What Happened to Schenectady serving all of its communities?

Challenger Roger Hull and Incumbent Schenectady, NY Mayor Gary McCarthy

UPDATED: SCHENECTADY, N.Y. -- "What a difference four years makes!" Schenectady Mayor Gary McCarthy exclaimed Tuesday night, after winning re-election as mayor. Approximately thirty (30%) percent of Schenectady's adult population old enough to vote turned out to the polls—and even that small amount of voters were divided...This election shows that most of the people of Schenectady have given up voicing their concerns and feel disenfranchised. Mayoral challenger Roger Hull said, "I hope that there will be something coming forward to make the lives of the people in the neighborhoods of this city better."

I watched the mayoral debates in Schenectady, New York, and was shocked when I heard and saw incumbent Mayor Gary McCarthy say that he would like to see, "smarter, younger and more affluent people" in downtown Schenectady. Where should the poor, middle-age, elderly and uneducated citizens go? 

I've watched for over a year now closely the number of impoverished people, who buy scratch lottery tickets and who play the New York State Lottery daily in excess of $20 (spending well over $400 a month). Can you imagine what will happen to these same poor people, when the Schenectady Mohawk River Casino opens. One day, I watched a guy I see every day at a store on Jay Street, where I get my newspaper, win $150 dollars on scratch tickets—only to purchase $120 more scratch tickets—plus cigarettes—having nothing left to his "supposed winnings." Let's not forget the March 6, suspicious fire that destroyed two (2) buildings on Jay Street—leaving five (5) persons dead and hundreds of impoverished people, and minority business owners displaced from the tenement buildings...The retail spaces are still vacant, and Bel Cibo, the Jamaican restaurant, Executive Longe,  and Persian Bite, across the street from City Hall, never reopened at this location—where the Schenectady Farmers' Market is held every Sunday in season.

The March 6, 2015, fire on Jay Street, Schenectady, NY, left five (5) persons dead and hundreds of impoverished people, and minority business owners displaced from the tenement buildings. The ethnic restaurants never reopened here.

"This election shows that most of the people of Schenectady have given up voicing their concerns and feel disenfranchised."

Out of 13,148 registered Democrat Voters in Schenectady, only 3,907 Democrats voted for incumbent Mayor Gary McCarthy—that's about 30-percent (30%) voter turnout. There are a total of 27,078 registered Voters in Schenectady, NY, amongst all party lines, and incumbent Mayor Gary McCarthy ONLY received 4,394 votes total. That means that ONLY approximately 16% of the TOTAL registered voters in Schenectady, New York are in favor of the incumbent mayor.

That means that ONLY approximately 16% of the TOTAL registered voters in Schenectady, New York are in favor of the incumbent mayor.

The Daily Gazette published an article regarding the problems in the Northside section of Schenectady in 2011. The Schenectady Metroplex Development Authority offered matching grants to immigrant business owners, but this section of Schenectady is still in decline and is another ghetto of "containment" for minorities. If you drive through the Northside section of Schenectady, you will still find a neighborhood that needs major re-development. Nothing has really changed about the Northside section of Schenectady since the Daily Gazette published their 2011 article. Below are excerpts of the Daily Gazette article published in 2011:

"SCHENECTADY — The Italian community in the Northside neighborhood of Schenectady is being replaced by a new set of immigrants, mostly from Latin America.

Unlike other parts of the city, where most immigrants are now from Guyana, Northside is attracting residents from Mexico, the Dominican Republic and many other countries." "Lynn Ragozzino, who has lived in her family’s house on Foster Avenue for 50 years...spat an insult in Italian as she pointed to food scattered on the sidewalk, peeling paint on a porch and litter on nearby lawns. “I have to live next to this?” she said.' "But some tenants, particularly those living in municipal housing at Yates Village, said they only came here because it was a cheap place to live."

"Indeed, in Northside, many residents still sweep their sidewalk and pick up litter in the street near their house. Perhaps that’s why they are so frustrated when their neighbors casually toss garbage on the ground. Jess Petrequin, owner of the Goose Hill Barber Shop, picks up a video camera to record passers-by who don’t pick up after their dogs outside his store. He also films street fights, young children wandering unsupervised and police arrests. Then he puts the footage on public access television." The Metroplex Development Authority started encouraging businesses by providing matching funds for facade improvements." "The city installed security cameras and lights to discourage misbehavior, but residents say unsupervised children throw rocks, climb the park fence to leap onto roofs and telephone poles and break into vacant houses. Some residents say the only solution is for the city to hire park attendants and provide programs for teenagers. They argue that there are simply too many children — 2,271, according to the Census — to leave alone."[1]

Children have to play in the street in most neighborhoods outside the Downtown Schenectady Improvement Corp district

"Woodlawn is becoming far more diverse, with its black population increasing by 46 percent in the past 10 years. The number of Guyanese skyrocketed as well."

