NY HOUSE, A regional publication, published a very favorable article in their July issue about Greenburgh's energy conservation initiatives.
http://www.nyhouse-digital.com/nyhouse/200807/?pg=50
Friday, July 11, 2008
Wednesday, July 9, 2008
DANCING IN THE STREETS OF E HARTSDALE AVE
A special thank you…to Town Clerk Judith Beville for organizing an all volunteer E Hartsdale Ave outdoor music series this summer. The following is a partial lineup. If you are a musician or know of bands willing to donate their time on a Saturday weekend between now and the end of October please e mail jbeville@greenburghny.com. We will be promoting each band in literature, flyers, news releases, public access TV. We may share excerpts on You Tube.
Dancing in the streets of E Hartsdale Ave—it’s going to be lots of fun!
PAUL FEINER
East Hartsdale Farmers
Market Live Outdoor
Music Series
Live Music and Entertainment at the East Hartsdale
Train Station Stage
Saturdays in July, August, September and October
Performances (as of July 8, 2008)…
“Kick-Off” July 9th – Town Hall – 7:00pm
Featuring Solar Punch
July 12th – Jonathan Flaks: One Dog, Man (Solo Performer)
“A little bite of Classic Rock” – 10:00am to Noon
July 19th – Lois Colin and the Westchester Harp Ensemble – 10:00am to 11:00am
July 26th – Charles Montgomery – 12 noon to 2:00pm
August 2nd – Julie Corbalis: Rock & Pop 1950’s to present – 10:00am to 11:30am
Also; - Al Frankel, The Blues Dogs – 12:30pm to 2:00pm
August 9th – Solar Punch – Solar Powered Environmentally
Inspired Music with a Rock Flair
September 6th – Lois Colin (Time to be announced)
September 13th – Jonathan Flaks (Time to be announced)
October 11th – Ceasar Cantori – Emerging Jazz Artist (Time to be announced)
We are looking for more jazz artists!
Please contact Judith Beville, Town Clerk at 993-1500
Dancing in the streets of E Hartsdale Ave—it’s going to be lots of fun!
PAUL FEINER
East Hartsdale Farmers
Market Live Outdoor
Music Series
Live Music and Entertainment at the East Hartsdale
Train Station Stage
Saturdays in July, August, September and October
Performances (as of July 8, 2008)…
“Kick-Off” July 9th – Town Hall – 7:00pm
Featuring Solar Punch
July 12th – Jonathan Flaks: One Dog, Man (Solo Performer)
“A little bite of Classic Rock” – 10:00am to Noon
July 19th – Lois Colin and the Westchester Harp Ensemble – 10:00am to 11:00am
July 26th – Charles Montgomery – 12 noon to 2:00pm
August 2nd – Julie Corbalis: Rock & Pop 1950’s to present – 10:00am to 11:30am
Also; - Al Frankel, The Blues Dogs – 12:30pm to 2:00pm
August 9th – Solar Punch – Solar Powered Environmentally
Inspired Music with a Rock Flair
September 6th – Lois Colin (Time to be announced)
September 13th – Jonathan Flaks (Time to be announced)
October 11th – Ceasar Cantori – Emerging Jazz Artist (Time to be announced)
We are looking for more jazz artists!
Please contact Judith Beville, Town Clerk at 993-1500
Friday, June 27, 2008
WELCOME TO OUR NEW BLOG: EAST HARTSDALE AVE
Welcome to our new blog about East Hartsdale Ave. We invite you to post comments about the avenue, to provide us with your suggestions and feedback. This blog is being organized by Marc Herman, a student intern in my office. Mr. Herman came up with the idea for the blog that I have been using for almost a year: www.pfeiner.blogspot.com. That blog has had over 71,000 hits so far!
We will be providing all the merchants with the opportunity to post their own blog comments about their businesss--to promote their businesses, to tell us what they are doing, to air their gripes and suggestions, etc..We will also be using the blog to provide you with progress reports re: flooding and to tell you about happenings on the avenue, such as the jazz concerts.
THE GOAL: TO REVITALIZE OUR AVENUE--to make East Hartsdale a big success story.
