FROM THE MAILBOX, ASSORTED ITEMS

1) The blog received another inquiry about "O'Reilly Court", the village spelling error, etc. This was covered on page 5 of THE GAZETTE Week of June 5 through 8, 2022. It is not online. Contact the Gazette Editor for a copy at thegazette.us@gmail.com

2) The blog has received many questions and comments about the housing planned for the village parking Lot A--with some insisting that it will be "market rate condominiums". You are instead referred to the following items--please note the amount of planned apartments/condos, whatever their status, may also change:

----------SIMON & PUGH, "AFFORDABLE HOUSING CONDOS", TRAIN STATION LOT, LOHUD, DETAILED ARTICLE; CROTON-ON-HUDSON ‒ The village is mulling plans to sell an overflow parking lot by the Croton-Harmon train station to a developer who has proposed building a multifamily affordable housing project. Owned by the village since the 1960s, the 1.2-acre property, known as Village Parking Lot A, is located at the intersection of Croton Point Avenue and Veterans Plaza. READ AND SEE MUCH MORE AT MORE AT Croton-on-Hudson NY affordable housing near trains? It could happen (lohud.com)

----------PAUL STEINBERG--A LETTER TO THE GAZETTE, "Nobody is being forced to live here" (Mayor Pugh)

To the editor: Some say that eloquence is a lost art, but Croton’s own Brian Pugh is giving Cicero a run for the money. After much scheming about Lot A and cutting deals behind the curtain, the Board of Trustees recently held the obligatory public session at which they pretended to listen to the residents they purport to serve. The outcome was a foregone conclusion, and in that respect it was the normal Croton-style governance. But the gall of residents wasting his time annoyed Mr. Pugh, who chastised the assembled audience.

“Nobody is being forced to live here.” That was the conclusion of the Mayor of the Village of Croton-on-Hudson. Pithy, dismissive, and imperious in just seven words.

Mr. Pugh’s aversion to public input is nothing new. Among his first acts as Mayor was to change the “Public Participation” segment of Board meetings: he renamed it “Public Comment” to drive home the point that in Croton, the public does not “participate” in governance.  MORE AT THE NEW EVERYTHING CROTON: "NOBODY IS BEING FORCED TO LIVE HERE"