10/13/07 - What The Hell Is A Matter With These Port Chester Teachers.

School Union Members Say That School Taxes Have Went Up 13 1/2 %, Because The We$tmore $nooze Ignores Their Complaints And Covers Up Wrong Doings On The School Board.

Ever Since Rye Town Took Bernie "I Forgot To Pay Over 100 Property Tax Bills" Abel To Court For Failing To Pay All Of His Tax Bill, The We$tmore $nooze Has Refused To Fully Report That Rye Town Has Lowered Taxes Two Years In A Row While The Port Chester Schools Have Increased Taxes 13 1/2%.

See Dominic "I Did Not Edit The Racist Flier" Bencivenga Link #1

See Dominic "I Did Not Edit The Racist Flier" Bencivenga Link #2

The neglected Port Chester Teachers who are still working without a contract say that they told Bernie "I Forgot To Pay Over 100 Property Tax Bills" Abel and Richard "The Rye Town Drama Queen" Abel (AKA Notorious Newspaper Theif) all about the wrong doings listed in Dominic "I Did Not Edit The Racist Flier" Bencivenga Link #1 and Dominic "I Did Not Edit The Racist Flier" Bencivenga Link #2, but the Abel refused to report on the illegal abuses occurring in the school system.

The Abel's Just Wanted To Cover Up For Their Republican Friends At The School Board.

Don't The Port Chester Teachers Know That The Abel's Only Want To Help People Like Port Chester Republican Chairman Billy Vilanova.

The Abel's Have Filled The We$tmore $nooze With page after boring page about how Port Chester Republican Chairman Billy Vilanova is upset that he did not get a routine form letter.

The teachers told the Abel's that the School Taxes were up 13 1/2%, because of Dominic "I Did Not Edit The Racist Flier" Bencivenga Link #1 and Dominic "I Did Not Edit The Racist Flier" Bencivenga Link #2.

The teachers even told the Abel's that ex-Port Chester School President Dominick "I Did Not Edit Thr Racist Flier" Bencivenga voted a substaintial raise to Athletic Director Joesph Durney without revealing to the public that Mr. Durney employed his wife.

Jim "Don't Mess With My Wife" Dreaves and the other school board members just looked the other way and the tax payers got the 13 1/2% increase.

The teachers also told the We$tmore $nooze that ex-Port Chester Board President Dominick "I Did Not Edit The Racist Flier" Bencivenga's sister in law is given special privaleges that no other Port Chester School employee gets.

The teachers also belive that these special privlages help increase school taxes.

Some of the Port Chester teachers say that the hopelessly biased We$tmore $nooze Dosen't support the children of Port Chester, because the Abel's look the other way as the teachers are forced to work with out a contract.

Well, Duh, Of Coarce The Founder Of The We$tmore $nooze Doesn't Care About The Teachers Or The Children Of Port Chester, Otherwise He Would Not Have "Forgotten" To Pay Over 100 Property And School Tax Bills.

What The Hell Is The Matter With These Port Chester Teachers.

Don't they know that Bernie "I Forgot To Pay Over 100 Property Tax Bills" Abel is in middle of a vendetta with the Town Of Rye, because they took him to court for tax evasion.

What The Hell Is The Matter With These Port Chester Teachers.

Don't they know that Bernie "I Forgot To Pay Over 100 Property Tax Bills" Abel dosen't want to hear a bunch of teachers whine that illegal and improper activity at the school is the reason that school taxes have went up 13 1/2%.

What The Hell Is The Matter With These Port Chester Teachers.

Don't they know that apparently Bernie "I Forgot To Pay Over 100 Property Tax Bills" Abel thinks that a 13 1/2% School tax increase is a good thing.

What The Hell Is The Matter With These Port Chester Teachers.

These Port Chester teaches need to wake up and understand that Bernie "I Forgot To Pay Over 100 Property Tax Bills" Abel and the hopelessly biased We$tmore $nooze belives that the Town Of Rye is evil for cutting property taxes two years in a row.

What The Hell Is The Matter With These Port Chester Teachers.

Don't they read the hopelessly biased We$tmore $nooze. Bernie "I Forgot To Pay Over 100 Property Tax Bills" Abel and Richard "The Rye Town Drama Queen" Abel (AKA Notorious Newspaper Theif) don't want to fairly cover the Port Chester Teacher's Contract, because they are too busy with thier vendetta agaist the evil Town Of Rye that cut Property taxes two years in a row.

What The Hell Is The Matter With These Port Chester Teachers.