We will be providing all the merchants with the opportunity to post their own blog comments about their businesss--to promote their businesses, to tell us what they are doing, to air their gripes and suggestions, etc..We will also be using the blog to provide you with progress reports re: flooding and to tell you about happenings on the avenue, such as the jazz concerts.
THE GOAL: TO REVITALIZE OUR AVENUE--to make East Hartsdale a big success story.
Monday, May 19, 2008
MUSICIANS WANTED FOR E HARTSDALE AVE CONCERTS
A band stand has been placed at DeSanti Plaza (across from the Hartsdale train station). We’re looking for bands to perform during the summer/fall months—especially during the Saturday farmer’s market on Saturday mornings and early afternoon. We also want to explore the possibility of having outdoor concerts in the early evening, to help bring business to some of the restaurants serving our area. There is an electrical outlet at the park. Unfortunately, we don’t have any corporate sponsors to pay the musicians this season. However, musicians who are interested in showing off their musical talents can get some good visibility. We will put promotional posters around town, highlighting the band. And, will also promote the band on our web sites. Video’s of the concerts may also be broadcast on our public access channel.
If you are interested in performing please e mail pfeiner@greenburghny.com or the town clerk, Judith Beville at jbeville@greenburghny.com. You can call Supervisor Paul Feiner at 993-1540 or Town Clerk Judith Beville at 993-1501.
OUR GOAL—Make E Hartsdale Ave fun…a destination point…promote the talents of local residents who are musicians…provide a showcase for musicians to perform…help the businesses.
FARMER’S MARKET—JUNE 28 TO NOVEMBER 22 9 AM TO 2 PM----E Hartsdale Ave
If you are interested in performing please e mail pfeiner@greenburghny.com or the town clerk, Judith Beville at jbeville@greenburghny.com. You can call Supervisor Paul Feiner at 993-1540 or Town Clerk Judith Beville at 993-1501.
OUR GOAL—Make E Hartsdale Ave fun…a destination point…promote the talents of local residents who are musicians…provide a showcase for musicians to perform…help the businesses.
FARMER’S MARKET—JUNE 28 TO NOVEMBER 22 9 AM TO 2 PM----E Hartsdale Ave
Friday, May 2, 2008
UPDATE: E Hartsdale Ave flood study
We are currently developing flood control alternatives for the Hartsdale Brook Study. We anticipate providing your office with a preliminary draft report for your review and comment in 12 weeks.
Please note that our surveyors have completed a detailed survey of the existing storm drainage system which passes through several buildings along East Hartsdale Avenue. Certain sections of the existing system were inaccessible and our surveyors are not equipped to handle confined space entry (i.e. oxygen tanks, fans, back-up sensors etc). The survey data we have obtained is adequate to define the nominal capacity of this existing system which will likely be paralleled with a new system.
Lori Bello
Leonard Jackson Associates
26 Firemens Memorial Drive, Suite 201
Pomona, NY 10970
(845) 354-4382 x 0
Please note that our surveyors have completed a detailed survey of the existing storm drainage system which passes through several buildings along East Hartsdale Avenue. Certain sections of the existing system were inaccessible and our surveyors are not equipped to handle confined space entry (i.e. oxygen tanks, fans, back-up sensors etc). The survey data we have obtained is adequate to define the nominal capacity of this existing system which will likely be paralleled with a new system.
Lori Bello
Leonard Jackson Associates
26 Firemens Memorial Drive, Suite 201
Pomona, NY 10970
(845) 354-4382 x 0
UPDATE: E Hartsdale Ave flood study
We are currently developing flood control alternatives for the Hartsdale Brook Study. We anticipate providing your office with a preliminary draft report for your review and comment in 12 weeks.
Please note that our surveyors have completed a detailed survey of the existing storm drainage system which passes through several buildings along East Hartsdale Avenue. Certain sections of the existing system were inaccessible and our surveyors are not equipped to handle confined space entry (i.e. oxygen tanks, fans, back-up sensors etc). The survey data we have obtained is adequate to define the nominal capacity of this existing system which will likely be paralleled with a new system.
