IN CASE YOU MISSED IT --THE EARLY FALL 2023 EDITION FROM THE NEW EVERYTHING CROTON: "THE CROTON KNITTER & CROCHETER TOO"

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AND NOW SOME MORE RECENT VIDEOS, PHOTO ALBUMS AND PODCASTS YOU SHOULDN'T MISS--A RECAP

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AND NOW SOME MORE RECENT VIDEOS, PHOTO ALBUMS AND PODCASTS YOU SHOULDN'T MISS--A RECAP

----VIDEO, FANS GO WILD FOR CROTON BOYS SOCCER WIN CONGRATS; SEE THE VIDEO VIA CROTON HARMON FB PAGE AT Facebook

----PHOTO ALBUM, FLOTILLA, BY SPECIAL REQUEST--A RE-POST FOR  THE NEW EVERYTHING CROTON: SOME PHOTOS FROM THE 125TH ANNIVERSARY BOAT FLOTILLA (AND HISTORY TALK)

----PHOTO ALBUM CROTON ROTARY CAR SHOW, PARTS ONE AND TWO AT THE NEW EVERYTHING CROTON: PART TWO---SOME MORE PHOTOS FROM THE 2023 CROTON ROTARY CAR SHOW

---PODCAST SPAGHETTI WESTERNS, JOSE BODALO (2244) The Spaghetti Westerns Podcast, Ep 113 - Jose Bodalo - YouTube

---VIDEOS, BARI MANOR THE NEW EVERYTHING CROTON: IN CASE YOU MISSED IT---YOUTUBE VIDEOS, NEW COMPANY THAT OWNS BARI MANOR, UNPPG MANAGEMENT

---PHOTO ALBUM, A VERY VINTAGE CROTON AUTUMN THE NEW EVERYTHING CROTON: A VERY "VINTAGE" CROTON AUTUMN 1929-2021, UPDATED & IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER

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CONGRATULATIONS SEAN GRIMES-COMMITS TO LAX AT ONEONTA STATE NEXT YEAR

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Sean Grimes commits to play LAX at Oneonta State next year! Awesome news Sean! Go Red Dragons!  MORE AT (1) Facebook

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT===POLICE ADVISORY COMMUNITY TOWN HALL

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Police Advisory Committee Community Town Hall--Tuesday, October 17th, 2023, 6:00 PM--The Village of Croton-on-Hudson Police Advisory Committee and Croton Police Department will host a Town Hall for the community on Tuesday, October 17th, 2023 at 6:00 PM. The Town Hall is an opportunity for residents to learn about the results of the 2023 Community Survey on Public Safety and Law Enforcement, a report from the Police Advisory Committee, as well as a presentation from the Croton Police Department. Questions and input from residents will be welcomed at the end of the meeting. The meeting will be held in the Municipal Building at 1 Van Wyck Street. Residents are invited to attend in person, or you can view the Town Hall meeting on Cable Channel 78, as well as on the Village’s website. Questions can be emailed by October 13th to crotonpoliceadvisorycommittee@gmail.com.

TRAFFIC ALERT---HUTCHINSON & CROSS COUNTY

2-Week-Long Closures Along Cross County Pkwy & Hutchinson River Pkwy==The daily overnight lane closures will be necessary for construction, but are not scheduled during rush hours, according to the NYDOT.  

ONCE AGAIN--ANOTHER SPECIAL REQUEST----MARCH 2019 LETTER FROM PAUL STEINBERG---OUR BRIGHT URBAN FUTURE

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BY SPECIAL REQUEST----RE-PRINT OF THE MARCH 2019 LETTER FROM PAUL STEINBERG---OUR BRIGHT URBAN FUTURE

To the editor:

The new vision for Croton unveiled last week by Mayor Brian Pugh and Village Manager Janine King is a bold step forward for our village. For some time the North Riverside Neighborhood Zoning Working Group has been hard at work developing plans for an urban city of the future, with input from Village Manager King and Village Engineer O’Connor.

Trustee Ann Gallelli led resident appointees Paul Doyle, Ted Brumleve, and Bruce Kauderer in this major revision to carry Croton forward into the next century. The plan calls for development of 2-3 story buildings from the Croton Colonial Diner, looping up to include the area now occupied by the Post Office, across to the Katz property, and all the way north on Riverside past the firehouse.

The goal of the plan is to bring hundreds of apartments to Croton, starting with construction on the village-owned Katz property. It is not known how many new residents this will bring: the current plan calls for a retail mall strip running on the ground floor with either one or two floors of apartments above. When ultimately complete, the plan will allow Croton to welcome well over a thousand new residents and remake the image of Croton into a medium density suburban town.