—Daily Gazette

"There are also lots of children, especially for an area in which both recreational areas have been largely ignored by the city. Schenectady shut down the Woodlawn Pool in 2004, leaving antiquated playground equipment and one basketball court in the neighborhood’s only park." Most of Woodlawn is made up of “dirt roads” — roads covered with a light coating of asphalt but built without the thick, long-lasting base used in most of the city. That means they break down faster, forming potholes and cracks. For decades, poor drainage also undermined the roads. Although the city engineer said that problem has been resolved, he said rebuilding the roads with proper bases would be too expensive for the city." "Residents have raised private funds for their park, too, where they say city officials won’t even pick up the trash or mow the grass regularly." “I don’t see the city doing a lot up here,” said Terry VanValkenburgh, who runs Griswold Funeral Home. “I think sometimes the city forgets. They’re always talking about other areas as the gateway to the city. But we are a gateway, too.”'[2]

Jesus said in Matthew 18:5-6 • New Living Translation (NLT)

5 “And anyone who welcomes a little child like this on my behalf is welcoming me. 6 But if you cause one of these little ones who trusts in me to fall into sin, it would be better for you to have a large millstone tied around your neck and be drowned in the depths of the sea.

SCHENECTADY HAS NO SENIOR CITIZEN CENTER FOR THE ELDERLY...
AND THE CARVER COMMUNITY CENTER FOR YOUTH CLOSED 
DUE TO DEBT AND OWING DELINQUENT TAXES TO THE CITY!!!

The Schenectady County Metroplex Development Authority aka Metroplex, works to attract new jobs and new investment to Schenectady County. However, Metroplex has not found a buyer for the main Carver Community Center that has kept young people in the city out of trouble and off the streets for decades. The properties consist of buildings at 700 Craig Street, and four other either adjoining or nearby properties—the other properties are 702 (the playground), and 705 Craig Street as well as 201 and 215 Duane Avenue.

The Schenectady County Metroplex Development Authority's works to attract new jobs and new investment to Schenectady County, but this focus is shortsighted. Metroplex cannot expand the county's property tax base, sales tax base, and create and retain jobs without first investing in the present consumers and future taxpayers of Schenectady. If you do not educate, mentor, develop and empower the youth of Schenectady to become successful, then you create more impoverished future adults—who cannot own property and contribute to the community.

Social mobility is defined as movement of individuals, families, households, or other categories of people within or between layers or tiers in an open system of social stratification. Absolute social mobility refers to the overall numbers of people who end up in a different layer of stratification from that of their parents. Mobility is most often quantitatively measured in terms of change in economic mobility such as changes in income or wealth, and without investing in the lives of inner city youth from impoverished families, they will find it extremely hard to achieve future success. Forbes estimates that the Golub Corporation will make 3.5 Billion Dollars for Fiscal Year End 2015. Therefore, the Golub Corporation can easily reinvest $100,000 in each of the four (4) Schenectady troubled neighborhoods and youth, from the families that shop at their family supermarkets within their DMA.

The concerned citizens of the Hamilton Hill section of town, where the defunct Carver Community Center for Youth is located, are asking the city for tax amnesty. The citizens' group has come up with $23,000 from fundraising to re-open the Carver Community Center.

Rumor has it that the city lowered the tax liability of the Carver Center to $10,000 (unconfirmed)—down from the amount owed of $150,000-plus—right before the Mayoral election on November 3, 2015.  Did the residents of Hamilton Hill reverse Schenectady's pay to play?

The rumor of the lower tax liability for the Carver Community Center, came after the pleading of Hamilton Hill residents and their threatening (at the City Council meeting on October 26, 2015) to hold back their vote from voting for incumbent Democrat Mayor Gary McCarthy.

LGBTQ Rev. Sara E. Baron praying at the Schenectady City Council meeting on October 26, 2015

The invocation opening the Schenectady City Council meeting on October 26, 2015, was performed by Rev. Sara E. Baron, an LGBTQ pastor of First United Methodist Church in downtown Schenectady—that promotes LGBTQ and teaches that the Holy Bible is wrong when it declares that God finds homosexuality an abomination in Romans 1:16-32 and 1 Corinthians 6:9-11. Jesus Christ Himself taught that marriage is between a man and a woman (Matthew 19:3-6). Nevertheless, Rev. Sara E. Baron still promotes the Schenectady Gay Pride magazine and seeks to change the Word of God, and incumbent Mayor Gary McCarthy supports her.

