mamaroneck review 3-20-2015

March 20, 2015 | Vol. 3, Number 11 | www.mamaroneckreview.com

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By JACKSON CHENStaff Writer

A recent appointment to one of the volunteer boards made by the Democratic ma-jority of the Village of Mama-roneck’s Board of Trustees has now impeded the procedures of one of the land use boards.

During the March 9 village board meeting, Democratic trustees Leon Potok and Ilissa Miller nominated several resi-dents to the village’s various boards and commissions, in-cluding a nomination of Frank Young to the Board of Archi-

New appointment strains BARtectural Review, BAR. With the help of Dave Finch, the third Democratic trustee on the village board who was elect-ed last November, the three Democrats approved the nomi-nation while Mayor Norman Rosenblum and Trustee Lou Santoro, both Republicans, voted against the decision.

Young’s appointment to the BAR succeeds Jennifer Cohen, who was recently bumped off of the BAR as a member, after the village board was able to settle its qualms over the may-or’s authority to make such appointments, through several

opinions from the New York State Department of State.

However, J. Malte Stoeck-hert, chairman of the BAR, and each of the members of the land use board wrote a letter to the Board of Trustees recom-mending that Cohen be reap-pointed to the BAR. On top of the letters, Rosenblum said that the village never received a resume from Young, only an email stating his interest.

However, the village board Democrats still selected Young as the most qualified candidate.

“We appreciate that they like Jenn Cohen, but they

didn’t know the alternatives,” Potok said of the emails from the members. “They couldn’t be in a position to make a choice as to who would be the best candidate.”

Young currently runs a full-time interior renovation busi-ness in Queens, but has previ-ously served two terms on the BAR, one of them alongside Stoeckhert.

Met with an imposi-tion from the village board, Stoeckhert sought a higher opinion from the state attorney

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Members of local labor rights groups meet at the Hispanic Resource Center and march down Mamaroneck Avenue to protest alleged wage theft at the Bar Harbor Grill on Boston Post Road. For more, see page 3. Photo/Alina Suriel

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Residents sue over TODBy AliNA SuriEl

Staff Writer

Recently approved transit-oriented development in the Village of Mamaroneck has been a source of contention from the outset and now the village is facing a lawsuit over the legislation.

Village residents Gina von Eiff and Suzanne McCrory filed an Article 78 proceeding on March 10 against the Board of Trustees for its approval of transit-oriented development, TOD, legislation last year. The plaintiffs are seeking an an-nulment or revocation of the legislation, which rezoned 35 acres immediately adjacent to the Metro-North train station in Mamaroneck. An Article 78 proceeding is a legal ac-tion used to appeal a decision made by a New York State or local agency.

Much of the contention of the two petitioners stems from the village’s refusal to perform an environmental impact state-ment to study potential ad-verse effects of the zoning on flood conditions to an already flood prone area, and the sta-bility of an underground wa-ter saturation point under the affected area. State law states that most activities proposed by a municipality require an environmental impact assess-ment as decided by the state environmental quality review act, SEQRA. However, if a municipality determines that there will be no adverse envi-ronmental effects caused by a new action, such as a law or development, that agency does

not have to perform an envi-ronmental impact statement.

Washingtonville, a neigh-borhood located in the area targeted by the rezoning, is historically prone to flooding due to its proximity to the con-vergence of the Mamaroneck and Sheldrake rivers. This is-sue is exacerbated by the fact that most of the structures in Washingtonville had already occurred prior to the imple-mentation of modern zoning codes and flood practices.

The lawsuit states that von Eiff, a Jackson Avenue resident who lives one block outside the rezoned area, had personally suffered from flooding in her basement in 2007 and 2011. Among other complaints, she believes con-structing new buildings sealed against flooding will only dis-perse floodwater farther out to neighboring properties such as her own.

McCrory lives in The Crescent on Mamaroneck Harbor approximately 1.75 miles away from the TOD area. She said in the lawsuit that she is affected by flood-ing events because polluted waters overwhelm the harbor and affect water quality. As a result, she claims her prop-erty enjoyment is diminished because she cannot swim or eat the oysters growing adja-cent to her property.

Andres Bermudez Hall-strom, a former trustee who voted in favor of the TOD legislation, is also named as a respondent. Bermudez

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By AliNA SuriElStaff Writer

Bar Harbor Grill is again at-tracting the ire of community organizations for allegations of wage theft.

Laborers and members of local workers rights groups marched down Mamaroneck Avenue on Thursday, March 12 in support of a kitchen worker suing Bar Harbor Grill, an East Boston Post Road grill and seafood restaurant, for unpaid overtime wages, with the demonstration cul-minating in a rally outside the establishment.

