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Just saw a low flying military type plane fly over south utica what the heck is going on?

Hi Utica!

My FIL will be working at Utica Memorial and is in urgent need of affordable housing close by. Does anyone have any recommendations? He currently doesn’t have any money saved up as he makes terrible financial decisions which has put him in this position. Any recommendations and suggestions would be really appreciated! Thank you!

Apparently Cornell University has their own variety so I've been looking to try them (apparently they're the healthiest potatoes on earth and super rich in anti-oxidants) but the only place I could find them online and they're always sold out.

Does anyone know a local place that sells them? I saw some at Hannaford's, but they're mixed with other potatoes.

Basically, what type of niche shop do you feel Utica is missing out on

How many non-Italian mayors has Utica had in the last 60 years?

I’m trying to get a clear historical picture of Utica’s mayors.

Going back roughly 60 years, how many mayors of the City of Utica were not Italian-American?

If anyone has a reliable source or a list of mayors with their backgrounds, please share it. I’m interested in the actual history, not speculation.

been playin a lot of bo2 and lowkey want someone to play with, when i have the time ofc

I'm thinking of stopping in Utica on my way to the midwest. It will be basically dinner and a hotel overnight. Is it a good place to stop and do you have an recommendations?

I just picked up a pizza from Savage, the food truck just off Genesee near the Uptown Theater. In a change from the recent explosion in food prices, they have lowered prices on their pizza. The website looks like it hasn’t been updated but now a cheese pizza is $10 and pepperoni is $13. I didn’t ask about the price of their riggies so call them up at (315)369-5238. My wife and I pretty much alternate between getting a pizza and getting a large order of riggies. We like everything we’ve tried from there but those are our go-to orders.

I’ve been a fan since they opened for business. Now, even more so.

The centerpiece of the project will be a replacement of two bridges on North Genesee Street — one over the Mohawk River and the other over the Erie Canal. The project will also create 10-foot shared-use paths from Wurz Avenue to the New York State Thruway interchange

Crosswalks will have these signals

https://preview.redd.it/3wleailqs7jh1.png?width=945&format=png&auto=webp&s=d3cbe20a8ebe40cf69ce3375778c7050175874ba

https://highways.dot.gov/safety/pedestrian-bicyclist/safety-countermeasures/pedestrian-hybrid-beacon-guide-recommendations

https://www.cnyhomepage.com/news/nys-dot-announces-new-62-million-north-genesee-st-bridge-project/

The Post Got Utica Wrong, and Its Own Numbers Prove It

By J. Anthony Stucchi
(J. Anthony Stucchi is principal of JGK Associates, LLC d/b/a JGK Strategic, a strategic consulting firm based in Utica, New York.)

On August 10, 2026, the New York Post ran a real estate piece on Utica under a headline claiming the city has homes for $87,000 "but no one wants to live there." It is a tidy story. It is also demonstrably false, and the proof is sitting inside the Post's own article.

Four paragraphs in, the Post concedes that the average Utica home now runs $213,412 according to Zillow, up nearly 9 percent in the past year. Stop and read that again. Nine percent annual appreciation. Home values do not rise 9 percent in a year in a place nobody wants to live. They rise 9 percent where demand is outrunning supply. The headline and the data cannot both be true, and the data wins every time.

The market evidence beyond the Post's own reporting is even more damning to its thesis. A March 31, 2026 national relocation market guide reported that Utica homes routinely go under contract in 14 days, frequently spark bidding wars, and that mortgage pre-approval is now "the bare minimum" for a buyer to be taken seriously. Bidding wars. Fourteen days. In April 2025, Redfin listed Utica's median sale price at $160,000. By mid-2026 the median sale was tracking near $185,000 and Zillow's average value hit $213,412. That is not abandonment. That is one of the fastest-tightening small-city housing markets in the Northeast.

So where did the $87,000 headline number come from? Cherry-picking. The article itself admits that neighborhood medians range from roughly $87,000 to $157,000 while the citywide average sits around $213,000. The Post took the single lowest neighborhood figure in the city and hung the entire narrative on it. That is like pulling the cheapest block in Yonkers and declaring it the story of Westchester County. It is not journalism. It is decline porn, a genre that sells clicks downstate by recycling a Rust Belt obituary written 30 years ago.

And that is the real recklessness here. The article treats Utica as an island, frozen in 1995, when the city anchors one of the most active development corridors in upstate New York. Consider the record, with dates:

October 15, 2023: Governor Hochul announced the completion of the Wynn Hospital, a 702,000 square foot, 10-story, 373-bed regional medical center in the heart of downtown Utica, built with $300 million in state support and designed to handle 90,000 patient visits a year. Cities that nobody wants do not get new downtown hospitals.

September 10, 2025: The state announced completion of Artspace Utica Lofts, an $18.6 million, 43-unit development anchoring the city's Arts and Cultural District between the Stanley Theatre and the Munson.

In 2025, eBliss Global, a Texas electric bicycle manufacturer, committed more than $4 million to a production facility at 20 Harbor Point Road in downtown Utica.

March 3, 2026: Oneida County announced grant funding and a master plan to redevelop the 53-acre former hospital campus, converting yesterday's infrastructure into tomorrow's housing and commercial space.

And ten minutes up the road, Chobani is building a $1.2 billion, 1.4 million square foot dairy processing plant at Griffiss in Rome, with more than 1,000 jobs that will pull housing demand, suppliers, and payroll straight through the Utica market.

Add the Nexus Center, the Adirondack Bank Center, Harbor Point, Bagg's Square, and the proposed Nexus Neighborhood, and you are looking at a downtown district taking shape in real time. Even the affordability listicles the Post's genre feeds on now describe Genesee Street as walkable vibrancy drawing young professionals and artists. The Post found none of this worth a sentence.

Yes, Utica carries the scars every legacy industrial city carries. The poverty rate is real and the work is not finished. But the honest headline, the one the data actually supports, is the opposite of the one the Post printed: Utica is the last city in New York State where a working family, a first-time buyer, or a small investor can still get in the door, at the precise moment more than a billion and a half dollars of public and private capital is landing on the region. That is not a warning. That is an opportunity, and the people bidding up houses in 14 days have already figured it out.

The Post owes its readers better than a headline its own fourth paragraph refutes. Utica does not need the Post's pity. Judged by the only measures that matter, capital and demand, the market has already delivered its verdict.

J. Anthony Stucchi is principal of JGK Associates, LLC d/b/a JGK Strategic, a strategic consulting firm based in Utica, New York.

I barely go to Wendy's. I think their prices are stupidly high for what you get. However I had a taste for Wendy's breakfast today so I'm like today's the day

Apparently today's NOT the day

They don't serve breakfast at the N Genesee St location. They were closed. When did that change? I'm not shocked because it was always dead when I drove by early am. But they pushed it for the longest time.

Hello everyone I made a recent post on here about how a buddy and I were moving from Atlanta, GA to Rome-Utica area. Well they backed out, so I'm wondering what's the best way to find a community and people to hang out with. Any help would be appreciated. Here's some things about me.

* 21 years-old
* Male
* Loves hiking, working out, and exploring new areas.

Again, any advice is will be appreciated.

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