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The NEW Schenectady: Old places, new faces (introduction to series)
Sunday, July 3, 2011
As a city, Schenectady is a far different place than what it was a decade ago.
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The NEW Schenectady (Part 1): Woodlawn, a suburb in the city, takes care of itself
Monday, July 4, 2011
Woodlawn’s 2010 census results are offering the city hope for a prosperous future.
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The NEW Schenectady (Part 2): Eastern Avenue two neighborhoods in one
Monday, July 11, 2011
For many, Eastern Avenue is the “good” neighborhood — not the best in the city, but far from the worst.
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The NEW Schenectady (Part 3): Despite new homeowners, crime up on city's Hamilton Hill
Monday, July 18, 2011
Despite an influx of immigrants who bought homes on Hamilton Hill, crime has taken a turn for the worse in a neighborhood that city officials had hoped would be stabilized by the new residents.
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The NEW Schenectady (Part 4): The Stockade, defying all expectations
Sunday, July 24, 2011
As far as statistics go, the Stockade neighborhood has broken all of the rules.
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The NEW Schenectady (Part 5): Bellevue not what it was, but loved as it is
Monday, Aug. 1, 2011
Not too many decades ago, Bellevue was a neighborhood of families, where the younger generation often lived upstairs from their elderly parents.
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The NEW Schenectady (Part 6): Neighborhood still ‘Pleasant’ for some, not others
Sunday, Aug. 7, 2011
Thousands of new residents are pouring into Mont Pleasant, making it the fastest-growing neighborhood in the city.
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The NEW Schenectady (Part 7): New look, new residents make downtown vibrant
Monday, Aug. 15, 2011
Perhaps the greatest measure of how much Schenectady’s downtown has changed in the past decade is that it is no longer compared to the crumbling ghost towns of rust-belt cities.
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The NEW Schenectady (Part 8): Northside a fixer-upper
Monday, Aug. 22, 2011
The Italian community in the Northside neighborhood of Schenectady is being replaced by a new set of immigrants, mostly from Latin America.
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The NEW Schenectady (Part 9): The many faces of home
Monday, Aug. 29, 2011
Tell a Stratford Road family that they live in the Union Street neighborhood and they will politely explain that you’re lost.
They are not in a Union-anything neighborhood. They are in the GE Realty Plot.
They are not in a Union-anything neighborhood. They are in the GE Realty Plot.
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The NEW Schenectady (Part 10): Exercises in self-reliance in Vale
Monday, Sept. 5, 2011
Residents of the city’s smallest neighborhood don’t think anyone’s coming to fix up their troubled home. So they’re doing it themselves.
There’s the man who takes in the homeless and tries to counsel them himself, trying in some cases to break their drug addictions.
There’s the man who takes in the homeless and tries to counsel them himself, trying in some cases to break their drug addictions.
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The NEW Schenectady (Part 11): The good, the bad and the ugly in Central State Street
Monday, Sept. 12, 2011
It seems like there’s always construction going on in the Central State Street neighborhood.
