Fortunately, Syracuse’s downtown area is not all that big.
Used to go on business trips a lot to Syracuse. One of my favorite places was The Dinosaur Bar-B-Que for lunch. The big Carrier Plant there was still producing Air Conditioners, but that since shut down.
Drove through it a few years ago on the way to Canada, actually did have lunch at The Dinosaur, for old times sake, but it looked really depressed from when I used to go there.