Can't they go back and look at the last 52 weeks of the hopelessly biased We$tmore $nooze and look and see if you can find an article about the Port Chester Teachers working with out a contract or about the outrageous 13 1/2% school tax increase. Surely there is at least 1 article in between the hundreds of Rye Town Vendetta pages.

What The Hell Is The Matter With These Port Chester Teachers.

Can't they go back and read the last 1oo of Bernie "I Forgot To Pay Over 100 Property Tax Bills" Abel's "Town Liar" column in the hopelessly biased We$tmore $nooze, and see that not one word was mentioned about the teachers contract or the outrageous 13 1/2% School Tax Increase.

What The Hell Is The Matter With These Port Chester Teachers.

Why aren't they calling up Bernie "I Forgot To Pay Over 100 Property Tax Bills" Abel at

939-6864

and cancelling their subscriptions to the hopelessly biased We$tmore $nooze.

And One More Thing.

I am going to politely ask the hard working and caring teachers of Port Chester not to call me and tell me how many spelling or grammer errors are in this article.

Listen, it is not my fault that I do not have a good grasp of the kings English, because I am a vitim of schools that were under funded, because of greedy jerks like Bernie "I Forgot To Pay Over 100 Property Tax Bills" Abel.

Please call up 939-6864 and ask Bernie "I Forgot To Pay Over 100 Property Tax Bills" Abel if he can spell ....

C-A-N-C-E-L

M-Y

S-U-B-S-C-R-I-P-T-I-O-N

Don't Read The We$tmore $nooze Read This

New York Times Article

About Bernie " I Forgot To Pay Over 100 Property Tax Bills" Abel And The Hopelessly Biased We$tmore $nooze.

10/12/07 - Keepin Up With The Jones. Greenwich Rasises Parking Fees 10% In Order To Keep Up With Port Chester.

Train parking to get pricier

Source: Norwalk Advocate

The Board of Selectmen voted 2-1 yesterday to increase parking permit fees by 10 percent at train station and municipal lots throughout town.

The new rates would take effect next October at a total of 11 lots, and would generate approximately $147,000 in additional revenue each year for Greenwich's parking fund, according to figures provided by Alan Corry, the town parking services director. The increases will affect parking permits, not parking meters.

First Selectman Jim Lash said the increase will help replenish the parking fund for maintenance at structures, such as the Town Hall garage, which is undergoing more than $400,000 in construction now.

'My concern continues to be that we need money to spend on our parking facilities,' Lash said.
The changes will see annual fees at nine lots, including all outdoor railroad parking lots, increase from $242 to $266. Those include Arcadia Road, Carrona Drive, Horseneck Lane, Iron Horse Lane, Steamboat Road/Arch Street, Loughlin Avenue and Riverside, Old Greenwich and Cos Cob railroad stations. Rates at the covered parking garage downtown will rise from $423 to $465 per year, and at the West End lot in Old Greenwich from $165 to $181 per year.

Selectman Penny Monahan opposed the measure, saying Greenwich's parking permit rates are in line with those in towns such as Darien, Westport and Rye, N.Y. But Lash and Selectman Peter Crumbine said the rates are far lower than those in neighboring towns such as Stamford and Rye. In Stamford, annual parking permits can cost more than $1,000, outdoor parking permits cost $505 per year in Port Chester, according to Corry.

'I'm always reluctant to characterize other people's spending as moderate, but this (the new rates) wouldn't be out of line with the two adjacent towns,' Lash said.....

Source URL: http://www.norwalkadvocate.com/news/local/scn-gt-a1selectmenfridayoct12,0,786856.story

10/12/07 -Power Outageous In Port Chester

Stormy weather drenches region, causes minor accidents

Source: The Journal News

Though the region got slammed with a series of downpours last night, most areas managed to make it through unscathed.

The only significant disruption happened in Port Chester when a downed wire cut power to residents of Grace Church Street and Midland Avenue. Port Chester authorities did not immediately know how many homes or businesses were affected. The village also experienced some minor flooding, police said. ...

Source URL: http://www.nyjournalnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071012/NEWS02/710120397

10/12/07 - Suspect in Port Chester rape pleads not guilty, denied bail

A 26-year-old man accused of raping a woman after sneaking into her car in Port Chester was denied bail yesterday after pleading not guilty to sex charges.

Full story: Journal News

Reporter: Jonathan Bandler at jbandler@lohud.com or 914-694-3520.

Source URL: http://www.thejournalnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2007710120388

10/12/07 - "Hey, I've got to prove to myself that I can make it and I'm a part of this team. Luckily it went in and went my way."

Port Chester's Joseph Rivera, left, and Aaron Cueva had plenty to celebrate after Rivera got the Rams on the board with a goal in the first half of yesterday's 2-0 win over Tappan Zee.

