CAMILLUS — Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ) says it will work to address the concerns in the Village of Camillus about its property at 1 Green St. U.S. Senator Charles Schumer (D–N.Y.) drew attention to the longstanding, vacant property on Aug. 17 by holding a news conference in front of the one-story structure with […]
CAMILLUS — Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ) says it will work to address the concerns in the Village of Camillus about its property at 1 Green St.
U.S. Senator Charles Schumer (D–N.Y.) drew attention to the longstanding, vacant property on Aug. 17 by holding a news conference in front of the one-story structure with neighbors standing nearby. The senator called it an “eyesore.”
Neighboring residents told Schumer’s office the property has been in that poor condition for the past 20 years or so.
The website of the Onondaga County Office of Real Property Tax Service lists Verizon New York Inc. as the property owner. The site says the building on the property was built in 1975.
CNYBJ on Aug. 17 contacted Verizon for comment on the matter, and a Verizon spokesman provided the following statement.
“We received Senator Schumer’s inquiry and after looking into the matter informed his office that we will be working through the Village of Camillus to resolve it.”
He did not provide further details on what that would entail and when it would happen.
The phone company used the building originally as a switching station and later for storage, both Schumer and a neighbor said in response to an inquiry from CNYBJ.
The senator said the neighboring residents are “fed up” with the current state of the site.
“I today am pledging to them I will do everything I can to get Verizon to clean up this site, take down this building, and put something nice up … a new home or something like that,” Schumer said at the press conference.
In a news release about the situation, Schumer’s office referenced “12 notices and follow-ups of violations citing the poor condition and maintenance of the property.”
A few months ago, village officials decided that they’d “had enough” and reached out to Verizon to see what the company planned to do with the site, Schumer said.
“But Verizon continued to ignore this untamed property,” the Democrat contended.
The residents also wrote letters and tried to contact Verizon by phone but didn’t get a response, according to Schumer.
Schumer’s office called Verizon on Aug. 14 and noted the firm “didn’t say much to us.” But the senator also figured Verizon is listening because the company mowed the property’s lawn on the morning of the Aug. 17 press event, he added.
The Village of Camillus is asking Verizon to be a “good neighbor and improve the poor condition of this property,” Patricia Butler, mayor of the village, said in her
remarks to the assembled reporters.
“Yet those pleas continuously seem to go unnoticed,” said Butler.
Besides her role as the village mayor, Butler is also a resident of Green Street, she said.
Schumer’s news release also included a letter he wrote to Lowell McAdam, CEO of Verizon Communications, about the situation.
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CAMILLUS — Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ) says it will work to address the concerns in the Village of Camillus about its property at 1 Green St.
U.S. Senator Charles Schumer (D–N.Y.) drew attention to the longstanding, vacant property on Aug. 17 by holding a news conference in front of the one-story structure with neighbors standing nearby. The senator called it an “eyesore.”
Neighboring residents told Schumer’s office the property has been in that poor condition for the past 20 years or so.
The website of the Onondaga County Office of Real Property Tax Service lists Verizon New York Inc. as the property owner. The site says the building on the property was built in 1975.
CNYBJ on Aug. 17 contacted Verizon for comment on the matter, and a Verizon spokesman provided the following statement.
“We received Senator Schumer’s inquiry and after looking into the matter informed his office that we will be working through the Village of Camillus to resolve it.”
He did not provide further details on what that would entail and when it would happen.
The phone company used the building originally as a switching station and later for storage, both Schumer and a neighbor said in response to an inquiry from CNYBJ.
The senator said the neighboring residents are “fed up” with the current state of the site.
“I today am pledging to them I will do everything I can to get Verizon to clean up this site, take down this building, and put something nice up … a new home or something like that,” Schumer said at the press conference.
In a news release about the situation, Schumer’s office referenced “12 notices and follow-ups of violations citing the poor condition and maintenance of the property.”
A few months ago, village officials decided that they’d “had enough” and reached out to Verizon to see what the company planned to do with the site, Schumer said.
“But Verizon continued to ignore this untamed property,” the Democrat contended.
The residents also wrote letters and tried to contact Verizon by phone but didn’t get a response, according to Schumer.
Schumer’s office called Verizon on Aug. 14 and noted the firm “didn’t say much to us.” But the senator also figured Verizon is listening because the company mowed the property’s lawn on the morning of the Aug. 17 press event, he added.
The Village of Camillus is asking Verizon to be a “good neighbor and improve the poor condition of this property,” Patricia Butler, mayor of the village, said in her
remarks to the assembled reporters.
“Yet those pleas continuously seem to go unnoticed,” said Butler.
Besides her role as the village mayor, Butler is also a resident of Green Street, she said.
Schumer’s news release also included a letter he wrote to Lowell McAdam, CEO of Verizon Communications, about the situation.
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CAMILLUS — Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ) says it will work to address the concerns in the Village of Camillus about its property at 1 Green St. U.S. Senator Charles Schumer (D–N.Y.) drew attention to the longstanding, vacant property on Aug. 17 by holding a news conference in front of the one-story structure with […]
CAMILLUS — Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ) says it will work to address the concerns in the Village of Camillus about its property at 1 Green St.
U.S. Senator Charles Schumer (D–N.Y.) drew attention to the longstanding, vacant property on Aug. 17 by holding a news conference in front of the one-story structure with neighbors standing nearby. The senator called it an “eyesore.”
Neighboring residents told Schumer’s office the property has been in that poor condition for the past 20 years or so.
The website of the Onondaga County Office of Real Property Tax Service lists Verizon New York Inc. as the property owner. The site says the building on the property was built in 1975.
CNYBJ on Aug. 17 contacted Verizon for comment on the matter, and a Verizon spokesman provided the following statement.
“We received Senator Schumer’s inquiry and after looking into the matter informed his office that we will be working through the Village of Camillus to resolve it.”
He did not provide further details on what that would entail and when it would happen.
The phone company used the building originally as a switching station and later for storage, both Schumer and a neighbor said in response to an inquiry from CNYBJ.
The senator said the neighboring residents are “fed up” with the current state of the site.
“I today am pledging to them I will do everything I can to get Verizon to clean up this site, take down this building, and put something nice up … a new home or something like that,” Schumer said at the press conference.
In a news release about the situation, Schumer’s office referenced “12 notices and follow-ups of violations citing the poor condition and maintenance of the property.”
A few months ago, village officials decided that they’d “had enough” and reached out to Verizon to see what the company planned to do with the site, Schumer said.
“But Verizon continued to ignore this untamed property,” the Democrat contended.
The residents also wrote letters and tried to contact Verizon by phone but didn’t get a response, according to Schumer.
Schumer’s office called Verizon on Aug. 14 and noted the firm “didn’t say much to us.” But the senator also figured Verizon is listening because the company mowed the property’s lawn on the morning of the Aug. 17 press event, he added.
The Village of Camillus is asking Verizon to be a “good neighbor and improve the poor condition of this property,” Patricia Butler, mayor of the village, said in her
remarks to the assembled reporters.
“Yet those pleas continuously seem to go unnoticed,” said Butler.
Besides her role as the village mayor, Butler is also a resident of Green Street, she said.
Schumer’s news release also included a letter he wrote to Lowell McAdam, CEO of Verizon Communications, about the situation.
CAMILLUS — Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ) says it will work to address the concerns in the Village of Camillus about its property at 1 Green St.
