Life was anything but easy growing up on Cutler Street during the early 1940s. At the time, the bustling street in Schenectady’s Mont Pleasant neighborhood was crowded with low-income and immigrant families. Poverty was common, and there was seldom time to do anything but work.
An ice storm blitzed the Capital Region Thursday and Friday, leaving many communities without power and forcing hardships on people for several more days to come. Posted on December 12, 2008.
Courtney Thiessen of Bedford Road in Schenectady clears her car of ice and snow behind a large tree that fell during the massive ice storm that hit the region Dec. 11 and 12.
Hunter Korona, 6, left and his brother, Liam, 12, ride plastic saucers down a hill in the front yard of their home on Guy Park Avenue in Amsterdam on Friday morning.
Matt Bombard, far left, and Alyssa and Mark Jamacy clean up the limbs and branches from a pine tree damaged by the ice storm Friday morning on Miles Standish Road in Rotterdam.
A large pine tree split in half, ripping branches off another pine tree in front of this house on Kingston Avenue in Schenectady, missing the house by less than two feet but taking several power lines down at the road.
M.J. Electric workers prepare to unload new poles for power lines after Thursday's icy weather cracked the current poles on Route 9p in Satatoga Springs Saturday afternoon.
National Grid line mechanic hot-stick employee Lynn Root of Syracuse puts up a new primary wire along Oregon Avenue in Schenectady Sunday. Oregon Avenue residents were still without power.
From left, U.S. Rep.-elect Paul Tonko, Gov. David Paterson and U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer talk to Denise McGraw and her daughter, Caroline, 8, of Rosehill Boulevard in Niskayuna, during a tour of storm-damaged areas Monday afternoon.