Participants of the proces-sion chanted, “No pay, no way!” to attract attention from passing vehicles and pedestri-ans, who showed their support by honking their cars in soli-darity or inquiring as to which business is being protested.

Carolina Figueroa filed a class action suit against Bar Harbor Grill on Dec. 23, 2014. The suit alleges that Figueroa, who was employed in the res-taurant from September 2012

Restaurant hit with wage theft allegationsto October 2013 and then again from May 2014 until the present, worked from 70 to 90 hours per week and did not receive due overtime pay. She filed a class action lawsuit be-cause she believes other work-ers may come forward with similar claims of wage theft. A class action lawsuit is when a person or persons on behalf of many sue a single entity whom they claim has caused them harm.

In the suit Figueroa also claims that she did not receive any wages at all for her last week of work in early October 2013 and that she regularly performed more than 10 hours of work a day.

A resident of Port Chester, Figueroa, who did not attend the rally, is a member of the Don Bosco Workers, Inc., one of the organizing labor groups. She’s seeking to be paid for the amount of unpaid wages and overtime pay claimed, a court order forbidding Bar Harbor from continuing un-lawful wage practices and the costs of her attorney’s fee,

among other damages.The event was organized by

Gonzalo Carreon of the Don Boscos Workers, Inc., and Ma-rissa Senteno of the Westches-ter Labor Alliance. Carreon highlighted the importance of the community in making Figueroa and other workers less vulnerable to abusive practices in their places of employment.

“We try to show her she has support in the community so she can feel strong in her workplace and she can educate other workers who have the same problem,” Carreon said.

Senteno works at a coordi-nator at the worker center in the Hispanic Resource Cen-ter at 623 Mamaroneck Ave., where protesters met before the event to create poster board signs and compare their own working conditions with each other. She said that she was happy to see a network of mutually supportive workers speaking out for themselves.

“I’m really proud of our workers for being able to go out in the community and publicly denounce an em-

Members of local labor rights groups march down Mamaroneck Avenue to protest alleged wage theft at the Bar Harbor Grill on Boston Post Road. Photos/Alina Suriel

The march ends with a demonstration outside the Bar Harbor Grill restaurant, which has been accused of a similar wage theft offense in 2013.

ployer that is purposefully harming the community by underpaying wages,” Senteno said.

Workers at the demon-stration said they wanted to participate because they felt wage theft was a particular-ly big problem for members of the Latino community in Westchester.

“To fight for ourselves, the Hispanic people,” Angel Portillo said, “I think that’s what’s right.”

Bar Harbor Grill has seen

protests outside its facility before.

In January 2013, a day la-borer hired to do renovation work claimed that the restau-rant failed to pay him approxi-mately $1,800 in hourly wages as well as reimbursement for six to seven boxes of tiles. The worker and a group of his sup-porters stood outside the res-taurant handing out neon fly-ers saying, “Stop The Abuse.”

That issue was never re-solved and the workers did not receive any compensation, ac-

cording to Luis Quiros, a local activist who helped organize that protest.

“This should not have hap-pened, there were victims [of] this two years ago,” Quiros said.

“What’s worse in this is how people can continue to eat there. And they’re still profitable.”

Bar Harbor owner Kevin Moynihan declined comment and Figueroa could not be reached for comment as of press time.

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The Village of Mama-roneck has reduced its green-house gas, GHG, emissions by 3 percent between 2008 and 2013, according to a recent report by the Village of Ma-maroneck Committee for the Environment.

GHG emissions were cal-culated from sources under the village’s control, including di-rect GHG emissions from fuel combustion of stationary and mobile sources and indirect emissions from electricity us-age. The village obtained fuel and electricity data from all village buildings, fleets and operations for the full calen-dar year of 2013, which were measured against the base-line year of 2008. Emissions themselves were calculated using procedures defined by The Climate Registry, widely

regarded as the premier source of climate change information. The emission reduction was real and not based on weather patterns those years that would decrease energy use.

“The most dramatic reduc-tions were in heating fuel, which went from 15,825 gal-lons of diesel fuel in 2008 to 5,767 in 2013, as many of our buildings were converted from oil to gas heat,” said Marc Karell, chairman of the village committee, who led the study. “These strategies to reduce GHG emissions and energy use have saved the village tens of thousands of dollars per year.”

The village also reduced electricity usage by 70,371 kilowatt hours, a 2.5 percent decrease. According to Karell, the village sees opportunities to further improve on this re-

duction by upgrading to more efficient lighting and installing occupancy sensors to ensure lights automatically turn off when not in use.

