Plans unveiled for Rensselaer elderly housing complex
A federal grant supports an eight story fifty unit seniors building to be built near Fast and Fourth Streets in Rensselaer. The city will sell five acres to a clergy-led charity for a 40 year mortgage with HUD subsidies of 162 thousand dollars annually. The project will feature safety systems and aims to ease elderly residents from private rentals and strained property taxes.
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Peter Seidner
Fast
Fourth Streets
Seidner
Federal
Department of ‘Housing and Urban Development
HUD
Mink
HOT LINE column offers readers dispute help
Frank Sherry’s weekly HOT LINE column invites readers to seek help with problems and red tape. The Times Record in Troy New York asks for names and addresses, a phone number if desired, and notes responses will be provided after research is completed.
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Times
Troy
N.Y
Albany taxi fare dispute prompts reader guidance
A reader describes being overcharged at a Albany area taxi ride from Exit 23 on the Thruway to Troy. The dispatcher later cites a higher fare, checks are discussed, and a refund was eventually mailed after the boss intervened. The column offers steps to document drivers and dispatchers in future disputes and notes cautions about sending cash.
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Albany
Thruway
Troy
East Greenbush Scrambles Drains Housing Flooding Debate
East Greenbush town board discussed California Avenue drainage as residents James Reed and Louis Battista urged action to stop repeated flooding. The inspector said focus is redirecting water and addressing ice jams, not changing building codes. A follow up meeting was set for 7:30, and officials noted state consideration for a South Mall disposal facility and traffic safeguards.
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East Greenbush
California Avenue
James Reed
Louis Battista
Battista
Ernest Than
Than
Petition Drives One Way Nelson Avenue In Rensselaer
A petition signed by 38 Nelson Avenue residents asks the common council to designate Nelson Avenue as one way south and end alternate parking. The measure was referred to the streets committee for a recommendation. The council set Feb 18 for a rezoning hearing on Penn Central riverfront land for an Amtrak turbotrain facility.
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Nelson Avenue
Rensselaer
Common Council
Ninth Ward
Donald Hunt
James McDermott
Nelson Ave
McDermott
Council
Committee On
Penn Central Railroad
Public Hearing Tonight Over Rensselaer CDA Grant
City to seek $300000 federal Community Development Act funds at a public hearing tonight at 8 in the high school auditorium. A key issue is which neighborhood will receive $130000 in low-interest housing loan subsidies plus $60000 for municipal improvements. This is the second and final hearing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rensselaer
Murphy Seeks Speed Up Of In Rem Deeds To City
City Treasurer seeks faster delivery of in rem tax deeds from Rensselaer County to foreclosed properties. Officials cite delays by County Attorney Marvin Honig, with turnover promises previously made for January 1976. Sale at auction aims to restore properties to the tax rolls.
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Murphy
John J. Dwyer
Rensselaer County Attorney's
Marvin I. Honig
Honig
Times
Dwyer
Weather Related Accidents Reported To Rensselaer Police
Police investigated a weekend of minor accidents blamed on bad weather. The report details injuries from falls on ice at Second Avenue and Academy Street, thefts, vehicle collisions, burglar alarm incident, and a blizzard leading to deserted streets and patrols. Names include Burger Coons Averill Park John Burnham Castleton Elizabeth O Dell and others.
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Rensselaer
Albany Medical Center
Burger Coons
Averill Park
Second Avenue
Academy Street
Niagara Mohawk
New York Telephone Company
Sixth Street
Broadway
Partition Streets
Elizabeth O’dell
Riverside Avenue
Ft. Craile
Columbia Street
Hardy
Burns
Thomas Delaney
Frederick Hesser
Kurtz Lane
Castleton
Harold E. Agans Jr
Partition Street
Agans
Bruce R. Gauwin
Box
Michael Leisenfelder
Third Street
Partition
Roxy Cleaners
Washington Avenue
Daniel Jordan
John R. Brophy
Burden Lake Road
Paul Mahan
Dale Street
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Church of the Redeeemer
Thomas Riston
Riston
Citizens and Clergy United For Senior Citizen Housing
CCU
Senior Citizens Project
Carol Singer
Rensselaer County Department For the Aging
Rensselaer Senior Citizens Center
Church of the Redeemer
Singer
Peter’ Seidner
Rensselaer Senior Citizens Project
Leidner
Mike ‘McMahon
Frank Sherry
L.C
No. 2
Miss A.T
Amsterdam
Jacqueline Onassis
Richard E. Grady
Carol
G.W
Poestenkill
L.D.T
Lansingburgh
E.E.M. of
C B
Watervliet
John I. Maguire
Rd.troy
Internal Revenue Service
Frederick Colson
Third Avenue
Colson
Michael van Voris
New York State
East Green
Bush
New South Mall
van Voris
Holy Sepulchre
Stan Adler
Forbes Ave
New City
Edler
City Department of Public Works
Philip Smith
Adler
James
Kapp
Police
Seventh Street
Sixth Avenue
Joe Mink
John H. Burnham
Rensselaer Junior-Senior High School
Charles Muller
Charles Bashant
Una la Mountain
820
Fifth Street
Philip Myers
1611
First Street
Colin McKnight
Edgewanod Terrace
Carrol’s
McKnight
Robert Barnhart
Aiken Avenue
Aiken
Veteran's Hospital
Joys Department Store
William M. Irish
Meadow Road
Mary E. Nelson
Washington Avenue East
Hampton Manor
Mike Keneston
Gerald Laura
Price Chopper
Bryan Stanton
Winthrop Laboratory
Forbes Avenue
Walt
Washington Street
Michael Thomas
Edward Colloton
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