‘That’s the drug floor’: How 1 apartment is allowed to terrorize the Skyline’s tenants

The welcome mat to apartment 1201 in the Skyline Apartments complex reads "All Are Welcome Here." Neighbors of 1201 say this apartment is the worst on a floor already full of danger and drugs. Patrick Lohmann | plohmann@syracuse.com

Syracuse, N.Y. – It was five minutes before 5 a.m. on Jan. 28, and Garry Lyons finally had enough of the shouting outside his apartment. It had kept him up all night.

He cracked open his door on the 12th floor of the Skyline Apartments, his home since 1990, to tell the strangers to cut it out.

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