To the Editor:

In response to: “Syracuse Inner Harbor is no place for a concrete plant (Editorial Board Opinion),” Nov. 16, 2025:

The editorial board is right: A 24/7 concrete batch plant spewing dust, noise and truck traffic has no place two blocks from the Inner Harbor’s aquarium, hotels and apartments. It “simply doesn’t fit.”

But just a short distance away, at 100–104 Lynch St., Cranesville Block has been doing exactly that for years — nonstop trucks, hazardous dust, unpermitted dumping, illegal curb cuts and now fresh stone piled onto a former residential lot with no permit in sight. The noise and fumes blow straight toward the Catholic Charities homeless shelter and nearby homes.

Residents have filed photos and complaints for months. Enforcement? Zero.

If nonstop concrete oper

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