Thank you for your message. The City of Albany Department of General Services and Albany Police Department is currently working with the New York State Office of General Services to review Sheridan Avenue Park and the surrounding area to remove the overgrowth you have referenced and remedy the situation you have described above. In the coming weeks, NYS OGS will be hiring a contractor to remove the overgrowth that is located on their portion of the park, and the City will be doing the same on our portion of the park. APD will continue to patrol the area before and after the improvements are made to seek out the issues you have described above.

Still waiting for this NYS OGS to lift even so much as a finger to resolve these now chronic problems. Still waiting for the overgrowth to be remedied, the trash to be picked up, the homeless to be removed and the magical fence to be erected. Merry Christmas.

The local print and television news would be very interested in this story and in filming/photographing the conditions you describe, Contact them to speak to a reporter or news director. So little of what is posted on seeclickfix is being resolved, that this may be the only way citizens can move genuine issues forward. We fall so short in managing poverty and homelessness, but what is happening in this situation is also not the answer and is putting a community at risk.

Used condoms in the parking lot. Alcohol swabs. Q-tips everywhere. I guess I should feel grateful that these are conscientious drug users.

Eliz please better define the area you are discussing. I do not think it is Sheridan Avenue Park but is the parking structure and adjacent locations at Sheridan avenue at the intersection of Eagle street (partial) as shown on the google maps. Some pix by you my help the city to define where the problem actually is.

David, Mayor's Office assigned this issue to APD-Delano

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