Syracuse doesn't make much of it's lake. Other places I've lived like California and Toronto make a big deal of having a "water view". Syracuse pretty much turns it's back on Onondaga Lake - there's no housing developments or condos which advertise lake views, and Carousel Center Mall is right on the lake but you'd never know.
Instead of being built so you could see the lake it has a big ugly parking lot buffer between itself and Onondaga Lake.
There is a Lakeview Street in Syracuse but oddly enough you can't see the lake from it.
The main exception to this is Onondaga Lake Park in Liverpool, where it's built around the lake. However, you can't swim in the lake from there, or anywhere else due to pollution.
For most of the history of Syracuse, Onondaga Lake has been an industrial disposal ground. If you drive up Milton Avenue in Solvay you'll see factories and industrial properties lining the shore. I think that's a lot of the reason it's not used as an asset when developing real estate - it's viewed as an industrial waste site.
Recently the Post Standard had an article on stuff found at the bottom of the lake:
Photo of Lake above taken from this article
My prediction is in the next ten years there will be a lot of Lake View developments here.
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