HEADLINE:

Port Chester gains some respect in boys soccer

QOUTE:

"For us, we don't get much respect around here because we are a soccer team. We proved them wrong. That's our first mentality that comes to mind, that we have to prove everybody wrong and that we have a team."

STORY:

Maybe they should consider installing permanent lights at their stadium.

Either that or schedule homecoming every week.

Playing in an emotionally charged atmosphere illuminated by 14 portable lights, the Port Chester Rams dispatched gritty Tappan Zee 2-0 for a huge League II-C boys soccer triumph last night, avenging last month's one-goal defeat to the Dutchmen in Orangeburg.....

Source: Journal News

Source URL: http://www.thejournalnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2007710110378

ALSO:

• Port Chester-Tappan Zee photo gallery

10/12/07 - GOLDIE SOLOMAN, MAX RAMIREZ AND THEIR SUPPORTERS WERE RIGHT ALL ALONG.

You won’t read this in the hopelessly biased We$tmore $nooze, but…

GOLDIE SOLOMAN, MAX RAMIREZ AND THEIR SUPPORTERS WERE RIGHT ALL ALONG.

Six months ago Goldie Solomon, Max Ramirez and their single family homeowner supporters repeatedly argued that Port Chester had enough money and that Port Chester Village could cut taxes just like the Town Of Rye Has for the last two years in a row.

Deputy Port Chester Mayor Dominick Cicatelli even agreed with Goldie, Max and their supporters by saying, “I believe that it is entirely possible for the Village to cut taxes.”

According to Trustee Dan Brakewood, the Port Chester Village Manager and the professional staff under estimated revenues and expenses by about 8%, Apparently, Port Chester is sitting on over 1 million bucks of extra money that would wipe out this years Port Chester Village Property Tax increase.

When are the politicians and the professional staff going to start listening to Goldie Solomon when she says, “Cut the taxes, we can’t afford this anymore!” When are the politician’s and professional staff going to start listening to Max Ramirez, who has repeatedly said “Give the homeowners back their money,”

This extra one million dollars in tax money needs to be refunded to the single family homeowners of Port Chester immediately.

The taxes have been cut in the Town of Rye two years in a row. If we can give each single family homeowner a Port Chester Village Property Tax Rebate, then we can go after Abel’s school board buddies and try and reverse the outrageous 13% Port Chester School Tax increase.

When is the hopelessly biased rag known as the We$tmore $nooze going to expose the outrageous waste behind the
13 ½% school tax increase that is choking the single family homeowners of Port Chester.

When the Port Chester School Union members told the hopelessly biased We$tmore $nooze, that ex-Port Chester School Board President Dominick “I Did Not Edit Bart’s Racist Flyer” Bencivenga had moved out of New York State for six months and not resigned from the Port Chester School Board. The hopelessly biased We$tmore $nooze refused to report the story.

When school employees complained to the hopelessly biased We$tmore $nooze that Port Chester School Board Member Jim “Leave My Wife Alone” Dreave’s wife was illegally pressuring school employees to buy her overpriced costume jewelry while on school time and property. The hopelessly biased We$tmore $nooze refused to report that Port Chester teachers were illegally being pressured to buy Ms. Dreave’s gaudy and tasteless trinkets.

Why wont the hopelessly biased We$tmore $nooze expose the waste that is behind this years 13 ½% School tax increase.

10/11/07 - Port Chester Planning Board Chairman Micheal Antacki Working On Bart "The Bigot" Didden's Building Which Has No Certificate Of Occupancy.

10/11/07 - Former Port Chester Newspaper Editor Retires. Sherwood "Woody" Weingarten Was Known As A Fair And Unbiased Port Chester Newspaper Editor

HEADLINE:

Woody Weingarten steps down as j.'s managing editor after 24 years

QOUTE:

“I always enjoyed my dialogues with Woody, even when we did not see eye to eye. I have a strong appreciation for his newspaper savvy, and in particular his appreciation for the creative energies in our Jewish community, which he was eager to capture in reaching out to new readers. He brought a free spirit to the one Jewish newspaper we have, and it was all the richer for it.”

STORY:

... A native of New Rochelle, N.Y., Weingarten graduated from Colgate University, launching his career at a New York City weekly. He went on to serve as editor and city editor of daily newspapers in Cherry Hill, N.J., and Port Chester, N.Y.. He also founded and published The People’s Paper, a weekly in Clearwater, Fla.

A music buff, Weingarten also wrote a monthly column for Audio magazine for five years.

During his career, he won numerous awards for news writing and investigative reporting.
But it was at the Jewish Bulletin and j. that he spent the bulk of his career, leaving a lasting mark on the Bay Area Jewish community. ...

