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New York Central Station

Pei Lin — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 11:13:23 +0000

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

Pei Lin — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 12:22:47 +0000

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

Pei Lin — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 11:28:32 +0000

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

Pei Lin — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 13:07:45 +0000

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

Pei Lin — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 12:53:42 +0000

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.

Outdoor Winter Adventures

Pei Lin — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 12:39:24 +0000

It can be hard for kids and parents to find fun activities during our many, many weeks of winter here in Central New York. It’s tough to say stay off the scooter until spring. But we do try to find other ways of having fun indoors, and weather permitting, many parents and children turn to the outdoors for fun.

Cross-country skiing is available throughout Central New York. Whether along the creek’s edge in Syracuse’s near east side, at Green Lakes State Park in Fayetteville or at Battle Island State Park’s golf course north of Fulton, cross-country skiing is great exercise for the whole family.

Clinton Square Ice Rink is an open air, outside rink that during the non-winter months is part of an open plaza with stores, business’, banks and bars all around. There are memorials to visit, places to sit and eat lunch, and lots of classic buildings to view. From late November till early March, the city of Syracuse converts the lower level of the plaza into a nice ice rink that sees lots of avid skaters. There is even a streaming webcam located on the roof of one of the local buildings that points down at the plaza for all the world to see.

What else can one do to keep the kids, and yourself, sane during the cold months?

The opening of Clinton Square in September 2001 met with rave reviews and the square is currently a spectacular civic plaza for festivals, farmers’ markets, concerts and ice skating. Ice skating is a popular activity during the winter months, and approximately 60,000 people used the ice rink during the 2008-2009 season. Summertime festivals held in Clinton Square include Taste of Syracuse, which drew 75,000 people to the area for the two day event in 2007. Overall, over 200,000 people use Clinton Square each year.