Ex-Jesuit priest, Alberto Rivera (assassinated on June 20, 1997 by poisoning), exposed the Vatican for planting Jesuit Spies as pastors in Protestant churches like the United Methodist Church.

ABOUT OPUS DEI: As of 2014, Roman Catholic Opus Dei secret society members numbered 93,100. Lay persons, men and women, numbered 91,020 while there were 2,080 priests. These figures do not include the diocesan priest members of "Opus Dei's Priestly Society of the Holy Cross," [sic] estimated to number 2,000 in the year 2005.

Pope Francis is greeted by New York City Mayor Bill DeBlasio, right, Sen. Charles Schumer, center,
and New York Governor Andrew Cuomo at St. Patrick's Cathedral, Thursday, September 24, 2015

Governor Cuomo is a graduate of the JESUITS' Fordham University

Andrew Mark Cuomo (born December 6, 1957) is the 56th and current Governor of New York. A member of the Democratic Party, Cuomo was elected in 2010, holding the same position his father, Mario Cuomo, held from 1983 to 1994. Born in Queens, New York, Governor Cuomo is a graduate of the JESUITS' Fordham University and Albany Law School. Cuomo married Kerry Kennedy, the seventh child of Robert F. (Bobby) Kennedy and Ethel Kennedy in 1991. They had three children: Cara, Michaela and Mariah Cuomo. They separated in 2003 and divorced in 2005.

Matthew 23:9 (NLT)

"9 And don’t address anyone here on earth as ‘Father,’ for only God in heaven is your spiritual Father."

Opus Dei members are in more than 90 countries—and were briefly exposed in the Dan Brown film, The Da Vinci Code. About 70 per cent of Opus Dei members live in their private homes. Opus Dei members lead traditional lives with careers in hospitals and law enforcement, government, etc., while the other 30 per cent live in Opus Dei centers.

DOWNTOWN SCHENECTADY'S LGBTQ FALSE PROPHET SITS AT THE RIGHT HAND OF THE MAYOR AND HAS HIS EAR !!!

The Reverend Sara E. Baron stopped closing her eyes to look up at the City Council members and public (who had their heads bowed in reverence to God at the City Council meeting on October 26, 2015), so she could smirk and laugh as she was praying her LGBTQ invocation to open the meeting

Reverend Sara E. Baron is a false prophet...CLICK AND READ 2 Timothy 4:3-4; Jude 1:3-4. 

The Reverend Sara E. Baron stopped closing her eyes to look up at the City Council members and public (who had their heads bowed in reverence to God at the City Council meeting on October 26, 2015), so she could smirk and laugh as she was praying. She prayed these words regarding LGBTQ, "...with awareness of the diversity of our community, we offer our thanks for the many people around us, able to "TEACH" [sic] us new skills or new perspective..."

I REBUKE HER AND THE MAYOR IN THE NAME OF THE LORD! 
READ 2 Peter 2 and Jude 1

Miracle on Craig Street for youth of Schenectady "are a group of community stakeholders who share a vision and passion for equity and increasing quality of life for residents of Schenectady," according to the their web site; https://www.youcaring.com/the-hamilton-hill-youth-411924. The organizers are; Rosa Rivera, Damonni Farley, Prince Sprauve, Marion Porterfield, Nicole Baptiste & William Rivas. Miracle on Craig Street's goal is to create a Community Center that will encourage community ownership and engagement. The center will be a part of the ongoing revitalization efforts within the City of Schenectady. The Community Center will house multiple small non-profit organizations, representing a cost effective way of making social, recreational and educational resources accessible to the community. Will re-elected Mayor Gary McCarthy and the City Council truly invest in the future of its Hamilton Hill, Northside, Woodlawn, Bellevue and other troubled youth areas and neighborhoods of Schenectady—by finding government money—and prompting the Metroplex Development Authority to re-open community centers, instead of just focusing on downtown and "select" City areas for retail and residential development?

This election shows that either 84-percent of registered voters are apathetic to what has been going on in City Hall and the City Council, or that they feel disenfranchised that their vote will not change "pay to play." I believe the latter to be true...

The larger map shows the focus of Metroplex and the Downtown Schenectady Improvement Corporation (DSIC).

