Council hears continued calls for greater police accountability and transparency Once again, dissatisfaction with the New Rochelle Police Department (NRPD) was a major topic of discussion at the City Council’s monthly Citizens To Be...
Deadline to apply is March 7 New Rochelle has opened applications for membership on New Rochelle’s new Civilian Complaint Review Board (CCRB). All applications must be received by Friday, March 7, at 4:30 pm....
How should the community respond when public officials are threatened? What is the correct response when you witness someone being terrorized by violent hate speech? What is the role of a bystander when someone...
Some 25% of New Rochelle’s residents are immigrants, and 87% of the City’s population are US citizens. Many immigrants, both documented and undocumented, are scared by the president’s threats to deport them. What’s...
On June 5, 2020, New Rochelle Police Department (NRPD) Officer Alex McKenna chased Kamal Flowers, a young Black man, on foot into a dark street. Flowers was riding in a car that, police said,...
Commissioner Gazzola says Detective Steven Conn, who killed Jarrel Garris in July 2023, followed all procedures. For the second time in less than four years, the New Rochelle Police Department (NRPD) has exonerated an...
‘The City Must do Better for Residents when Awarding Tax Breaks to Developers’ Several months into his term on the New Rochelle Industrial Development Agency (IDA), Miguel Ayala, a member of the International Brotherhood...
On Thursday, January 16, the Inter-Religious Coalition of New Rochelle and the Jewish Community Center (JCC) of Mid-Westchester will commemorate MLK Day together with a screening of the 2020 documentary Shared Legacies. The film...
New Rochelleans gathered on Thursday, December 27, to participate in the 12th Annual Community Kwanzaa Celebration at the Public Library. Co-sponsored by The Gathering of Men and local corporate partners, the celebration included traditional...
How can art change the way we see the air we breathe? Students at New Rochelle High School are answering that question with Air of Truth, a groundbreaking multimedia exhibit that opens with a...
By the New RoAR News Editorial Board On Friday, December 13, 2024 the Westchester County District Attorney’s office announced that a Grand Jury had declined to indict New Rochelle Police Lt. Sean Kane, whose...
All eyes on Commissioner Gazzola for accountability A Westchester County grand jury has declined to indict New Rochelle Police Department Lt. Sean Kane, whose own body camera video showed him planting drugs under the...
For decades New Rochelleans have wondered why an effective pedestrian safety tool for busy intersections has not been deployed in New Rochelle. Anyone familiar with the Four Corners in Pelham (intersection of Boston Post...
