NEIGHBORHOOD
REVITALIZATION
OR DETERIORATION?
The Sheehan Administration
at work? 

https://www.zillow.com/homes/for_sale/Albany-NY/fore_lt/pmf,pf_pt/37074_rid/globalrelevanceex_sort/42.762389,-73.700924,42.573815,-73.920651_rect/11_zm/2_p/

City of Albany neighborhoods are
in decline.  Mayor Sheehan's
2017 Rezone Albany  ,rubbers stamped
by the 15 Member Albany Common
Council in 2017,  permitting
fast track mixed use development in
former RIB zoned single family 
residential neighborhoods, where only
family homes and Houses of  Worship
were permitted. Such as ours, which
pay the lions share of property taxes
that support City School/City government
services, puts the City of Albany on the
fast track to becoming Detroit on the
Hudson. 

Giving lavish tax breaks to  developers
for building more apartment housing
with high rents, and low amenities
in Uptown Albany such as the project
across from St Peter's Hospital 
 (Academy Post Office) will revert
to section 8 occupancy, creating a slum
like the one  erased by the Albany Med
urban renewal effort. This is planning?
What , by and for whom?

People in the nearby high property tax
blocks like South Manning Blvd, Marion
Avenue and around Buckingham Pond 
are beginning to sell out at reduced 
prices.   Will City and school property
taxes go down as well?  Will more local
resident homeowners protest their
assessments this year (May)?

Foreclosures are on the rise.


Elderly homeowners on fixed incomes
cannot afford the escalating property
taxes.

Old housing stock requires expensive
maintenance. 

Section 8 housing programs spreads 
blight to the last remaining tax paying
single family residential neighborhoods. 

Welcoming more poor, unskilled non-
English speaking refugees, who do not
intend to assimilate, and who go on the
welfare rolls, in a City will an already
large native poverty rate is insane.

Will "No Go Neighborhoods" welcome
Community policing?

Diversity without allegiance and
cultural assimilation will only doom
Albany to  higher poverty rates, more
crime,  lower school performance
and increased government dependency.

A sad fate for the once proud Capitol
City of the former Empire State.

Albany City School District take note.
Reign in spending, creation of more
middle schools. Otherwise, do not be 
surprised if the school budget goes down
to defeat in May.

                                  Joe Sullivan

SECURITY / NATIONAL 
SURVIVAL ARE AT STAKE

 http://insider.foxnews.com/2018/03/12/cutting-welfare-illegal-immigrants-would-pay-trump%E2%80%99s-border-wall-study

and

 http://insider.foxnews.com/2018/03/09/tucker-carlson-anti-border-party-dems-positions-illegal-immigration-are-crazy

Watch:

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgOHOHKBEqE&feature=share

                               Joe Sullivan 

COEYMAN'S LAND DEAL DUMPED
GOOD ENDING TO  A BAD DEAL?

 https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Unable-to-reach-access-agreement-Coeymans-12743667.php#photo-14119754


http://www.focusonalbany.com/radio-interviews/item/799-joe-sullivan-talks-about-coeymans
                                                                   

                                             Joe Sullivan

WELCOME TO BPNANEWS18

This is the blog of the Buckingham Pond Crestwood
Neighborhood Association  established 1984.

Our neighborhood boundaries are:  Western Ave(N)
S. Manning Blvd (E)  NYSSThruway-Whitehall Rd(S)
NYSTW-Rte 85 (W)

Our objective has been and remains maintaining and
improving the residential integrity, environment and
quality of life in this primarily single family residential
neighborhood.

Issues that impact this objective include:

1. Land Use/Zoning
2. Traffic/Pedestrian Safety
3. Waste Management/Recycling/Disposal
4.  Open Space Protection/Pocket Parks
5.  Street/Yard Tree/Shrub Planting and Care
6.  Improved Snow Removal/Reduction/Elimination
     of Road Salt/Use of Safer Alternatives by the City
     homeowners, institutions and businesses
     Buckingham Pond Park Care/Improvement
7.  Retaining/Improving the City Municipal Golf
     Course  (Capital Hills - also known as Albany Muni 
     by old timers.
8.  Emergency/Disaster Preparedness/Public Safety
9.  Monitoring and interacting with  residents of adjacent
     neighborhoods, neighborhood associations, city, county
     state and federal governments informing residents of
     our neighborhood of issues, tends, policies that impact
     us.  We are not an island alone. Government policies
     impact every aspect of our lives. We can and must
     recommend  and support those which are positive 
     and oppose those which conflict with or negatively
     impact our neighborhood objective.


Go to : 

 http//bpcnanews.blogspot.com 


 to gain perspective
regarding the history. objectives, issues and achievements
of this Association over the past 33 years. Suffice it to say
our focus has been on land use ,zoning and issues above.

Long time and new residents have a stake in being active
in the Buckingham Pond Crestwood Association Working
on one or more of the above issues as well as others that
are not enumerated. and representing particular geographic
subdivisions,( blocks) are among the ways you can contribute
to our neighborhood  objective Call me; 518 438 5230 to
become active.  Remember you Buckingham Pond Crestwood
Neighborhood Association works when you do.

                                            ******

Regarding our Neighborhood Watch. All residents are  members.
We adopted this policy years ago,  Watch for an update soon
urging you carry your cell phones and use your land lines
to contact the Albany Police, NYS Homeland Security and
other emergency entities when and as needed. 
As a courtesy contact me and our Neighborhood Watch
Coordinator.  My telephone number: 518 438 5230

Interacting with local, state and federal law enforcement
in matters of public safety and emergency/disaster
preparedness is a priority.

That's all for now.                              Joe Sullivan