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cnyOntario · 2006-09-05, 08:55 PM

Downtown Syracuse, NY

(I have a bunch more pictures, but I didn't want to overload the bandwidth.)

My photos were taken over two years ago. Downtown Syracuse looks a little different now with recent projects like the new Communications Design School of SU downtown, the MONY Towers have changed to the AXA Towers with a new sign and logo, and the new grocery store dt. Other than that all the new construction has taken place on SU Hill with new academic buildings and hospital expansions.

BKM · 2006-09-05, 10:49 PM

Nice building stock. Hopefully, the new uses are bringing more people to the sidewalks. Thanks!

Rem · 2006-09-06, 04:00 AM

AIB BKM there doesn't appear to be a lot of street life - even the street closure with the band stage set up looks quiet. Maybe the photos were taken on the weekends.

I like the buldings you have featured a lot, thank you cnyOntario. We just never see those triangular corner treatments done well any more. Also I wondered to myself how impossible it would be to get a 10 storey building like the one in the right of your first picture approved 'now a days'. The amateur architects would have a field day complaining about inadequate use of colour, inadequate articulation, ground floor setbacks, etc. It works so well though and shows how important proportioning is and how it contributes to creating a really attractive building.

luckless pedestrian · 2006-09-06, 09:49 AM

I grew up in Dewitt, NY and went to SU so it was good to see the pics of my hometown...

Across the street from the corner building was a great deli - big NY sandwiches, doubt if it's still there, it was there when my 80 year old Mom was a kid (she grew up on Tipperary Hill, babysat those Coleman boys...) and my Dad grew up in East Syracuse -
thanks - great way to start the morning but now I need to call my Mom...

hilldweller · 2006-09-06, 12:13 PM

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Originally posted by BKM

Nice building stock. Hopefully, the new uses are bringing more people to the sidewalks. Thanks!

Unfortunately only drunken revelers in the wee morning hours, at least from my experience. Seriously though, Syracuse has a lot of potential and it will be interesting to see what this whole new mall concept does for the downtown area.

vaughan · 2006-09-06, 12:43 PM

I spent a month living in syracuse back in 1999 while working for the new york state museum... the main thing I remember was going to the blue tusk almost every day to have a beer- as I was scrolling through the pics, i was trying to remember the name of it, and then, lo and behold, you had a picture of it!

Atlantis · 2006-09-23, 10:22 PM

I used to love Armory Square. Those were great pictures. I went to SU and lived in Syracuse for a little while after graduation. I haven't been there in 5 years.

drucee · 2006-09-26, 02:21 AM

My aunt and uncle live in Syracuse. It's a pleasant small city, set in some of the Northeast's most beautiful country (I love the drumlins out near Nottingham Road and I-481). Unfortunately, although the university provides the city somewhat of a safety net, the feeling of abandonment is palpable. Even my aunt and uncle, who have been living in Syracuse and working at the university for almost 30 years, are trying to relocate to the Sunbelt--either Memphis or Houston.

The Sunbelt migration has hit Syracuse, and most of Upstate, hard. Large colonies of Upstaters have developed in North Carolina (especially Charlotte and the Triangle), Georgia, and all over Florida. Syracuse's snowbirds often leave for the winter and never come back, or come back envious of the Sunbelt's strip malls and cookie-cutter restaurant chains. The Post-Standard, Syracuse's major daily newspaper, even publishes a column where local residents write in about their favorite chains from Florida or Texas or North Carolina and wait for the writer to inform them that no, they have no plans to expand to Syracuse (likewise with queries about Wegmans in North Carolina).

Oh, and thanks for including the picture of my favorite Syracuse restaurant, L'Adour. It's one of the few French places I've been in this country that actually feels like it was lifted from the French provinces, and not like a hyperreal imitation (a la New York's Pastis or Miramar in the Chicago suburbs).

Luca · 2006-09-26, 03:44 AM

I haven't been to Syracuse but I have been to the sunbelkt. Why do people want to live there? it's so darn hot and boring and full of bible thumpers.

jmello · 2006-09-26, 10:33 AM

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Originally posted by drucee

The Sunbelt migration has hit Syracuse, and most of Upstate, hard. Large colonies of Upstaters have developed in North Carolina (especially Charlotte and the Triangle), Georgia, and all over Florida.

