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Elaine Chapnick and Eileen Mason celebrate at LMC-TV’s 30th birthday party on Oct. 24 before they receive their awards of recognition. Chapnick received the Sunny Award for her long commitment to the station and Mason received special recognition for 30 years of dedication to LMC-TV. For story, see page 13. Photo/Ashley Helms

Here’s to 30!

Village election signage causes controversy, confusionBy ASHLEY HELMS

Staff Writer

Campaign signage has caused some controversy after the village’s Republican and Democratic Board of Trustee candidates were notified that some of their political signs weren’t in compliance with size regulations, as outlined in the village code.

But Democratic mayoral can-didate Clark Neuringer and trustee candidate Kerry Stein said they had their noncom-pliant signs removed, while Republicans Mayor Norman Rosenblum and Trustee Louis Santoro left theirs untouched

due to an interpretation of vil-lage code that allows them to leave the signs up for 90 days after an issued violation.

Village Building Inspector Bill Gerety issued a notice of vio-lation on Oct. 11 regarding Neuringer and Stein’s political banner on the property of Daniel S. Natchez and Associates, lo-cated on 916 East Boston Post Road. In the notice, Gerety states that Natchez’s sign ex-ceeded the 16 square feet regu-lation.

According to the village code, political posters may also be created and placed without a permit provided they are “not exceeding 16 square feet, pro-

vided that: Placement shall not exceed 60 days before nor 30 days following the event.”

In a separate section, the code states that if the code enforcer finds any sign outlined in the chapter, which includes political signs, to be noncompliant or is a menace to the public, they can give written notice to the prop-erty owner.

As Gerety interpreted the vil-lage code, political posters and banners on a property cannot exceed a total of 16 square feet.

Village Manager Richard Slingerland said that according to the code, each individual sign can not exceed 16 square feet.

“We notified both campaigns

of the issue and I believe they took respective action,” he said. “The Rosenblum campaign has questioned some other issues and the constitutionality of it.”

Due to the timing of when the violations were issued, the 90-day timeframe would allow prop-erty owners to leave the signs up until after the Nov. 5 election.

In a letter to Gerety, Natchez said it wasn’t one sign that he had on his property that was over 16 square feet, but rather three independent signs adja-cent to each other. Natchez be-lieved he was following village code, but removed the signs

Campaign turns to Hampshire By ASHLEY HELMS

Staff Writer

Some residents in the Village of Mamaroneck are concerned with the possible rezoning of Hampshire Country Club to help pave the way for the con-struction of condominiums on the club’s grounds. Although no formal application for rezon-ing is in front of village govern-ment, the topic has become a contentious campaign issue in this year’s local election.

Incumbent Republicans Mayor Norman Rosenblum and Trustee Louis Santoro have said they were advised by legal council not to comment on the possibil-ity of rezoning because a formal application to do so hasn’t been received by the village.

On the other hand, their Democratic opponents, mayoral candidate Clark Neuringer and trustee candidate Kerry Stein, said the incumbents should be obligated to comment so resi-dents who feel strongly about the issue will know where the incumbents stand.

“I don’t know any politician that would hide behind the skirt of a piece of paper and refuse to talk about proposed laws,” Neuringer said. “As someone running for public office, you have an obligation to tell the people what you think about proposed law changes.”

Plans were displayed at Hampshire’s open house in January for a potential condo-minium building and parking garage on the club’s property where a clubhouse stands now. The club’s possible rezoning, as a campaign issue, centers largely on what was displayed at that time.

Neuringer said rezoning is a legislative action; a developer

is attempting to change the law in order to build a certain struc-ture. Instead of talking about specific development plans or Hampshire in particular, he said Rosenblum and Santoro should be able to safely take a stance on potential law changes. He noted the incumbents have comment-ed on proposed zoning changes to the village’s industrial area.

Controversy surrounding Hampsh ire Country Club has also come from other sources.

The Mamaroneck Coastal Environment Coalition mount-ed opposition in August to what it said are the club’s continued violations of the zoning code by holding non-member events without a required special per-mit, not filing a IRS Form 990 with the village and that Hampshire is, in reality, a for-profit corporation operating in the marine recreation zone, an area which, as designated by the zoning code, is for non-profit membership clubs only.

According to documents ob-tained by The Mamaroneck Review, village Fire Inspector William Ciraco submitted an order to remedy to the club on Sept. 21, stating that Hampshire did fail to obtain a special per-mit to hold non-member events and file the proper IRS form. The club is expected to ob-tain special permit documenta-tion and file the necessary IRS paperwork retroactively from 2010 to 2012.

Celia Felsher, president of the Coastal Environment Coalition, said Hampshire officials consis-tently said they would file a pe-tition for rezoning through the winter and spring, but became quiet in the summer. When the

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Letters to the Editor

Verni an escape from partisan politicsTo the Editor,I am writing to endorse John Verni for county legislator for District Seven, which encompasses

Mamaroneck, Larchmont, Rye and parts of New Rochelle and Harrison. Given the times we live in, when both political parties are constantly at odds, we need non-partisan leaders like John Verni to step up and help bring the community back together.

I have known John for many years and he is exactly the type of person that we should elect to the county board. John is well qualified. He graduated from Georgetown University and Fordham Law School. He has served the Sound Shore community as a Westchester County assistant district attorney. He is a natural leader and has a strong social conscience. John served with distinction as president of Habitat For Humanity of Westchester and has been a leader on many local non-profit efforts. He has given selflessly to our local community.

John Verni will be an excellent member of the county board. He will bring a non-ideological, results-oriented approach to government. I have seen John work with people from all walks of life bringing people together for the common good. Whether it is building houses for Habitat for Humanity, working with juveniles in the New Rochelle Youth Court, or restoring historically important buildings into com-munity assets, John is smart, industrious and practical.

I am confident that John will bring this same can-do attitude to the county board. When elected, I know that John will put petty politics aside and reach across the aisle to make decisions that are based upon the best interests of all of Westchester County’s residents.

In all my years of public service, I have witnessed the value of having individuals with John Verni’s attributes involved in the governing process. That is why I wholeheartedly endorse his candidacy for county legislator. Please join me in voting for John Verni on Election Day on Nov. 5.

Valerie Moore O’Keeffe,Former Town of Mamaroneck supervisor

Neuringer: Rosenblum, Santoro desperateTo the Editor,I would like to respond to the article about me that appeared in The Mamaroneck Review on Oct. 25

(Neuringer violated ethics code). I refuse to allow my reputation to be dragged through the mud.My running mate Kerry Stein and I believe this cowardly action of sending an anonymous package to

the media immediately before the election was a politically motivated, desperate act of our opponents to create a last-minute distraction in the campaign.

There was, in fact, no conflict of interest, no undue influence exerted and no impropriety or special advantage taken in this matter. The issue related to a technical violation of an ambiguously worded village code in connection with my representing architectural clients on two small matters before the Planning Board. The issue was not raised by the Planning Board or any other person involved in the mat-ter, but by Trustee Louis Santoro, one of our political opponents in the current election.

It was found that there was an unintentional violation of this ambiguous code provision. There was no determination whatsoever of any wrongdoing or undue influence-because there was none.

This is clearly a brazen political attempt, made at the 11th hour, to derail the discussion away from the substantive issues that truly differentiate Norman Rosenblum and Louis Santoro from Kerry Stein and me.

As is well known in the community, and by our opponents, I have been a dedicated, responsible and honorable volunteer to the village for 23 years. Kerry has also been a reliable and committed citizen volunteer.

Kerry and I both thank you for your continued trust and support.

Clark Neuringer,Candidate for mayor,Village of Mamaroneck


ting proposals or suggestions from the Army Corps. You’re never going to cure 100 percent, but according to this plan, you’ll probably prevent almost every flood except for a perfect storm like in 2007.

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Clark NeuringerAge: 68

PoliticAl AffiliAtion: Democratic nominee

StAtuS: Challenger

PArty endorSementS: Mamaroneck First

occuPAtion: Architect

yeArS in VillAge: 38

community inVolVement: 23 years on every village land use board, sat on board of the Washingtonville Housing Alliance for 20 years

fAmily: Children: Shane, 42, Keir, 37, Megan, 35

WhAt’S one thing the AVerAge Voter doeSn’t knoW About you?: “Done work as an architect for two or more commercial businesses on Mamaroneck Avenue; had a grand opening for a business in in-dustrial area for a glass company.”

Q: Why did you decide to run?

A: It was not an easy decision. I’m not a politician; I’ve spent almost my entire life in Mamaroneck volunteering to serve the com-munity. This time around, aside from some enormous push and pressure from some people I re-spect in the village, in the last four years, I’ve seen the vil-lage going in a certain direction that has been bothersome to me. Primarily, things focused around an environmental nature and es-pecially land use decisions. It has offended me that I have been sensing that major land use de-cisions have been coming about in an impulsive manner without much thought or consideration. I’ve heard derogatory statements from my opponents by passing off time to think about things as “paralysis by analysis.”

Q: Protecting open space and the village’s coastal heritage and character is a con-cern that many of Mamaroneck residents consider to be of high importance. How will you preserve the village’s uniqueness and green space while promoting smart development?

