Many of the people around today to talk about life in the 15th Ward, like Ervin, were just kids before and during the I-81 construction. Their memories revolve around the local corner stores where ...

A $180 million grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Neighborhood Access and Equity Program to Syracuse's I-81 Project will also be used to ensure the 15th Ward has modern ...

"This isn’t just a budget line item — it’s the lifeblood of a community long devastated by the scars of past infrastructure decisions," says the letter writer.

The I-81 Viaduct Project's fourth contract was ... The $313.5 million contract will begin construction on the Community Grid along streets on Syracuse’s Eastside in the former 15th Ward ...

The Interstate 81 viaduct in Syracuse effectively destroyed a Black neighborhood when it was built, and it has been falling apart ever since. But getting rid of it is complicated.

Many settled in the 15th Ward, a neighborhood adjacent to downtown. Clarence “Junie” Dunham, who is now 81, lived there in an apartment with no hot water, at a time when a milkman still ...

The dilapidated I-81 viaduct bisecting Syracuse is six years past its structural expiration date, and the state has studied alternatives to the elevated highway that runs through a Black neighborhood ...

David Rufus was just a toddler when the bulldozers rolled into the streets of his Syracuse, New York, neighborhood in 1960. As part of the country’s interstate highways surge, city officials wanted to ...

Controversy continues to swirl around the $2.25-billion Interstate 81 Viaduct Project in Syracuse, N.Y., which state and federal officials have touted as a way to reconnect communities once ...

SYRACUSE – Today, the New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT) released its I-81 Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) for public review.. In response, the New York Civil Liberties ...

A $180 million grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Neighborhood Access and Equity Program to Syracuse's I-81 Project will also be used to ensure the 15th Ward has modern ...