west utica

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.

We continue with our Scenes of Central New York feature and today focus on West Utica.   The west side of our city is the home of  Columbia Square on the old Erie Canal, Old Main at the former Utica State Hospital and great neighborhood destinations like Tony Sparanga's and Pulaski Meat Market...