Notice this district represents the symbol of a vulture, and then read Revelation 18:1-8, CLICK HERE

Schenectady's neighborhoods on the Northside, Central State Street, Eastern Avenue, Vale and Hamilton Hill, Woodlawn, Mount Pleasant and Bellevue have tons of widows and orphans, and communities that are suffering (see James 1:27)—while City Hall has Rev. Sara E. Baron "playing religion." The Downtown Schenectady Improvement Corporation (DSIC) district—and Metroplex's partnership with Upper Union Street, Central Park, Lower Union Street and the Stockade give the bulk of re-development money and new development projects to Downtown, Upper Union Street, Central Park, Lower Union Street and the Stockade, instead of the neighborhoods that need help.

James 1:27 • New Living Translation (NLT) 

"27 Pure and genuine religion in the sight of God the Father means caring for orphans and widows in their distress 
and refusing to let the world corrupt you."

During the mayoral debates, Mayor Gary McCarthy, said that Schenectady has brand new luxury $1500 [one bedroom] apartments over the businesses downtown, and that people are moving in and occupying these apartments. I asked myself, why would anyone want to pay $1,500 for a one bedroom without utilities included.

The incumbent mayor's challenger, Roger Hull, made a point to mention during the debates that City Hall is full of cronyism and secret deals with real estate developers for downtown, and the brand new casino... But there is no contract of terms with the casino and the city (except for not competing with Proctors theater).

Having lived in New Jersey, thirty-minutes north of Atlantic City for over a decade, I saw Atlantic City decline, and its people suffer the effect of low paying jobs—and employees that spent their paycheck at another casino before making it home. Who really wants to give their hard earned money away to "THE HOUSE THAT ALWAYS WINS IN THE END," or have to explain to their spouse where their paycheck went? I witnessed prostitution inside the casinos, and along the corridors to the casinos and side streets. I read and heard the all too often news stories of women found dead in a hotel room or murdered and thrown into a dumpster not too far from the casinos. Each time, that I drove to the casinos, I saw at least a dozen buses or more bringing elderly and disabled people to the casinos all night and day long...I myself made a good salary as a corporate manager at one time—enough to play all night long at the casino tables—and saw the flash, glitter and gutter side of the aftermath when people lose all they have.

Today, many of the flagship Atlantic City casinos are closed, many people lost jobs, and places like nearby Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, have become the new casino destination.

There's nothing glorifying to God about creating thousands of low paying jobs, simply so the casino employees can give their paycheck back to the casino—and restricting an employee from gambling in the same casino that they work at only protects the establishment from an "inside job" robbery—it does not protect the employee from gambling their paycheck away! What I saw in Atlantic City was the legalized crime against humanity and people's ability to live and support their self and families—who apparently were on government assistance, and/or poor—sitting at slot machines, and going to the ATM machines to spend their every last dime.

In short, I saw the fever of gambling addiction of the rich and the poor alike—compounded by excessive FREE DRINKS, alcoholism and the far too often obnoxious and unruly drinkers—nothing is really free at the casino—your livelihood is at stake! Casinos bring crime to a city and the empty promise that a person can make money gambling.

The Tavistock Institute of Human Relations is a British institution concerned with group behavior and organizational behavior. It was launched in 1946, when it separated from the Tavistock Clinic, and was funded by a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation. Many of these founding members of the Tavistock Institute went on to play major roles in psychology. John Rawlings Rees became first president of the World Federation for Mental Health.

Jock Sutherland became director of the new post-war Tavistock Clinic, when it was incorporated into the newly established British National Health Service in 1946. Jock Sutherland was director from 1947 to 1968, and also founded the Edinburgh, Scotland Scottish Institute for Human Relations. Sutherland developed the War Office Selection Boards for Officers in WWII. Ronald Hargreaves became deputy director of the World Health Organization [sic] † that today is overseen by the Vatican. Tommy Wilson became chairman of the Tavistock Institute.

Tavistock was used to PROGRAM world leaders, the military, educators and clergy-and to destroy the family unit by introducing drugs (remember there was Sigmund Freud's favorite drug, Cocaine in Coca Cola at one time in America), rock & roll music, gambling and other bad vices into society! Sigmund Freud was an atheist. Edward Louis Bernays (November 22, 1891 − March 9, 1995) was an Austrian-American pioneer in the field of public relations and propaganda, referred to in his obituary as "the father of public relations". He combined the ideas of Gustave Le Bon and Wilfred Trotter on crowd psychology with the psychoanalytical ideas of his atheist uncle, Sigmund Freud. Tavistock Clinic's first director in 1921 was Sigmund Freud (followed by his daughter Anna), who both experimented on adults and children post WWI. Casinos and gambling are just another way of controlling people.

