west utica

After a long battle between the Stewart's Shop corporation and the residents of East and West Utica, the decision has been made by the company to build on both ends of the city, pending approval by the Utica Common Council.

Soon the snow will melt across Central New York and parents will be taking their kids out to parks and playgrounds around the area and in West Utica, sadly, there is new graffiti at the Addison Miller Park playground.

The dining room at Mother Marianne's West Side Kitchen opens seven days a week for lunch to anyone in need in our community. This video was shared with us of the 2013 Thanksgiving meal. This year the Kitchen served 500 meals on Thanksgiving.

The Utica Fire Department responded to a fire in an apartment adjacent to the Pulaski Meat Market in on Lenox Ave in Utica on Friday November 22.

The complexion of the North-South Arterial (New York State Touring Routes 5-8-12) was forever changed with the permanent closing of Sunset Avenue in West Utica. Here's the lowdown on the changes.

The face lift of West Utica continues. The overhaul of the Arterial is ongoing, Carl's Furniture is closing and the build out has started at the former Bossert site bordered by Noyes and Oswego Streets, Lenox Ave and the Arterial.

A long-closed store in West Utica is getting a facelift and a new tenant. A Family Dollar is set to open at the corner of Court and Schuyler streets.

Utica firefighters were called to a large blaze on the city's west side late on Sunday evening.  The blaze, reported on the UFD's facebook page to be at 1207 Whitesboro Street, was brought under control early Monday morning.

Several boarded-up buildings in West Utica that front the North-South Arterial (New York State Touring Routes 5-8-12) are going to be demolished by the NYS Department of Transportation.

A fire at a 'boarding house' at 914 Columbia Street has left a Utica man injured.

Shane Young is 24 and paralyzed from the waist down, a victim of a snowmobile accident.  His wheelchair is his lifeline to the world. And last night it was stolen from his driveway on Faass Ave in West Utica.

The project that will remake the North-South Arterial in Utica is months away from starting and years away from completion but signs of the inevitable change in the neighborhood can already been seen.