$4.2 Million Awarded for Ithaca (Upstate NY) Housing Project
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fingerlakesdailynews.com ^
| 6/30/24 | Ed Vivenzio
$4.2 million will go to develop supportive housing in Ithaca. Governor Kathy Hochul has announced that Steuben Churchpeople Against Poverty (dba Arbor Housing Development) will use the money to construct 20 permanent supportive housing units. The
proposed Stately Apartments will feature laundry facilities, a community room, a garden, and commercial space. “Creating new permanent supportive housing is central to my administration’s work to reduce homelessness across New York State, while simultaneously supporting strong neighborhoods throughout our state,” Governor Hochul said. “When completed, these projects will provide vulnerable New Yorkers with an affordable place to call home and the security and...
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Guest Opinion: Against Good Cause Eviction (Ithaca NY)
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ithaca.com ^
| 6/18/24 | Stuart Staniford
I have been a landlord for ten years and I manage 41 residential and commercial office units in Tompkins County. About 2/3 of these are low or moderate income residential. I
currently employ three full time staff. I became a landlord because I wanted to work on converting existing buildings to not use fossil fuels - I made the capital in the first place in the tech industry not by real estate investing. I also have significant bank financing. When I started, I greatly under-estimated the challenges of being a landlord and have been in an intense learning process. I...
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Tompkins County will force City of Ithaca (NY) to clean up part of Jungle
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fingerlakes1.com ^
| 4/18/24 | Staff Report
The City of Ithaca has been mandated by Tompkins County Environmental Health to clean up a section of homeless encampments known as “the Jungle,” after the area was declared a public health hazard. The
city received a notice on April 9 to address the conditions of a specific triangular strip of city-owned land by May 10, due to the accumulation of waste including bicycles, shopping carts, hypodermic needles, and garbage.
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Ithaca Residents Charged With Critically Injuring Chemung Co. Investigator
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fingerlakesdailynews.com ^
| 3/31/24 | Lucas Day
An investigator with the Chemung County Sheriff’s Office is fighting for his life after being thrown from the hood of a moving car while trying to apprehend a suspect in Big Flats Friday night. On
Friday, the Chemung County Sheriff’s Office and the New York State Police were conducting a joint retail theft operation in Consumer Square, in the Town of Big Flats. At about 6:45 pm, while pursuing a larceny suspect in the Target parking lot, the subject ran towards a getaway vehicle and jumped on the hood with Inv. Mike Theetge in close pursuit tackling him on top...
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Ithaca woman arrested after attacking cars with meat cleaver in Aldi's parking lot
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CNYCentral.com ^
| 8/27/2023 | Delana Thomas
ITHACA, N.Y. — On Wednesday, August 23 just after 1 p.m., Ithaca Police Officers responded to the parking lot of Aldi’s at 505 Third Street for multiple reports of a woman who was actively attacking cars with a meat cleaver. Initial
reports indicated the woman was waving a meat cleaver in the air and acting disorderly in the parking lot where many customers were present. Witnesses say the person was using the meat cleaver in an attempt to break windows, slash tires, and cause damage to multiple vehicles parked in the area. When officers arrived on the scene, they quickly...
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State Supreme Court sides with Ithaca Renting: Section 8 inspection requirement makes NYS rule unconstitutional
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14850.com ^
| 7/8/23 | Mark H Anbinder
Now, a New York State Supreme Court judge has ruled for Ithaca Renting, agreeing with the local business’s position that the Section 8 program’s inspection requirement was a violation of the Constitution’s protection against searches. In
his ruling on June 27th, Hon. Mark G. Masler says the Attorney General’s argument “is fundamentally flawed for the simple reason that, as set forth above, a landlord cannot accept a Section 8 housing voucher as payment for rent without agreeing to participate in Section 8, which, in turn, requires that the landlord authorize warrantless searches.” Judge Masler’s ruling points out that the Housing...
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STARBUCKS ILLEGALLY CLOSED UNIONIZED ITHACA STORE, JUDGE RULES (huh?)