Lori Bello
Leonard Jackson Associates
26 Firemens Memorial Drive, Suite 201
Pomona, NY 10970
(845) 354-4382 x 0
Please note that our surveyors have completed a detailed survey of the existing storm drainage system which passes through several buildings along East Hartsdale Avenue. Certain sections of the existing system were inaccessible and our surveyors are not equipped to handle confined space entry (i.e. oxygen tanks, fans, back-up sensors etc). The survey data we have obtained is adequate to define the nominal capacity of this existing system which will likely be paralleled with a new system.
Lori Bello
Leonard Jackson Associates
26 Firemens Memorial Drive, Suite 201
Pomona, NY 10970
(845) 354-4382 x 0
UPDATE: E Hartsdale Ave flood study
We are currently developing flood control alternatives for the Hartsdale Brook Study. We anticipate providing your office with a preliminary draft report for your review and comment in 12 weeks.
Please note that our surveyors have completed a detailed survey of the existing storm drainage system which passes through several buildings along East Hartsdale Avenue. Certain sections of the existing system were inaccessible and our surveyors are not equipped to handle confined space entry (i.e. oxygen tanks, fans, back-up sensors etc). The survey data we have obtained is adequate to define the nominal capacity of this existing system which will likely be paralleled with a new system.
Lori Bello
Leonard Jackson Associates
26 Firemens Memorial Drive, Suite 201
Pomona, NY 10970
(845) 354-4382 x 0
Please note that our surveyors have completed a detailed survey of the existing storm drainage system which passes through several buildings along East Hartsdale Avenue. Certain sections of the existing system were inaccessible and our surveyors are not equipped to handle confined space entry (i.e. oxygen tanks, fans, back-up sensors etc). The survey data we have obtained is adequate to define the nominal capacity of this existing system which will likely be paralleled with a new system.
Lori Bello
Leonard Jackson Associates
26 Firemens Memorial Drive, Suite 201
Pomona, NY 10970
(845) 354-4382 x 0
Monday, April 14, 2008
WESTCHESTER COUNTY BUSINESS JOURNAL REPORTS--E HARTSDALE AVE, A YEAR AFTER THE FLOOD
Soggy anniversary
The flood, a year later
By JOHN GOLDEN
In Hartsdale’s business district, two vacant storefronts stand as haunting reminders of what passed though here one year ago and what some fear might come again. They are flanked by 11 retailers and restaurants that have reopened along East Hartsdale Avenue, two with new ownership, since the nor’easter last April left this business block under several feet of flood water and sank some recovering victims more deeply in business debt.
Before that weekend storm and severe flooding, an HSBC bank branch and one of the block’s two dry cleaners occupied those empty stores. Neither returned after the flood. Prospective tenants there have looked but walked away.
Last year’s flood “was an aberration,” said Martin Deitch, founding partner of Aries Deitch and Edelson Inc., the Hartsdale real estate company marketing the vacant buildings. “However, trying to get retailers or companies past the concept that it can happen again is a huge hurdle. Everyone has this concept that it’s going to happen. It’s a perception that’s difficult to overcome even though it’s great real estate. The town is vibrant.”
Deitch said he is in talks with another bank that might open a branch there. He is talking too to small merchants to lease the space.
For owners who reopened, business has not been what it was before the flood, a few said. First the rising water, now a receding economy has hurt them.
“Businesswise, it hasn’t come back,” said Phil Benincasa Sr. at King-Aristocrat dry cleaners. With the spring flood wiping out the busiest dry-cleaning and garment-storage season, “We lost a year’s business almost and it really hasn’t recouped.”
“People form certain habits. They find other places to go, places to shop, places to eat,” said Benincasa. “All the businesses here are suffering, even the ones that stayed open” across East Hartsdale Avenue.
Benincasa said he still is waiting to receive the federal Small Business Administration loan for which he was approved after “reams of paperwork.” In Westchester County, the SBA approved 60 disaster loans totaling $10,609,600 to businesses stricken by the April flood.
“How will I use it? To catch up on all the bills I haven’t paid,” the dry-cleaning merchant said.
Benincasa was one of eight Hartsdale business owners who last year filed a lawsuit against business district landlords, the town of Greenburgh and the Hartsdale Parking Authority, which operates a public parking garage directly behind the row of flooded buildings, seeking unspecified damages for an allegedly inadequately designed, overloaded and neglected storm drainage system that they claim caused the flooding. Owners said they do not expect the lawsuit to be settled soon. One owner said storm drains have been regularly maintained by the various parties responsible for them since the lawsuit was filed.
