In response to: “Syracuse Inner Harbor is no place for a concrete plant (Editorial Board Opinion),” Nov. 16, 2025:
The editorial board is right: A 24/7 concrete batch plant spewing dust, noise and truck traffic has no place two blocks from the Inner Harbor’s aquarium, hotels and apartments. It “simply doesn’t fit.”
But just a short distance away, at 100–104 Lynch St., Cranesville Block has been doing exactly that for years — nonstop trucks, hazardous dust, unpermitted dumping, illegal curb cuts and now fresh stone piled onto a former residential lot with no permit in sight. The noise and fumes blow straight toward the Catholic Charities homeless shelter and nearby homes…