BREAKING NEWS;blistering editorial in Sunday SaratogianEditorial: What a mess: Saratoga Springs Housing Authority seems to be out of touch with reality HERE
One of the biggest questions I’ve had since this whole Bugate began was the question of bedbugs in Jefferson and Vanderbilt Terrace. Jefferson Terrace and Vanderbilt Terrace will always have a special place in my heart. I was raised in 48 Jefferson St directly across from Jefferson Terrace. The Terrace was my playground and I would guess that the recollections of my childhood would be a little different than the idyllic memories of Public Safety Commissioner Christian Mathiesen who grew up on 5th Ave.He seems to think,drugs,alcohol and violence are something new in Saratoga. I would be happy to give him a history lesson sometime.
There was crime and drugs but also a neighborhood feel of the cities down trodden trying to build better lives. Many of my old friends are dead now, or in prison but many did quite well for themselves with our Mayor being the best example of Terrace kid makes good.
So it was with some concern when I took these photos of discarded mattresses in a dumpster at Vanderbilt terrace. Then I read this quote from the Saratogian
“They had bedbugs in the building next to mine over the summer,” said one woman who lives in Jefferson Terrace.”
So since Ed Spychalski has proven himself to be an evasive liar we don’t know the truth. Somehow though I’ve got a feeling that the bedbugs in Stonequist Apartments are only half the equation.
13 comments:
Think the Saratogians refusal to acknowledge the police presence is because of their loyalty to big labor or equine sports writers?
BAM! Barbara Lombardo smacked the bed-bug-bastards right out of the park.There're some real local heroes in this story: John Tighe, John Kaufman, John Franck, Marci Taylor and Phil Diamond to name a few.
With all the articles in the Saratogian, TU and Gazette you've got to wonder where the Saratoga County District Attorneys Office has been vacationing.
You read it first in SARATOGAINDECLINE: Before this is over, heads will roll and some longtime elites will be quite embarrassed.
BTW, bedbugs are more than a nuisance, they are a health hazard. Maybe when Dr. Matheisen finishes drafting his next resolution in the night he could ask the City Health Officer to stop by Stonequist and the Terrace to check things out.
There are only two heroes in this entire mess and that's John Tighe and the tenant who spoke up at a City Council meeting about the bedbugs. Everyone else is a Johnny-come-lately and some, like Brunelle and Spychalski, still have their heads so far up their asses they can't see any problems at the Housing Authority.
The Saratogian sat on this problem until it was embarrassed into finally writing about it. And the local cops are still serving as Spychalski's private Gestapo in order to keep people like JT from documenting exactly what's going on.
Where the fuck is Jim Murphy on this? Has be been bought off or is he too busy doing things to help keep NXIVM from getting blown up? (Yeah, Jimmy, you finally made the list).
This is Teresa Grocki. Thank you; I've said all I need to say & MY reputation is intact! I don't need to defend my actions or words to the lemmings in this building, and all of you private citizens...you ROCK with your support of me! Thank you ALL for your support. THANK YOU JOHN for your blog! The other matters are NOT my fault,and I leave all that up to what I see as VERY competent investigators...don't fail us now! I CONTINUE TO HOLD MY HEAD UP HIGH!
Teresa you are the bravest woman i know, outside of my wife that is
Teresa--none of this would have happened without your brave appearaance at that City Council meeting. You are the super heroine in all this
Where's the NXIVM news?
As far as NXIVM,all in good time my pretty all in good time
Just the other day our great leader come into our midst and set forth ridding our building of the bedbug infestation. He entered each apartment without a word and set to work in a great fumigation frenzy. As we stood in wide-eyed wonderment he emerged from apartment after apartment in a billowing cloud of DDT. Yet we were saddened, surely our great leader would succumb to the same fate as those nefarious bedbugs before he was done. But behold, as he climbed out of his son’s private security bunker in a haze of DDT, malathion and agent orange he seemed to be stronger than when he started. Having survived conditions that would have killed any other mere mortal in seconds, we all exclaimed in triumphant joy - ‘that man deserves another raise’!
