Nob Hill Apartments, a four-building apartment complex in Syracuse with around 785 units, was once known as a lavish option for Syracuse University students to live. Several residents and tenant advocates who spoke to Central Current for this story remember it by its nickname.
“They called it ‘Snob Hill,’ that was prestigious,” said Bruce Hare, a professor emeritus of sociology at Syracuse University, who has twice lived at the apartments in the past decade.
The complex lays on a sprawling campus on LaFayette Road that once-featured premium amenities like dozens of individual garages, a pool, playground facilities, a clubhouse, recreation rooms, and community spaces for residents to assemble outside. Some of those amenities, tenants say, are either closed now or not usable…