Source: The Jewish News Weekly

Source URL: http://www.jewishsf.com/content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/33760/format/html/displaystory.html

10/10/07 - If You Want To Illegally Hold Office While living Elsewhere Don't Do It In New Rochelle. Do It In Port Chester So You Won't Get Caught.

HEADLINE:

New Rochelle councilman claims opponent lives elsewhere

STORY:

NEW ROCHELLE - City Councilman Roberto Lopez is charging that his opponent, attorney Richard St. Paul, does not live in New Rochelle - an accusation St. Paul disputes.

Lopez's camp hired a private investigator who found that St. Paul's registration with the state court system, required for all attorneys, shows his address as a home in the Bronx, and that the New Rochelle address he uses is the home of Ronald Williams, former president of the New Rochelle chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

"I was in shock," said Lopez, a Democrat. "Being that he's a lawyer, and (considering) the high ethics that lawyers have, I couldn't believe my eyes," Lopez said......

......He said he has been involved in several Westchester election campaigns and legal battles, including an ongoing federal lawsuit against Port Chester claiming that the village election system dilutes the Hispanic vote, and a 2004 lawsuit opposing redrawn election districts in New Rochelle. Williams leads the organization that filed the New Rochelle lawsuit.

St. Paul's voter registration card shows he began using Williams' home on Inwood Place as his address for voting on October 11, 2006. In 2005, it says, he had voted in New Jersey......

Full story: The Journal News

COMMENT:

When ex-Port Chester Port Chester School Board President Dominic "I Did Not Edit The Racist Flier" Bencivenga moved out of state for six months, the Port Chester Teacher's Union became concerned at went to see Bernie "I Forgot To Pay Over 100 Property Tax Bills" Abel and Richard "The Rye Town Drama Queen" Abel at the hopelessly biased We$tmore $nooze.

The Abel's decided to hide this from the single family homeowners who had to pay the outrageous 13 1/2% School Tax Increace this year.

But the school board member Jim "Leave My Wife Alone" Dreaves started getting nervous that the cover up was about to come to light, so the Port Chester Chief Of Police was enlisted to help Dominic "I Did Not Edit That Racist Flier" Bencivenga get a tiny little apartment in Port Chester.

Dominic "I Did Not Edit The Racist Flier" Bencivenga is now back home with his family.

The Port Chester Teacher's union sent a letter with both of these accusations to each of the school board candidates who were running against Dominic "I Did Not Edit That Racist Flier" Bencivenga. Both candidates told the We$tmore $nooze they had received the letter and one candidate even gave the We$tmore $nooze a copy of the letter.

But, Bernie "I Forgot To Pay Over 100 Property Tax Bills" Abel and his son the Rye Town Drama Queen were in on the cover up.

You are paying the Outrageous 13 1/2% School Tax the We$tmore $nooze is a hopelessly biased rag that is being used to attack the Town Of Rye which has cut property taxes two years in a row.

The fact that the State Of Florida and the Town of Rye has caught Bernie failing to pay all of his on his property taxes has nothing to do with the fact that the We$tmore $nooze winks at the School Board Republicans, while attacking Democrats that have taken him to court for once again failing to pay his property taxes.

Don't Make Our Politician's Kiss
Bernie's Old Wrinkly Ass

If you let Bernie "I Forgot To Pay Over 100 Property Tax Bills" Abel is allowed to use the hopelessly biased We$tmore $nooze to punish government officials who have taken him to court for tax evasion, then you will see all the school and village officials lining up to kiss his old wrinkly ass out of fear that he will use the We$tmore $nooze against them.

10/10/07 - Mayor Dennis Pilla And The Port Chester Trustees Add A Third Board Meeting

HEADLINE:

10/09/07 – Meeting Notes – Port Chester Board Of Trustee Meetings.

Quote Of The Day:

“When it comes to parking you happen to understand the village Is actually a small city”

Captain John Telesca

STORY:

The new additional Board of Trustee’s Meeting got off to a very rough start.

There was a mix-up over where the meeting was being held.

No Government Cable Channel Coverage

No Agendas for the public

No press kit

Police Chief and staff were not given all the information for the parking discussion.

Worse yet the public were not allowed to participate or comment on the meeting.

Deputy Mayor Dominick Cicatelli was unable to attend the meeting even though he was out of town.

The Board discussed the

G&S Parking Proposal

Permit parking

Valet parking

Leberge Group Parking proposal

New parking laws

The Columbus Park Project – surveillance cameras

And 120,000 and 50,000 in additional funds for construction inspections and rocks.