I swear about half the people here are from "Upstate New York."

luckless pedestrian · 2006-09-26, 11:33 AM

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Originally posted by jmello

I swear about half the people here are from "Upstate New York."

but in the college football thread, I feel like I'm the only SU fan! wth is with that?

lol/smirk

notice too, how many of us leave - so many planning errors robbed the city of some good things - thank goodness some of the historical buildings remain downtown - there's snippets and anectdotes here and there, thanks to George Curry, but overall, we know what family reigns there - I would be in a perpetual state of Pi$$ off if I had to be in a planning position out there - it's really too bad, they shot themselves in the foot so many times!

New York, New York · 2006-09-26, 04:35 PM

I love Syracuse. It's a great little city set on rolling hills. So damn beautiful.

Xenobion · 2006-10-01, 10:21 PM

As a person who is going to SU/SUNY-ESF right now I have a mixed opinion of the city. Armory Square is a great revitalization project, its beautiful and attracts alot of external money into the city. SU unfortunately seems very detatched from the rest of the city there is only a small corridor of housing that pretains to the sterotypical college town looking experience. I-81 cuts down through the city like an axe cutting off one part of the city from the other and subsequently has economically divided the city. Ultimately though Syracuse is still plagued with a perception of massive inner city crime which probably limits alot of its tourism. I origionally wanted to ride my bike to classes but my neighborhood is just too dangerous (I even got my own "call this number if you have any info on this guy's killer" billboard). I really do think that the city is on an upswing though. The mall is a great tax base and its expansion is promising for the city. It will be interesting what the city will do to make it safe for students to pour thier coffers into Armory Square. Right now armed theives prey on the college students who are regularly held up atleast once a week.

BKM · 2006-10-02, 11:53 AM

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Originally posted by Luca

I haven't been to Syracuse but I have been to the sunbelkt. Why do people want to live there? it's so darn hot and boring and full of bible thumpers.

Believe, me, there are plenty of "bible-thumpers" in much of the Rust Belt too. (Ex Hoosier, whose Congressman, Dan Quayle, when I was growing up was a classic example of Republican Support the Troops Biblethumper-Dad owned a War Porn small town newspaper ranting about the Red Menace, yet old Danny Boy somehow avoided service in Vietnam).

2006-09-05, 08:55 PM	#1
cnyOntario Member Registered: May 2005 Location: Clay, New York Posts: 13	Downtown Syracuse, NY- Pics broadband suggested Downtown Syracuse, NY (I have a bunch more pictures, but I didn't want to overload the bandwidth.) My photos were taken over two years ago. Downtown Syracuse looks a little different now with recent projects like the new Communications Design School of SU downtown, the MONY Towers have changed to the AXA Towers with a new sign and logo, and the new grocery store dt. Other than that all the new construction has taken place on SU Hill with new academic buildings and hospital expansions.

2006-09-05, 10:49 PM	#2
BKM Cyburbian Registered: Oct 2001 Location: Solano County, California Posts: 6,469	Nice building stock. Hopefully, the new uses are bringing more people to the sidewalks. Thanks! __________________ The war on drugs seems like a small thing, but actually it was a huge opening, created by the American government, to stealthily destroy your rights. It has done a crackerjack job. In California, poor Ed Rosenthal is again being prosecuted by Federal terrorists, otherwise known as the Drug Enforcement Agency. Free Ed Rosenthal. Arrest instead William Bennet (roger gathman)

2006-09-26, 03:44 AM	#9
Luca Cyburbian Registered: Mar 2005 Location: London, UK Posts: 1,092	I haven't been to Syracuse but I have been to the sunbelkt. Why do people want to live there? it's so darn hot and boring and full of bible thumpers. __________________ Life and death of great pattern languages

2006-09-06, 04:00 AM	#3
Rem Cyburbian Registered: Jun 2003 Location: NSW, Australia Posts: 1,529	AIB BKM there doesn't appear to be a lot of street life - even the street closure with the band stage set up looks quiet. Maybe the photos were taken on the weekends. I like the buldings you have featured a lot, thank you cnyOntario. We just never see those triangular corner treatments done well any more. Also I wondered to myself how impossible it would be to get a 10 storey building like the one in the right of your first picture approved 'now a days'. The amateur architects would have a field day complaining about inadequate use of colour, inadequate articulation, ground floor setbacks, etc. It works so well though and shows how important proportioning is and how it contributes to creating a really attractive building.

