Category Archives: disability

Our Front Door

Posted on May 1, 2015 by annecwoodlen

Dear Ms Chiamulera (area supervisor for Related Management): Your letter to me on 4/20 was variously uninformed, unreasonable and offensive. When I do not respond to you please be aware that it is not because I agree with you; it … Continue reading →

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Where Does It Stop?

Posted on April 27, 2015 by annecwoodlen

Complaint against 8th-floor Patti Dear [Manager] Dana, On Sunday evening around 7:30 I entered the first floor lobby to get the elevator up to my apartment. Patti and the little boy were there. The elevator button had not been pushed … Continue reading →

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A High-rise in Dubai; a Fire in Syracuse

Posted on April 20, 2015 by annecwoodlen

Yesterday there was another McCarthy Manor fire, this time two apartments directly below me. http://www.syracuse.com/crime/index.ssf/2015/04/crews_responding_to_fire_at_apartment_complex_near_syracuse_hospitals.html What was not reported in the newspaper article is that this eight-story building, located at 501 S. Crouse Ave., is home to 176 people, more … Continue reading →

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The Time Warner Way (Part I)

Posted on April 18, 2015 by annecwoodlen

My father was a college professor who had five children and an old 14-room house: he knew how to fix things. I grew up watching him analyze broken stuff and then figure out how to fix it. If it was … Continue reading →

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To My Friend, a Physician

Posted on March 26, 2015 by annecwoodlen

I don’t know how to approach you, what to say, what not to say. I want to be friendly, cheerful, optimistic. I want to be a valued asset in your life, even though I feel that I have absolutely nothing … Continue reading →

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Arresting Annie?

Posted on March 3, 2015 by annecwoodlen

So I went out my apartment door around 9:15 a.m. on Saturday morning and saw a medium-sized carton sitting in front of my neighbor’s door. My neighbor hasn’t been in residence for months so I went over to take a … Continue reading →

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Dana, Bed Bugs and Related Management

Posted on March 2, 2015 by annecwoodlen

Dana Natale, manager, McCarthy Manor Ms Natale was an exemplary manager. Her job put her in the middle between HUD, with its enormous load of regulations and ever-increasing number of forms to be filled out, and 176 tenants, almost all … Continue reading →

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Centro and the Smoke Alarm

Posted on February 25, 2015 by annecwoodlen

This morning I learned that in November 2013 a palliative-care nurse practitioner testified at a hearing that with my glucose level as high as it was, I would be dead within six months. Here I still am. I’ve been counted … Continue reading →

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Poor and Sick in America: Me and My Neighbors

Posted on February 16, 2015 by annecwoodlen

It is 7:26 a.m. and the sun is rising over Syracuse. Chimney smoke flows flat across the city: the temperature is -10. The snow plow in the parking lot below my window is irritating with its back-up horn. With the … Continue reading →

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Needing Answers

Posted on October 12, 2014 by annecwoodlen

It began with a memo from the apartment building manager dated October 10 that said “Until further notice, the Community Room will be closed when the office is closed.”  No explanation was given except “absolutely necessary . . . health … Continue reading →

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