“These results clearly show that the Village Energy Con-servation Program is off to a good start, but there’s still so much more we can do in order to keep this momentum go-ing,” Karell said. “By gradu-ally upgrading our systems, following more green design principles, and simply being more mindful and less waste-ful, we can send a strong message that Mamaroneck is taking a long term approach to conserving energy and re-sources to the benefit of both the planet and our taxpayers.”

For a full copy of the re-port, contact [email protected]. (Submitted)

Mamaroneck reduces carbon footprint


What’s going on...Larchmont library events The art of dressing for work

In today’s workplace, how we present our-selves can demonstrate our level of profes-sionalism and can even draw attention to how dedicated we are to our job. Regardless of your profession or lifestyle, being well-dressed says a lot about you and dressing well can be a pow-erful tool in helping you achieve a new level of confidence in the workplace. Join Tonia Tagi-laferro on Monday, March 23 at 8 p.m., as she shows you how to look and feel your very best every day. Ms. Tagliaferro is the owner of The Art of Dressing Boutique in Mamaroneck. For more information about Tagliaferro and the Art of Dressing Boutique, visit the website at artofdressing.net.

New movie matineeOn Wednesday, March 25 at 11 a.m. and 2:30

p.m., and on Thursday, March 26 at 6:30 p.m., Larchmont library will be screening “Birdman.” Winner of the 2015 Academy Award for Best Picture, “Birdman” is a black comedy that tells the story of an actor, played by Michael Keaton, famous for portraying an iconic superhero, as he struggles to mount a Broadway play. In the days leading up to opening night, he battles his ego and attempts to recover his family, his ca-reer and himself. This movie is rated R.

Golf and tennis preseasonSport-related injuries have reached an all-

time high. What our culture has accepted as

standard exercise does little to prepare our bodies for the lengthening, change in direc-tion and repetitive motions that our favorite sports require. Join health professionals, Sean Fitzpatrick and Cory Schwarzkopf on Satur-day, March 28 at 9:30 a.m., as they show you how to be smart about preparing for the things you love to do.

Mamaroneck Public Library

“February 1964: The Beatles Conquer America”

Join us for an exciting, free multimedia pre-sentation on April 25 at 11 a.m., in the commu-nity room. Author Aaron Krerowicz places the Beatles’ first U.S. visit in musical and histori-cal context in order to explain why that month proved to be the single most pivotal month of the band’s existence. Krerowicz’ first Beatles book, “The Beatles & The Avant-Garde,” was published in late 2014 and will be available for sale following the program. For more infor-mation and to sign up, call the reference desk at 630-5888.

Mamaroneck Recreation DepartmentThe Bunny Hop Race

The Bunny Hop Race, hosted by the Town of Mamaroneck’s Recreation Department, will be held on Sunday, March 22 at Memorial Park.

There are two separate races, a 1-mile “Bunny Hop” for children under 12 at 8:30 a.m., and a 5K run/walk as the main event at 9 a.m. The children’s race costs $15 to $30 and the main race costs $25 to $40 varying on the day of registration. For more information, visit village.mama-roneck.ny.us where you can also download a registration form.

Village Democrats seek candidates

The Village of Mamaroneck Democratic Committee is seeking interested residents to be considered for the nomination of trustee and mayor. Those who wish to inquire or be con-sidered for either position contact Elizabeth Saenger at 698–7569 or [email protected].

Kite making workshopYou will be amazed how high a piece of

paper, skewers and masking tape can go. On Monday, March 30 at 3 p.m., get ready for Na-tional Kite Flying month in April by finding out. Weather permitting, we will try out our cre-ations on the front lawn. Ages 8 to 11.

Paracord and pizza Paracord is a lightweight nylon rope used

in the military. In this workshop on Monday, March 30 at noon, we will use it to make para-cord survival bracelets for ourselves and for Op-eration Gratitude. This program is for students grades 6 to 8. Register at larchmontlibrary.org so we know how much pizza to order. Please note that schools are closed the next day.

ConcertOn March 31 at 11 a.m., come be a part of the

happiest concert of the season; Amelle Gloag-uen in concert. Tickets are required due to lim-ited space. This program is for kids ages 2 to 7.

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Deer numbers are not credibleTo the Editor,The shocking reality is that Westchester County has given Westchester County Bowhunters

Association, WCBA,—whose existence is based and depends on the killing of deer—the au-thority to present deer population density figures to municipalities who may have “slaughter” or “culls” in mind for local wildlife. Talk about the “fox guarding the henhouse” mentality:

“The WCBA, because of its close affiliation with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, has had the responsibility of gathering mush [sic] of the vital information needed to improve the county’s deer population. Because of our assistance to the DEC, they have supported us in changing legislation regarding hunting in Westchester County.” This excerpt was taken from the president of the WCBA and can be found online at westchesterbowhunters.com/letter.php.

