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Downtown Syracuse
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Location in Syracuse
Annexed -
Population (2000) 2,444
Median Age 31.5
Median Household Income $9,940
Owner-Occupied Housing 1.4%
Postal codes 13202, 13206
The AXA Towers in Downtown Syracuse are perhaps the best-known buildings in Syracuse, after the Carrier Dome.
The AXA Towers in Downtown Syracuse are perhaps the best-known buildings in Syracuse, after the Carrier Dome.

Downtown Syracuse is the economic center of Syracuse, New York, USA, and Central New York, employing over 30,000 people, and housing over 2,000. It is also one of the 26 officially recognized neighborhoods of Syracuse. Jump to: navigation, search Image File history File links Download high resolution version (865x891, 9 KB) Summary Created & Uploaded By: Kai Brinker Licensing File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Jump to: navigation, search This article is about the year 2000. ... The median household income is commonly used to provide data about smaller geographic areas. ... An owner-occupier is a person who lives in a house that he or she owns. ... A postal code is a series of letters and/or digits appended to a postal address for the purpose of sorting mail. ... This is a partial list of ZIP codes for the state of New York in the United States. ... This is a partial list of ZIP codes for the state of New York in the United States. ... Download high resolution version (2000x1312, 177 KB)Syracuse MONY Towers from the Syracuse University image repository http://www. ... Download high resolution version (2000x1312, 177 KB)Syracuse MONY Towers from the Syracuse University image repository http://www. ... The Carrier Dome is a 51,000-seat domed sports stadium located on the campus of Syracuse University. ... Clinton Square in Downtown Syracuse Syracuse is an American city in Central New York. ... Central New York is a term used to describe the central region of Upstate New York, roughly including the following counties and cities: The region has a population of about 1,112,646. ... Neighbourhood is also a term in topology. ...


History

Downtown Syracuse during its golden years. This photo is of South Salina Street around 1915.
Downtown Syracuse during its golden years. This photo is of South Salina Street around 1915.

Downtown Syracuse, as the rest of the city, grew as a result of the city's salt industry and its location on the Erie Canal. For over a century it was also the retail and entertainment center of Central New York with large department stores such as Chappell's, The Addis Co., Flah's, E.D. Edwards, Woolworth's, Grant's, Lincoln Stores, The Mohican, David's, Kreskee's, Clark Music Co., Dey's Department Store, and Sibley's. This attribute began to fade with development of large suburban malls, with the final blow coming in 1992 when the combined Addis & Dey department store became the last major store to leave downtown. Today Downtown Syracuse is an economical center, with many insurance companies, banks, and law firms having a large presence there. Postcard looking south on South Salina Street from the bridge over the Erie Canal (circa 1915). ... Postcard looking south on South Salina Street from the bridge over the Erie Canal (circa 1915). ... Jump to: navigation, search The Erie Canal (later replaced by part of the New York State Barge Canal system, which was renamed the Erie Canal) is a canal in New York State, United States, that runs from the Hudson River to Lake Erie, connecting the Great Lakes with the Atlantic... Central New York is a term used to describe the central region of Upstate New York, roughly including the following counties and cities: The region has a population of about 1,112,646. ... F.W. Woolworth Company the original USA based chain of high street shops. ... It has been suggested that Suburbia be merged into this article or section. ... The Mall, an out-of-town shopping centre at Patchway, near Bristol, England. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1992 was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ...


Since the late 1980s Downtown Syracuse has also increasingly become a nightlife center, with many bars, clubs, restaurants, and pubs being located in the Armory Square area. Most of Syracuse's cultural festivals, such as Oktoberfest and Festa Italiana also take place downtown. The Downtown Committee of Syracuse has also taken a great deal of effort to revitalize the area, and most sidewalks and streetlights have been restored in the past 15 years, with maps and other information posted on many street corners. Today downtown is lively on weekdays, but, with the exception of Armory Square, very dormant on weeknights and weekends. Jump to: navigation, search // Events and trends The 1980s marked an abrupt shift towards more conservative lifestyles after the momentous cultural revolutions which took place in the 1960s and 1970s and the definition of the AIDS virus in 1981. ... Nightlife is the collective term for any entertainment that is available and more popular from the late evening into the early hours of the morning. ... Tourists sit outside a bar in Chiang Mai, Thailand A bar is an establishment where alcoholic beverages are sold to be drunk on the premises. ... A club is an association of people not united together by any natural ties of kinship, real or supposed. ... Toms Diner, a restaurant in New York made familiar by Suzanne Vega and the television sitcom Seinfeld A restaurant is an establishment that serves prepared food and beverages to be consumed on the premises. ... An amusingly named pub (the Old New Inn) at Bourton-on-the-Water, in the Cotswold Hills of South West England A pub in the Haymarket area of Edinburgh, Scotland A public house, usually known as a pub, is a drinking establishment found mainly in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada... The southern end of Armory Square, with a portion of the armory on the left Armory Square, on the west side of Downtown Syracuse, New York, is a small shopping/arts/nightlife district surrounding the Milton J. Rubenstein Museum of Science and Technology (formerly the Discovery Center), which inhabits the...


Future

In 2004 Downtown Syracuse suffered a major blow when the potentially 790-room Hotel Syracuse closed. It had been operating in bankruptcy, renting a limited number of rooms and had been open continuously since 1922. Its closing leaves only two hotels downtown, both newly renovated, plus one more, opened in October 2005. Renovation plans for the hotel have failed, in part because Onondaga County plans to have a new 16-floor hotel built for its convention center. This had originally been planned in the late 1980s when the convention center was built. A new, large retail/apartment complex was announced in August of 2003, but construction on that has not begun either, and was officially put on hold due to lack of funding in December 2004. 2004(MMIV) is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... October is the tenth month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. ... Jump to: navigation, search 2005(MMV) is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Onondaga County is a county located in the state of New York. ... A convention center is a large, cavernous public building with enough open space to host public and private business and social events for the surrounding municipal and metropolitan areas. ... Note: as an adjective (stressed on the second syllable instead of the first), august means honorable. ... 2003(MMIII) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...


Also in December 2004 the city announced that a million-dollar payment by the chief creditor of the Hotel Syracuse would settle the unpaid property taxes dispute, thereby emerging the hotel from bankruptcy. The First Bank of Oak Park now owns the hotel hired two firms to market the property to a developer. In August and September of 2005 an Israeli firm named GMUL, agreed to buy and renovate both the Hotel Syracuse and its garage into a new four star hotel and condos.


Thirdly that December, Syracuse University announced it had purchased eleven buildings downtown, and leased another. Hundreds of faculty, staff, and students will begin to use these buildings beginning fall 2005. Syracuse University Syracuse University (SU) is a private American research university. ...


External links

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