Personally, I started to get a little bored durring the long discussion about if Port Chester would partisipate in a regional storm water utility district. I was tempted to touch Richhard "The Rye Town Drama Queen" Abel on the sholder to see if he would act like a girly man and run up and disrupt the meeting.

However, I decided not to upset Richard "The Rye Town Drama Queen" Abel, because Mayor Dennis Pilla hates it when people act crazy at his board meetings.

10/10/07 - Mayor Dennis Pilla Would Not Let Supervisor Wanna Be Joe Carvin Whine And Complain About Rye Town Cutting Taxes Two Years In A Row.

A Lonely And Isolated Supervisor Wanna Be Joe Carrvin has been upset that Rye Town has cut property taxes two years in a row. For about a year, Supervisor Wanna Be Joe Carvin has been basically repeating himself. Mr. Carvin is a disgruntled antagonist who is used to getting his way. But Mr. Carvin is entitled to his warped opinion that two years worth of tax cuts is very bad.

HEADLINE:

Port Chester Mayor Dennis Pilla Does Not Want To Hear From The Public About Items Discussed At Public Work Sessions And Richard "The Rye Town Drama Queen" Abel Does Not Get A Free Sandwich

STORY:

Five or six Port Chester Residents wanted to speak about issues concerning Port Chester at last nights Port Chester Board Of Trustee's Work Session meeting.

These Port Chester residents were disappointed that they could not speak about issues discussed at the work session.

However, there was an upside to Mayor Pilla's ban on Public comments.

Supervisor Wanna Be Joe Carvin did not get to go on like a broken record about how the Town Of Rye has done a bad job by cutting Town taxes two years in a row.

When Supervisor Wanna Be Joe Carvin found out there were not going to be any public comments or TV cameras he left the meeting.

Richard "The Rye Town Drama Queen" Abel followed Carvin out of the meeting saying “ I thought there would be comments. Apparently there not having comments tonight. There’s no television coverage anyway.”

Richard talked with Joe out in the hallway for about 10 to 15 minutes.

Richard "The Rye Town Drama Queen" Abel seemed to be disappointed that Joe Carvin did not take him to the Port Chester Coach diner for a free sandwich.

Supervisor Wanna Be Joe Carvin always takes Bernie "I Forgot To Pay Over 100 Property Tax Bills" Abel and Richard "The Rye Town Drama Queen" Abel out for a free sandwich after they act like fools on the cable TV cameras at the Rye Town Board Meetings

I think Supervisor Wanna Be Joe Carvin was pissed off that Richard "The Rye Town Drama Queen" Abel drug him out durring a thunderstorm to go to a meeting with no public coments or cable tv cameras.

10/10/07 - Why Wasn't Bob Sorensen Informed About Bruno Gioffre Bringing Another Bad Condo Project To The United Hospital Site In Port Chester

HEADLINE:

Would Someone Please Explain To Trustee Bob Sorensen That His So-Called Republican Buddies Aldo "The Patronage Boy" Vitaliano And Bruno "Spot Zone" Gioffre Want To Bring Another Massive Multi - Family Apartment Building To Port Chester

QUOTE OF THE DAY:

"It was a surprise to me" - Trustee Bob Sorensen

STORY:

Even though Mayor Dennis Pilla said that there would be no public or trustee comments at the October 9th Work session, he went ahead and let the trustees make comments at the meeting.

Trustee Robert Sorensen said that he was upset that he read about the United Hospital project yesterday morning and that he already had two calls before he got to his newspaper sales job in Stamford.

Trustee Sorensen was very upset that the press had been briefed about the project before he was.

Mayor Pilla said that there had been a great deal of talk in the community about the Massive Multi - Family Condo project and that Trustee Sorensen was present during board comments about this project that will increase school taxes a few weeks ago.

Plus Mayor Pilla said that there had been a previous story in the Westmore Snooze.

COMMENT:

Doesn't Mayor Pilla realize that Trustee Bob Sorensen probably never reads the hopelessly biased We$tmore $nooze, since Richard "The Rye Town Drama Queen" Abel encouraged ex-We$tmore $nooze columnist and chief pollster Bart "The Bigot" Didden to go after his family for all those parking tickets.

Richard "The Rye Town Drama Queen" Abel sure did use a lot of space in the We$tmore $nooze to attack Trustee Sorensen and his family, because they paid a lot of money to the Village Of Port Chester for parking tickets.

Trustee Sorensen has probably heard how Richard "The Rye Town Drama Queen" Abel has bragged to scores of people about how he will never be re-elected because of all the biased stories and letters that appeared in the We$tmore $nooze.

