A Tale of Two Letters
How notice of non-compliance from HUD is treated by the City of New Rochelle In December 2022, then City Manager Chuck Strome received two letters from the federal government’s Department of Housing and Urban...
Category: Housing
State of the City: Development for Whom?
Mayor’s address calls for “honest conversations” but buries issues affecting the financially distressed and marginalized. In his final State of the City Address on Thursday, March 9, Mayor Noam Bramson declared victory after a...
Community Blasts City Council and Administration for Dismissal of Housing Authority Board
Questions Raised Regarding Process, Motives and Role of Executive Director, National Counsel, and HUD The removal of four Commissioners of the New Rochelle Municipal Housing Authority (NRMHA) by the former City Manager brought an...
New Rochelle’s “Bermuda Triangle”
Echo and Huguenot: Where the rule of law goes to die In the words of longtime New Rochelle resident and activist Lisa Burton, “strange things happen at the corner of Echo and Huguenot.” That’s...
City Names New Chief Financial Officer for Housing Authority
The Board of Commissioners of the New Rochelle Municipal Housing Authority (NRMHA) held its monthly meeting on Monday, February 13, 2023, at 5:30 pm, both in person at 50 Sickles Avenue and virtually on...
Termination of Housing Authority Commissioners by Former City Manager Meets With Growing Opposition
Former City Manager Chuck Strome’s dismissal of four long-serving commissioners of the New Rochelle Municipal Housing Authority (NRMHA) is meeting with stiff resistance by the commissioners themselves, as well as opposition from community members....
Noisy Overnight Construction at Echo and Huguenot: Who is responsible?
After 10 pm on the night of February 6, 2023, the residents of what remains of Pugsley Hollow, and those living in Homestead Park, were awakened to the sounds of jackhammers tearing up the...