Our great leader was then seen clearing ice and snow with nothing more than his bare hands so that the people of Stonequist could pay their respects to him at the next board meeting. In less than an hour he had cleared the entire parking lot and sidewalks and not a single snowflake was to be found. Such a momentous project would surely have taken many hours if done by lesser men.
Without even stopping for so much as a biscuit, our great leader then began directing a public relations extravaganza so that all those who doubt his abilities will know the truth. He personally advised his PR firm on how many cameras to use, what camera angles were best and made sure that everyone new of his thousands of great exploits. No taxpayer expense was too great.
Next our great leader scaled the people’s 10-story building and cleaned each and every window even though it was much to cold for anyone else to stand outside for more than a few seconds. We were in astonishment – what super human powers does our great leader possess? How wonderful it was to see the rays of sunshine coming into our apartments later that day. It was as if our great leader was there with us watching the bedbugs whither away in a dioxin-induced coma.
Oh great leader, what would we do without you? Two million won per year does not begin to repay our indebtedness to you for your great care of the people of Stonequist.
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Have questions for Ed Spychalski, director of the Saratoga Springs Housing Authority? Let us know.
Published: Monday, January 23, 2012
The Saratogian has an afternoon meeting scheduled with Edward Spychalski in our office to address some of the issues that have been brought up by residents, Saratoga Springs citizens and politicians.
Some of the questions on our list revolve around his salary, the handling of bedbugs in apartments, nepotism in the Housing Authority and their responses from public inquiries, but we want to get answers to any questions you might have as well.
Please e-mail us any questions you might have for the Housing Authority Director and we will try to get some answers for them.
Send your e-mails to lmccarty@saratogian.com. The meeting is early afternoon, so get the questions in as quickly as possible.
SPIN SPIN SPIN!!! Are you dizzy yet? I never saw someone blow so much smoke since my dad used to smoke 4 packs a day!!! Ed was on the problem since "day one"???!!! OK, then tell me why Emily took her bug in a jar in August (I know because I was consoling her) & Kathy Peterson told her "get that away from me"...then why did Maria from the 1st floor tell me she went to meet with Ed who called Gerard Hawthorne (maintenance Mgr)into the office and left her there waiting for him for 15 minutes until she "got the message" and left!Then why when I went to the office on Nov 7th crying SO hysterically a neighbor thought my dad had passed away (GOD FORBID) with my jar of bugs, no one contacted me?!?! I don't believe he was on this from Day One...because I found my bugs around day 120 & STILL NO ONE EVER came to me or contacted me on a method to eradicate or help me! See? I wasn't going to comment anymore...but THIS just pisses me off. SO...they do NOT HAVE MONEY TO HIRE A REPUTABLE exterminator...yet they can hire a PR firm to help spin you dizzy! THAT money could have helped us here. Oh...wait...I guess he can "recoup" that money from the new business he allowed to rent space in our building?? The Kettle ball people? I asked him to consider putting in a tiny eggs/bread/milk shop for us tenants in one of those spaces & that was NOT an option...NOOOO don't help US...keep making money for yourself...I'm done...I hope HUD doesn't believe the crap that's being shoveled. Jonathan ONLY stopped working as OUR security guard once it was made PUBLIC HELLOOOOOOO..and he did NOT ONLY WORK NIGHTS!!! OY VEY!!! I need to pinch myself to see if this is real
I go downstairs to the Great Room to use the area and "the clique" is sitting there talking loud (Ollie Westcott) about how "people have to go use the Internet to say what they want to say"...and other snide comments (you can't even IMAGINE!!!)...going down to socialize with my true friends is like going into the jaws of Satan...venom spewing from the mouths of the lemmings~one can't even converse for the loud remarks coming from them; you'd think Mankind would be a little more kind...no thanks...I'd rather just keep to my 400 sq ft of pure happiness and good vibes. I CONTINUE TO HOLD MY HEAD UP HIGH; hey! I want to thank the Fire Dept, the Doctor and the lady from I believe it was City Risk Mgmnt who came into my apt today to check me out & chat. they observed my surroundings, saw I am not a dumpster diver, that I had no idea they were coming today...and yet I was clean, apt in order, and they saw everything I am doing to keep the bugs at bey
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