2006-09-06, 09:49 AM	#4
luckless pedestrian Cyburbian Registered: Aug 2005 Location: here, there, and everywhere Posts: 4,622	I grew up in Dewitt, NY and went to SU so it was good to see the pics of my hometown... Across the street from the corner building was a great deli - big NY sandwiches, doubt if it's still there, it was there when my 80 year old Mom was a kid (she grew up on Tipperary Hill, babysat those Coleman boys...) and my Dad grew up in East Syracuse - thanks - great way to start the morning but now I need to call my Mom...

2006-09-06, 12:43 PM	#6
vaughan Cyburbian Registered: Jan 2004 Location: montana Posts: 336	I spent a month living in syracuse back in 1999 while working for the new york state museum... the main thing I remember was going to the blue tusk almost every day to have a beer- as I was scrolling through the pics, i was trying to remember the name of it, and then, lo and behold, you had a picture of it!

2006-09-23, 10:22 PM	#7
Atlantis Member Registered: Jul 2006 Location: Buffalo, NY Posts: 12	I used to love Armory Square. Those were great pictures. I went to SU and lived in Syracuse for a little while after graduation. I haven't been there in 5 years.

2006-09-26, 02:21 AM	#8
drucee Cyburbian Registered: Aug 2004 Location: Minneapolis Posts: 226	My aunt and uncle live in Syracuse. It's a pleasant small city, set in some of the Northeast's most beautiful country (I love the drumlins out near Nottingham Road and I-481). Unfortunately, although the university provides the city somewhat of a safety net, the feeling of abandonment is palpable. Even my aunt and uncle, who have been living in Syracuse and working at the university for almost 30 years, are trying to relocate to the Sunbelt--either Memphis or Houston. The Sunbelt migration has hit Syracuse, and most of Upstate, hard. Large colonies of Upstaters have developed in North Carolina (especially Charlotte and the Triangle), Georgia, and all over Florida. Syracuse's snowbirds often leave for the winter and never come back, or come back envious of the Sunbelt's strip malls and cookie-cutter restaurant chains. The Post-Standard, Syracuse's major daily newspaper, even publishes a column where local residents write in about their favorite chains from Florida or Texas or North Carolina and wait for the writer to inform them that no, they have no plans to expand to Syracuse (likewise with queries about Wegmans in North Carolina). Oh, and thanks for including the picture of my favorite Syracuse restaurant, L'Adour. It's one of the few French places I've been in this country that actually feels like it was lifted from the French provinces, and not like a hyperreal imitation (a la New York's Pastis or Miramar in the Chicago suburbs).

2006-09-26, 04:35 PM	#12
New York, New York Registered: Sep 2006 Location: New York Posts: 9	I love Syracuse. It's a great little city set on rolling hills. So damn beautiful.

2006-10-01, 10:21 PM	#13
Xenobion Member Registered: Sep 2006 Location: California Huzzah! Posts: 10	As a person who is going to SU/SUNY-ESF right now I have a mixed opinion of the city. Armory Square is a great revitalization project, its beautiful and attracts alot of external money into the city. SU unfortunately seems very detatched from the rest of the city there is only a small corridor of housing that pretains to the sterotypical college town looking experience. I-81 cuts down through the city like an axe cutting off one part of the city from the other and subsequently has economically divided the city. Ultimately though Syracuse is still plagued with a perception of massive inner city crime which probably limits alot of its tourism. I origionally wanted to ride my bike to classes but my neighborhood is just too dangerous (I even got my own "call this number if you have any info on this guy's killer" billboard). I really do think that the city is on an upswing though. The mall is a great tax base and its expansion is promising for the city. It will be interesting what the city will do to make it safe for students to pour thier coffers into Armory Square. Right now armed theives prey on the college students who are regularly held up atleast once a week.