A: The Village of Mamaroneck is a mature, developed built-up community, so when we hear ongoing, continuous develop-ment or the village will die of atrophy, where exactly are we going to develop? We have a limited amount of open space now. We are going to leave this place to our children to pre-serve almost every ounce of open space. Once we blacktop the last bit of green space, then what? Parks aren’t there just to have a high activity rate; some-times people like to go to parks to relax and to have quiet and solitude. It doesn’t have to have 100 percent of activity 100 per-cent of the time.

Q: How important are local zoning codes and how necessary are they in preserving the character of the village?

A: Everyone understands that zoning codes are important. Having said that, they only work if they’re enforced uni-versally, consistently and fair-ly. Once you start getting into a situation where the average Joe gets banged for wanting to

do an extension to his deck and some large major landowner gets a free pass; that’s a recipe for disaster. Zoning codes are extraordinarily important to preserve the inherent character of any municipality, especially the Village of Mamaroneck, but they have to be enforced fairly and consistently.

Q: Although situations like the Witts law-suit and the closing of Three Jalapeños involved additional issues, they both started because of flooding, to which the village is quite susceptible during severe weather events. What would you do to combat flooding?

A: I don’t really know and I’m not at all that convinced that there’s much the Village of Mamaroneck can do about flooding and I know my op-ponent keeps referring to the Army Corps of Engineers re-port that’s going to come down. We’ve had those reports before. Realistically, I don’t know what the Army Corps of Engineers would suggest that would really

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Photo/Phil Nobile

Norman RosenblumAge: 70

PoliticAl AffiliAtion: Republican nominee, registered unaffiliated

StAtuS: Incumbent

PArty endorSementS: Independence and Conservative

occuPAtion: Manager of contracts and administration for Safe Flight Instrument Corporation

yeArS in VillAge: Lifetime

community inVolVement: Former trustee, chairman of Tree Committee, soccer coach

fAmily: Brother James, extended family resides in the village

WhAt’S one thing the AVerAge Voter doeSn’t knoW About you?: “My in-volvement in NASCAR.”

Q: Protecting open space and the vil-lage’s coastal heritage and character is a concern that many Mamaroneck residents consider to be of high importance. How will you preserve the village’s uniqueness and green space while promoting smart development?

A: I would note that when I was a trustee in 1980 to 1982 we laid the groundwork for the Local Waterfront Revitalization Program. You have to have contin-ued development in any municipal-ity to maintain or increase your tax base to help keep the people that live here. The village’s greatest as-set is its diversity in its residents. A big, open issue is Hampshire Country Club. Hampshire Country Club has made two proposals, nei-ther one of them has been brought to the Board of Trustees. I think that open space is a necessity; I think it’s part of the character of the Village of Mamaroneck. Once you lose something, you never get it back again.

Q: How important are local zoning codes and how necessary are they in preserving the character of the village?

A: It’s extremely important. You always look to review sugges-tions. We’re in the process of going over and going to bid for the industrial area. I can tell you, on a weekly basis, we interview groups who are looking to de-velop in the village and that’s a prime area to do it. The diversi-ty is a key to the village; I don’t want to live in a white bread area. I don’t want a Scarsdale or Rye. The purpose is to have both retail and residential.

Q: Although situations like the Witts law-suit and the closing of Three Jalapenos involved additional issues, they both started because of flooding, to which the village is quite susceptible during severe weather events. What would you do to combat flooding?

A: For many generations liv-ing here, I was just as frustrat-ed as anyone else. We are now going through the third Army Corps of Engineers study. I’m very optimistic and I work on a group that works with the Army Corps. I think that, in December or mid-January, we will be get-

Village mayoral candidates

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Photo/Chris Eberhart


Election 2013 tidbitsLast Election Day, the majori-

ty on the Village of Mamaroneck Board of Trustees was at stake. This year, the board is sure to remain in Democratic hands, but the complexion of the vil-lage may hang in the balance as incumbent Republican Mayor Norman Rosenblum, who crit-ics say favors broad, continuous development, faces off with Democrat Clark Neuringer, a political newcomer who has 23 years of experience on the village’s land use boards. Neuringer says the village is fully developed, while Rosenblum be-lieves the village must constantly evolve to maintain its tax base.

Elsewhere on the ballot, vil-lage voters will choose between incumbent Republican Trustee Louis Santoro, Rosenblum’s dep-uty mayor, and Democrat Kerry Stein, a bond trader seeking his first term in political office.

Voters also have an inter-est in their district’s county legislator race with Rye City Councilwoman Catherine Parker, a Democrat, seeking to replace retiring County Legislator Judy Myers. Parker is facing off against Mamaroneck’s John Verni, a Republican and local real estate developer and land use attorney. Parker’s road to November didn’t turn out to

be as easy as first envisioned after being challenged for her own party’s nomination by for-mer Mamaroneck Trustee Tom Murphy. Parker won the prima-ry by little more than 100 votes.

Election Day is Tuesday, Nov. 5.

election night heAdQuArterSroSenblum-SAntoro

Mayor Norman Rosenblum and Trustee Louis Santoro will be stationed at the Elk’s Lodge, 417 East Post Road, awaiting the results of their race. The Republican incumbents will arrive before 9 p.m. and be joined by campaign supporters and friends in hopes of celebrating another election victory.

mAmAroneck firStDemocratic village board candidates, Clark Neuringer for mayor and Kerry Stein for trustee,

will spend their Tuesday night awaiting election results at Roasted Peppers, 320 Mamaroneck Ave. The Democrats will be joined by family, friends and supporters at approximately 9 p.m. in hopes of unseating their Republican opponents.

teAm PArkerDemocratic Rye City Councilwoman Catherine Parker hopes the second time is also a charm.

Parker, vying for a spot on the county Board of Legislators, will await her election results at Bar’lees, 157 Mamaroneck Ave. in Mamaroneck. It is the same location Parker used during her successful Democratic primary in September against Tom Murphy. Supporters and friends are invited to attend beginning at 9 p.m.

Verni for legiSlAtorRepublican county legislator candidate John Verni will hold court at his Mamaroneck restau-

rant Club Car, located at 1 Station Plaza in Mamaroneck, on Election Night. Verni will be on hand prior to 9 p.m. to watch the results stream in live along with campaign staff, friends and family.

QueStionS About cAndidAteS or iSSueS?Find answers via online voter guides from the League of Women Voters’ Vote411.org.This year’s ballots include candidates for numerous local and county races plus six proposed

amendments to the New York State Constitution.Personalize your ballot: Before voting, you can create a personalized ballot at Vote411.org.

Click onVote411.org to find info on each candidate running for each position in your district.Read up on proposed constitutional amendments: Find explanations for each of the six consti-

tutional amendments. Click here for summaries, the wording that will appear on your ballot and the full text for each proposed amendment.

Be an informed voter on Nov. 5.

MaMaroneck’s registered voters

Democrat 4,471 Republican 2,819

Unaffiliated 2,622 Independence 552

Conservative 133 Working Families

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Green 11 Other 15

Total 10,658


Playland’s fate could be tied to Election DayBy cHRIS EBERHART

Staff Writer

A polarizing issue in county politics this year that may be tied to the outcomes on Nov. 5 is the state of Westchester’s Rye Playland.

The famed amusement park, which is owned and operated by Westchester government, has been in the proverbial crosshairs ever since a decision was made in 2010 to entertain the idea of revamping the park and al-low for an outside contractor to manage it.

But this is not the first time the county has attempted to move away from managing the park. Back in the early 1980s, then-County Executive Alfred DelBello, a Democrat, reached an agreement to privatize the park, bringing in the Marriot Corporation to come in and run the venue. The experiment, failed and the plugg was pulled after just two years.

Earlier this year, County Executive Rob Astorino, a Republican, signed a 10-year management agreement with Sustainable Playland Inc., a

Rye-based non-profit group formed for the sole purpose of redeveloping the park, this past summer to modernize the play-land, but no physical changes or capital work can be made until they’re approved by the county Board of Legislators, which cur-rently rests in Democratic hands by a 10-7 majority, according to an opinion drafted by coun-ty attorney Robert Meehan. Therefore, the legislators have the final say over the direction Playland heads in. the likeli-hood is the county administra-tion would challenge such a de-cision counter to SPI in court, if need be.

The election will deter-mine control of the Board of Legislators. Control of the coun-ty board could determine the di-rection of the historic park and whether the SPI plan moves for-ward. If Republicans, who have echoed Astorino’s praise for Sustainable Playland, win tight-ly-contested legislator races in districts five and nine next week and assume majority control, the proposal, which has been the subject of recent protest by Rye residents neighboring Playland,

will likely be approved by the Board of Legislators.

Astorino’s opponent, Democra-tic mayor of New Rochelle Noam Bramson, said he agrees with the plan to modernize Playland, but said the process is flawed, a stance that has been reiterated by Democratic can-didates throughout Westchester during the campaign season.

Geoff Thompson, a spokes-man for Sustainable Playland Inc., said he’s confident in ei-ther party to review Sustainable Playland’s proposal.

“Obviously, we know Rob Astorino’s stance. Bramson has taken a position that he needs to know a more about the plan, but we’re confident that whoever is elected will give Sustainable Playland’s plan the proper con-sideration it deserves.”