What happened to Schenectady as the county seat serving all of its people, surrounding neighborhoods, and supporting family values and community centers? Why are the Democratic "Partners in Decline" cronies of re-elected Mayor McCarthy promoting bad habits of gambling and hedonism?

The once thriving Italian and Polish immigrant neighborhood of Mount Pleasant has turned into an eyesore. Businesses have left and the neighborhood is overrun by drug dealing and rooming houses. Price Chopper supermarket left years ago, and the Trustco bank has one teller standing behind thick bullet proof glass—while the manager has no protection and is the first line of defense. The old Mt. Pleasant high school is now a middle school, and Transfinder buses all the high school teenagers to the former Linton High School—that basically operates as a temporary "jail holding cell" during the day throughout the school year.

Even the school buses are unsafe and the bus drivers are afraid of the "wanna-be high school gangsters," who terrorize the other student passengers. Transfinder needs to come up with a solution like putting a police officer on certain buses that pick up and transport school-age kids in troubled neighborhoods.

In the census of 2010, there were 66,135 people, 26,265 (2000 data) households, and 14,051 families residing in the city of Schenectady. There were 30,272 housing units at an average density of 2,790.6 per square mile. The racial makeup of the city was 59.38% (52.31% Non-Hispanic) (7.07 White-Hispanic) White, 24.19% African American, 0.69%, Native American, 2.62% Asian, 0.14% Pacific Islander, 8.24% from other races, and 5.74% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 14.47% of the population. The top ancestries self-identified by people on the census in Schenectady, New York, are Italian (13.6%), Guyanese (12.3%), Irish (12.1%), Puerto Rican (10.1%), German (8.7%), English (6.0%), Polish (5.4%), French (4.4%).

The Schenectady I grew up in had a thriving downtown with a Carl Company, and F. W. Woolworth Company (often referred to as Woolworth's, or Woolworth)—a retail company that was one of the original pioneers of the five-and-dime store. There was tons of retail shops; the cheese cake store and the Planter's Peanut confectionary store, Rudnicks Uniforms, clothing and shoe stores and other retail outlets—and you had Hermie's Music Shop, Andy's Ski Shop going up State Street, a beautiful park for children to play, and the Pork Store and butcher shop on Albany Street.

"There is an ethnic, social economic prejudice and cultural divide in downtown Schenectady..."

Today, in downtown Schenectady, there is a new Puzzles Bakery, Bombers Burrito Bar, Nico Pizza, (Ken's Hoagies, Katz Kafé and Ambition Bistro on the Jay Street Pedestrian Mall), a Subway deli on State Street—and the four (4) flagship downtown State Street restaurants; Zen Asian Fusion Lounge, Johnny's Italian-American, Aperitivo Bistro and Mexican Radio. However, if you talk to some people who are not caucasian, you will find that they do not feel welcomed to eat at Johnny's Italian-American restaurant. There is an ethnic, social economic prejudice and cultural divide in downtown Schenectady, and an invisible barrier between those who live in the Hamilton Hill area—as well as other impoverished areas—and a few places downtown.

However, the restaurants that are downtown fear the Downtown Schenectady Improvement Corporation (DSIC), which only promotes downtown and areas leading to the future casino. 

"When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty." —Thomas Jefferson

Bombers Burrito Bar upstairs has become the place where 21-plus multi-ethnic people gather. Proctors still remains the anchor of downtown, and thank God that its patrons stay and dine during the show season.

The restaurants and businesses that are not in the downtown Schenectady area feel abandoned by the DSIC and are suffering financially!!!

Schenectady has changed into a city that is more focused on attracting Millennials and a larger LGBTQ community downtown. The grounds around City Hall are carefully adorned with picnic tables painted in pastel colors and stamped with the words, "Donated by Schenectady PRIDE," the local organization that promotes LGBTQ lifestyles in the city and surrounding Capital Region. The Democrats want to make Schenectady the urban "P-TOWN" of Upstate, New York. To each their own regarding sexual preference, because each person will be accountable to God for their actions and the things they have done in this life. I have two teenage lesbian daughters, who I love very much and even they ask me, "Dad, must there always be the promotion of drag queens and [sexual exhibition of LGBTQ] people wearing their underwear [in public] and grinding [at the LGBTQ Pride Day?]"