Croton’s Board of Trustees has been working on development of infrastructure to handle urbanization for some time. The DPW now has a large new building, the Recreation Department will be soon taking over Gouveia Park, and the Police Department will be taking over the entire first floor of the Municipal Building.

There is also significant transportation infrastructure being developed in Croton. There will be new stoplights along Croton Point Avenue, and the dummy light intersection is currently the subject of a consultant study which will likely result in the installation of new pedestrian lights and possibly a reconfiguration of the intersection itself to handle vehicular and pedestrian volume increases.

There are some concerns about the effect of home values, but the consulting firm retained by the Board of Trustees assured attendees at last week’s presentation that if they like their Hudson River views, they will be allowed to keep them.

The concern for home values expressed by residents may be unwarranted. In places like Nassau County, there are mixed-use strips similar to what the Croton Board of Trustees envisions. Along Jericho Turnpike and Hillside Avenue, such development exists and although the homes adjacent to the thoroughfare are at lower price points, the impact on value lessens as distance increases.

The consultants did have some hesitation about the demand for retail, which suggests one significant change to the vision presented. For various reasons, physical retail presence is on a sharp decline throughout the United States. It is questionable whether development of a strip mall stretching along the western length of Croton will stimulate demand for retail space.

Given the forecast for retail demand, the likelihood is that much of the ground floor space will ultimately be devoted to residential occupancy or ancillary uses. In fact the consultants discussed using ground floor space for parking cars, and this would also address concerns about the substantial increase in vehicle use.

“New Croton” is on the way. The starting point is the Katz property development. Since this is owned by the village, the Croton Board of Trustees will determine how it is developed.

One concern about Katz is the price which Croton will get from the buyer. Although there has been talk in the past about a reduced sale price in exchange for the developer committing to income-restricted apartments, the presentation did not mention this. On the plus side, the Katz property will generate well in excess of a million dollars which can be used to partially offset the cost of the streetlights and sidewalks being put in down by the train station.

There was mention of “economic incentives” for several purposes. The Board of Trustees has not specified what form the incentives would take. At the public presentation, the consultants were wary of an increase in the floor area ratio (FAR) so it is unlikely that incentives would take the form of increased building height. Even the current allowable FAR may be too high at some locations.

The alternative would be for Croton to incentivize with tax breaks. That is a bit problematic because the substantial population increase is going to put significant demands on village and school district services. Particularly with income-restricted apartments, this creates a triple whammy: increased demand, increased property taxes, and burden-shifting away from the new apartment units.

This burden-shifting effect is due to the reduction in assessed value for property that has significant restrictions which impair market value. This is not a reason to shy away from development of income-regulated apartments, but by definition this means that there will be slightly increased property taxes for those Croton residents who own homes. In turn, the increase in property taxes may lead to reduced interest from prospective new homebuyers and thereby reduce home values in Croton.

For many years, new residents have complained about the lack of certain retail amenities in Croton such as organic restaurants and food markets, artisanal toy stores, and the like. The lack of these is due in large part to Croton’s low population density.

Some residents have looked to a Brooklyn-style zoning plan to increase density, but for various reasons this is not practical in Croton. The vision which has emerged from the Working Group and the Croton Board of Trustees uses instead the Long Island-style model of medium density mixed-use buildings along a municipal roadway.

As Croton prepares to sell the Katz property to a developer and install new stoplights, sidewalks, and bicycle lanes along Croton Point Avenue, our village trustees are setting Croton on a new path toward a bright urban future.

--Paul Steinberg, Croton-on-Hudson

YOU MAY ALSO HAVE AN INTEREST IN THE NEW EVERYTHING CROTON: QUESTIONS ABOUT THE KATZ REGAN COMMUNITY PARK---"POCKET PARK" AND LATE SEPT/EARLY OCT. PROGRESS AT SITE

WONDROUS THINGS TO CLOSE BRIARCLIFF STORE--WE SIMPLY CANNOT COMPETE---STORE CLOSES AFTER 34 YEARS IN NORTHERN WESTCHESTER

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We Simply Cannot Compete': Store Closes After 34 Years In Northern Westchester

After more than three decades in business, a Northern Westchester store has decided to bow out amid changing times.Wondrous Things, a gift shop located in Briarcliff Manor at 1159 Pleasantville Rd., announced on Wednesday, Oct. 4 that it would soon be permanently closing after 34 years.