In the meantime, the Board of Legislators continues to conduct its own review of the proposals submitted to the county in 2011. A review that Democrats claim was obstructed by the Astorino administration’s refusal to hand over analysis of the proposals and amusement park.

Legislator Judy Myers, a

Mamaroneck Democrat whose district encompasses Playland, doesn’t think the plan will be done anytime soon.

“The [Playland] Improvement Plan just came to the Board of Legislators and we’ve been tasked with going through each and every item and dissecting them,” Myers said. “I do wish the plan was brought to us soon-er. We will get the county budget on Nov. 15, and then all our at-tention turns to the budget. We aren’t going to see a lot of prog-ress on Playland until the end of the year.”

The administration sent out

No physical changes to Playland can be made until they’re approved by the Westchester County Board of Legislators, according to a legal opin-ion from a county attorney. File Photo

a request for proposals back in 2010, soon after Astorino took county office. In return, he re-ceived 12 submissions to rec-reate the park. The pack was whittled down to three finalists before the county executive ulti-mately selected SPI as the victor.

Since that time, there has been some ongoing concern with the SPI plan within the group’s own backyard.

While the issue has been dis-cussed and debated at the high-est level of county politics, a grassroots uprising has begun to form in Rye over a proposed 95,000-square-foot fieldhouseas part of the SPI plan. The issue has brought forth lively debate from both supporters and oppo-nents of the idea.

Mack Cunningham, a former Rye City councilman, said a pe-tition with more than 200 signa-tures will be hand delivered to Ken Jenkins, a Yonkers Democrat and chairman of the county Board of Legislators; Myers county Legislator Catherine Borgia, an Ossining Democrat who chairs the legislators’ Government Operations Committee, and Rye City Clerk Dawn Nodarse on Wednesday, after press time.

“The petition shows there are concerns from bordering neigh-

bors around Playland over this proposal,” Cunningham said.

But Myers said she’s concep-tually in favor of the plan and believes Sustainable Playland is what’s best for her constituents.

Cunningham is not so sure.“Judy Myers has not done her

homework,” he said.On Oct. 27, Rye deputy

mayor and independent may-oral candidate Pete Jovanovich met with some of Playland’s protesting neighbors and said he was against a proposal by SPI to construct a fieldhouse in the Playland parking lot which abuts residential properties.

His opponent, Republican mayoral candidate and incum-bent Councilman Joe Sack has refused to take a stance on the issue, citing the need for more information and a process to re-view both sides in the matter.

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Larchmont to study potential administratorBy ASHLEY HELMS

Staff Writer

With the retirement of Village of Larchmont Clerk Eileen Finn on the horizon after 35 years, the door has been opened for Larchmont officials to consider the option of hiring a paid ad-ministrator.

GJF Management, based in Ossining, has been contracted by the village to study every department within Village Hall. Finn’s scheduled departure in January kicked off the need for the study, but it will incorporate more than just the clerk’s office.

The study is being led by GJF owner Jerry Faiella,, who worked in municipal offices across the county for 35 years. Faiella will determine, over the next two to fours months, whether or not the village needs a full-time clerk to fully service the community.

There are various business models for the clerks depart-ment that the village could pur-sue, which all have different re-sponsibilities.

According to Mayor Anne McAndrews, a Democrat, the

village budget has grown con-siderably in the last 10 years; ushering in more duties and re-sponsibilities for Village Hall employees.

“We’re not a sleepy little vil-lage anymore, I don’t know if we ever were, but there’s an in-credible increase in the amount of work needed to be done,” McAndrews said.

Tuckahoe and Larchmont are the only villages in Westchester County that don’t have a pro-fessional administrator that handles day-to-day operations within the village, according to McAndrews. A manager or ad-ministrator traditionally works to implmement public policy set by a governing municipal board. Many professional administra-tors have a masters degrees in the field of public administra-tion, McAndrews said.

Faiella was a municipal ad-ministrator for 33 years, but re-tired in December 2010 as an administrator in New Castle after 13 years. He said when Larchmont officials approached him about their needs, he pro-vided information on their op-tions for the administrative of-

fice, but, at first, was not intend-ing to conduct the study himself.

“But things do change in life and the opportunities provided me time over the last couple months to assist the village,” Failla said.

A contract with GJF Managem-ent was accepted by the Board of Trustees on Oct. 21 and the contract is intended to iron out the final details of the study and what will happen going forward. McAndrews said that reevaluat-ing village offices is being com-bined with other projects geared toward efficiency and techno-logical advancement such as switching to computer database systems to pull departments to-gether as well as updating the water meters in the next few years. Those changes are sepa-rate from the study.

The mayor said Faiella is known in the field to be the best at studying administrative offices.

“If we put together all of our budget, we’re a $20 million op-eration. Everything of that size demands professional manage-ment,” McAndrews said.

Trustee Peter Fanelli, a Democr at, asked about the biggest

changes Faiella has seen in gov-ernment over the last few years.

Faiella said he has seen an in-crease in unfunded mandates hand-ed down from the state, severe fis-cal constraints due to the mandates

and an uncertain economy and new obligations including flooding concerns and required training for employees. Because of this experi-ence, Faiella said he is prepared to work with the village to finish the

study and lay out the best options.“I’ve seen [the issues] worked

with them and tried to address them throughout the years,” he said.


Village of Larchmont Clerk Eileen Finn is retiring after 35 years of service to the village. Now, the Board of Trustees is hiring a management company to study the effectiveness of Village Hall and what could be done to improve it. Photo/Anne McAndrews


campaign season began to heat up this year, residents grew con-cerned with what the outcome of the election could mean for the landscape of Hampshire. Felsher said that, she believes an order to remedy was handed down be-cause the coalition went public with information regarding the club’s alleged zoning code vio-lations, but sees it as a stalling tactic before the election rather than the village taking action.

“There is a concern among various people that one of the rea-sons the club became quiet was because they did not want this to become a big election issue,” she said. “We feel that the delay of submitting a petition is that, if the challengers won, there would be a possibility that [the club’s] peti-tion wouldn’t be accepted.”

Felsher said Rosenblum and Santoro are very “pro-develop-ment,” without understanding the possible implications of it and want Mamaroneck to be a destination spot. Condominiums won’t bring in extra revenue or help to lower taxes because they are taxed at a lower rate than single-family homes, she said.

Mayor Rosenblum said that the Board of Trustees is follow-

HAMPSHIRE from page 1 ing the advice of legal council and that making a comment, even about theoretical zoning code changes, would be disre-spectful to the legal process. If the board took a stance, he said, and didn’t follow that stance, if a developer wanted to change the zoning law, they could be open to criticism.

“I support the existing zon-ing, but you can look at it as long as you maintain a steady goal,” he said.

Based on Neuringer’s outspo-ken opinion about Rosenblum’s inability to comment on zon-ing changes, the mayor said Neuringer is pandering for votes from certain groups of people in the village.

“He’s focusing on one is-sue that is a non-issue; not real topics like flooding and taxes,” Rosenblum said.

Despite the Board of Trustees’ silence on the club’s rezoning, candidates running for county of-fice have come out publicly and taken a stance against it.

Republican county legislator candidate John Verni, said that he would be against development at the club.

“As a resident of Orienta Point, I think that area should be preserved as green space and

should not be overdeveloped, which would put further strain on our already taxed infrastructure,” Verni said.

His Democratic opponent, Rye City Councilwoman Catheri-ne Parker, also said that she is against rezoning at Hampshire Club, but also said, if elected to county office, she wouldn’t have jurisdiction over the issue.

“Since the proposed condo complex is at the heart of the flood-prone area of the proper-ty, it would provoke even more dangerous flooding in future storms,” she said.

The issue has been on the minds of many in the community and even came up during a recent debate in the village.

At an Oct. 9 League of Women Voters debate, the village can-didates were asked if they sup-ported Hampshire’s plan to re-quest zoning code changes in order to build a condominium complex on its property.

The incumbents said they were advised by legal council not to comment.

Elisabeth Radow, president of the League of Women Voters, said the group sends out an email

to its members before a debate in order to form questions for the candidates that would represent their concerns as a group.

“We want to reflect the ques-tions of the voters and we review the feedback that we get. Based on it, we look at the numbers of the people who asked a question and the relevance and we make a decision,” Radow said.

According to Radow, the league has been asked to have a public fo-rum specifically for the possibility of rezoning and subsequent devel-opment at Hampshire.

The debate question may have

been premature since there isn’t a formal request or plan for zoning changes in front of village govern-ment, but the issue was important to league members based on the feed-back it received, Radow said.

“It’s relevant in the community; people wanted to hear the ques-tion,” Radow said. “But maybe the question was too aggressively worded.”

Co-owner of Hampshire Country Club Dan Pfeffer could not be reached for comment as of press time.


The possibility of the Hampshire Country Club submitting a petition for zoning changes in order to build a condominium complex on its property has become a campaign issue in the Village of Mamaroneck. Though the club has not yet submitted any petition, community activists have asked officials for a position on the matter. Photo courtesy Hampshire Country Club


LMC-TV celebrates 30 years

The Mamaroneck High School string ensemble entertains guests at the LMC-TV 30th birthday celebration at the Beach Point Club on Oct. 24. The event was to celebrate the station’s birthday and recognize two community lead-ers for their time and dedication to the station. Photo/Ashley Helms

By ASHLEY HELMSStaff Writer

In 1991, the Larchmont-Mamaroneck Community Televi-sion station aired a segment called “Moon over Mamaroneck,” in which a camera crew broadcast a repetitious view of a full moon shining. Residents were invited to call in and tell personal stories about howling at the moon or oth-er nighttime shenanigans. Some callers even howled into the phone during the ensuing broadcast.

