And a hoppy one to you, too Rudy.  Since you opened the soap box and it's Sunday and soon Mr. Pam will be walking through Hyde Park for 3 weeks, here goes.

Phelps just tore down the "old" firehouse (built sometime in the mid 50's) because they opened a new bigger one down the road.  The old one will be replaced by more parking lot.  People in Phelps complain there's no parking, when in reality there's no parking right in front of every building for every tenent.  God forbid they walk around the block building in the summer.  Mind you, they have to walk around the building in the winter because there's no overnight parking on the streets to allow for snow removal.  This is primarily the apartment tenents complaining.  The business owners (your truly included) are quite happy when tenents aren't parked out front because then customers have a place to park.  Basically a constant battle with people who don't know how to read the 2-hour or 15-minute limit signs, and the police who don't ticket them because they're poor.  Someone seems to have overlooked the theory that if you ticket folks once in a while, perhaps they'll be more apt to follow the rules in the future.  On the other hand, our customrs are often concerned with how long they're parked out front because they do want to follow the rules.

Soon, the building next to ours will be torn down, but this is one that's been in the DEC sites for a long time because of oozing gasses from the old tanks.  The gasses then work their way into the basement of the house next door which was part of the Underground Railroad, then eventually into the creek a couple more buildings over from there.  The one to be removed is a building that probably wouldn't stand long on its own if someone wasn't occupying it for a repair shop.  It's one of those blighty looking cement block structures that was built on the cheap 30 years ago and now it looks twice as old as that.

- Pam

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Amazing maybe if the structure were built with true masonry walls rather than the lick’em stick’em style veneer.

 

What’s more amazing (to me) is the fact that the continuing slide into more vulnerable structures exists when the methods to build more durable buildings are evident in the buildings that are torn down in the name of progress (read as replacing with buildings with modern mechanicals). How much further ahead would we be if we had spent the time and energy (money) developing better ways to incorporate modern wiring, plumbing and HVAC into the durable buildings?

 

Obviously the issue of energy efficiency comes into play, but that issue is so blown out of proportion by the gluttony (read as fat assed greed) of the “energy” suppliers that we have no good way of keeping it in perspective.

 

Soap box is open,

 

Rudy

 

Ps;

 

HAPPY EASTER!

 

 

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Amazing how all the brick was gone but the frame appears to be intact.

- Pam

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astonishing damage to 1910's (?) red brick gothic church, front portion of steel frame stripped of masonry.  

 

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