BY JOHN CROPLEY, The Daily Gazette

SCHENECTADY — One major eyesore on Erie Boulevard is coming down, and judgment day is approaching for another.

Plans were announced last week to demolish the long-vacant and crumbling building that previously housed Grossman’s Bargain Outlet; the structure dates to the 1880s.

Also this past week, a preview was posted online for a May auction of the long-vacant and crumbling former Coyne Textile Services building, across the boulevard from the former Grossman’s site.

And plans were announced — also last week — to knock down a small building between two larger structures and replace it with a pedestrian path linking Mohawk Harbor with the downtown area through a circa-1907 tunnel under the train tracks.

The developments follow $25 million worth of repairs and upgrades in recent years for Erie Boulevard.

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