Town of Greenburgh Supervisor Paul Feiner last week said the town board commissioned a study of flooding on East Hartsdale Avenue and is waiting for a final report on the causes and both short-term and long-term recommendations.
“A lot of people got hurt,” said Dee Francetic, whose eponymous hair salon on East Hartsdale Avenue was not in the flood’s path. “Fortunately, the town is coming back to life and merchants are doing better.” After a slow winter in the business district, “Maybe with the spring it will give us a chance to have a better year,” she said.At Enrico’s Pastry Shop and Caffe, a steady stream of customers picked out favored sweets from glass display cases one morning last week. Hartsdale residents Joseph and Michelle Floriano opened the popular and well-stocked bakery last October, naming it after the original Enrico’s started 57 years ago by Joe Floriano’s parents in the Morris Park section of the Bronx.
The previous bakery on the spot, one of the flood victims, “just kind of fell flat” in recent years, Floriano said. The Bronx transplant had his eye on the location for some time, he said, and he has brought business back to the avenue since acquiring it. “Holidays, we had lines outside the door and down the block,” he said.
“The area needed some kind of stimulation,” said Floriano. Employees at Enrico’s next-door neighbor, Rite Aid Pharmacy, told him their store’s business had gone up as much as 25 percent since the bakery brought back shoppers to the block.
Another new business on East Hartsdale Avenue, Hunan Village II, has replaced a former Chinese restaurant closed by the flood. Since opening at New Year’s, “Business has been OK,” said Gloria Jeng, whose husband, chef Jimmy Zheng, heads the kitchen staff.
Still, business could be better, she said, and the flood is not to blame for the lack of customers.
“I think people eat out less because of the economy,” said Jeng. “The takeouts are not as busy and people order less.”
At Harrys of Hartsdale, the upscale eatery that anchors one end of the business block, owner Steven Palm has observed much the same with his business. “As far as the flood recovery, we have recovered,” he said last week. “Now after the flood, now you have a new situation” that comes with a sinking economy.
Palm, whose Westchester Restaurant Group also includes Underhills Crossing in Bronxville, lost an estimated $250,000 to $300,000 in business during the six weeks he was closed after the flood and another $400,000 in lost restaurant equipment, inventory and infrastructure. A year later, he is still in litigation to collect from his insurance company, which denied his claim because the flood was an “act of God.” Palm said he took out a $350,000 disaster relief loan from the Small Business Administration “just to survive.”
Now, “With the hard economic times that we’re experiencing, I think everyone has been hit with a decrease, if not just a flat line, in sales,” he said. By closing one day a week since February and introducing a lower-priced tapas menu, Harrys of Hartsdale has been able to maintain last year’s sales figures and improve cash flow, Palm said. But the restaurant’s 30 percent increase in food and gas expenditures this year cannot be passed on to customers, “otherwise we’ll put ourselves out of the market,” he said.
In the slowed economy, “A lot of the high-end restaurants are getting hit more than the mid-range restaurants because we’re a luxury, not a necessity,” he said.
“We went through this in 2001” after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Palm said. “You’ve just got to ride the wave.”
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The flood, a year later
By JOHN GOLDEN
In Hartsdale’s business district, two vacant storefronts stand as haunting reminders of what passed though here one year ago and what some fear might come again. They are flanked by 11 retailers and restaurants that have reopened along East Hartsdale Avenue, two with new ownership, since the nor’easter last April left this business block under several feet of flood water and sank some recovering victims more deeply in business debt.
Before that weekend storm and severe flooding, an HSBC bank branch and one of the block’s two dry cleaners occupied those empty stores. Neither returned after the flood. Prospective tenants there have looked but walked away.
Last year’s flood “was an aberration,” said Martin Deitch, founding partner of Aries Deitch and Edelson Inc., the Hartsdale real estate company marketing the vacant buildings. “However, trying to get retailers or companies past the concept that it can happen again is a huge hurdle. Everyone has this concept that it’s going to happen. It’s a perception that’s difficult to overcome even though it’s great real estate. The town is vibrant.”
