Xuyun Liu sits in a curved sofa chair. Her smiling face, neat bob and rectangular glasses are lit by lanterns that hang overhead. Her calm disposition does not betray her hectic time spent as a Chinese student in Syracuse, nor her life now launching a career. By weekday, Liu works as an architectural designer, but […]
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Hidden Restaurants
Coleman’s In 1933, just after the end of Prohibition, Peter Coleman opened a saloon in Tipperary Hill, a largely Irish neighborhood on Syracuse’s Westside, called Coleman’s. The saloon was small, with a tin ceiling and apartments above that served traditional pub food. In the late 1950s, Peter Coleman passed the restaurant onto his son, another […]
Toxic Retail
A sea-green spire towers on the shores of long-polluted Lake Onondaga, surrounded by sprawling parking lots and a massive hotel. This is the crown of Destiny USA: Syracuse’s six-story, 2.45 million square-foot shopping center on the city’s Northside. It’s also an ever-present reminder of how a city on the decline tried to turn itself around […]