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Tag 24 ^
| 7/7/23 | Kaitlyn Kennedy
Ithaca, New York - Starbucks broke US law when it closed a unionized store in Ithaca, a National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) judge ruled on Thursday. Administrative law judge Arthur Amchan ruled that Starbucks closed its College Avenue café, located near the Cornell University campus, "in large part to discourage unionization efforts
in Ithaca and elsewhere." The coffee chain announced it was shutting down the College Avenue store just two months after all three of its locations in Ithaca voted to unionize. This year, the company said it would close the other two stores as well. Amchan called for Starbucks...
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State (NY) AG sues Ithaca (upstate NY) landlord over Section 8 practices, accused of denying housing to low-income people
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fingerlakes1.com ^
| 10/31/22
New York State Attorney General Letitia James is suing an Ithaca landlord for allegedly denying housing to low-income tenants. Landlord
Jason Fane, his company Ithaca Renting Company, and his related entities are all subject to the suit. An investigation by the Office of the Attorney General (OAG) found that Mr. Fane and his real estate agents refused to accept Section 8 vouchers at his properties, in violation of New York’s housing laws against source of income discrimination. The lawsuit alleges that agents at Ithaca Renting repeatedly told renters they do not accept government assistance vouchers. Through her lawsuit, Attorney General...
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Drag Story Hour returns to Ithaca for fall season
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All content © copyright WENY. ^
| Sunday, October 16th 2022, 6:29 PM EDT | By Sam Shapiro
October Drag Story Hour has returned to Ithaca for the 2022 Fall season. Parents
could bring their kids to Buffalo Street Books Sunday morning for a glamorous storytime experience. Miss Coraline Chardonnay and Miss Tilia Cordata have been doing Drag Story Hour for the last four years. Starting in the Fall of 2018, they read children's books to parents and kids throughout the Ithaca community and even held story time virtually during COVID. People were invited to come dressed in the costume of their choice. On Sunday, many did just that, kicking off the 2022 fall season's story hours. “We...
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Cornell to reinstall Lincoln bust, will place it in ‘the heart of our Ithaca campus’
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The College Fix ^
| September 29.2022 | Jennifer Kabbany
The bust was modeled from life just before Lincoln’s assassination in April 1865. It
was created by American sculptor Vinnie Ream, the first woman to be granted a federal commission by the United States, according to the university’s website. It was purchased and donated to the campus by Ezra Cornell, founder of the university. Its scheduled return to public viewing comes amid concerns over its removal among some Cornell donors and alumni. The public was first alerted of its removal by an article in The College Fix in late June 2022. The Fix was told of the situation by Cornell...
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Ithaca Common Council member opposes increased police presence in schools
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Copyright WENY News. All rights reserved. ^
| 05/27/22 | WENY
In wake of the Texas school shooting there are some who question if School Resource police officers make schools safer? Schools
in Tompkins County don't have SROs and law enforcement says they have received pushback in the past to have the presence of officers in schools. A member of the Common Council of the City of Ithaca says he has pushed back on officers in schools because he adamantly opposes it. Jorge DeFendini is the Alderperson who represents ward 4 of the Common Council of Ithaca. He believes an increased presence of police at schools or even having SROs in...
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Ithaca sex offender accused of making 3 sexually explicit videos with a 10-year-old, feds say
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Post Standard Syracuse ^
| Updated: Oct. 15, 2021, 6:35 p.m. | Published: Oct. 15, 2021, 6:34 p.m. | By James McClendon | syracuse.com
An Ithaca man was charged Thursday after he was accused of producing three sexually explicit videos with a 10-year-old child, federal prosecutors said. Remanu
Phillips, 31, appeared in federal court on charges that he sexually exploited a child, according to a news release issued by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of New York. He was accused of making the three videos of the child in June of 2019, federal prosecutors said. Phillips was already registered as a level-2 sexually violent offender, after he was convicted in November of 2019 of first-degree sexual abuse and sexual contact with...
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(Ithaca) Mayor’s Plan to Abolish Police Department Will End in Disaster, City’s Ex-Chief Warns
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© 2021 National Review ^
| 03/16/21 | By TOBIAS HOONHOUT
<p>A progressive mayor’s proposal to abolish the police department of a small city in upstate New York is sparking concerns among residents that the reform effort will exacerbate a recent spike in violent crime, the town’s former police chief told National Review.</p>
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A Farewell to Ithaca College after 18 years
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The Ithacan ^
| March 3, 2021 | Sandra Steingraber
In addition to teaching my own class within the Department of Environmental Studies and Sciences (ENVS), I serve as a guest speaker across campus. My
position thus offers me an extraordinary view of the Ithaca College curriculum. Each year, I lecture in 10 to 20 classes. Indeed, I may be the only faculty at Ithaca College who has taught or co-hosted programming in all five of our schools. What does climate change have to do with human performance? Well, higher heat and humidity represent health threats to outdoor athletes. In California, three-quarters of new oil wells are drilled in Black...