Deitch said he is in talks with another bank that might open a branch there. He is talking too to small merchants to lease the space.
For owners who reopened, business has not been what it was before the flood, a few said. First the rising water, now a receding economy has hurt them.
“Businesswise, it hasn’t come back,” said Phil Benincasa Sr. at King-Aristocrat dry cleaners. With the spring flood wiping out the busiest dry-cleaning and garment-storage season, “We lost a year’s business almost and it really hasn’t recouped.”
“People form certain habits. They find other places to go, places to shop, places to eat,” said Benincasa. “All the businesses here are suffering, even the ones that stayed open” across East Hartsdale Avenue.
Benincasa said he still is waiting to receive the federal Small Business Administration loan for which he was approved after “reams of paperwork.” In Westchester County, the SBA approved 60 disaster loans totaling $10,609,600 to businesses stricken by the April flood.
“How will I use it? To catch up on all the bills I haven’t paid,” the dry-cleaning merchant said.
Benincasa was one of eight Hartsdale business owners who last year filed a lawsuit against business district landlords, the town of Greenburgh and the Hartsdale Parking Authority, which operates a public parking garage directly behind the row of flooded buildings, seeking unspecified damages for an allegedly inadequately designed, overloaded and neglected storm drainage system that they claim caused the flooding. Owners said they do not expect the lawsuit to be settled soon. One owner said storm drains have been regularly maintained by the various parties responsible for them since the lawsuit was filed.
Town of Greenburgh Supervisor Paul Feiner last week said the town board commissioned a study of flooding on East Hartsdale Avenue and is waiting for a final report on the causes and both short-term and long-term recommendations.
“A lot of people got hurt,” said Dee Francetic, whose eponymous hair salon on East Hartsdale Avenue was not in the flood’s path. “Fortunately, the town is coming back to life and merchants are doing better.” After a slow winter in the business district, “Maybe with the spring it will give us a chance to have a better year,” she said.At Enrico’s Pastry Shop and Caffe, a steady stream of customers picked out favored sweets from glass display cases one morning last week. Hartsdale residents Joseph and Michelle Floriano opened the popular and well-stocked bakery last October, naming it after the original Enrico’s started 57 years ago by Joe Floriano’s parents in the Morris Park section of the Bronx.
The previous bakery on the spot, one of the flood victims, “just kind of fell flat” in recent years, Floriano said. The Bronx transplant had his eye on the location for some time, he said, and he has brought business back to the avenue since acquiring it. “Holidays, we had lines outside the door and down the block,” he said.
“The area needed some kind of stimulation,” said Floriano. Employees at Enrico’s next-door neighbor, Rite Aid Pharmacy, told him their store’s business had gone up as much as 25 percent since the bakery brought back shoppers to the block.
Another new business on East Hartsdale Avenue, Hunan Village II, has replaced a former Chinese restaurant closed by the flood. Since opening at New Year’s, “Business has been OK,” said Gloria Jeng, whose husband, chef Jimmy Zheng, heads the kitchen staff.
Still, business could be better, she said, and the flood is not to blame for the lack of customers.
“I think people eat out less because of the economy,” said Jeng. “The takeouts are not as busy and people order less.”
At Harrys of Hartsdale, the upscale eatery that anchors one end of the business block, owner Steven Palm has observed much the same with his business. “As far as the flood recovery, we have recovered,” he said last week. “Now after the flood, now you have a new situation” that comes with a sinking economy.
Palm, whose Westchester Restaurant Group also includes Underhills Crossing in Bronxville, lost an estimated $250,000 to $300,000 in business during the six weeks he was closed after the flood and another $400,000 in lost restaurant equipment, inventory and infrastructure. A year later, he is still in litigation to collect from his insurance company, which denied his claim because the flood was an “act of God.” Palm said he took out a $350,000 disaster relief loan from the Small Business Administration “just to survive.”
Now, “With the hard economic times that we’re experiencing, I think everyone has been hit with a decrease, if not just a flat line, in sales,” he said. By closing one day a week since February and introducing a lower-priced tapas menu, Harrys of Hartsdale has been able to maintain last year’s sales figures and improve cash flow, Palm said. But the restaurant’s 30 percent increase in food and gas expenditures this year cannot be passed on to customers, “otherwise we’ll put ourselves out of the market,” he said.
