A plan to tear down a 139-year-old house on Court Street in downtown Binghamton to clear the site is being fought by the Preservation Association of the Southern Tier.
Work has begun on a multi-million-dollar project to develop several dozen apartments at what had been an office building in the heart of downtown Binghamton.
Binghamton firefighters and members of the Broome County hazmat team were sent to a West Side school to investigate what was reported to be a possible chemical spill.