The program ran for hours, and some LMC-TV staff still consider the segment to be one of its wackiest on record. That same year, however, LMC-TV produced 618 other original programs at its facilities.

Wacky or not, LMC-TV has flourished, and, on Oct. 24,, it celebrated its 30th birthday as the Sunny Award for exception-al community service was given to longtime station supporter Elaine Chapnick.

The reception was held at the Beach Point Club on Rushmore Avenue and was attended by virtually all of Mamaroneck and Larchmont’s local community leaders.

The Sunny Award is named after one of LMC-TV’s found-ers, former station board presi-dent Sunny Goldberg.

Chapnick was an outreach coordinator who pushed for lo-cal community television since LMC-TV’s inception. She was on the committee that negotiat-ed the original cable agreement that created LMC-TV and served on its first Board of Directors.

Janet Bear, the LMC-TV dinner chairwoman, said that Chapnick has been continuous-ly involved in the organization and it’s that type of involvement that is the essence of the Sunny Award.

“She’s been a super-duper volunteer in all aspects for the last 30 years,” Bear said.

Also, special recognition was awarded to Eileen Mason at the reception for her dedication to LMC-TV for the last three decades. In 1984, Mason pro-duced her first show, called “It’s Your Community,” which can still be seen today with monthly updates.

Before the station was found-ed in 1983, there wasn’t a chan-nel connecting the Town of

Mamaroneck and the villages of Larchmont and Mamaroneck. The idea was to create a unique, tri-municipal cable station that would bring the communi-ties together. Goldberg said it took almost two years to get Larchmont and the Town and Village of Mamaroneck to come together on the idea, but residents were thrilled about having a local access television station.

When the founders were ne-gotiating for a station with UA-Columbia, now Cablevision, they were told that a newly built TV studio in White Plains could be LMC-TV’s home base. Michael Witsch, one of the orig-inal station founders, said about 20 other television studios were sharing the space and all of the productions were to be under UA-Columbia’s control.

LMC-TV declined to use the space and, after a series of forums educating the public of the im-portance of public access televi-sion, UA-Columbia offered three public access channels to the sta-tion along with an $85,000 grant for studio equipment. LMC-TV eventually settled in Mamaroneck

High School, but, according to Witsch, the Mamaroneck Board of Education wasn’t thrilled with the idea.

Witsch was a Mamaroneck High School teacher at the time of the sta-tion’s move into the school.

“But I said, ‘this is the commu-nity.’ I was surprised by their [feel-ings],” Witsch said.

LMC-TV leaders understand the importance of community-focused television, with some fo-cused on its ability to allow resi-

dents to direct their own programs.Television is narrowly defined

as a world where you sit, watch and consume, said Joe Windish, former LMC-TV executive direc-tor. Instead, the station was found-ed with the idea that it would give the community the ability to con-trol their own content.

“It’s about giving you the chance to produce and consume,” he said.

Today, anyone can pitch a show, series or event coverage idea to LMC-TV.

Goldberg recalled a show creat-ed by local middle and high school students called “A Twist on Trash” in which they made outfits out of recycled material. Everything from municipal meetings and election debates to birthday parties have been broadcast on LMC-TV.

“It’s about neighbors meeting neighbors,” Goldberg said. “If your son has a baseball game, you can watch it at home in your pajamas.”



“Complete Streets” coming to WestchesterBy kATIE HooS

Contributor

Striving to accommodate pe-destrians, bicyclists, transit rid-ers and motorists alike, the Westchester County Board of Legislators approved a Complete Streets Act, which will consider adding features for alternative modes of transportation when constructing and repairing coun-ty roads.

Complete Streets are designed to provide safe and convenient access for all travelers by add-ing sidewalks, bike lanes and improved public transportation. Ideally, these additions will lessen the number of motorists and, in turn, increase the heath and safety of travelers while also reducing congestion and motor vehicle pollution.

The policy, which was signed into law on Oct.18 by Republican County Executive Rob Astorino, is modeled after similar New York State legislation, which took effect in February 2012.

County Legislator Catherine Borgia, an Ossining Democrat who chairs the Board of Legislators’ Government Operations Committ-

ee was a lead proponent of the bill.“I think that, really, in all of

our municipalities we’re seeing this move towards people want-ing to have alternate modes of transportation and especially, as our population ages, we want to be able to have safe ways for people to cross streets, walk on the sidewalks, walk to bus stops or walk to public transporta-tion,” Borgia said.

Several factors led to the Comp-lete Streets proposal, including growing numbers of people com-muting to work on foot, bike or by public transportation.

“In general, population trends are moving away from having a car-centric society, so people want the opportunity to take public transportation,” Borgia said. “They want vital commu-nity centers. They want the op-portunity to walk or bicycle as people are more interested in maintaining a healthy lifestyle.”

Smart Growth America, a group leading the nation’s Complete Streets Coalition, reported that one study conducted by the National Conference of State Legislators found 43 percent of people who have access to safe

places to walk near their homes met the surgeon general’s rec-ommended levels of physical activity. Among those without safe places to walk, only 27 per-cent met the recommended lev-els of activity.

Another major factor that pushed the policy into law was the number of injuries and fa-talities involving pedestrians on the roadways. According to the Tri-State Transportation Campaign, 2,442 crashes in-volving bicyclists or pedestrians occurred in Westchester County from Jan. 1, 2009, to May 31, 2012. Thirty-one of these crash-es were fatal. Yonkers led the county with the most crashes in-volving pedestrians and bicyclists at 694, with White Plains, New Rochelle, Greenburgh and Port Chester following respectively.

County Legislator Mary Jane Shimsky, a Hastings Democrat, was a co-sponsor of the Complete Streets Act.

“Wherever you go in Westches-ter, there are roads and streets that don’t have sidewalks or don’t have enough room for bicyclists to travel safely,” Shimsky said. “When you think about all of

the major and secondary arter-ies in Westchester County that don’t have sidewalks, you real-ize that there’s a whole lot of improvement that can be done to make life easier and safer for people who are not taking their cars.”

In order to make county roads safer, several design changes will be implemented with Complete Streets, especially for pedestri-an traffic. This includes adding and enlarging sidewalks, creat-ing raised medians, improving the placement of bus stops and incorporating more features for disabled travelers. Bicyclists can expect more roads with dedicated bike-only lanes. The

Complete Streets roadway de-signs will also lead to speed re-duction for motorists.

In terms of how the Complete Streets Act will affect the Westches-ter budget, Borgia said that the planning did not indicate any ad-ditional costs to the county.

“You’ll always have to do en-gineering, you’ll always have to think about how you’re going to use your resources,” she said. “This just throws another con-sideration into the mix.”

One project that is already be-ing worked on within the county that incorporates the multi-use features of Complete Streets is the repairing and upgrad-ing of the pedestrian bridge

that links Ossining and the Croton-Harmon train station. Also, Shimsky eluded to add-ing bike lanes to the narrow and potentially dangerous Jackson Avenue in Yonkers.

Looking toward the future of Westchester County roadways, Shimsky said, “I should think in the next 10 to 20 years we should see more roads outfitted with side-walks. We’ll probably have more connectivity with our bike paths to lead something like the Tri-County Trailway [a pedestrian and bicycle pathway linking the coun-ties of the Bronx, Westchester and Putnam] to downtowns along the way, and we’re also going to have more mass transit.”

Bicyle sherrows, like the one seen here, are just one feature of “complete streets.” File photo


Opinion-Editorial

Astorino or Bramson? Who’s for our middle class?By PETER LANE

If I had a buck for each time Democratic politicians have in-voked their concern for the “mid-dle class,” I would be instantly catapulted from that socio-eco-nomic state to the exalted “one percent” of the country where many high-end Democratic op-eratives and bundlers—and yes, Mitt too—are happily ensconced.

While I’m aware that too many of us fail to connect the political dots, I am still some-what mystified as to why so many Westchester County residents still don’t understand how anti-middle class—and anti-us—the federal government’s Department of Housing and Urban Development really is. I get that we are under-standably focused on the lives we are living: Earning our livlihoods, the kids we have to rear and edu-cate, family members for whom we have to care and the monthly mortgage and other payments that we must make. Heck, isn’t that what being middle class is really all about? We can also be purposefully distracted from the issues that should matter to us.

Have you seen Noam Bram-son’s “hot button” TV ads about gun shows at the Westchester County Center? It’s as if Noam were already running to succeed Nita Lowey in Congress and this race for county executive is the political equivalent of batting practice for him.

But the HUD issue really does matter and it is one we should all seriously consider when we go to vote this Nov. 5.

Westchester is, by and large, a diverse, middle class county. In terms of our African-American and Latino population, it is the fourth most diverse county in New York State—populated by fami-lies of various races, creeds, colors and ethnicities pursuing their hard won piece of the American Dream on a daily basis.

