jan. 23, 2021, about a plan to vaccinate seniors living in public housing.Teri Weaver | tweaver@syracuse.com
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Syracuse, N.Y. – State health officials are setting up Covid-19 vaccine clinics inside public housing facilities in New York City, and Gov. Andrew Cuomo said today that tactic will spread across the state.
“We bring the vaccine to the people,” Cuomo said of the effort to get more older people living in subsidized housing. “We’re going to do it all across the city, all across the state.”
Christina Sauve on leadership: Hire people who challenge you and then really listen
Updated Jan 12, 2021;
Posted Jan 12, 2021
Christina Sauve is CEO of Cooperative Federal credit union in Syracuse. She learned an early lesson from her parents: How you treat other people is important for leadership. Courtesy Ana Gil Photography
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Christina Sauve grew up in Syracuse and Solvay, then took her first airplane trip to attend Stanford University, near Palo Alto and Silicon Valley. After graduation in 2003, she worked for a short time as a teaching assistant at Blodgett School in Syracuse but expected to go back to California.