The Alliance Team: Ann Rigley, Vince Riggi, Roger Hull, Mike Ceuvas and Tom Verret

The campaign slogan of the incumbent Mayor of Schenectady and his party was "Partners and Progress." His challenger, Roger Hull, had refuted the claim of the Democrat rule of Schenectady and called the party "Partners in Decline." Neither the GOP, nor the Alliance Party is perfect, however, we have seen legalization of same sex marriage, legalized marijuana and more promotion of casinos and other forms of debauchery and pay-to-play under the liberal Democratic Party. Real estate website, Movoto compiled a list of New York State's most dangerous places to live and Schenectady clocked in at number 5. http://www.movoto.com/guide/ny/most-dangerous-places-in-new-york/ Forbes magazine and Biz Journals.com and the Huffington Post—as well as other reliable sources use and trust the data provided by the Movoto Real Estate Blog and its surveys.

Neighborhoods that are not in the DSIC district suffer and only get "Declarations" from City Hall, but never receive the State and local dollars to develop their communities. Crime is pushed into these neighborhoods and the name of the game is containment and abandonment of policing. When the citizens of these neighborhoods cry out to City Hall about absentee landlords, and rooming houses occupied by transients, their cries fall on deaf ears in City Hall. Moreover, the "Partner in Decline" appoint "Yes men and Yes ladies" to sit on City Council, so the top dogs can send their cronies to appease the suffering neighborhoods with rhetoric and empty promises from City Hall. The community centers close, the youth centers close, the public libraries in these areas close early and do not open on certain days. Trash is left in the streets, and the apartments that are rented are usually owned by foreigners, who rent to drug dealers, and/or who practice extortion against their own people by charging unreasonable rents.

"...we have seen legalization of same sex marriage, legalized marijuana and more promotion of casinos and other forms of debauchery and pay-to-play under the liberal Democratic Party."

Recently, I picked up a downtown Schenectady magazine titled, La Famiglia, and saw that an exclusive Italian-American Club, located in Albany, NY, was promoted on the cover. The pool at this club is for "MEMBERS ONLY," and you can only become a member by another Italian-American member sponsoring you. Oh! The Italian-American Club will take your money, if you want to hold a catered event there, but the pool and other "MEMBERS ONLY" privileges are for only Italians. The Schenectady that I grew up in, the Italian people intermarried and held community with people of all races, creeds and political affiliations. Many of these Italian families that I grew up with are still around, and do not speak favorably about the Downtown Schenectady Improvement Corporation (DSIC) or Metroplex.

In addition, the magazine only promoted two local downtown Schenectady food businesses, owned by the Mallozzi Group—Johnny's and Villa Italia bakery. I did not mind seeing the self promotion of only two (2) downtown food businesses out of all the downtown restaurants (and a small mention of Proctors and a few cultural places), until I saw a full page advertisement on the inside front cover for the Schenectady Convention and Visitors Bureau.

On the inside back cover of La Famiglia magazine, I was disgusted to see a full page advertisement for the Downtown Schenectady Improvement Corporation (DSIC). But then I discovered that John Mallozzi, one of the owner of Johnny's and Villa Italia, sits on the board of Metroplex—along with Karen Zalewski-Wildzunas, who just won a seat on the City Council, and Neil Golub of the Golub Corporation and Price Chopper supermarkets.

Consumer Reports rated 68 supermarkets across the country on the quality of their fresh food based on a survey of nearly 63,000 of its readers...Price Chopper ranked 51 down on the list regarding customer satisfaction [CONSUMER REPORTS: NATION'S BEST, WORST SUPERMARKETS [http://6abc.com/food/consumer-reports-nations-best-worst-supermarkets/618788/].

Zalewski-Wildzunas, 55, is an executive at Berkshire Bank and co-owns a small business, called Regalo, in Albany, NY. In addition to serving on the Metroplex board she is also on the board of the Chamber of Schenectady County with Mona Golub of the Golub Corporation and Price Chopper supermarkets. The Mallozzi Group closed its elegantly styled Brown Derby in Albany’s theater district to open its casual Italian restaurant in downtown Schenectady, but maintained its operation of the controversial Italian-American Club in Albany, NY. No wonder the Schenectady Chamber of Commerce has been merged with the Capital Region Chamber and most events take place in Albany—where these Albany businesses will get priority bidding on Schenectady. Johnny’s is named for John Mallozzi. The Mallozzi Group uses La Famiglia magazine also to promote; Mallozzi Ballrooms & Catering, Treviso, Villa Italia Pasticceria, Belvedere Hotel and its two golf course operations.

