NEW BALTIMORE, N.Y. (NEWS10) — The curve on New York State Route 144 in New Baltimore is dangerous enough for drivers of cars. Debra Sottolano, town council member in New Baltimore, says large trucks regularly make the area even more hazardous.
“We see trucks jackknife on this curve all the time and have to back up, literally back up,” said Sottolano. “As the trucks come around this curve, they actually will drive over property.”
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One of the properties trucks drive onto is Tony and Donna Wolfe’s historic home. The Wolfes live on Route 144 in the first house built in New Baltimore, constructed in 1740 and made of sand and stone. The noise from the trucks has made cracks in the walls both inside and out, and sometimes trucks drive over a small wall separating their yard from the road.
“When the [tires] go up onto the wall, it bends their rim and then it explodes,” said Donna Wolfe. “One year, there was a big explosion, and we had plants and it cut the plants off like a machete.”
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The trucks are heading to the Port of Coeymans on the Hudson River. Sottolano acknowledges the port’s significance, but says the traffic in New Baltimore as a result is unsafe…