I bet Bob Sorensen dose not read the Westmore Snooze, because they allowed Bart “The Bigot” Didden to unfairly attack his family over parking tickets in the Hopelessly Biased We$tmore $nooze.

10/10/07 - Port Chester Roundup Poll

Question #1 - Have You Ever Seen an Article in the Hopelessly Biased We$tmore $nooze About The Outrageous Port Chester School Tax 13 1/2% increases.

Or

Question #2 - Have You Ever Seen an Article in the Hopelessly Biased We$tmore $nooze About Bruno “Spot Zone” Gioffre.

Or

Question #3 - Have You Ever Seen an Article in the Hopelessly Biased We$tmore $nooze About How the the Massive Multi-Family Apartment and Condo Buildings Are Destroying Port Chester.


Question #4 Have you ever thought about canceling your subscription to the
Hopelessly Biased We$tmore $nooze by calling Bernie “I Forgot To Pay 100 Property Tax Bills” Abel at
939-6864

10/10/07 - Are More Condos A Good Bet For Port Chester. Starwood Has $3 billion Of Outstanding Debt In A Declining Real Estate Market (Ratted BBB)

Fitch Ratings Assigns 'BBB-' to Starwood's $400MM Sr Notes Issue

(Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)

NEW YORK----Fitch Ratings has assigned a 'BBB-' rating to Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc.'s 6.25% $400 million senior notes due 2013. The Rating Outlook is Stable. The notes rank equally with Starwood's other unsecured and unsubordinated debt.


Read More...

Source: Yahoo! News Search Results for hotels of new york

Comment:

What does a BBB rating mean?

BBB (Rating Definitions) - ...The capacity for timely payment of financial commitments is considered adequate, but adverse changes in circumstances and in economic conditions are more likely to impair this capacity. This is the lowest investment-grade category.

Bruno Gioffre is once again bringing Port Chester a bad condo project.

First was the Castle, which is now wants to change to rental apartments and is looking for a PILOT (Payment In Lieu Of Taxes) Deal. Plus Bruno wants to add apartments and increase the density of the project.

Then there was the Mariner which wants an extention.

Now here are more Condos at the United Hospital Site.

Bruno Gioffre is going to make a lot of money bringing all of these Massive Multi - Family Apartment Buildings to Port Chester and you are going to get the massive school tax bill.

10/08/07 - Hotel-condo project eyed for United Hospital site in Port Chester

Massive Multifamily Buildings Bring Density To An Already Over Burdened School System.

“People - partly empty nesters, partly young professionals - like the carefree lifestyle of living in a luxury condo with all of the amenities of a full-service, high-end hotel within walking distance of their home.”

First came The Plaza in New York City, then the Ritz-Carlton in White Plains. Now, Port Chester may be poised for its own hotel-condominium complex on the vacant New York United Hospital Medical Center property ... blah ...blah .... blah ....

Not So Full Story Or Should We Say Full OF It Story: The Journal News

COMMENT:

You won’t read this in the hopelessly biased We$tmore $nooze…..

The hopelessly biased We$tmore $nooze did not give you all the facts about Brookchester, Wellington Green, The Castle or The Mariner.

Way To Go Aldo….Massive Multi - family Condo Building To Bring More Density To An Already Over Burdened Port Chester School System.

Aldo “The Patronage Boy” Vitagliano is involved with bringing a Hotel And Massive Multi-Family Condo Building Complex on the vacant New York United Hospital Medical Center property on Boston Post Road.

Thank you, ALDO "THE PATRONAGE BOY" VITAGLIANO.

Just what Port Chester needs is another massive multi-family condo building to raise school taxes even more.

This year's 13 1/2% increase in school taxes is killing Port Chester Homeowners.

Brook chester, Wellington Green, The Castle, The Mariner and now Aldo "The Patronage Boy" Vitagliano brings us more of Bruno Gioffre's condos at the old United Hospital site.

Why isn't Bart "The Bigot" Didden screaming about all of the density that these massive multi-family apartment building is going to bringing to Port Chester?

Aldo “The Parsonage Boy” Vitagliano and the Bruno Gioffre's Developers Are Going To Increase Your School Tax Bill.

Well it's just about time for a 75 Million dollar school bond to build a new school, because of these Massive Multi- Family Condo Buildings.

Maybe we should name the school the Aldo "The Patronage Boy" Vitagliano elementary school.

Port Chester has to put an end to these Massive Multi – Family Condo buildings.Residents are starting to experience a tunnel effect as they drive around the village.

Brookchester, Wellington Green, The Castle and the Mariner all use the "empty nester" code word to describe their projects. This is done to try and fool the single family homeowners of Port Chester. The developers all argue that these massive multifamily condo buildings are not going to affect the schools, but no developers will not guarantee you that their buildings will not send school taxes even higher.

