Written on Friday, January 12th, 2007 at 8:44pm by Alan Bedenko | 7 Comments

East Side Neglect

And there doesn’t appear to be a reason why the entity that owns the buildings depicted in this video isn’t maintaining them. The owner is associated with a member of Buffalo’s Control Board. The video was produced by WNYMedia.net’s own Marc Odien and FixBuffalo blogger David Torke (whose hiatus from blogging was thankfully short-lived.) Torke’s story is here.

On a side note, the quality of the photojournalism in that piece is as professional as anything you’ll see on your nightly news. Stay tuned. There’ll be more where that came from.

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7 Comments

  1. david says:
    January 12, 2007 at 9:26 pm

    Alan,

    Thanks for getting the word out to a larger audience!

    Best,

    David

  2. Michele J says:
    January 12, 2007 at 10:12 pm

    I was shocked to learn who the owners of these properties were…

  3. Richard Kern says:
    January 13, 2007 at 10:56 am

    Excellent work!

    It is important to learn the composition of the Bethel CDC Board & publish names of members. There is a common culture of Bflo housing agencies that board members are ‘defenders of the crown’, not representatives of the community.

    I have long battled “housing malpractice” by WSNHS (Neigh Housing Service) where agency-owned houses were often in shameful condition for years. Board members were indifferent & rarely responded to questions or requests for action.

    Several years ago when I was monitoring Bethel, the City had “loaned” longtime cityhall housing bureaucrat Mickey Howard (husband of Buff State College President Muriel Howard) to run the agency. Is he still on the board? Who are others? We need to see the names & get their responses to this video.

    Such dramatic exposure of too-common ‘housing malpractice’ by housing agencies may help to push long-needed reform.

    Dick Kern (in Mpls)

  4. Greg says:
    January 13, 2007 at 12:04 pm

    That blue house on the fixbuffalo page looks like it has a lot of potential. I like the third story round room with all the windows thing (sorry, I don’t know the proper architectural term). Is that a room or just where the stairs are?

  5. Chris Austin says:
    January 13, 2007 at 12:55 pm

    That’s awful. Most would see fine upon fine from the City for such neglect.

  6. Rocket Jay says:
    January 13, 2007 at 11:13 pm

    An example of another quality control board member. Just another joker playing the system. Revvie Stenhouse should be locked up next to Fillmore Ave’s Weenie Man.

  7. gabe says:
    January 16, 2007 at 2:37 pm

    David and Marc, great job!

    This really exceeds the quality (in terms of both technical expertise and substance) of local TV news “journalism”.

    I see nothing but up up up with these sort of documentary shorts. Hopefully a way can be devised to get this stuff to a wider general audience.

 

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