Usually the projects are Village driven, but now many Westchester County projects that affect the Village have reached the top of the queue. Chief among them is the Palmer Avenue Bridge and related road closure which began on April 10th and is expected to last until June 28th. This major structural repairs needed have been years in the planning and …
By Mayor MARY MARVIN, Esq.
New York State’s FY2019-2020 Adopted Budget That Will Most Impact Bronxville
By Mayor MARY MARVIN, Esq.
BRONXVILLE, NY — April 2, 2019 — The New York State budget passed on April 1, 2019. As part of the budget, Senate lawmakers approved a pay raise for Governor Cuomo and Lt. Governor Kathy Hochul at 2:45am on the 1st and the Assembly followed at 7am. Under the measure, Cuomo’s current $200,000 salary will increase to $225,000 in 2020, …
By Mayor MARY MARVIN, Esq.
New York’s Steeply Progressive Tax Code Catalyst for Exit to New Domiciles
By Mayor MARY MARVIN, Esq.
BRONXVILLE, NY — April 2, 2019 — New Yorkers are leaving the state in record numbers which should be a cause of concern to us all. Overall, New York is grappling with a population that is growing more slowly than almost every other state as well as an out migration of over 1 million people in the past decade, more …
By Mayor MARY MARVIN, Esq.
Phone Outage at Bronxville Police Department
BRONXVILLE, NY — March 31, 2019 — Bronxville Police Department non-emergency phones are down. Please hold off on non-emergency calls to the Police Department. Please do not call 911 for non-emergencies.
New York State Budget Only a Few Items Short of Final Approval
By HEZI ARIS
EXCLUSIVE … E X C L U S I V E … EXCLUSIVE Sources in the Know Advise All But Public Campaign Financing Reform Is In Place ALBANY, NY and YONKERS, NY — March 30, 2019 — Final agreement to New York State’s FY2020 is on the verge of winning approval sometime Saturday night. The compendium of items delineated are …
By HEZI ARIS
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, and Refuse
By Mayor MARY MARVIN, Esq.
BRONXVILLE, NY — March 22, 2019 — As the Village discusses a sustainability plan in the context of our Comprehensive Plan rollout, in one aspect we are being thwarted by events far beyond our control. It is China’s decision to no longer provide a market for our recycled paper and plastic which has already had a major trickle-down effect. After …
By Mayor MARY MARVIN, Esq.
Bronxville’s Identity Defined
By Mayor MARY MARVIN, Esq.
BRONXVILLE, NY — March 5, 2019 — Mayor Nancy Hand my mentor, guiding light and dear friend noticed that in my Comprehensive Plan summation in last week’s column, I glossed over one of the most important aspects of the Village – our historic natural landscapes as nature has greatly influenced Village life and even our material culture. As Marilynn Wood …
By Mayor MARY MARVIN, Esq.
The Externals By Which We Judge Informs to Embrace Small
By Mayor MARY MARVIN, Esq.
BRONXVILLE, NY — March 5, 2019 — As the Trustees and I embark, with assistance from professional planners, on a Comprehensive Plan for the Village, I have devoted considerable time researching what factors make a community sustainable and desired. With but a few exceptions, the answers were predictable, but so worth reiterating as we go forward with our review of …
By Mayor MARY MARVIN, Esq.
Albany’s Possible Effects on Bronxville
By Mayor MARY MARVIN, Esq.
BRONXVILLE, NY — February 26, 2019 — I spent part of last week in Albany at the annual Mayors Conference to get a grasp of what was happening at the seat of government and its possible effects on Bronxville. The experience was quite worthwhile as a primer on our State in general, much of the information courtesy of talks by …
By Mayor MARY MARVIN, Esq.
Climate Change and Congress
By MOLLY WEINSTEIN
Dear Editor, BRONXVILLE, NY — February 21, 2019 — One of the largest and most urgent existential threats, if not the largest, humanity faces today is climate change. And according to the United Nations’ Carbon Majors Report, a mere 100 fossil fuel producers are responsible for 71% of global emissions. And so to defeat this threat, there needs to be …
By MOLLY WEINSTEIN