In other words, WC uses bowhunters’, the “foxes,” figures to estimate deer populations, the “henhouse.” Is this how Mamaroneck and Rye found 74 deer per one quarter square mile in their area? This obviously inflated number would put 296 deer in a one square mile area in Mamaroneck. Almost 300 deer in one square mile is beyond non-credible. Seventy-four deer in such a small area at the alleged count date, Feb. 16, means conflict, disease and starvation. Very few areas can support this many deer, not even wooded areas, let alone in the industrialized, commercial and residential areas of Mamaroneck and Rye. Absurdly high estimates of population numbers are also behind the bowhunting of deer in Teatown. Let’s follow the money. Ask who benefits from these absurd numbers? The bowhunters whose lucrative contracts are dependent on implausible, unrealistically high numbers of deer. Let’s remind the officials and politicians: for every one “nature-phobic” complainer who would like to see wildlife killed en masse, there are 1,000 others who thank God daily that deer, squirrels, geese, birds, bees and any other wild thing is able to survive in this human-altered, human-assaulted environment. Westchester County and DEC officials, we must remove the foxes that guard this wildlife henhouse, and we must do “what’s right” by nature, by fiercely protecting, not killing, our still surviving wildlife, at all costs.

Taffy Williams,New York Whale and Dolphin Action League

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Glen Island Park in New Rochelle has been awarded $4 million from FEMA to repair damage from Hurricane Sandy. File photo

A beautiful sunset at Glen Island Park. Photo courtesy city-data.comThe Glen Island Park Harbour Club, which was originally a casino, is used for countless weddings each year. Photo courtesy glenisland-harbourclub.com

By mAriSSA pENNStaff Writer

Having been severely damaged during Hurricane Sandy, Glen Island Park was recently awarded $4 million in FEMA grant money for repairs and restorations.

The 105-acre park is lo-cated in New Rochelle’s wa-terfront district on the Long Island Sound. Glen Island was on the receiving end of more storm damage from Sandy than any other area of the city.

According to Westches-ter County parks officials, the park suffered more dam-age than any other county-owned park in Westchester County, with the exception of Rye Playland.

“I was actually up there in the helicopter with [West-chester County Executive] Rob Astorino right after

FEMA grants $4M for Glen Island repairs

Sandy and it was startling to see Glen Island submerged,” said Phil Oliva, a spokesman for the county executive.

Oliva said that Glen Is-land Park suffered similar damage to Playland, but added that the damage at Playland, primarily to the Ice Casino and boardwalk, has already been repaired, which cost the county ap-proximately $18 million. “Now, Glen Island will be made whole again,” he said.

During Sandy, the histor-ic bathhouse at Glen Island Park was totally demolished and a large part of the sand and beach was swept away, according to Oliva, who said the bathhouse, which was built in a Neo-Georgian style, was a county jewel.

Oliva hopes that it can be restored to its original splendor.

One of the most heav-

A painting from of what Glen Island Park looked like when it was first built in the 1920s. Photo courtesy Facebook

ily used parks in the en-tire region, New Rochelle Mayor Noam Bramson, a Democrat, said the repairs will benefit the community significantly.

“People in New Rochelle obviously use the park the most, but all of the county and region uses the park,” Bramson said. “Having the bathhouse repaired and the beach restored will increase the quality of life for people and bring more people to this part of the county.”

There are numerous activ-ities, which the park is used

for, Bramson said. People play baseball and soccer, go boating, have picnics, use the swings and ride bicycles. Also, people go to Glen Is-land to simply enjoy the beauty of nature, the New Rochelle mayor said.

There is also a wedding venue and catering hall there.

“I am certainly pleased that FEMA and our federal representatives were success-ful in securing dollars for repairs,” Bramson said. “We definitely have an interest in fully restoring the park.”

Glen Island Park, which is connected to New Ro-chelle by drawbridge, was built in the 1920s.

It was initially devel-oped as a summer resort and amusement park by John H. Starin, a native New Yorker and U.S. representative, who purchased the park in 1878.

Steamships transported visitors from New York City to the park during the sum-mertime as an escape from

city life. After it was built, the

park attracted thousands of people daily, with attrac-tions like a bathing beach, a natural history museum, a zoo, a German beer gar-den, musical entertainment, a garden and a castle. Many of the structures, such as the castle, remain.

A casino was later built on site and was eventually ac-quired by Westchester Coun-ty. But the casino closed in 1978 due to the changing times, according to Peter Tartaglia, the deputy com-missioner of county parks.

However, the original shell of the building still re-mains today.

After a $10 million reno-vation in 1997, the Glen Is-land Casino was transformed into the Glen Island Harbour club, a banquet hall, which hosts numerous weddings and other celebrations.



