- June 20, 2022
- Posted by: Stratford Team
- Category: Economy
Binghamton University’s Decker School of Nursing opened at the site of Endicott-Johnson’s former shoebox factory in 2018. According to county data, one in four people who live within a mile of the campus experience poverty. (Jillian Forstadt/WSKG)
Eve Francis moved to Johnson City from New York City with her son a decade ago after a friend told her about the good local schools.
“I came up here for the schooling,” Francis said outside the Save-a-Lot on the village’s Main Street. “She also told me about how they’re good with children. And so I wanted to have my granddaughter, get her special needs met, and my daughter. And so I like it up here.”
Francis doesn’t have a car, and likes that supermarkets and Walmart are within walking distance from her home a few blocks away. She can pull her young granddaughter, who shows off a Moana-branded umbrella, in a red…