In the slowed economy, “A lot of the high-end restaurants are getting hit more than the mid-range restaurants because we’re a luxury, not a necessity,” he said.
“We went through this in 2001” after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Palm said. “You’ve just got to ride the wave.”
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Wednesday, March 26, 2008
VALVE THAT WAS NOT USED FOR 51 YEARS RESTORES WATER TO E HARTSDALE AVE
Yesterday there was a major water main break on E Hartsdale Ave. Stores were out of business again (a year ago they were out because of the flood). I received the following e mail from Randy Cairns of our water dept.
Paul Feiner
As of approximately 2 PM today we have restored water supply back to the customers who were without water due to the main break on E. Hartsdale Ave. We did this by utilizing a back-up interconnection between two different pressure zones at the intersection of Club Way and E. Hartsdale Ave. This interconnection utilizes a 6” diameter pressure reducing valve that has not been active since approximately 1957. The water from the high pressure zone goes through the automatic valve where the pressure is reduced some 50 psi which is approximately the normal pressure in the low zone that E. Hartsdale Ave. is located in. This valve had to inspected, checked, water turned on, flushed and then the controls on the valve had to be calibrated. To our amassment………it worked after 51 years! We checked most of the stores, including Harry’s, and all had water again.
We still must make repairs (which are very difficult and will take a week or more) but, we are not in an Emergency situation. The County Water District will be starting repairs to their 48” diameter water main at the same spot tomorrow at 8 AM. They must fix their leak first so then we can complete ours. Greenburgh’s 6” water main is broken underneath their 48” water main (which is an old 1882 NYC water line that the County bought in the ‘1950-60’s).
No one will be out of water for the remainder of these repairs, unless something else happens.
Paul Feiner
As of approximately 2 PM today we have restored water supply back to the customers who were without water due to the main break on E. Hartsdale Ave. We did this by utilizing a back-up interconnection between two different pressure zones at the intersection of Club Way and E. Hartsdale Ave. This interconnection utilizes a 6” diameter pressure reducing valve that has not been active since approximately 1957. The water from the high pressure zone goes through the automatic valve where the pressure is reduced some 50 psi which is approximately the normal pressure in the low zone that E. Hartsdale Ave. is located in. This valve had to inspected, checked, water turned on, flushed and then the controls on the valve had to be calibrated. To our amassment………it worked after 51 years! We checked most of the stores, including Harry’s, and all had water again.
We still must make repairs (which are very difficult and will take a week or more) but, we are not in an Emergency situation. The County Water District will be starting repairs to their 48” diameter water main at the same spot tomorrow at 8 AM. They must fix their leak first so then we can complete ours. Greenburgh’s 6” water main is broken underneath their 48” water main (which is an old 1882 NYC water line that the County bought in the ‘1950-60’s).
No one will be out of water for the remainder of these repairs, unless something else happens.
VALVE THAT WAS NOT USED FOR 51 YEARS RESTORES WATER TO E HARTSDALE AVE
Yesterday there was a major water main break on E Hartsdale Ave. Stores were out of business again (a year ago they were out because of the flood). I received the following e mail from Randy Cairns of our water dept.
Paul Feiner
As of approximately 2 PM today we have restored water supply back to the customers who were without water due to the main break on E. Hartsdale Ave. We did this by utilizing a back-up interconnection between two different pressure zones at the intersection of Club Way and E. Hartsdale Ave. This interconnection utilizes a 6” diameter pressure reducing valve that has not been active since approximately 1957. The water from the high pressure zone goes through the automatic valve where the pressure is reduced some 50 psi which is approximately the normal pressure in the low zone that E. Hartsdale Ave. is located in. This valve had to inspected, checked, water turned on, flushed and then the controls on the valve had to be calibrated. To our amassment………it worked after 51 years! We checked most of the stores, including Harry’s, and all had water again.