Hallstrom declined to dis-cuss the specifics of the case when reached by the Re-view on Wednesday, but did say that, he believed the ap-peal was a waste of taxpayer money, citing one claim in particular.

“When people are fighting for their homes and risking their lives in flooding, she can’t eat oysters,” Bermudez Hallstrom said in response to McCrory’s statement.

The village’s TOD leg-islation was approved on Nov. 24, 2014 by a 3 to 1 one vote of the village board. Trustee Leon Potok, a Democrat, voting against it on the grounds that he be-lieved there should be more environmental study done, and Trustee Ilissa Miller, a Democrat, abstained. Po-tok later introduced amend-ments to the legislation that contained language attempt-ing to discourage developers from increasing conditions conducive to flooding. Pub-lic hearings on those amend-ments are still open, as of press time.

This lawsuit doesn’t mark the first instance of unrest re-lated to the village’s decision on rezoning portions of the Mamaroneck.

Residents of the Washing-tonville area came forward during a Feb. 9 village board meeting to present trustees with a 134-signature petition asking for a repeal of the en-tire legislation and a redraft only after additional environ-mental studies and community meetings.

According to a source with knowledge of the lawsuit, Mc-Crory and von Eiff had origi-nally approached residents of the area to join the Article 78 proceeding. The plaintiffs were turned down, although the source declined to explain why.

Potok declined comment when reached by the Review. McCrory and von Eiff could not be reached for comment as of press time.


The Sheldrake River in Columbus Park is notorious for flooding a recently rezoned neighborhood near the Metro-North train station. A lawsuit filed on March 10 against the Village of Mamaroneck Board of Trustees attempts to repeal the rezoning so more studies can be conducted on potential flooding effects of the area. Photo/Alina Suriel

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Word on the StreetWhat’s bothering you today?

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Rye

Collected

on Purchase Street

“That I’m late for something, and

I’m always late for something.”

Gabby Kree, Rye

“I’m sorry, nothing. I’m a lucky guy.”

John Stoffel, Eastchester

“The gentleman who works in the office adjoining the wall

who is talking very loudly.”

Edward Rashba, Cresskill,

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general to understand which appointment is valid. While the state attorney general wouldn’t opine because another state de-partment had already given its opinion, the state department, once again, clarified its opinion for the village.

Potok said the state depart-ment confirmed on March 17 that the board correctly ap-pointed Young to the BAR, while Rosenblum’s appoint of Cohen was invalid.

With the opinion received, Stoeckhert said he would wel-come Young as a member of the BAR and liked the idea of hav-ing fresh people on the board. Still, the chairman was con-cerned with Young’s previous attendance record as a member of the architectural review board and the possibility that Cohen’s votes as an invalid member would need to be revisited.

However, according to Potok, Cohen’s votes were deemed in good faith and wouldn’t be an issue.

Even though the appoint-ments were cleared up in time for the BAR to hold its next scheduled meeting on March 19, after press time, Young has said he would be unable to ap-pear, according to emails ob-tained by the Review. Young’s absence for his first meeting,

alongside absences of Stoeck-hert and Victoria Hage, would result in too few members for a quorum and, in turn, force the board to cancel its meeting.

According to village code, the BAR has 30 days to act on any permit request presented to the board before the appli-cation would automatically be approved by the village. Since both the March meetings of the BAR have been can-celled, nine items that most-ly involved solar panels and residential renovations, would forego deliberations and be automatically approved.

“The action of the Board of Trustees and this entire debacle has paralyzed the ef-fectiveness and procedures of the Board of Architectural Re-view,” Rosenblum said, add-ing that the automatic approv-als were ridiculous.

While the BAR sorts out its

agenda for its next meeting on April 7, the appointment from the Democratic trustees to fill a vacancy on the village’s Har-bor and Coastal Zone Man-agement Commission is mak-ing far fewer ripples. In the same ruling that removed Co-hen from her position on the BAR, Nancy Wasserman was also removed from the harbor coastal commission. However, since Wasserman didn’t sub-mit a resume to the village, the appointment from the Demo-crats of Pam Michaels was approved unanimously. Nomi-nated by Trustee Miller, Mi-chaels had previously served on the Town of Mamaroneck’s coastal commission.

Village Manager Richard Slingerland could not be reached for comment as of press time.


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Recent killings just more of the sameBy Cliff JACKSON

The murders of Eric Gar-ner and Michael Brown along with the killing of several other black males since their murders, who were all un-armed, including a 12 year-old boy by a white police offi-cer, as well as the recent reve-lations about systemic racism and abuse by the Ferguson Police Department vividly il-lustrates that the deep-seated lawlessness and racism of po-lice departments across this country has been going on for more than 150 years.

