First Street thoughts

Okay, I live in Liverpool, but not in the village. We actually live in the outer suburbs up towards Seneca Mall way. It used to be the exurbs but now there are farther exurbs. My neighborhood was built in the late 1970's. I found out today that our exterior walls are made of chipboard and the aluminum siding was put up over that. No wonder our NGrid bills are so high.

Anyhow, technically we are Town of Clay, a totally different zipcode and township than Village of Liverpool but the Village of Liverpool is definitely our place identity. Our kids all go to school together-- in the high school. I love going into the village. The homes are beautiful and historic. I often wished I lived there, able to walk to the post office, library, park, grocery store, restaurant and pub. Oswego Rd (Rt 57) is very busy but the police are very good about enforcing speed limits. What is depressing to me is the number of boarded up businesses in the village's business section on First St. I don't understand it. Why is it so sparse? The village can't support a coffeeshop? There used to be a bike/skate shop there, an appliance repair shop, an antigue shop too. I understand there is not a lot of parking along First St. ... however, there is a huge parkinglot for the park which is very easy access to First St. Note that there are many other businesses down Old Liverpool Rd, behind Heid's. Why does the Village get so much drive-by? Tomorrow, I think I might attempt a ride there on my bike. Pictures will follow.