Many reside in single family homes set on modest-sized lots. Others own or rent an attractive apartment in a garden or higher rise setting within their chosen suburb. All of us are protected by our community’s locally set zoning ordinances, which require certain minimum lot sizes and limit its multi-family homes to certain areas, on a neighborhood by neighborhood basis, in accor-dance with that particular mu-nicipality’s topographical setting

and community culture.Further, zoning and discrimi-

nation are hardly synonymous terms.

Zoning merely determines what can be built where, not who may live where; and those denied residence in a home or apart-ment that they are able to afford because of discriminatory prac-tices properly have an abundance of legal rights and remedies, not to mention three civil rights agencies, Westchester County’s Human Rights Commission in-cluded, at their disposal.

By way of background on the issue: Westchester County, then presided over by Andy Spano, was sued in 2006 because federal monies meant to fund a study to determine whether race was a factor in housing opportunities were allegedly misdirected else-where. In 2009, Spano, with the approval of the county Board of Legislators, and HUD entered into a settlement agreement that obligated Westchester to fund, and then build, a total of 750 af-fordable housing units through-out 31 of our municipalities by the end of 2016 at a cost to its taxpayers of $51 million.

Westchester, under County Executive Rob Astorino, is not only fully complying with that agreement, but is comfortably ahead of the agreed-to, court-ap-proved schedule.

However, HUD has now gone into egregious overreach mode.

In the first instance, HUD is attempting to treat the 2009 settlement agreement as a mere starting point. It now wants the county to fund and build, I hope that you’re ready for this, 10,768 affordable housing units through-out the entire county at a cost to our taxpayers in the $700 million to $1 billion range. And that is only the immediately quantifi-able part of its assault on the mid-dle class.

As a means to its new goal, HUD is also attempting to bully the county into overriding our lo-cal zoning ordinances as HUD may deem necessary. It is going so far as to require that the county sue our cities, towns and villages if any of these municipalities fail to conform to HUD’s idea of proper racial, ethnic and econom-ic diversity. Lest you doubt for a moment that this is Washington-based social engineering at work, HUD has referred to its commit-ment to change our county as a

“grand experiment.”In showbiz terms: If it plays in

Westchester, HUD will take it on the road.

What HUD wants to do is shape our communities so that they reflect HUD’s idea of the right mix of economic, racial and ethnic diversity based on, get ready yet again, its own “na-tionally uniform data.” HUD wants to be the ultimate “Zoning Busters”—OK, I admit that I used that term because it reminds me of the title of an old radio show that I listened to when I was a kid—without having to prove, or even allege, that the local zon-ing code it would bust has any discriminatory effect.

HUD’s position is that any—yes, that word was any—lim-its that a community’s zoning code may place on the size, type, height or density of a building, and that includes the one next door to you and me, would con-stitute a “restrictive” or “exclu-sionary practice,” mandating its intervention.

Now, if that’s not frightening enough for you, HUD is doing something else that is even more outrageous. They have with-held some $7.4 million—that’s Noam’s number, by the way—in federal grants from Westchester, even programs beyond the 31 communities affected by the 2009 settlement, to club the county into submission, includ-ing programs that aid the home-less.

Rob Astorino is fighting HUD tooth and nail because we all have a great deal at stake. Noam Bramson is all for sitting down with HUD and working out some sort of a settlement, the parameters of which he won’t share with us, on the theory, no doubt, that if they think that we were really, really good, this time they’ll keep their word.

If Noam wins this election, by the time HUD is through with us, we won’t recognize our neigh-borhoods.

But, hey, by then he will have Nita’s old job and every two years he’ll be reminding us how hard he’s fighting for the middle class.

Peter Lane retired as a Rye City Court judge and an act-ing Westchester County Family Court judge at the end of 2009 and is now, among other things, a political consultant.


Teen filmmaker to visit Larchmont Public LibraryGabrielle Banks Giacomo

is nothing short of talented. Currently a junior at Covenant of the Sacred Heart in Greenwich, Conn., the 11th grader is al-ready an award-winning film-maker with a very bright future ahead of her. On Saturday, Nov. 23, at 3 p.m.. Ms. Giacomo will appear in the Larchmont Village Center located at the Larchmont Public Library and will present clips from her films in a pro-gram that is aimed at inspiring the possibility of filmmaking in other teens. She will also dis-cuss how she got started with filmmaking, how and where she got her training, how she select-ed the equipment and software she uses and will round out the program with a question and an-swer session followed by an in-formal reception.

Giacomo started her artis-tic career in lower and middle school by performing as a stu-dent ballet dancer with School of American Ballet and has per-formed with the New York City Ballet at Lincoln Center and the Saratoga Performing Arts Center in over 100 performances

of “The Nutcracker,” “Midsummer Night’s Dream,” “Coppelia” and “Firebird.” Giacomo has par-ticipated in both acting and film-making classes at The New York Film Academy in New York City as well as in Florence, Italy, and Universal Studios in Los Angeles, Calif. Giacomo’s films demonstrate her talent as she has created films across a wide va-riety of genres, including docu-mentary, psychological thriller, dramatic narrative, stop-motion animation and music video. She believes that she has realized “her true passion is behind the camera and in looking at life through a different lens.”

The program will feature clips from five of Giacomo’s films; each in a different genre. Her short documentary, “From Farm to Table,” demonstrates the link between fresh, locally grown sustainable products, healthier eating, building community, and promoting the stewardship of our earth’s resources and how a school integrates these con-cepts into their curricula. “From Farm to Table” premiered at the CineYouth Film Festival in

Chicago, Ill, where it won Best Documentary: Junior Division. It also screened at the Delta Moon Student Film Festival in Walnut Creek, Calif., where it won Best Documentary. It is an Official Selection in the Chagrin Documentary Film Festival in Chagrin Falls, Ohio, and the Commfest Global Film Festival in Toronto, Canada.

Giacomo’s thriller, “Out of the Dark,” premiered at the Convent of the Sacred Heart Film Festival and was awarded first place in the Creative Shorts category. Her short dystopian film, Unplugged, was awarded third place in the Open Entry category at the Cablevision Educational Access Awards. Giacomo’s short creative narra-tive, Greed, was screened as an Official Selection in the Santa Monica Teen Film Festival in Santa Monica, Calif.

Her short animated video, After Hours, premiered at the Gryphon Film Festival at School of the Holy Child in Rye, and screened at the Greenwich Youth Film Festival placing second for Animation Short. Giacomo’s

music video, Flaws, premiered at the Greenwich Youth Film Festival placing second for Music Video and was screened as an Official Selection of the 2013 Princeton Student Film

& Video Festival at Princeton University.

Gabrielle Banks Giacomo resides with her parents in Larchmont. The film presenta-tion and program featuring Ms.

Giacomo is free and everyone is welcome. For more information, contact the Larchmont Public Library at 914-834-2281 or visit the library online at www.larch-montlibrary.org. (Submitted)

Gabrielle Banks Giacomo. Photo/Adrian Cortes


Q: You are responsible for opening up trustee meetings to broader public com-ment, but that has caused some combat-ive exchanges with members of the com-munity, including criticism that you won’t answer resident questions. Are these ex-changes healthy for the village and, if not, what can be done to alleviate them?

A: Discussion is always healthy. People aren’t going to agree all of the time; the only time I tell people that there’s no discussion going back and forth is the meet-ing procedures themselves. Public commentary is not a discussion to go back and forth. It’s the oppor-tunity for people to come up and speak what’s on their mind that’s not on the agenda. If you have a discussion going back and forth, you’ll be there for 10 hours and you’ll never get out. As far as com-mentary is concerned, you have to be on a level playing field. If you do it one way with one person, you have to do it with everyone.

Q: With the day worker lawsuit firmly be-hind the village, how far do you feel the vil-lage had come in healing these wounds?

A: I think it has gone 180 percent to the opposite. When I got in, I was dealing with the attorney appointed by the court. We had discussions; it’s not what the village did, it’s how they did it. They went after only the day laborers and the contractors, so they didn’t create a level play-ing field. The same way your dollar bill is based on percep-

RoSENBLUM from page 6 tion because you don’t have enough gold to back up the dol-lar bill, perception is 90 percent of the Village of Mamaroneck. And I believe with the Hispanic Resource Center, which I work very closely with, we’ve opened it up. Everyone feels very com-fortable and the feedback I’ve got is that it’s in the past and it doesn’t exist. As long as I’m mayor, it’ll never happen again.

Q: What sets you apart ideologically from your opponent and how would you govern the village differently?

A: The first reason I have is that I have no hooks in the fire in the vil-lage. I don’t work in the Village of Mamaroneck; I have no ties other than the one dedication to do what’s right for all the residents in the Village of Mamaroneck. I think my opponent has demon-strated over and over again that he has his own agenda. It’s my opinion that he makes decisions that aren’t on a level playing field. There are several instances where there are conflicts of interest where he should be recusing himself and he doesn’t. The proof in the pud-ding is, don’t take my word for it; go to the Ethics Board. I have no problem continuing what I’m do-ing. I believe in open government; people can come.

Q: There’s been some criticism that you might be slightly bigger than the position as outlined. How would you answer that and how do you see your role as mayor?