We still must make repairs (which are very difficult and will take a week or more) but, we are not in an Emergency situation. The County Water District will be starting repairs to their 48” diameter water main at the same spot tomorrow at 8 AM. They must fix their leak first so then we can complete ours. Greenburgh’s 6” water main is broken underneath their 48” water main (which is an old 1882 NYC water line that the County bought in the ‘1950-60’s).
No one will be out of water for the remainder of these repairs, unless something else happens.
Paul Feiner
As of approximately 2 PM today we have restored water supply back to the customers who were without water due to the main break on E. Hartsdale Ave. We did this by utilizing a back-up interconnection between two different pressure zones at the intersection of Club Way and E. Hartsdale Ave. This interconnection utilizes a 6” diameter pressure reducing valve that has not been active since approximately 1957. The water from the high pressure zone goes through the automatic valve where the pressure is reduced some 50 psi which is approximately the normal pressure in the low zone that E. Hartsdale Ave. is located in. This valve had to inspected, checked, water turned on, flushed and then the controls on the valve had to be calibrated. To our amassment………it worked after 51 years! We checked most of the stores, including Harry’s, and all had water again.
We still must make repairs (which are very difficult and will take a week or more) but, we are not in an Emergency situation. The County Water District will be starting repairs to their 48” diameter water main at the same spot tomorrow at 8 AM. They must fix their leak first so then we can complete ours. Greenburgh’s 6” water main is broken underneath their 48” water main (which is an old 1882 NYC water line that the County bought in the ‘1950-60’s).
No one will be out of water for the remainder of these repairs, unless something else happens.
Monday, February 11, 2008
new committee to address residential parking to be formed
RESOLUTION OF THE TOWN BOARD
AUTHORIZING THE CREATION OF THE HARTSDALE PARKING
ADVISORY COMMITTEE TO STUDY AND ADDRESS CONCERNS
RELATING TO PARKING ON EAST HARTSDALE AVENUE
AND MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS TO THE TOWN BOARD
WHEREAS, the Town Board acknowledges that there is a lack of adequate parking along East Hartsdale Avenue and the surrounding vicinity which adversely affects residents, businesses and patrons; and
WHEREAS, the Town Board believes this development requires a study of the different alternatives that exist to address the parking problem;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Town Board will create a committee, to be named the Hartsdale Parking Advisory Committee, to study and address concerns and alternatives relating to parking on East Hartsdale Avenue and make recommendations to the Town Board.
Submitted: February 11, 2008
AUTHORIZING THE CREATION OF THE HARTSDALE PARKING
ADVISORY COMMITTEE TO STUDY AND ADDRESS CONCERNS
RELATING TO PARKING ON EAST HARTSDALE AVENUE
AND MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS TO THE TOWN BOARD
WHEREAS, the Town Board acknowledges that there is a lack of adequate parking along East Hartsdale Avenue and the surrounding vicinity which adversely affects residents, businesses and patrons; and
WHEREAS, the Town Board believes this development requires a study of the different alternatives that exist to address the parking problem;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Town Board will create a committee, to be named the Hartsdale Parking Advisory Committee, to study and address concerns and alternatives relating to parking on East Hartsdale Avenue and make recommendations to the Town Board.
Submitted: February 11, 2008
UPDATE: E Hartsdale Ave flood study
Mr. Regula:
Following is an update on the Hartsdale Brook Flood Study.
Our surveyor has completed his work and is processing his data.
He has advised that we will receive it by Friday 2/8.
Once we receive the survey data we will finally be in a position to proceed with our hydraulic analyses.
I will contact Mr. Cioce once we have received the data so that we can set up meeting date to review our work.
Thank you very much,
Dennis
Dennis Rocks, P.E.
Leonard Jackson Associates
26 Firemens Memorial Drive, Suite 201
Pomona, New York 10970
Following is an update on the Hartsdale Brook Flood Study.
Our surveyor has completed his work and is processing his data.
He has advised that we will receive it by Friday 2/8.
Once we receive the survey data we will finally be in a position to proceed with our hydraulic analyses.
I will contact Mr. Cioce once we have received the data so that we can set up meeting date to review our work.
Thank you very much,
Dennis
Dennis Rocks, P.E.
Leonard Jackson Associates
26 Firemens Memorial Drive, Suite 201
Pomona, New York 10970
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