[metmom]

Just one of dozens of economically depressed Upstate NY canal towns.

Beautiful architecture in most of them. You can tell that at one point they were thriving, prosperous places to live.

Then NYS government happened.

Those small towns will remain a thing of the past as long as NYS hangs onto its corrupt and immoral government.

Just another reason we moved out of NYS.

[Noumenon]

It would not surprise me in the least to see these corrupt state govt entities collapse once their current occupiers have been dealt with. At the very least, they'll find that their writ doesn't run outside their urban enclaves.