Unfortunately, and I've looked into it, Beaver HIll is owned by a private individual, not the City, so unless they cite the owner and force him to do something I think we are stuck.

The police used to sit and do radar in front of 14 oakwood. They were pulling speeders over every 5 minutes. I suspect the police were writing lots of revenue generating tickets too.

Maybe they can bring two police cars next time. One officer can chase speeders down Oakwood ave and the other can chase drug sellers (and buyers) down beaver hill (and up sausse ave).

This is still going on.

I haven't noticed a police presence. It seems that the authorities turn a blind eye to the incredibly obvious drug dealing in much of Troy?

It's pretty easy to see which building (and people) on 10th street is selling all the drugs... just look for the one with the young guys hanging around outside on the sidewalk.

Here's a hint: it's on the odd side of the street near the bottom of the beaver hill trail.

Who owns beaver hill? I'd buy it just to close it off. It can't be worth more than $1000.

I believe the person who owns the property on 10th Street, to the right of Beaver Hill, same side of the street to the right, also owns Beaver Hill. Someone approached my parents one day and said he owned it and was going to fence if off, top and bottom, in August. He obviously never did. I am sure the City Clerk's Office would have the owner listed.

One of the main drug selling buildings is 395 10th street. These young punks are selling drugs day and night, less than 500 feet from the elementary school.

Maybe the polce know about it and are waiting before going in and making arrests?

I know that it's pretty easy for the city to deem a property a "nuiscance" and close it down if it is a known drug selling property.

Get a police informant to go buy some drugs there, get a search warrant and get rid of these scum bags.

Fine the absentee landlord so maybe he won't rent to drug dealers again.

Now they are walking up the hill, up Sausse to buy, and then back down the hill. No improvement here.

To find out who owns a property you can go to Troys website and view the Tax rolls type in the address and search. The owners name and mailing address will be listed.

The problems you are experiencing in your neighborhood are not confined to the 10th ave/beaver hill area, it is everywhere. I live off Burdette ave and see drug deals constantly going on at Detroit and Michigan aves. I call the police every time I see it. The kids will sit in a car and smoke pot, leave litter all over the street.

If all of the folks in your neighborhood call the police (non-emergency number) every time you see something they will eventually have to patrol the area. If you can write down plate numbers/ make/model of the car- but don't be obvious about it because I would imagine drug dealers can be dangerous.

Where is Beaver Hill?

It's a dirt path (hill) across the street from Sausse Avenue that leads down from Oakwood to 10th Street.

you should call the drug tip line at 270-0128

Residents of this area have been complaining of drug sales for a while but the police seem to let it go on. Last night on 9th and Rensselaer st, a 17 year old was shot in the head during a driveby shooting. Why do shooting generally happen? As a result of a conflict over drugs usually.

Guess where they just found the dark colored sedan they've been looking for?! At 49 Oakwood Ave. Where did the owner of the sedan live? In the big grey apartment building at the corner of Oakwood Ave and Sausse Ave... right where we've been complaining about the constant drug sales!

If the police had done something months ago about the drug sales in this apartment building... a 17 year old kid might not be shot in the head and laying in the hospital now.

So sad.
Troy Police...Please help!!!

Did the neighborhood get rid of the drug dealing problem with the recent arrests on Sausse Ave?

No, we still have the drug sales in the big crack house apartment complex on Sausse ave. The big tall younger black guy (almost always wears an orange t shirt) still lumbers back and forth selling drugs between 10th st and Sausse ave.

I think he's the same guy who was arrested when the cops found his smashed up car that was used in the drive-by shooting on 10th street (a kid got shot in the head remember?)

1208 sausse ave.

Code enforcement needs to close down this property under the nuisance ordinance.

It's time to go.

Enough drug dealing in our neighborhood.

Heavy drug use and sales going on at 49 Oakwood Ave.

There are children in the home.

This neighborhood is teetering on the edge. It can go either way... good or bad. It appears that it's turning into another 8th or 9th ave. drug ghetto.

Police please take notice before we lose the neighborhood to the drug users and sellers.

Still in business. Now they have their "customers" park at the bottom of Sausse Ave. on Oakwood Avenue and walk up Sausse to the house to get their drugs. They even have one guy who walks up and down the street in front of the hospital and has cars pull over to buy. Everyone is aware of this, including the police, but I guess if you don't live in a high rent district it's easier to just look the other way. It's going to take someone, who isn't involved with the drugs, getting killed before they actually do something, and then probably only if the family goes to the media.

Raiding 408 8th steet in Troy & throwing those dealers in jail would go a long way toward ridding the area of drugs. This is the main dealer where all the smalltime dealers get their drugs.

Still having problems. Business as usual for the drug dealers and customers. Was actually told by a "public official" - "well, look at the neighborhood" before being hung up on! This neighborhood has some longtime, decent people living in it that have been, vainly, crying out for help. If we received it, it wouldn't be that kind of "neighborhood" but there is only so much we can do without proper backup. This is why people give up and more and more neighborhoods are taken over by "urban blight", Wonder how the parents of all the kids who go to RPI and Russell Sage would feel about sending their children to Troy if they knew what the attitude was. Remember, most college students cannot afford an apt. in the "better" neighborhoods and end up here with the rest of us.

If you've ever listened to the scanner (http://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/15434/web), you know the TPD is spread way to thin to make a dent in Troys staggeringly high crime rate. The poor police officers go from one "baby-sitting call" to the next. Usually, numerous calls/issues are stacked up waiting for the officer to get back "in service". You wouldn't believe the ridiculous things that people call the police for!? They have no time to spend on Troys real issue... the drug problem.

The black male dealer you see selling to cars on oakwood ave lives at 76 oakwood on the right side. This info has been relayed to the rensselaer country drug task force and the TPD months ago (numerous times) but the dealing continues. No arrests. Nothing.

1208 sausse ave continues to be an issue. The old black male that lives there is always walking back and forth between sausse ave and 9th ave to get his drugs. He also buys or sells from the guy at 76 oakwood ave.

The young black male/s at 55 Oakwood are into it too. 8 undercover officers (yes 8!) showed up on 2/2/14 looking for someone there.

This neighborhood is turning to sh*t because the police are not equipped to deal with all the drug sales in Troy. Something's gotta change soon.

One thing that doesn't help is that the buildings in the neighborhood are mostly vacant & deteriorating. Look at 14 oakwood. It's been vacant for over a decade. 16 oakwood ave is now vacant, its pipes frozen solid and busted. 49 oakwood is vacant and 51 oakwood is city owned and vacant. 55 oakwood ave is going into foreclosure. It'll probably be vacant soon because no one is going to buy that mess.

The only thing saving this little pocket neighborhood is the few homeowners who live here and care about the area. If we start leaving, this area will quickly become so far gone that they could use the neighborhood as a set for "The Wallking Dead".

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