A: The role of mayor is specifi-

cally outlined by the rules and regulations from New York State Village Law and rules and regulations set up by the mayor and Board of Trustees. What you’re talking about is a per-sonality. My personality might be considered big because I go out and anyone can find me any time. I don’t know if Clark Neuringer could lie in a coffin in the Spooktacular, but that’s my method. My method is to get involved with people. I love the contact and back and forth; if that’s big than that’s fine.

Q: What will your three main priorities be if re-elected?

A: Continuing line-by-line review of the budget to control the ex-penses in the village. The 2 per-cent tax cap is now 1.66 percent. We have to look for other reve-nue coming in and then, in par-ticular, look for areas that are not real estate tax. We came up with this parking study and this ad hoc committee only because the previous board and some mem-bers of this board were trying to kill it and say you don’t need parking. If you get substantial revenue from parking, that helps maintain or maybe lower your tax penalties to people and keep the residents here. Another thing is facilitating volunteer groups in the Village of Mamaroneck to create functions and events that bring people here. And the flooding; that’s one of our main goals.

-Reporting by Ashley Helms

Rooney is a sweet and adorable male shepherd mix about 9 months old. He loves to be around other dogs, big and small. Though Rooney is a bit shy around new people, he comes out of his shell fairly quickly. He enjoys playing with toys and romping around with the other dogs in his foster home. He sleeps through the night in a crate, but prefers to sleep on his foster mom’s bed. He is working on his housebreaking and leash walking. Rooney is neutered, vaccinated, dewormed, heartworm tested and micro-chipped. The adoption donation for Rooney is $250. To learn more, please contact Larchmont Pet Rescue at 914-834-6955 or on the web at www.NY-PetRescue.org. (Submitted)


legal noticeNotice of formation of GS Doolin LLC. Arts. or Org. filed with SSNY on 06/17/2013. Office lo-

cation: Westchester County. United States Corporation Agents designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process may be served. Mail process to United States Corporation Agents, Inc. 7014 13th Ave. Suite 202, Brooklyn, NY 11228. Purpose: any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of JellyBean Pictures LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Department of State on September 25, 2013. Office Location: Westchester County. United States Corporation Agents, Inc. des-ignated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. Process may be be mailed to: JellyBean Pictures, 139 Highview Street Mamaroneck NY 10543. Purpose: any lawful purpose.

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help. We get river flooding. If they triple the size of the rivers to let the water get to the sound, it’s meaningless because, at as-tronomical high tide, the water can’t get out. That’s what the 2007 flooding was all about.

Q: Save the Sound recently discovered some instances of significant pollution in the Long Island Sound and Mamaroneck River. What are your specific plans for handling water pollution and making sure infrastructure, including pipes within the village’s responsibility, are up to date and working properly?

A: I commend all of the citizen vol-unteers over the summer for what they do. Our waters have been dirty; it started about back in March with a three million gallon discharge into our waters. I’ve gotten 14 email blasts alerting me of traffic issues at Barry Avenue and the Post Road. I don’t remember getting an email blast about three million gallons of raw sewage in the waters where our children play. I don’t know why we need to stop with them. I’ve heard some babble about win-ter coming, so what? Keep testing; I want to find the problem. I would like funds allocated every single year to fix the pipes. We know we have 100-year-old pipes and we know they’re failing.

Q: Mayor Rosenblum is responsible for opening up trustee meetings to broader public comment, but that has caused some combative exchanges with members of the community. Are these exchanges healthy for the village and, if not, what can be done to alleviate them?

A: Another one of the reasons I de-cided to jump in, I’ve been frankly appalled by the way the meetings have been run. The fact is we have never had in the history of this vil-lage time clocks and buzzers. This isn’t the NBA. They’ve at least on one or two occasions had police escort people out. Why? Because the mayor said so. There has been a disrespect to the public and they have shut down public comment. What’s happening at Board of Trustees meetings with the mayor shutting down elected trustees; he has no right to do that.

Q: With the day worker lawsuit firmly behind the village, how far do you feel the village has come in healing those wounds?

A: I think the village has come very, very far. There’s a differ-ent attitude and the police de-partment isn’t being sent out to harass people. The village has gotten past many lawsuits and it’s gotten spanked each time. When the village is wrong, it gets spanked.

Q: What sets you apart ideologically from your opponent and how would you govern the village differently?

A: Government is really for the peo-ple, not the other way around. You treat people with respect. What I would do differently is initiate con-versations with people. You can’t do that in an atmosphere where you’re cutting people off and limit-ing them to two minutes and having a buzzer go off in their face. I think we really need to take control over how some of the land use concepts

are being handled. For four years, we’ve had this issue of Sportime in Harbor Island Park hanging over our heads. We need leadership to be able to move things along in a rational and responsible way. That hasn’t happened for four years.

Q: You’ve spent 23 years as a land use board volunteer and you’re also an archi-tect. But as mayor, you’re also responsible for collective bargaining agreements and attending things like the Carly Rose Sonenclar parade. Have you looked ahead to how you would take on a more diverse role within the village?

A: I think one of the advantages I have is, quite frankly, I live in the Village of Mamaroneck, but I also work in the Village of Mamaroneck. So I’m here every day. I think that gives me a little bit of a leg up on being able to be in touch and in tune. I can tell you that I have no problem marching in a parade. I know my opponent has marched in many parades; for 23 years I’ve worked to better the village.

Q: What will your three main priorities be if elected?

A: To work on taxes and the whole budgetary system and take a hard look at it. I think there are ways of increasing revenue in our indus-trial area; we don’t need to rezone it. On a consistence basis, when the mayor has been asked to com-ment about the possible rezoning at Hampshire, he says he can’t comment. You have an obligation to tell people where they stand on proposed law changes.

-Reporting by Ashley Helms

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when he said he was notified that the 16 square feet rule was a cumulative measurement of all the political signs on a property.

“I believe in following the rules and if you make a mistake, you correct it,” Natchez said.

After a property owner on Fenimore Road was notified that a sign was too large, Neuringer said that it was taken down with-in three hours. A small political banner was placed next to a larg-er one, and Neuringer said that made it look like one complete sign, causing the violation.

“We immediately pulled down the banner and immediately were in compliance,” he said.

Regarding the Republicans’ signs, the Democrat said Rosenbl-um and Santoro are waiting until the election is over to remove their non-compliant signs because the 90-day window allows them to legally leave them in place.

Though Neuringer disagrees with Gerety’s interpretation of the village code with respect to the 16-foot cu-mulative rule, he said he and Stein complied nonetheless, adding that his opponents’ non-compliance with the building inspector’s order has to do with more than campaign signs.

“It has…to do with follow-

SIGNS from page 1 ing the rules,” Neuringer said. “The building inspector makes the rules and the mayor says to forget about it.”

Santoro said he ran into the same issues with size compli-ance when he ran for re-election two years ago. Attempting to correct the issue this time, the trustee said he separated the signs so no one of them would be more than 16 square feet. Though the building inspec-tor said the signs still weren’t in compliance after being sep-arated, Santoro said he and Rosenblum are legally able to leave them in place regardless.

“[Rosenblum and I] are say-ing they’re separate signs, but the code enforcer said it isn’t in compliance, but we have 90 days. They told that to everyone else, too” he said.

The incumbents’ signs that were in violation are located on several places, including the DeLancey House on the corner of Fenimore Road and Boston Post Road, at the Mamaroneck Train Station, on Mamaroneck Avenue and Boston Post Road and on Boston Post Road by Harrison Avenue.

During an Oct. 28 Board of Trustees meeting, resident Allison Stabile asked why

Rosenblum didn’t agree with the violation handed down by the building inspector.

“What does this mean for the way our rules are enforced?” she asked.

The mayor did not answer Stabile while she was speaking in front of the board, but gave a response later on after she left the meeting. He said that questions about the campaign signs and why he isn’t taking them down are nothing more than politi-cally-driven behavior.

“I felt the signs that were dis-cussed were well within our vil-lage code,” Rosenblum said. “It doesn’t surprise me it came out just before the election.”

Though Rosenblum said he too disagrees with Gerety’s interpreta-tion of the law, he said the build-ing inspector did his job well. The mayor said that he will leave the signs up until after the election because it’s part of the electoral process.

Regarding Neuringer’s atten-tiveness to the village code and criticism over his decision to leave the signs up, Rosenblum said it’s “hypocritical,” and said Neuringer supports the sign regulations, but violated the village ethics code.

Gerety could not be reached for comment as of press time.


Political campaign signs have touched off controversy after the village’s Republican incumbents and Democratic challengers posted signs that were in violation of size regulations as outlined in the Mamaroneck Village Code. Mayoral candidate Clark Neuringer said he removed a noncompliant sign within hours, but incumbents Mayor Norman Rosenblum and Trustee Louis Santoro left theirs up, like this sign on the DeLancey House. Photo/Ashley Helms


I was always attuned to the democratic process.

If you want that as a pick-up line, it’s yours.

When I was a kid, voting was a big deal to me. I couldn’t wait to be old enough to do it. There was a mystique about that big, gray machine. What went on in there? What would I do when I got in there? How cool would it be to actually vote?

I can’t imagine any kids think that now.

The first presidential election I remember being aware of was in 1980, Jimmy Carter versus Ronald Reagan.

And John Anderson. Can’t forget John Anderson.