Huey P. Newton, Mal-colm X as well as retired New York Police Depart-ment cop Frank Serpico have all said there is lawlessness on the part of the police in this country when it came to police occupation in black communities.

This has been illustrated throughout the history of the United States.

Tens of thousands of black people since the birth of the Ku Klux Klan in Pu-laski, Tenn., in 1866 have been lynched, burned alive, beaten to death and mutilat-ed by whites. Many times as part of a Sunday afternoon spectacle where crowds full of white families were enter-tained to this type of savage-ry. Many of the members of the Klan were also members of law enforcement in Ala-bama, Georgia, Texas, Mis-sissippi, South Carolina and Virginia, as well as in Ohio, Michigan, New York and Pennsylvania. Also, many police officers who were not officially members of the Klan would stand by and al-low these racist mobs to en-gage in their barbaric and in-sane brutality.

More than 600 record-ed race riots, where whites would inflict this carnage on blacks happened from the 1860s to the 1960s, where

we have still had several inci-dences since that time frame. The lynching of James Byrd in Texas in 1998 that spurred the “Mathew Sheppard-James Byrd hate crime” law is an example, as well as a black man who was run over by a group of whites driving a truck in Mississippi in June 2011 that stated they were “looking to kill a nigger.”

The summer of 1919 called “Red Summer” was an example where thousands of blacks during that three-month period were mutilated and burned alive by whites and local police. Part of the racist rationale was to put “the nigger in his place,” since many of the victims were black WWI veterans that had returned from serv-ing their country.

Indeed the Harlem riots of 1943 and 1964 were pre-cipitated by police shoot-ings of unarmed black men. There have been more than 30 unarmed men of color who have been shot down by the police since 2012. Police killings of civilians reached 409 in 2013; that is unparal-leled in the “Western world.”

Police are an expression of the larger community and the racism and pre-con-ceptions that they have to-wards communities of color are an extension of the rac-ism and phobia’s that exist in this society. The Knapp Commission’s findings as well as the Mollen Commis-sion’s findings of 1970 and 1993, respectively, of police brutality, racism and cor-ruption clearly express that. The argument is put forth that black and Latino males commit a higher percentage of crimes per their demo-graphics. That may be true. However if you look at the FBI and justice department’s racial categorization of those who perpetrate crimes, in particular violent crimes

such as armed robbery, mur-der, rape and domestic vio-lence, 65 to 70 percent are committed by whites. In 2011, more than 6.59 million crimes, mostly violent, were committed by whites in this country. If you took away every black and Latino per-son from this country at that time, you would still have a violent crime rate in the U.S. unparalleled by any industri-alized country in the world.

Yet, mainly white police officers still have that edge and attitude towards commu-nities of color.

Yes there are many police officers who come to serve their community without ra-cial animus and try to prac-tice proper law enforcement. However, all too often there are many police officers who are not properly trained, who do not look to reasonably deal with communities of color. They have a “shoot to kill” attitude and do not look to de-escalate a situation.

In the 1960s, we had hun-dreds of racial riots or rebel-lions in urban centers across the country. A major reason for that was the inhumane and brutal treatment of black people by police depart-ments from Boston to Ala-bama. Malcolm X and Dr. King both spoke at lengths about this. The riots in Lib-erty City and the riots in-volving the incredible deci-sion in a state court absolv-ing four white police offi-cers in the savage beating of Rodney King was expressed in Ferguson recently.

It looks like we will be returning to this type of re-bellion against the racist and brutal aspects of the police and the larger white com-munity as a whole unless the humanity of black people is accepted.

Cliff Jackson is a resident of Larchmont. The views ex-pressed are his.

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The Democratic majority of the Village of Mamaroneck Board of Trustees, pictured, appointed Frank Young to the Board of Archi-tectural Review to fill a vacancy created in February by a correcting of the mayor’s authority regarding volunteer appointments. However, the land use board will not have a quorum for its next scheduled meeting. File photos


By JACKSON CHENStaff Writer

A lease was signed for two floors of the property at 689 Mamaroneck Ave., on March 16, according to a broker who handled the agreement. The broker, Richard Mack, said the space was leased by Westches-ter Medical Center for medical office use.

Within the two floors that Westchester Medical Center leased, Open Door will also be negotiating a sublease for a family medical center on the ground floor, according to Lindsay Farrell, Open Door president and chief executive officer. Farrell added that the space would be a very small facility with a physician and possibly a nurse practitioner.

