Editorial: Time for New Leadership at the NRPD
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,...
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Again, the NRPD Exonerates a Police Officer Who Killed a Black Man
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...
Labor Rep Hitting the Mark at NR IDA
‘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...
Shared Legacies: Film Screening and Talkback
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...
12th Annual NRPL Community Kwanzaa Celebration a Success!
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...
Air of Truth: New Rochelle Students Use Art to Unmask Environmental Injustice
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...
Injustice in Black & White
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...
No Indictment Against Lt. Sean Kane, Caught on Video Attempting to Frame a Black Man on Drug Charges
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...
Red Light Pedestrian Safety Comes to New Rochelle’s North End. What About Memorial Highway?
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...
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City Reverses Dismissal of NR Municipal Housing Authority Commissioners by Former City Manager Strome ‘Fantastic Four’ Now Eligible for Reinstatement The City of New Rochelle has reached a settlement agreement with the four New...