Although the store did not specify a closing date, a closing sale will begin on Thursday, Oct. 5, the owners said.

In their closing announcement, the owners said that they were unable to keep up with the modern state of retail.

"The changing landscape of retail, Covid, online, and Amazon has made it evident that we simply cannot compete with the changing times," the owners wrote.  MORE AT 'We Simply Cannot Compete': Store Closes After 34 Years In Northern Westchester | Cortlandt Daily Voice

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BY SPECIAL REQUEST---THE TIGER RAG--OCTOBER 1964

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By special request---The Tiger Rag---October 1964---click on the mages below.

BOMBSHELL RULING---5TH CIRCUIT FIXES ERROR IN PRIOR RULING TO NIX DEEP-STATE CENSORSHIP

In a bombshell ruling, the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has shut down the “nerve center” of federal government-led speech policing, correcting a critical error in its prior jurisprudence and striking a major blow for the First Amendment and against deep-state election interference.

The court’s opinion comes in the landmark free speech case in the digital era, Missouri v. Biden. Before the litigation landed in appellate court, Louisiana District Judge Terry A. Doughty declared in a fitting Independence Day ruling that federal authorities from the Biden White House to the FBI and CDC had likely engaged in “the most massive attack against free speech in United States’ history.”

They did so, Judge Doughty found, by cajoling and colluding with social media companies to silence wrong-thinking Americans on matters from election integrity to the origins of Covid under the guise of combatting national security or public health-threatening “mis-, dis-, and mal-information.”

The district court therefore disarmed the speech police by ordering a wide-ranging preliminary injunction, prohibiting federal authorities from coercing and coordinating with platforms to suppress ever-growing categories of disfavored speech during the pendency of the case.

This incensed the feds, who proceeded to appeal the decision to the Fifth Circuit, ironically arguing that by being barred from censoring disfavored speech by social media proxy, the government itself was being censored.

The Fifth Circuit wasn’t buying that argument.  MORE AT 5th Circuit Fixes Error In Prior Ruling To Nix Deep-State Censorship (thefederalist.com)

RESIDENT SUES HUDSON VIEW AND WINS---FOR THOSE FOLLOWING

September 15, 2023---Christian Gorokhovsky was born in Kiev, Ukraine, and when he was four years old his family moved to the south side of Chicago where they were living in terrible conditions. “I remember my family was constantly taken advantage of. We didn’t speak the language and we didn’t have any money,” he recalls. That memory fueled his recent lawsuit against the apartment complex in Peekskill where he lives – and where he has been without running water for weeks over the past year. On August 22, an hour and a half before Gorokhovsky and Capstone Properties, the management company for Hudson View Living Apartments, were due to appear in Peekskill City Court, the management company settled for $1,045.00.  MORE AT Water woes didn’t get the best of this tenant – Peekskill Herald

FOR THOSE FOLLOWING NEW GOLDEN ACRES IN SPRING VALLEY

Garnerville adult home shut down by state, West Haverstraw after slew of violations found--Nancy Cutler
Rockland/Westchester Journal News

The facility is licensed to house 39 vulnerable residents.
The shutdown comes two years after Evergreen Court burned to the ground.
In January, the state yanked the license of New Golden Acres adult home in Spring Valley.

WEST HAVERSTRAW - The state revoked the license of Garnerville Home For Adults, an adult care facility in the village, and West Haverstraw's building inspector has yanked the building's certificate of occupancy after 41 health and safety violations were found this year, many repeat issues uncovered in past yearly inspections.

"They had exits not compliant, egress stairwells rotted away, there was smoking in rooms ... faulty fire alarms," building inspector Fred Viohl said Wednesday of a Sept. 19 visit, one in a series of problematic inspections he said he had done at the facility over the years.  MORE AT Garnerville Home for Adults found with safety violations, shut by NY (lohud.com)

Who owns Garnerville Home?

The owner is listed on documents as Garnerville HFA Operation & Management, LLC. Viohl said that has been the name he's seen on paperwork for several years now.

TOWN OF CORTLANDT HALLOWEEN DOG PARADE

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TOWN OF CORTLANDT HALLOWEEN DOG PARADE --- SEE MORE ATDog Halloween Parade - Town of Cortlandt, NY News

US RIGHT TO KNOW---ASSESSING CONFLICTS OF INTEREST OF THE 2025 DIETARY GUIDELINES ADVISORY COMMITTEE

Nine out of 20 members of the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee have conflicts of interest with food, pharmaceutical, or weight loss companies or industry groups with a stake in the outcome of the guidelines, according to a new report by U.S. Right to Know. 