I remember my parents vot-ing, though I don’t remember for whom, but what I really remem-ber was the sample ballot sheet. Not sure if it was that presiden-tial election or the next one, when President Reagan went for a second go against Walter Mondale, but, for one of those, I remember riding in the car some-where on Election Day after my parents voted with the sample ballot sheet spread across my lap in the back seat. I used that sheet to pretend to vote. I was either five or nine at the time. Either way, all the party lines and little levers printed on the sheet both fascinated and called to me. I couldn’t wait to vote.

I had few friends as a kid. Have I mentioned that?

Eventually, I got to see the pro-cess in action. I got to go behind the curtain with one of my par-ents, maybe both actually, and see the voting take place. I distinctly recall the sheet had not prepared me for what I witnessed.

Wait, you have to throw this big lever, then you vote? Or you vote, then you throw the lever? And, wow, there are a lot more little levers than it seemed like there would be on the sample sheet. And why is everything so high?

Eventually I got my shot. Eventually.

My birthday is in late November. I turned 18 in 1992,

about 20 days after Election Day that year. So, I got to stand around while my friends and my girlfriend—girlfriend, got to get that in there—pulled for ei-ther Bush, Clinton or, knowing disaffected youth as I do now, most likely Ross Perot. I’d get my first chance to vote in 1993, I cast my first presidential ballot in 1996.

Once I got in the booth, I have to say, it was the special experience I hoped it would be. It was just you and the levers in there. No matter what was said outside the curtain, no one knew what you were going to do or why once you got behind it. The only thing we all knew about each other in those days was we were, each of us, standing at a big machine behind a little curtain and, in that intimate pri-vacy, helping decide what was going to happen next.

Now we stand around like it’s the DMV and try to avoid eye contact.

In 2010, Westchester County finally gave in to the guidelines of the Help America Vote Act, which was signed into law in 2002 by President Bush follow-ing the cascade of controversy that put him in a position to do such a thing in the first place. Part of the law ordered all punch card and lever machine voting systems be replaced by some-thing more modern and, osten-sibly, accurate.

I’ll give you the punch cards.Westchester was one of sev-

eral New York counties that held out, trying to keep the near cen-tury-old lever machine technolo-gy in place, but made the switch in time for President Obama’s first midterm after the Justice Department threatened to sue the state in 2006.

And so, the last three elec-tions, I’ve gone to my ele-mentary school gym—where they’ve clearly lowered the bas-ketball hoops—signed in, and then stood at one of two or three rickety card tables with a couple Dungeon Master’s screens on it and filled in a card I thought I’d never see again after the MATs. I get to stand there, bent over with my arm around the thing, trying to affect some measure of

privacy while the race is on to see if I can fill out all the little circles before my back seizes.

Oh, the ballot initiatives are on the back? I hate this.

The lever machines were me-chanical; they were satisfying. You go in, pull the little levers and then throw the big one. Boom! Vote.

Now, I have to hand my Scantron or whatever it is to someone whose investment in my privacy and the accuracy of my vote evaporated round about the time the donuts ran out.

Like a lot of things, voting is not like it used to be. And like a lot of those other things, it’s worse.

Maybe even worse than you’ve thought.

See, back when we were all in that magical, mechanical booth, we brought our politics in with us, we pulled the ap-propriate levers, and we left our politics there. My parents taught me never to ask someone for whom they voted; they didn’t even tell me when I was a kid. I think those old machines were a metaphor for how we should conduct our politics.

The new way is a metaphor, too. We stand there, out in the

open, exposed to everyone else’s vote, everyone else’s possibly prying eyes. We look around the elementary school gym and size each other up, not just in terms of the other person’s vote, but, now, in the way they do it. We have to wait for a spot at one of the rick-ety card tables; do we risk the social ire of everyone else—and the vengeance of our sciatica—by using the lower, handicapped station and getting the heck out of there? After all, we want to be home in time to see what all our friends and family think this Election Day. We want to scroll Facebook and Twitter to shake our heads at how completely whacked our virtual acquain-tances’ politics are.

This is what we do now. We live with everything out in the open. So why not vote that way?

Because it’s not Facebook, it’s helping decide what happens next.

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struggle for women’s rights. He pointed to protesters who showed up outside the event and increasingly harsh abortion restrictions in Ohio as evidence of how much support is still needed.

Ruth Lapidus, a former board president and current board emeritus member, highlighted her 23-year relationship with PPHP and noted how much the agency had changed over the years. The mission of offering affordable health care to all has remained constant but “our abil-ity to fulfill that mission is often threatened by unfriendly laws passed by unfriendly legislators elected by unfriendly voters.”

Quindlen-who was introduced by Daphne Philipson-inspired the crowd with talk of politics, picketers, history and families. She spoke about living through a time when there were no girls in Little League, the U.S. Senate, or the Supreme Court and how one could never have imag-ined how different the world would become. Her grandpar-ents barely spoke English, her mother didn’t go to college and she ended up getting to write for some of the country’s most prestigious publications.

Women are now able to de-cide when and where they want to have a baby and it’s important to be able to commit to a child

after they’re born as much as be-fore, said Quindlen, a member of the PPFA Board of Directors.

“I deny the right to politicians in Washington to control my fertility, morality and that of my family and friends,” she said. “My pelvis is not public prop-erty and no one can make it so.”

She ended with a reminder to “never let the big lies overshad-ow the simple truth.”

“We do good work every day and we should be proud to be part of it,” she said.

PPHP provides reproductive and sexual health services at 11 health centers in Westchester, Putnam, Rockland and Suffolk counties. (Submitted)

Planned Parenthood gala celebrates 80th anniversaryPulitizer Prize-winning col-

umnist Anna Quindlen and a sold-out crowd of 400 support-ers helped Planned Parenthood Hudson Peconic raise more than $1.3 million at a recent Empower Gala in Mamaroneck. The annual event celebrated PPHP’s 80th an-niversary while garnering support for reproductive programs and services.

Harrison residents Ruth and Sid Lapidus–and their family–were the evening’s honorees as they were recognized for their dedica-tion and generosity to PPHP.

Joan Rosen of Larchmont

served as mistress of ceremo-nies and Daphne Philipson of Irvington presented the award to the Lapiduses, their chil-dren, and grandchildren. Guests watched a special video mes-sage from Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, recog-nizing PPHP’s 80th anniver-sary and the Lapidus family for championing PPHP’s mission. In addition, guests were asked to support to PPHP’s pre-natal program.

More than 60 guests toured the new SmartWheels mobile educa-

tion and testing van.President and CEO Reina

Schiffrin highlighted PPHP’s role as service provider, educator, and advocate. She specifically highlighted the graduation of the largest-ever group of teens in the Teen Information and Peer Services Program. Twenty-six students from seven Rockland County schools are working with PPHP to provide health and sexuality information to other teens.

Sid Lapidus addressed the importance of philanthropy and touched on the continuous

From left, PPHP Board Chair Jill Scheuer, Scarsdale; Anna Quindlen; Sid and Ruth Lapidus, Harrison; and President/CEO Reina Schiffrin. Contributed photos

Reina Schiffrin and PPHP Chair Jill Scheuer, second from right, with Empower Committee co-chairs Joan Rosen, Larchmont; Denise Lipson, Upper Grandview; and Luz Shulgin, Patterson.

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On Saturday night, I did something I have not done since before I took over my beat in 2007. I went to a high school sports contest, not as a reporter, but as a fan.

Now, don’t get me wrong; I root for our local sports teams. I’m always glad to see Mamaroneck walk away with a win over Port Chester, I’m cer-tainly happy when Tuckahoe triumphs over Haldane. But I always have to retain some level of objectivity on the sidelines, keep up the appearance of pro-fessionalism by adhering to the old sportswriter rule of “No cheering in the press box.”

But I took off my New York State Press Association pass on Saturday night as a few former teammates and I drove up to Hopewell Junction to watch our Scarsdale Raiders take on John

Fan for a night

Sports Editor Mike Smith doesn’t get the chance to be a fan often, but a playoff appearance by his old high school recently rekindled his school spirit. Photo/Bobby Begun

Jay in Scarsdale’s first appear-ance in the football playoffs in roughly two decades.

Since graduating from the high school in 2002, I have been back to see my share of

Scarsdale football games. But, to be fair, most of those games were just a year or two after I graduated, when my friends and former teammates—or younger brothers of my class-

mates—were suiting up in those Scarsdale maroons.

Saturday night was different.I had no personal connection

to the players, save the name on the front of their jersey, but that was enough for me. This team piqued the interest of the alumni following a week-three win over New Rochelle and won five straight to make the playoffs, something that seemed an impossibility for the .500 teams I played on in the early-aughts.

One of the things I always la-mented as a player is Scarsdale’s lack of support from the com-munity. Sure, the Raiders halcy-on days were in the late 1980s, but from the 1990s through 2000s, it seemed the team nev-er mattered much to anyone in the community beyond the par-ents of the players. By contrast, teams like Harrison, Rye and Mamaroneck—at least in my mind—were always integral parts of the community, regard-less of their records. Alumni would come back to catch games, citizens without children on the team would come out on Saturdays—or Friday nights—to support the squad, clad in

their team colors.Scarsdale, it seemed to me,

had no connection to it’s past.But what I saw on Saturday

night—despite Scarsdale’s heart breaking 17-10 loss—made me rethink that sentiment.

