retyre12

Ever since St. Peter's made a policy of "no smoking" on hospital grounds, their employees have been crossing the street to smoke under the canopies of the businesses along New Scotland Avenue. In doing so, they drop their cigarette butts and gum all over the sidewalk. The business owners have complained to Saint Peter's to no avail.

This is not only a health hazard for residents walking along the sidewalk and having to breathe cigarette smoke, but going in and out of any business is also unpleasant. The clouds of smoke hover, and customers should not have to be exposed to this unpleasantness. It wasn't so bad when the policy began but this winter dozens of smokers congregated regularly in front of Subway, and yesterday the sidewalks were a disgrace.

I suggest the city make a NO SMOKING area from the corner of New Scotland at South Manning, to New Scotland at West Lawrence. Punishable by a fine.

Saint Peter's has a responsibility to create a smoking area for their employees. Their problem should not compromise taxpaying businesses.

Sidewalk blocked completely by hedges. When I went to post this seeclickfix said there were already 2 posts regarding it that hadn't been closed. Great work City of Albany.

Unlawful walking of Dogs on Private Property where children play. Leaving dog feces in bags on the middle of sidewalk in the middle of the block and in front of businesses instead of placing it in trash bin.

I just watched DGS throw my recycling in with the garbage, then go down the street doing the same with all my neighbors. I heard reports that the same thing happened in other neighborhoods yesterday.

No change… residents at 88 and 90 Woodlawn still have smashed tvs out in front of their house. Now they’ve added a dresser, and other loose garbage. 90 even has dog poo covering their front porch! So gross! Fine them into acting decent!

Please please please clarify the number of lanes with signage and lane markings for the length of New Scotland from Krumkill to Manning Blvd. Especially now with the Maria College construction that encroaches into the road. Speed and aggressive driver enforcement would also vastly improve the safety of this very busy thoroughfare. Near miss accidents occur dozens of times per day.

Twice this week I saw whoever was driving the vehicle in the picture cross double yellow lines with oncoming traffic in order to speed past vehicles that were following the law (and common sense) by going 20 mph near a park and waiting for a person in a wheelchair to finish crossing the street. I sure hope they are stopped before they cause a head-on collision or run over a pedestrian.

In the meantime, drivers and pedestrians beware!

(BTW, my best guess is that this person lives in the suburbs west of Albany because we happened to be going the same way for awhile.)

I think the majority of us are ecstatic to have the bars and restaurants back open and we love Graney's but dang Mike you gotta hold your staff accountable here. Its a disaster outside your place every morning after a busy patio night. This is disgusting to walk by in the morning. Limes, cocktail straws napkins everywhere. BS dude!! clean up after yourselves. The other restaurants seem to appreciate the new sidewalks, please do so yourself.

the new buildings(Eleftheria?) on S. Allen St. are having the entire run of sidewalk replaced by the city. most of those panels were in fine shape but are being made brand new by request!
would it be possible to repair an actual hazard while the crews are just down the street doing Eleftheria's bidding?
Thank you

For the last month plus a neighbor has parked his boat and boat trailer on our residential street. As per the Albany parking restrictions seen here: https://ecode360.com/7685595#7685627 it seems this should not be allowed and should be moved and stored somewhere appropriate.
It is hard to see around when driving as it takes up a good amount of the road at the Barnet and Oakwood intersection. This is dangerous to cars and the children that play on this street.
Please have the owner find a new storage space for the boat rather than a city street.
It has been a reasonable amount of time to find new storage and if this is allowed to continue through the winter it would an unneeded plowing hassle.

Every day you can watch drivers go down the wrong direction of Ontario at the intersection of Woodlawn. You can even hear residents near this intersection shouting at drivers that they are going the wrong way. One of these days a bad accident is going to occur as these drivers know they are intentionally going the wrong way and speed at like 50 mph. The intersection is clearly marked for one way but drivers decide to break the law anyway. Maybe the police should monitor this intersection to make it safer.

While walking on New Scotland Avenue today near New Scotland School, an APD SUV was observed around 10:20 am w/o lights or sirens on and clocked in at 51 MPH past the 20 MPH school zone speed radar sign. I can't imagine what would have happened if someone was pulling out of a side street or a pedestrian didn't see or expect a vehicle traveling at that speed IN A SCHOOL ZONE, what the outcome would have been. And large SUVs at that speed can be lethal...is it too much to ask our APD to put sirens and lights on if responding to a call and if not, then PLEASE SLOW DOWN, especially in a school zone, OMG!