It is the current intent of Neil Bluhm (Chairman of Rush Street Gaming) to partner with the Mallozzi Group to operate some or all of the food & beverage venues at the future Mohawk River Casino. 

The Downtown Schenectady Improvement Corporation (DSIC) and Convention and Visitors Bureau should know better not to side with just one company and its business operations over all the other businesses in Schenectady. The Downtown Schenectady Improvement Corporation (DSIC) and Convention and Visitors Bureau should know better not to align themselves with a company that promotes an Italian-American Club in Albany, especially where only Italians are allowed to swim in the pool and have access to other exclusive amenities .

What Happened to Government focused on all businesses in Schenectady? Thomas Jefferson once said, "All tyranny needs to gain foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent." 

The Pope and the Magisterium of the Roman Catholic Church (Cardinals and Bishops), claim that they are the successors of the Apostle Peter, however, Peter denied Jesus Christ three times and needed to be reinstated by Christ (John 21:15-25). Moreover, Peter tried to bring the Christians back to following Judaism and needed to be corrected by the Apostle Paul all the time (see Galatians chapter 2—especially verses 11-21).

The Pope and Magisterium of the Roman Catholic Church are NOT following after the Apostle Peter as they claim, because after Peter was reinstated by Jesus, he did NOT teach that the "Virgin Mary" continues to bring us the eternal gifts of salvation—as the Catechism of the Roman Catholic Church, Section 969 (666) falsely teaches. In fact, Acts 4:8-12 (GNT), informs us what Peter taught: "8 Peter, full of the Holy Spirit, answered them, “Leaders of the people and elders: 9 if we are being questioned today about the good deed done to the lame man and how he was healed, 10 then you should all know, and all the people of Israel should know, that this man stands here before you completely well through the power of the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth—whom you crucified and whom God raised from death. 11 Jesus is the one of whom the scripture says,

‘The stone that you the builders despised turned out to be the most important of all.’

12 Salvation is to be found through him alone; 
in all the world there is no one else whom God has given who can save us.” 

2 Corinthians 11:12-15 • Good News Translation (GNT)

12 I will go on doing what I am doing now, in order to keep those other “apostles” from having any reason for boasting and saying that they work in the same way that we do. 13 Those men are not true apostles—they are false apostles, who lie about their work and disguise themselves to look like real apostles of Christ. 14 Well, no wonder! Even Satan can disguise himself to look like an angel of light! 15 So it is no great thing if his servants disguise themselves to look like servants of righteousness. In the end they will get exactly what their actions deserve.

Psalm 37:10-13 • Good News Translation (GNT)
10 Soon the wicked will disappear;
    you may look for them, but you won't find them;
11 but the humble will possess the land
    and enjoy prosperity and peace.
12 The wicked plot against good people
    and glare at them with hate.
13 But the Lord laughs at wicked people,
because He knows they will soon be destroyed.

THE END OF THE STORY IS THAT, GOD AND HIS PEOPLE—JEW AND GENTILE WIN—READ Revelation 13:16-18; and 17 through 22.

The people and families of Schenectady have been indoctrinated to keep the status quo. Incumbent Mayor McCarthy is backed by the casino real estate developers, and those who got money from Metroplex—as well as all the local unions that are going to build the new Mohawk River Casino. Nevertheless, it is time for the people of Schenectady to no longer remain silent and "go silently into that good night..." "WE WILL NOT GIVE UP WITHOUT A FIGHT! America's once great cities are following suit to the prophecy of Revelation 17 and 18, and the Fall of Babylon, as they continue to destroy family values—and turn our cities into a home for demons, a hideout for every foul spirit, and a hideout for every foul vulture. These cities and governments have sold out to special interests, lined their own pockets and sold out their cities to the new form of legalized "drug pushers"—who masquerade as casino real estate developers. These pay-to-play vultures have taken over our American cities only to promote gambling and other forms of addiction—that destroy the mind, body, finances and souls of the human race. The merchants of the world will continue to grow rich until Jesus Christ returns, but the end of Revelation 18, verses 5 through 24, tell the story of "Partners in Decline" around the world. 

Revelation 18 • New Living Translation (NLT)

The Fall of Babylon

18 After all this I saw another angel come down from heaven with great authority, and the earth grew bright with his splendor. 2 He gave a mighty shout:

“Babylon is fallen—that great city is fallen!

    She has become a home for demons.