Once open, the family med-ical center would be available to any resident, according to Farrell. The president added that while Open Door accepts a variety of insurances, pa-tients without coverage would pay fees determined by a slid-

According to a broker, a lease was signed by Westchester Medical Center for the property at 689 Mamaroneck Ave., pictured. Open Door may soon join the facility in a sublease agreement. Photo/Jackson Chen

Medical offices lease Mamaroneck Ave. spaceing scale based on family size and income.

Despite the lease being signed, there’s still a large amount of paperwork to be completed before officially opening the facility, accord-ing to Farrell. As soon as Open Door works out the terms of a sublease with Westchester Medical Center, the nonprofit organization would then need to seek a Certificate of Need from the New York State De-partment of Health. The certif-icate allows for Open Door to begin construction, renovation and acquiring medical equip-ment, but Farrell said that this process can take several years.

Meanwhile, Open Door is still also pursuing the pros-pect of opening a school-based health center at Mamaroneck Avenue School, only a few blocks away from the pro-posed medical center. Accord-ing to Farrell, the Mamaroneck Board of Education will be conducting a needs assessment before making a final decision as to whether or not they want

the school-based health center. Debbie Manetta, spokes-

person for the Mamaroneck Union Free School District, said the school board has not set any dates so far for fur-ther discussions of the school-based health center.

To ease tensions within the community that were pres-ent during initial discussions about the health center pro-posal, Open Door has been attempting to demystify the school-based health center model through community outreach. Several weeks ago, Open Door filmed an informa-tive commercial, explaining that a school-based health cen-ter within Mamaroneck Avenue School would provide preven-tive healthcare to students of the school. The commercial aired on LMC-TV’s “Local Live” program as part of an hour-long discussion with phone-in par-ticipants, Dr. Debra Gerson of Open Door and several mem-bers of the school district task force that was charged with re-searching the issue.

“When we’re in a new com-munity, people don’t under-stand who we are and what we do,” Farrell said, adding there are lots of confusion and a lack of knowledge of particulars.

“It’s really important an orga-nization like ours educate the community about the services we offer.”

Mack could not be reached for additional comment as of

press time. Calls to represen-tatives of Westchester Medical Center were unsuccessful, as of press time.



County board authorizes amended HUD lawsuitBy CHriS EBErHArt

Staff Writer

Westchester County is mo-ving ahead with its attempts to recoup millions of dollars in lost federal grant money from the fiscal years 2012, 2013 and 2014.

In a special meeting on March 16, the Westchester County Board of Legislators approved a resolution that authorized the county gov-ernment to amend the exist-ing lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to in-clude the $16 million in grant money already lost from fis-cal years 2012, 2013 and 2014. The grant money goes towards building affordable housing and revitalizing low-income neighborhoods.

“This legislation allows us to go back and hopefully re-coup some of our tax dollars that were taken from us,” said Westchester County Legisla-tor Sheila Marcotte, an East-chester Republican.

Before filing the amended lawsuit, the county will seek a court-ordered injunction to prevent HUD from continuing to reallocate the grant money from 2012, 2013 and 2014. Westchester County Attorney Robert Meehan said that the county has to move quickly because most of the 2012 grant money has already been

reallocated by HUD. The federal funds were

originally withheld by HUD when the federal department said the county was not in compliance with the 2009 af-fordable housing settlement that required Westchester to build 750 units of affordable housing over a seven-year pe-riod and develop an analysis of impediments to fair and af-fordable housing in Westches-ter that was deemed accept-able by HUD.

The latter has yet to hap-pen despite eight submissions over the course of five years by the office of current Coun-ty Executive Rob Astorino, a Republican.

And, until February, that $16 million was permanently lost along with 2011 grants worth $7.4 million due to a ruling by federal district court judge Denise Cote back in 2013, which threw out the county’s lawsuit challenging HUD’s decision to withhold the funds. In her ruling, Cote said the county’s claims were

The Westchester County Board of Legislators led by Chairman Mike Kaplowitz authorized County Executive Rob Astorino’s law office to amend its lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to include grant money from 2012 to 2014. File Photo

not subject to judicial review. Since her ruling, all but ap-proximately $754,000 of the $7.4 million that was intend-ed for the county in 2011 has been reallocated by HUD.

But Cote’s ruling was over-turned in February, when a federal appeals court ruled in favor of Westchester Coun-ty by saying HUD’s actions were, in fact, subject to judi-cial review. The case has since been sent back to the federal district court.

Depending on the outcome of the federal district court case, the county may be able to recover the $754,000 that’s left of the $7.4 million from 2011.

The resolution approved by all 13 of the county legislators that were present on March 16 would essentially lump the $16 million worth of grant money from 2012, 2013 and 2014 into this court case as an amended lawsuit.

Meehan said the work that his office is doing to attempt to recover the 2011 grant money is not going to cost the county any extra money.