If Aldo "The Patronage Boy" Vitagliano, Bruno Gioffree and Starwood want this massive multifamily condo building, then let them pay the cost of educating any children that live there.

Let Aldo "The patronage Boy" Vitagliano, Bruno Gioffre and Starwood pay to build the new elementary school that Port Chester is going to need for Brookchester, Wellington Green, The Castle and the Mariner.

Has Brookchester, Wellington Green, The Castle and The Mariner Developments Reduced Your School And Property Taxes?

10/08/07 - The prize: Region's growing Latino readership

The prize: Region's growing Latino readership

Source: HispanicTrending

For 11 years, El Sol has been the dominant Spanish-language newspaper in Stamford, dispensing news to a growing Hispanic population and drawing lucrative advertising dollars.

But the weekly publication now faces stiff competition from two other newspapers.

El Sol's longtime rival, La Voz Hispana, a New Haven-based weekly, opened a Stamford bureau last September. In November, William Caceres, a former El Sol and La Voz Hispana sales executive, started the biweekly Enfoque Latino....

... a circulation of 6,000 copies in New Haven. Today, the publication distributes 45,000 copies in Connecticut, Port Chester and New Rochelle, N.Y., and Springfield, Mass. The paper began circulating in Stamford in 2000 but didn't open an office in the ...

Source URL: http://juantornoe.blogs.com/hispanictrending/2007/10/the-prize-regio.html

10/07/07 - Amid license debate, immigrants seek out auto dealers, driver's ed

Amid license debate, immigrants seek out auto dealers, driver's ed

Source: Journal News

While the debate rages on whether to let illegal immigrants get driver's licenses, Yonkers car dealer Rulaman De Leon is looking at some of the practicalities.

In business for 20 years, he often sees car buyers paying in cash, leaving for a few days and coming back with out-of-state plates and insurance. He can venture a guess that these customers are undocumented immigrants, heading to states where they can get driver's licenses and registrations.

Other potential buyers keep asking if there's some way to get a New York license without a Social Security number.

Those questions are flooding in now, since Gov. Eliot Spitzer announced a new policy Sept. 21....

... in April. 'Oh, God. I'd have to get four more cars, four more instructors,' said Linda O'Shea, who owns the Port Chester Auto School. She turns away a steady stream of immigrants who want to prepare for the road test but have no Social Security ...

Source URL: http://www.thejournalnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2007710070355

ALSO:

NY Gov. Spritzer Feeling The Heat Over Driver License Controversy

Source: GuardDog

I’d have to get four more cars, four more instructors,” said Linda O’Shea, who owns the Port Chester Auto School. She turns away a steady stream of immigrants who want to prepare for the road test but have no Social Security numbers. ...

Source URL: Untitled - http://www.immigrationwatchdog.com

10/07/07 - Port Chester Boy - Rock arbiter still believes in 'the wisdom of the pop audience'

Rock arbiter still believes in 'the wisdom of the pop audience'

Source: The Morning Call

You might think the man who has had a big say in the music coverage of Rolling Stone since 1997 must be a rock snob by definition. Not so, says Joe Levy, executive editor of the magazine since February 2006.''

I still believe in the pop audience, and in the wisdom of the pop audience, that the pop audience validates interesting music by buying, listening and responding to it,'' says Levy, whose publication has a circulation of 1.3 million and a readership of 13 million.

While there are fewer central figures and the scene is more diffuse, Levy maintains, ''There is still good music near the top of the charts. Young, challenging, inventive rock bands such as such as The Arcade Fire and Spoon put out records that can be in the Billboard Top 20.....

... In the long term I may have be proven correct, but that year I wasn't exactly right.'' Levy, who was born in Port Chester, N.Y., in 1964, remembers the first single he bought was 10cc's ''The Things We Do for Love.'' His first albums were ...

Source URL: http://www.mcall.com/entertainment/music/all-levyside.6076823oct06,0,2759564.story

10/06/07 - Westchester Legacy Project statue vandalized in Port Chester park before dedication

HEADLINE:

Westchester Legacy Project statue vandalized in Port Chester park before dedication

QUOTE:

“The idea behind the sculptures was to dress up the park.”

STORY:

PORT CHESTER - One of two statues that will be unveiled today at Columbus Park was vandalized earlier this week, village police said.

A ball from a life-size statue depicting a girl playing soccer was broken off and taken Wednesday night or early Thursday, Port Chester Lt. James Ladeairous said.

The statue of a boy that accompanied the girl at the park entrance was unharmed.