She is a hideout for every foul[a] spirit,

    a hideout for every foul vulture

    and every foul and dreadful animal.[b]

3 For all the nations have fallen[c]

    because of the wine of her passionate immorality.

The kings of the world

    have committed adultery with her.

Because of her desires for extravagant luxury,

    the merchants of the world have grown rich.”

4 Then I heard another voice calling from heaven,

“Come away from her, my people.

    Do not take part in her sins,

    or you will be punished with her.

5 For her sins are piled as high as heaven,

    and God remembers her evil deeds.

6 Do to her as she has done to others.

    Double her penalty[d] for all her evil deeds.

She brewed a cup of terror for others,

    so brew twice as much[e] for her.

7 She glorified herself and lived in luxury,

    so match it now with torment and sorrow.

She boasted in her heart,

    ‘I am queen on my throne.

I am no helpless widow,

    and I have no reason to mourn.’

8 Therefore, these plagues will overtake her in a single day—

    death and mourning and famine.

She will be completely consumed by fire,

    for the Lord God who judges her is mighty.”

9 And the kings of the world who committed adultery with her and enjoyed her great luxury will mourn for her as they see the smoke rising from her charred remains. 10 They will stand at a distance, terrified by her great torment. They will cry out,

“How terrible, how terrible for you,

    O Babylon, you great city!

In a single moment

    God’s judgment came on you.”

11 The merchants of the world will weep and mourn for her, for there is no one left to buy their goods. 12 She bought great quantities of gold, silver, jewels, and pearls; fine linen, purple, silk, and scarlet cloth; things made of fragrant thyine wood, ivory goods, and objects made of expensive wood; and bronze, iron, and marble. 13 She also bought cinnamon, spice, incense, myrrh, frankincense, wine, olive oil, fine flour, wheat, cattle, sheep, horses, wagons, and bodies—that is, human slaves.

14 “The fancy things you loved so much

    are gone,” they cry.

“All your luxuries and splendor

    are gone forever,

    never to be yours again.”

15 The merchants who became wealthy by selling her these things will stand at a distance, terrified by her great torment. They will weep and cry out,

16 “How terrible, how terrible for that great city!

    She was clothed in finest purple and scarlet linens,

    decked out with gold and precious stones and pearls!

17 In a single moment

    all the wealth of the city is gone!”

And all the captains of the merchant ships and their passengers and sailors and crews will stand at a distance. 18 They will cry out as they watch the smoke ascend, and they will say, “Where is there another city as great as this?” 19 And they will weep and throw dust on their heads to show their grief. And they will cry out,

“How terrible, how terrible for that great city!

    The shipowners became wealthy

    by transporting her great wealth on the seas.

In a single moment it is all gone.”

20 Rejoice over her fate, O heaven

    and people of God and apostles and prophets!

For at last God has judged her

    for your sakes.

21 Then a mighty angel picked up a boulder the size of a huge millstone. He threw it into the ocean and shouted,

“Just like this, the great city Babylon

    will be thrown down with violence

    and will never be found again.

22 The sound of harps, singers, flutes, and trumpets

    will never be heard in you again.

No craftsmen and no trades

    will ever be found in you again.

The sound of the mill

    will never be heard in you again.

23 The light of a lamp

    will never shine in you again.

The happy voices of brides and grooms

    will never be heard in you again.

For your merchants were the greatest in the world,

    and you deceived the nations with your sorceries.

24 In your[f] streets flowed the blood of the prophets and of God’s holy people

    and the blood of people slaughtered all over the world.”

Footnotes:

18:2a Greek unclean; also in each of the two following phrases.

18:2b Some manuscripts condense the last two lines to read a hideout for every foul [unclean] and dreadful vulture.

18:3 Some manuscripts read have drunk.

18:6a Or Give her an equal penalty.

18:6b Or brew just as much.

18:24 Greek her.

THE ONLY HOPE FOR AMERICA AND THE WORLD IS TO REPENT AND TURN BACK TO GOD AND THE TRUTH OF HIS WORD, JESUS—WHO GAVE US HIS WORDS IN THE HOLY BIBLE 
TO GOVERN OUR WORLD AND LIVE BY.

  TobyMac / Billy Graham City on Our Knees VIDEO from HIS Radio on Vimeo.

Source:

1. The NEW Schenectady (Part 8): Northside a fixer-upper

Signs of progress emerge in affordable but neglected section

By Kathleen Moore August 22, 2011

2. The NEW Schenectady (Part 1): Woodlawn, a suburb in the city, takes care of itself
By Kathleen Moore July 4, 2011