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Free trolley will connect three low-income neighborhoods to Schenectady Greenmarket | The Daily Gazette SECTIONS Shares0 SCHENECTADY – Residents of three low-income neighborhoods, where foods from corner stores and fast-food restaurants are more available than healthy foods, are bound for free transit to the Schenectady Greenmarket. The nonprofit organization, which holds a farmers market Sundays outside City Hall, teamed with the Capital District Transportation Authority to launch a free pilot trolley service to residents in Hamilton Hill, Mont Pleasant and Eastern Avenue neighborhoods, ...

Schenectady housing nonprofits Better Neighborhoods Inc., Community Land Trust merge into new organization | The Daily Gazette SECTIONS Shares0 A pair of Schenectady-based housing nonprofits have merged into a new organization that should be better positioned to help shepherd affordable housing projects and offer residents financial counseling and support, officials said. The new Better Community Neighborhoods, Inc., is the product of the joining together of the Community Land Trust of Schenectady and Better Neighborhoods Inc., which scored state approval for the merger about a year ago. By...