Scarsdale fans filled the op-posing bleachers; parents, friends and alumns making the hour-long trip to cheer on the Raiders. It didn’t take long for my friends and I to start reminiscing about our own time on the football field—a conversation that in-evitably leads to my clipping penalty that cost us our opening week game against Mamaroneck in 2001.

I saw our old 8th grade coach Rippy Phillps—a man with more passion for Raider foot-ball than anyone I’ve ever met—stalking the sidelines, clipboard in his hand, bellowing motiva-tional instructions to the players.

I saw Steve Jackson, a hulk-ing former Raider tight end a few years older than me, cheer-ing alongside his wife and two young sons, who were both decked out in Raider garb. Steve introduced me to his wife, crow-ing about the “epic” wrestling matches he and I used to have

in the weight room. I didn’t have the heart to tell her that, as a scrawny freshman giving up 60 pounds to her husband, I didn’t recall those “matches” with quite the same fondness.

Our old head coach and train-er, still part of the program, met us after the game to talk not only about the tough-as-nails team that left everything out on the field, but also about our own playing days and what we were up to now.

We lined the side of the field, applauding our boys as Scarsdale left the gridiron, beat-en and weary, thanking them for the program’s finest season in quite some time. I can only imagine the pain of dealing with a playoff loss, and can’t begin to put myself inside the head of those players. But I was awash in school pride for the first time in a decade. And I hope that, some-day, when these players come back after spending time in the real world, they will still feel as connected to the Maroon and White as I did for one chilly night in Hopewell Junction.

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Tigers win first round match

Junior Eri Kawakami gets ready to serve during an Oct. 14 game at Mamaroneck High School. Kawakami was instrumental in Mamaroneck’s first-round playoff win on Oct. 25. Photos/Mike Smith

Courtney Clarke digs a ball in an early season matchup against Hastings. Tiger coach Stacey Riter said that Mamaroneck’s defense was a big factor in the team’s first-round playoff win.

On Oct. 25, the spoils of Mamaroneck’s volleyball team’s turnaround season manifested itself in the squad’s first home playoff game in quite some time as the sixth-seeded Tigers took on the 11th seed, RC Ketcham. The Tigers made the most of their opportunity, downing Ketcham 3-1 to advance to the quarterfinals.

Though the Tigers may have been treading on unfamiliar ground hosting a playoff game, head coach Stacey Riter said, they showed no signs of it lead-ing into the Friday game.

“The girls were excited com-ing in, because we said all year long that each of their regular season games mattered,” she said. “By getting that six seed, it

showed that all their hard work this year had paid off.”

The Tigers found themselves up against an unfamiliar foe in Ketcham and while the Tigers’ coaching staff did it’s best to glean some info about Friday’s foe, they found their searches largely fruitless.

“We weren’t totally sure what we would see from the other team, we were only able to find a short clip of them playing, so it didn’t tell us much,” Riter said. “But I felt 100 percent confident coming in and told the girls that we were the higher seed for a reason.”

The Tigers certainly played like the higher seed, winning their first-round match-up handily by taking everything Ketcham threw at them. Riter was especially pleased with the play of two ju-niors who stepped up in a big way.

“Our defense did a great job, and really I think we dominated them,” she said. “Especially Eri Kawakami and Shirli Samara, our libero. That was definitely a strength for us.”

The Tigers will advance to the second round, where they are

preparing for a tilt against rival Scarsdale. The Raiders are com-ing off a dominant 3-0 win over White Plains and already own a win over Mamaroneck, having toppled the Tigers in three straight

sets earlier in the year. According to Riter, Mamaroneck has made great strides since that loss.

“We played three weeks into the season, but we are a very dif-ferent team then we were then,”

she said. “But this is going to be a good challenge for us.”

The Tigers and Raiders will square off on Oct. 29, after press time.-Reporting by Mike Smith

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Tigers rip Rams in first roundBy MIkE SMITHSports Editor

If the match-up between the eighth and ninth seeds are sup-posed to produce some of the best drama in the Section I playoffs, that message was lost on the Mamaroneck Tigers. On Oct. 26, the eighth-seeded Tigers knocked off ninth-seeded Port Chester in a 5-0 rout.

Erin McClave led the Tigers with two goals and an assist in an offensive explosion for a Tiger team that has, at times, struggled to find the net.

“We’ve been playing some really good ball since mid-season, but the only thing we haven’t done is finish,” Tigers coach Ron Blain said. “Some games, we’ll put 28 shots on goal and have nothing to show for it, so it’s all about finishing.”

Finishing certainly wasn’t a problem for the Tigers in their first-round match-up as the goals came early and often against a Rams team that struggled to stay in the game. Although Blain hopes the performance is a sign of things to come, he said the early goals may have given the Tigers some much-needed confidence that led to the scoring deluge.

“The one thing about scoring is that, a lot of the time, it comes in bunches,” Blain said. “Some games, where you don’t get that goal early, you’re playing a little tighter, more prone to making mistakes.”

The Tigers will certainly have no room for error when they take on their second-round opponent on Oct. 28. The Tigers will square off against top-seeded North Rockland, which is coming off a laugher of their own, a 7-1 shel-lacking of White Plains.

Although the Tigers tradition-ally play the Red Raiders in a non-league contest, they didn’t have North Rockland on the schedule this year. Even without seeing them, however, Blain and the Tigers are certainly aware of the Red Raiders’ skill level.

“They beat the second-seed, Clarkstown South, during the year,” the head coach said. “We know they are going to be good.”

Erin McClave controls the ball against Port Chester on Oct. 26. McClave led the Tigers with two goals on the day.

According to Blain, the dif-ference-maker in the game will likely be Mamaroneck’s work on the defensive side of the ball, as they will be tasked with stop-ping the offensive-minded Red Raiders.

“Defensively, we’re going to have to hone our skills, we can’t have any mishaps,” Blain said. “We’ve got to mark tight and have our sweeper ready go if one of our players gets beat-en. We’ve also got to work on bringing our midfield back. It’s going to be one of those games where we’re going to have to work twice as hard.”


Olivia Rodrigues brings the ball upfield against the Rams. Mamaroneck’s next opponent will be top-seeded North Rockland.

Shari Rauls battles a Ram defender for the ball. Early scoring opened the floodgates for the Tigers. Photos/Mike Smith

Jess Degina blasts a shot for Mamaroneck’s first goal of the game. Mamaroneck beat the Rams 5-0.

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Panthers rally for semifinal winBy MIkE SMITHSports Editor

On Oct. 26, the unbeaten Rye Neck Panthers kept their season alive with an impressive come-from-behind victory, rattling off 22 straight points to down the Bronxville Broncos and ad-vance to the Class C finals on Nov. 2 at Mahopac High School.

Coming into the game as one of the highest scoring teams in the section, the Panthers found themselves trailing 10-6 with time running out in the third quarter before making the run that would see them escape with a 28-10 win.

Whether it was nerves or pres-sure, head coach Nick Ianello sensed that something was amiss with his squad in the early go-ings of the contest.

“As a coach, you always wor-ry when you’re down,” Ianello said. “I think there was a lot of emotion; the kids were play-ing on their home field for the final time and that could have worked against us because we just didn’t seem in the game.”

But the Black Hats came alive when it counted, using their punishing running game to wear down the Bronxville defense and seal the win. Dom Brescia led the way with 118 yards on 15 carries, while fullback Pedro M. Cueto followed suit with 91 yards and three rushing touch-downs. Quarterback Tom Pipolo was also able to connect with Matt Garcia for a 25-yard touch-down pass in the comeback.

Pat Bisconti was Bronxville’s top runner, rushing for 91 yards and the Broncos’ only touchdown.

“Bronxville is a very good foot-ball team, but having so many guys in that backfield, we just kept plugging away,” Ianello said.

With the win, the Panthers move on to Mahopac, where they will take on the reigning Class C champs from Woodlands. Last year in the finals, Woodlands was able to shut the Black Hats down, beating Rye Neck 35-0. Earlier this year, though, the Panthers got some measure of revenge, clipping the Falcons 41-40 in a thrilling overtime game.

With a chance to send his se-niors out as section champs, Iane-llo is well aware that Saturday’s game may come down to how well his squad defends against the Falcons’ top threat, run-ning back Tyrone Barber. In

Woodland’s impressive semifi-nal win over top-seeded Dobbs Ferry last week, Barber proved again why he’s one of the most explosive backs in all of Section I as the workhorse rushed for 301 yards and four touchdowns

on 38 carries.“He’s a great player,” Ianello

said. “I don’t know if you can stop a guy like that, but we’re hoping we can slow him down.”


Matt Garcia tries to swat away a pass in the first quarter of the Panthers’ tilt with the Broncos. Garcia would later catch a 25-yard touchdown pass from Tom Pipolo.

Pedro M. Cueto rumbles ahead for a gain against Bronxville on Oct. 26. Cueto would finish with 91 yards on the ground and three touchdowns.

Jakob Calvini tries to break a tackle on Oct. 26. Calvini and the Panthers will take on Woodlands for the Class C title on Nov. 2. Photos/Bobby Begun

Dom Brescia carries the ball against Bronxville. Brescia would pace all Panther backs with 118 yards on the ground.

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