New York Central Station

Many people may not know or remember that the main lines of the New York Central and Lackawanna railroads used to run through the streets of downtown Syracuse. Maximum speed was limited to 15 miles-per-hour. This situation was not remedied until the completion of the new New York Central Station (now Time Warner cable channel 10) on Erie Boulevard with its accompanying elevated tracks (now I-690) in 1936.

Onondaga County War Memorial

Onondaga County War Memorial is an arena in Syracuse, New York. It presently serves as the home venue for the Syracuse Crunch of the American Hockey League. Previously, the arena hosted the NBA’s Syracuse Nationals for their final 12 seasons in Syracuse. The Nationals moved to Philadelphia in 1963 to become the Philadelphia 76ers. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

Located in the heart of Central New York, the Oncenter Complex is easy to reach whether you are flying or driving. Conveniently located just minutes from Hancock International Airport and off the New York State Thruway, the Oncenter Complex is easy to find and inexpensive to get to. Also, the Oncenter Complex is located right in downtown Syracuse with easy access to hotels, restaurants and entertainment.

• Home of Syracuse University and the Syracuse Orange
• Future site of Destiny USA
• Close to the Finger Lakes Region
• Active downtown and social attractions
• Parks, fishing and skiing

Green Lakes State Park

Green Lakes State Park’s outstanding features are its two glacial lakes surrounded by upland forest. Both Round and Green Lakes are meromictic lakes, which means that there is no fall and spring mixing of surface and bottom waters. Such lakes have a high potential for evidence of ancient plant and animal life. Another special feature of the park is an 18-hole golf course designed by Robert Trent Jones, where visitors can snowshoe in winter, and there are 10 miles of trails that cross-country skiers can use.

Newhouse School of Public Communications

When you become a student at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, you become part of a tradition at one of the country’s best communications schools. As a leader in undergraduate and graduate studies, the Newhouse School provides outstanding, one-of-a-kind opportunities to its students.

Newhouse graduate students may choose from 11 professional master’s degree programs covering the full gamut of mass communications: advertising; arts journalism; broadcast journalism; documentary film and history; magazine, newspaper, and online journalism; media management; photography; public diplomacy; public relations; and television, radio, and film.

The school also offer an academic master’s program in media studies, a doctoral program in mass communications and a distance-learning master’s program in communications management.

I have close ties to to Newhouse. My major was in Magazine Journalism and French. My husband teaches photography and graphics in the Visual and Interactive Communications Department. His influence has probably been the number one factor on why I’m so picky about my house photos!

Syracuse Boasts Parks and Open Spaces

As the name indicates, the village of  North Syracuse is the first village north of the City of Syracuse and is situated on the road to Watertown and the North Country. It is actually located in the the town of Clay, not in the city of Syracuse, which may be confusing to newcomers to our area.

Parks and open space help define the character of the City and give it a unique range of assets within the county and region.

Syracuse has approximately 172 municipally owned and maintained parks, fields, inactive cemeteries, medians/traffic islands (most of which are landscaped and contribute to neighborhood greenspace), and natural areas. Since Syracuse has about 32% of the County’s population and 61% of the County’s municipal parks, the City is comparatively rich in parks and open space. This abundance of open space is even more apparent in the variety of parks and open space available in the City. These facilities include forested areas, harbors, pools, ball fields, tennis and basketball courts, ice skating rinks, golf courses, picnic areas, playgrounds, monuments, trails and public gathering places.

The Syracuse Department of Parks, Recreation & Youth Programs Department is the sole local government agency charged specifically with providing recreation for city residents. Approximately 1,000 acres of parks, playgrounds and open spaces are included under the Department’s stewardship.

The Syracuse Parks Department is responsible for coordinating, administering, and staffing a variety of recreational, support, and special events programs. These goals are accomplished through Special Events, Senior Programs, Aquatics, Adult Programs, Ice Rinks, Golf, Youth Programs, Forestry and Grounds Divisions.

The Department also has an Office of Graphics and an Office of Planning and Development that serve the public through capital improvements, community programs and the creation of signage and graphics for the parks.

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