Walkable Eastwood

If you were at the Memorial Day parade, you saw Annette Malone’s art – in the form of a giant street puppet named Gustav. Annette not only designed and painted the head, she created all the puppet’s fabric parts: arms, legs, and the torso with all those images of James Street businesses.

Now you can see much . . . → Read More: Annette Malone art exhibit at Paine Library

Hello Eastwood Resident and Neighbor!

You are invited to attend the Syracuse Tomorrow’s Neighborhoods Today (TNT)-Eastwood District 6 monthly meeting on Monday, June 27, 2011, at 7:00 pm at Huntington School, 400 Sunnycrest Avenue. This meeting is FREE and OPEN TO ALL RESIDENTS, BUSINESSES, AND ORGANIZATIONS of the Eastwood Neighborhood who have a stake in the future . . . → Read More: Message from Joe Bartolo re: TNT meeting etc

This coming Monday, June 27, there will be a TNT meeting with some interesting content.  Here’s the agenda:

Meeting Agenda – Monday, June 27, 2011
Huntington School Cafetorium
400 Sunnycrest Road
7:00 p.m.

1. Welcome & Introductions
2. Review of May Minutes
3. Councilor Nader Maroun- update on James St. development
4. Committee Reports
Business District Committee,  Eastwood Parks Committee & Sunnycrest Park Association,  . . . → Read More: You’ll want to attend this TNT meeting!

Chris Fowler of Syracuse First posted a great link on Facebook today. There are a couple fascinating videos in it that make me think of the difficulties and dangers of crossing James Street – where cars whiz by and those who dare to park get ticketed.  We would love to have lots of people comfortably walking . . . → Read More: The social payoff of walkable streets

The musicians of Puente Flamenco will be at Sparky Town, 324 Burnet Ave., Syracuse, on Friday, June 24  ~  6:00 – 8:00 pm.

Normally Puente Flamenco is a troupe of three musicians and three dancers, but Sparky Town isn’t big enough for all those dancers!  Eastwood residents Dave and Lonnie Chu join their compatriot Dave Colegrove for . . . → Read More: Eastwood musicians at Sparky Town

Did you know that, while Onondaga County doesn’t allow hydro-fracking here, the nearby city of Auburn has been processing fracking waste water in a facility not designed to handle it?  Fracking is in Central New York whether we know it or like it, or not. Makes no difference. And only by making a few phone calls . . . → Read More: Fracking fluids in Central New York

Press release sent to the Walkable Eastwood email group by Gia Palermo:

First Urban Environmental Trail to be Opened at Sunnycrest Park
Park is first ever of its kind in Syracuse

Syracuse, NY. May 25, 2011 –     The Syracuse Parks Conservancy will open its first-ever urban environmental trail at  Sunnycrest Park on Friday, June 3rd at 10 A.M.  . . . → Read More: First urban environmental trail opens in Eastwood

Okay, so maybe tanking property values don’t mean much to you. Heck, who has money for a down payment these days anyway?  So hydrofracking’s ruination of the ability to ever sell your property doesn’t affect you. But I bet I know what does: BEER.

Yep, hydrofracking is a clear and present danger to one of the wonderful . . . → Read More: Deadly threat to beer made in NYS

It only makes sense that the invasive and environmentally disastrous practice of hydrofracking would seriously impact real estate values. I mean, who would ever buy a property anywhere near where they’re pumping hundreds of known carcinogens into the ground?

But it gets more interesting than this. When banks speak, people tend to listen. And banks don’t want . . . → Read More: Hydrofracking nearby? Forget ever selling your property

The following is excerpted from an essay, circa 1941, by Nelson Algren, a writer from the Chicago office of the Illinois Writers’ Project (Federal Writers’ Project), entitled A Short History of the American Diet. When you consider the wholesale destruction of the largest herd the planet has even known, the plains bison, in light of our . . . → Read More: Destroying the food of one’s own sons

New York State dodged a bullet, rather easily, as it turns out. When Andrew Cuomo won the race for governor by a landslide, we were spared more of Carl Paladino, the charming fellow who tore down our historic bowling alley and then left the property to rot. Seems he has a history of allowing buildings to . . . → Read More: The men who would be king

A good number of us have family living in the small towns across New York State where jobs are hard to come by and the views are some of the best in the world – literally. Where the water is still clean and abundant and so is the air. We take these things for granted when . . . → Read More: Where are your relatives?