Labor Day – Take Action Now!
Labor Day became a Federal holiday 130 years ago due to the advocacy of labor and union activists who pushed for a federal holiday to recognize the many contributions of the American worker. Each...
Category: Background & Analysis
History Lost, Found & Erased: The Saga of Hannah Pugsley
Many saw the proposal to rename the land that had been the heart of over 100 years of Black homeownership before it was bulldozed as part of the racially motivated urban removal as a way to bring to light the remarkable history of Hannah Puglsey and her descendants. To many residents, it is shocking that the proposal put forth by the Commissioner of Development to rename Sheraton/Radisson Plaza is just “Hannahs Way.”
The Evolution of National Night Out
Building community-based policing, or performative public relations? National Night Out is a community policing awareness-raising event in the United States, held the first Tuesday of every August. New Rochelle’s 2024 National Night Out will...
FACT CHECK: Did Jamaal Bowman oppose infrastructure spending and raising the debt ceiling?
Voters in NY Congressional District 16 have been inundated with ads and mailers from County Executive and congressional candidate George Latimer accusing incumbent Congressman Jamaal Bowman of voting against President Biden’s infrastructure bill and...
End of an Era
City Manager resigns Tuesday, April 9th, marked the end of the Chuck Strome-Kathleen Gill 26-year reign in New Rochelle. With Gill’s resignation and settlement with the City, a search for a new City Manager...
Seismic Change in New Rochelle City Bureaucracy
NR City Council authorizes a settlement in its quest to remove City Manager Gill In a victory for representative government, on April 4, New Rochelle’s Mayor, Yadira Ramos-Herbert, convened a Special Meeting of the...
Comment: Bringing a Charter School to New Rochelle is a Bad Idea
A Town Hall on the proposed charter school will be held at on Sunday, March 10, at 4:30 pm at Heritage Homes Community Hall, 18-30 Brook Street, New Rochelle by Alisse Waterston As an...
Charter Schools: The Basics
A group has proposed to open a charter school for 400 students in New Rochelle, claiming it will address the “failures” of the New Rochelle public schools. What is a charter school, and how...
New RoAR Hosts a Community Discussion on the IDA
The full recording of New RoAR’s IDA learning session can be viewed here. While the New Rochelle Industrial Development Agency (IDA) has given tens of millions of dollars in tax breaks to developers, little...
NYS IRC Congressional Map Sparks Outcry: Continues to Separate Communities of Interest in Southern Westchester and the Bronx
On February 15, 2024 the New York State Independent Redistricting Committee (“IRC”) voted 9 to 1 in favor of a single Congressional map and have forwarded it to the NYS Legislature for approval. The...