One of my regular bike routes takes me around the corner of First and Columbus in east Albany. This week a house there had been boarded up “by order of the Albany Police Department,” according to the stencils on the plywood sheets covering the windows. Kristopher Schendel, the code compliance officer in the police department, […]
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Tags: Albany code enforcement, Albany housing, boarded-up houses, dangerous buildings
Tags: Albany code enforcement, Albany housing, boarded-up houses, dangerous buildings
Squatters’ hideouts cleared of underbrush
After a few days out of town, I found the landscape around Cox Creek and the Waverly Memorial Cemetery had a new look. Gone was the thicket of brambles and branches that camouflaged the vagrant encampments there in the past.
Tags: Albany code enforcement, Apex Property Clearing, Cox Creek, vagrance, Waverly Memorial Cemetery