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Mayor unveils proposal to split PD into 2 groups: armed and unarmed (Ithaca, NY)
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police1.com ^
| February 24, 2021 | Julie McMahon
Ithaca Mayor Svante Myrick this week announced a plan to replace the city’s police department with a new Department of Community Solutions and Public Safety. The proposal, part of a statewide police reform effort, is now up for public comment and requires legislative approval. If
passed, the city would install a civilian department leader to oversee two divisions, an unarmed force of “community solution workers,” and an armed division focused on responding to and investigating crimes. Officers would have to reapply to keep jobs as armed “public safety workers” with the city. The proposal acknowledges that in some ways, the...
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The Most Ambitious Effort Yet to Reform Policing May Be Happening In Ithaca, New York
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Conde Nast ^
| 02.22.21 | BY WESLEY LOWERY
Mayor Svante Myrick will propose replacing the city’s current 63-officer, $12.5 million a year department with a “Department of Community Solutions and Public Safety” which would include armed “public safety workers” and unarmed “community solution workers,” all of whom will report to a civilian director of public safety instead of a police
chief. Under the proposal, all current officers would have to re-apply for a position with the new department. If the proposal is approved, calls for service will be evaluated to determine whether an armed or unarmed respondent is necessary, or another public agency altogether would be best to...
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Police shortage, pandemic contribute to increase of graffiti around Ithaca
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Ithaca Times ^
| Nov 21, 2020 | Sydney Keller
<p>People walking around downtown Ithaca over the past few months may have noticed something different — more graffiti.</p><p>Gary Ferguson, executive director of the Downtown Ithaca Alliance (DIA), said the increase in graffiti began around the start of the COVID-19 lockdown, in the middle of March leading to the beginning of April.</p>
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Cops Stand Down as ANTIFA Terrorists Attack Trump Supporters at Rally in Ithaca, NY
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Big League Politics ^
| 10/17/20
Police stood down and allowed ANTIFA terrorists to attack a group of peaceful Trump supporters in Ithaca, N.Y. on Friday afternoon. “We
gathered to have our Trump 2020 Rally, and at 4 PM were immediately met by a large group of counter protestors. After about a half hour went by and the counter protestors saw that they had a large numerical advantage, they began crossing the street,” organizer Rocco Lucente wrote in a Facebook post. “At that point they began pushing, shoving, kicking, punching, stealing peoples signs and flags, taking peoples hats, and attempting to physically intimidate the crowd into...
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Violence, chaos marks Trump rally on Meadow Street (Ithaca, NY)
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ithacavoice.com ^
| October 16, 2020 | MATT BUTLER
A rally in support of President Donald Trump in downtown Ithaca descended into chaos on Friday afternoon, as multiple fights broke out between Trump supporters and counter-protesters who assembled to rebuke the rally. No
arrests appear to have been made during or after the event, despite a litany of physical altercations involving people from both sides. At least two people were injured during the several scuffles that broke out in the 90 minutes the two sides squared off. The scene was tense from the beginning. A small group of Trump supporters gathered outside the Tompkins County Republicans office starting at...
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‘Staggering and unprecedented’ budget shortfall forecast for City of Ithaca
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Copyright 2020 Saga Communications, Inc. ^
| 04.03.20
Early projections show the City of Ithaca is due to have a budget shortfall of anywhere between $9 and $20 million dollars resulting from the COVID-19 shutdown. Mayor
Myrick made the statement during a Thursday meeting of Ithaca’s Urban Renewal Agency. With the city’s total budget at $73 million dollars, highest estimates could mean a shortfall of nearly 28%. Myrick calls the numbers staggering and unprecedented. He says the only way the city can survive is with federal assistance. Calculations from the City Controllers office account for a lack of sales revenue, and parking fees among other items.
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