On March 20, 2023, Westchester County Legislator Damon Maher attended a meeting of New Rochelle Against Racism (New RoAR) to speak and answer questions about his candidacy for Mayor of New Rochelle. The conversation...
New Rochelle voters approved new school and library budgets and a school bond issue and elected new members of the Board of Education and the Library board in local voting in New Rochelle on...
Community Benefits Program fuels a race to the bottom. The Anderson Plaza ribbon cutting on April 21 marked the completion of the City of New Rochelle’s most ambitious project yet under the “Community Benefits...
Two New Rochelle units of the Boys & Girls Club face separate crises as a result of issues with water. The Mascaro unit, at 79 7th Street, and the Remington unit, currently under construction...
Construction Execs and Subcontractors Conspired to Fraudulently Use Minority and Women-Owned Business Enterprises as Pass-Through Entities to Obtain Contracts for Affordable Housing Developments Engaged in Payroll and Insurance Fraud and Other Forms of Corruption...
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...
City Increases Incentives for Developers, Backslides in Affordable Housing Lately, the City of New Rochelle administration is showing off its accomplishments in promoting high-rise development of rental housing in Downtown New Rochelle. According...
City Manager and Development Commissioner take their show on the road On March 30, 2023, the new City Manager, Kathleen Gill, teamed up with the new Deputy City Manager and Commissioner of Development, Adam...
At a hearing on Tuesday, March 28th, the New Rochelle Planning Board partially approved a request from The Westchester Torah Academy (WTA) for permission to lease land on or near the site of Carpenter...
Storm Clouds Over Starbucks, Corporate Image Takes Big Hit! With its corporate image tanking, Starbucks longtime CEO Howard Schultz appeared before the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee March 29 to answer...