Abbott, Novo Nordisk, National Dairy Council, Eli Lilly, and Weight Watchers (WW) International had ties to two or more members of the panel of food and nutrition experts who make recommendations for updating the U.S. government’s official dietary advice.

“With high-risk conflicts of interest still present on the DGAC, the public cannot have confidence that the official dietary advice from the U.S. government is free from industry influence,” our report concludes. We also note “encouraging findings,” highlighting that seven DGAC members had no confirmed or possible conflicts in the past five years. 

Read our report and please share: Full Disclosure: Assessing Conflicts of Interest of the 2025 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee 

See coverage in the New York Times: Food Industry Influence Could Cloud the U.S. Dietary Guidelines, a New Report Says

And the Epoch Times: How Hidden Ties to Big Food May Be Shaping America’s

QUESTIONS ABOUT THE KATZ REGAN COMMUNITY PARK---"POCKET PARK" AND LATE SEPT/EARLY OCT. PROGRESS AT SITE

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The blog receives many comments, concerns and questions about this site. The most recent involves confusion about the size of the community park/pocket park allegedly to be built on the site.  Residents are once again encouraged to speak with village officials as sometimes information that is online is no longer valid.  It appears the "park" will be a very small space on  Municipal Place but this should be verified.  Click on the photos to see the progress of construction at the site. More trees seem to be missing.

You can find additional and general late August info about the site AND THE 2007 ANNOUNCEMENT LETTER FROM THE VILLAGE TOUTING THEIR ACQUISITION OF THE PROPERTY at THE NEW EVERYTHING CROTON: THE KATZ REGAN HOUSING PROJECT, END OF AUGUST 2023

For those who have asked how many of the units have been reserved for members of the "lgbtq community", please direct your questions to village officials.  (Again for the record,  despite online chatter, these units are NOT reserved for Croton residents, empty-nesters, teachers, etc. )

For the resident who asked, there was a traffic study performed; it was concluded essentially that this development will have no impact.

YOU NAY ALSO HAVE AN INTEREST IN THE NEW EVERYTHING CROTON: ONCE AGAIN--ANOTHER SPECIAL REQUEST----MARCH 2019 LETTER FROM PAUL STEINBERG---OUR BRIGHT URBAN FUTURE

1934 LENORE ULRIC'S "HARMONY CHAMPAGNE"---HOLLYWOOD'S COCKTAILS

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As many of you know, Lenore Ulric was one of the village's most notable residents.  We stumbled across this 1934 puff piece featuring the assorted cocktail recipes of the rich and famous---and Ulric's "Harmony Champagne" allegedly named after her estate in Harmon. Click on the images below.

For more about Ulric - EverythingCroton: LENORE ULRIC MARRIED TO SYDNEY BLACKMER AT CROTON-ON-HUDSON

ROCKLAND YESHIVA ISSUES--BY SPECIAL REQUEST---LOHUD--SUFERN SCHOOL DISTRICT SHUTTING VIOLA ELEMENTARY AS MORE OPT FOR YESHIVAS

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Suffern school district eyes shutting Viola Elementary as more opt for yeshivas
4 remaining elementary schools would be realigned, with two K-2 and two 3-5 campuses.

School district eyes shutting Viola Elementary as more opt for yeshivas

4 remaining elementary schools would be realigned, with two K-2 and two 3-5 campuses.

Nancy Cutler

HILLBURN − Viola Elementary School is slated to be shuttered next academic year, a move to consolidate five current elementary schools into four as the public-school census continues to dwindle, even as the population within Suffern district boundaries grows.

The four remaining elementary schools will be reconfigured with two housing pre-K through second grade and two hosting grades 3-5.

Suffern schools Superintendent Erik Gunderson announced the choice of Viola during Tuesday night's school board meeting.  More AT Suffern NY public school census dips as Orthodox Jewish yeshivas gain (lohud.com)

10/14 125th ANNIVERSARY SCAVENGER HUNT

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125th Anniversary Scavenger Hunt
Click on the image---Saturday, October 14th, 10:00 AM to Noon---Croton Train Station Parking Lot A

Celebrate Croton's 125th Anniversary with a Scavenger Hunt! Clues will be given for locations throughout the Village, a car and cell phone are required to participate. Winners will be determined by the most correct answers and prizes to local food establishments will be awarded to the first 5 winners. All welcome! More info: https://www.crotononhudson-ny.gov/croton-125th-anniversary-committee/events/71231