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You would figure that by now, I would’ve gotten the hang of this thing. The NCAA men’s basketball tournament kicks off this week, and with it comes what promises to be yet another futile and pathetic bracket prognostication from yours truly.

I watch a lot of college basketball throughout the year, but it seems that once March rolls around, all those hours I spent watching the Big East and the ACC is all for naught, as my bracket is routinely busted by the end of the first round.

What makes it particularly distressing for me is that, due to my position here at the Re-view, my bracket shame is made public.

It would be one thing to come in dead last if I just participated in small bracket

Bracket bustin’challenges with my friends—which I do. But each year, I also participate in an intra-office bracket as well as my editor’s pool, alongside pub-lic servants from each of our paper’s coverage areas.

So it’s pretty hard to hide my awful picks.

Last year may have been my low-point, as I came in dead last in our office brack-et, something I was remind-ed of each time I walked into the break room to see the printouts of the results, which, for some reason, hung on the walls until June. This year, anything better than that would be a huge improvement.

So what am I going to do?Unlearn everything I know

about college basketball. Forget formulas about de-

fensive efficiency. Disregard strength of schedule. I’m done with the metrics that have served me so poorly in the past.

My adopted team of Vil-lanova? They might have the best squad they’ve had in a decade, but I’m going to shy away from picking a team that’s caused me so much angst in past years. Maybe this year, when they get elim-inated in the field of 32, I’ll take solace in the fact that I didn’t have them in the Final Four.

So what will be the crite-ria for my picks this year? Mascots, uniforms and some good, old-fashioned eenie-meenie-miney-mos. Tie-breakers will be handled by blindfolded dart-throwing, of course.

I mean, it can’t possibly go any worse for me than it nor-mally does.

Just checking, though. Everyone else has Wofford State winning it all, right?

Hmm. Maybe it’s just me.

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After starting the 2014 season with six straight loss-es, the Mamaroneck Tigers pulled off an improbable run, winning 10 of their last 12 games to finish the season on a high note. This season, with all but one player returning, the Tigers are hoping to build on last year’s finish and come out of the gates quickly.

According to head coach Allison Bedosky the veteran Tiger team—which brings back 10 players from last year’s squad—has shown a lot of focus early on as they hope to get off to a better start this year.

“All the girls coming back know how we started last year and they all want to avoid that,” Bedosky said. “But the fact of the matter is we were resilient last year, worked hard and we’ve been doing the same thing so far this year.”

Among the 10 returning players are a handful that have played big roles for the Tigers in the past. Se-nior Kimi Chiapparelli, who earned All-State honors in 2014,

will once against be an im-portant piece to the puzzle, though her role is yet to be determined.

Tigers eye quick start

Chiapparelli has previous-ly played both shortstop and catcher, hitting .548 last sea-son, but Bedosky indicated that the senior standout could also see time in the circle this year.

“I’m sad to say that she’s a senior this year,” the coach said. “But as a third year cap-tain, she’s going to be inte-

gral to our success.”Chiapparelli will also be

joined by longtime starters Chelsea Rose, who will play the hot corner, and Emily Taub, who has patrolled cen-terfield the last few seasons.

Taub’s defensive prowess has proved to be a boon for Mamaroneck, while Rose, who will likely lead off, has

Jess Fiacco tracks a popup at a March 14 practice. Photos/Bobby Begun

Kimi Chiapparelli makes a throw at an indoor practice on March 14. Chiapparelli hit .548 last year to nab All-State honors.

A Tiger player dives for a ball on March 14. The Tigers have 10 returning players on varsity this year.

emerged as a dangerous ta-ble-setter for the Tigers.

“Chelsea had just about one of the best On Base Percentages in the section last year,” Bedosky said. “And I’m looking forward to seeing Emily out there in the outfield diving and making plays for us again.”

Last season, the Tigers re-lied heavily on Jen Gottfried, who has since graduated, in the pitcher’s circle, but Bedosky believes that there will be more open competi-

tion for the top pitching spots this year. With six girls vying for time in the circle, the Tiger coach said she will have a bit more flexibility than last year.

“Ultimately, the goal is to have it narrowed down by the end of the year,” the head coach said. “But looking at the schedule, at some points we have like six games in seven days, so we’re definite-ly thankful we have so many pitchers.”

The Tigers are scheduled to begin the regular season

on March 30 when they host R.C. Ketcham and will begin league play on April 14 when they take on White Plains.

“The league is going to be tough this year, and a lot of teams have lost their top pitchers, so we’re starting in different places this year,” Bedosky said. “It’s going to be even across the boards, even if the scores are a little bit dif-ferent than what you’ve been used to seeing in the papers.”


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