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Photo of the Day
Katrina Tulloch
Gooey cakes and die-cut pasta: Francesca’s Bakehouse opened this month in what has been described as the “skinniest” building in Syracuse. The building measures 13.9 feet between the outer walls, and at one point the inside space is just a hair over eight feet. Take a look inside. (Katrina Tulloch photo)
The Latest
Vandals and thieves are wrecking historic Syracuse convent slated for $100 million housing project: An ambitious $100 million plan to turn a former Syracuse convent and college campus into low-income senior housing has become a race to save the historic site from vandals and thieves. Hoodlums have ripped out light fixtures, doors, banisters, stained glass windows, parts of a church organ, and copper piping and wiring. The destruction is not threatening to stop redevelopment plans, which would create the largest affordable housing complex in Syracuse in recent memory, but it is adding to the project’s costs.
What’s Trending
How to get rid of your Christmas tree in Syracuse: Christmas tree collection in Syracuse will begin late next week, city officials said. The public works department will collect natural trees from curbs across four separate weekends, based on address. Here’s when they’ll pick up your trees.
Nation’s largest restaurant chain shuts location in Syracuse suburb: The Subway on Route 31 in Clay, directly across the road from the shuttered Great Northern Mall, closed earlier this month. Subway remains the nation’s largest restaurant chain with more than 20,000 U.S. locations, but has shuttered thousands of restaurants since 2016.
Troopers search for man who robbed bank in Oswego County: A bank in Oswego County was robbed Wednesday morning by a man wearing a blue mask, New York State Police said. He left the Pathfinder Bank in Lacona with an unknown amount of cash, troopers said. See photos of the suspect.
- 1 dead in Central NY crash after car drives off road, crashes into tree
- 3 arrested after ghost gun found with 31-bullet magazine during stop in Salina
Looking ahead
Transformation of Syracuse bakery to include studio apartments with rents below $1,000: A plan to turn a former Syracuse bread factory into apartments could get under way next year. The $17 million project is expected to be completed by the spring of 2026 and feature affordable housing, including studio apartments that could start at around $700 to $800. “There’s a lot of excitement around this and the need for this type of space,” said Evans.
Sports
dnett@syracuse.com
Syracuse reserves Quadir Copeland, left, and Benny Williams steal the ball from Niagara guard Randy Tucker. (Dennis Nett photo)
Syracuse basketball coach Adrian Autry says productive bench is ‘what makes this team’: Adrian Autry approached his first year as Syracuse’s head basketball coach intending to play more man-to-man defense and at a faster pace. In order to accomplish both of those goals, Autry knew he needed to get consistent play from his bench. Syracuse (9-3 overall, 0-1 ACC) has lived up to the challenge as SU’s backups have combined to score 26 or more points in six of Syracuse’s first 12 games. “That’s what makes this team,’’ Autry said of SU’s depth. “If it’s going to be really, really (good), it’s going to be because we play nine or 10 guys.’’
MORE SPORTS:
- Syracuse’s leading tackler Marlowe Wax will return for fifth season
- Former Syracuse DB Duce Chestnut enters name in transfer portal
- SU won’t play Army in 2024, still needs to fill final non-conference spot
- Ex-Syracuse QB Tommy DeVito is out as NY Giants’ starting QB
- High school roundup: East Syracuse Minoa girls basketball tops Watertown in tournament opener
- CNY high school sports results, schedules, photos, news
In Brief
Police respond to disturbances at 2 Upstate NY malls; teen arrested
Attempted murder, child sex abuse: 215 arrests added to police blotter
Bradley Cooper’s ‘Maestro’ film features Upstate NY college orchestra
CNY’s best appetizers of 2023: Our food writers pick their favorites
Syracuse zoo lets kids celebrate New Year’s Eve without missing bedtime
Tom Smothers of ‘Smothers Brothers’ comedy duo dies at 86
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