"It's a shame that it happened, and we hope that it's returned," said Thomas Hroncich, superintendent of recreation for the village.

Full story: Journal News

COMMENT:

If Richard "The Drama Queen" Abel was not going around committing felonies like filing false police reports, and taking up the valuable time of at least two police lieutenants and the Chief Of Police, then maybe this vandalism would not of happened.

But Richard "The Drama Queen" Abel and his father Bernie "I Forgot To Pay Over 100 Property Tax Bills" Abel always demand and get special attention and favors from village politicians and managers who are afraid of the hopelessly biased We$tmore $nooze.

Maybe, if the Port Chester police department did not dispatch five or six cars when a True Blue Conservative Newspaper Box was being installed next to a We$tmore $nooze Newspaper Box, then maybe enough police officers would have been patrolling the parks instead of worrying about Richard "The Drama Queen" Abel and the hopelessly biased We$tmore Snooze newspaper box that was illegally placed on Haines Blvd. back in July.

Maybe, the Port Chester Police should question Richard "The Drama Queen" Abel about the vandalised statues, since Virgina Geldhart caught him monkeying with a True Blue Conservative Newspaper Box and taking all the copies of the True Conservative Review.

Virgina Geldhart complained bitterly about how her complaints about Richard ""The Drama Queen" Abel's We$tmore $nooze newspaper box were ignored by politicians and officials who were afraid of the Abel's.

You can see the Board Of Trustee's meeting where Virginia complains about Richard "The Drama Queen" Abel's We$tmore $nooze Newspaper Box and how she saw him taking copies of the True Blue Conservative Review here:

Gov. CH 75 Streaming Videos

Source URL: http://www.portchesterny.com/page.cfm?pageID=22

10/05/07 - Mayor Dennis Pilla And The Port Chester Board Of Trustees Are opening up the selection process for two vacant trustee seats

Port Chester Mayor Dennis Pilla

HEADLINE:

The new trustees, who will be paid an annual salary of $5,200 each, are expected to serve until the March village election, when all seats except Pilla's and Democrat Daniel Brakewood's are set to expire.

STORY:

In October, the village Board of Trustees will be considering eligible residents who are interested to be temporarily appointed to our village Board. You can find more information on our home page.

The future of Port Chester is very exciting! We are becoming a more progressive community and have attracted major developers. There is an exciting change that is underway in our village. All of this combines to make Port Chester, "Westchester's best kept secret"!

Source: Mayor's Corner @ http://www.portchesterny.com/

Reporter: Dennis Pilla, Mayor Of Port Chester

Source URL: http://www.portchesterny.com/page.cfm?pageID=5

10/05/07 - Ever Since Bernie Abel Got Caught Cheating On His Property Taxes It Is The Same Ole Westmore News Crap Every Single Rye Town Election.

Same Crap Different Year

HEADLINE:

Every Rye Town Election The Republican's Call Up The New York Times, because no one in their right mind takes Bernie "I Forgot To Pay Over 100 Proprty Tax Bills" Abel and The We$tmore $nooze seriously.

PREVIOUS QUOTE OF THE DAY:

Dean P. Santon, a trustee of the Village of Rye Brook, sees it differently....

I haven't seen any evidence of any wrongdoing by the town,'' Mr. Santon said. ''Mr. Abel has been carrying on for a year, basically repeating himself. Mr. Abel is the antagonist. But he's entitled to his opinion.''

NEW YORK TIMES STORY:

.......''In 8 of the last 10 years, there hasn't been an increase in town taxes,'' Mr. Morabito said.

The Morabito and Abel families have both lived in Port Chester and known one another for generations. They had long been neighborly, as many with deep roots in this small town are. But the men began feuding last year, when Mr. Morabito initiated the tax reassessment. Besides making property taxes more equitable, the town is hoping through revaluation to avoid or at least reduce costly legal challenges to its tax assessments, Mr. Morabito said. In the last 10 years, the town has paid $18 million in tax reimbursements because of such cases, he said, and the challenges ''hurt the schools more than anybody.''

Mr. Abel, a retired Air Force fighter pilot and real estate broker, founded The Westmore News 40 years ago so that he would have a venue to express himself.

''In the daily paper, I could only write a letter,'' Mr. Abel said by telephone from his winter home in Florida. ''I was opinionated. I felt I saw injustices and I wanted to correct them. I said 'Heck, to get my point across, I think I'll start my own newspaper.'''

In the early 1980's, Mr. Abel retired from the paper. He handed the reins over to his son Richard, who is now the publisher, and Richard's wife, Jananne, now the editor. He was content, he said, to putter around the office, help with school pickups for his grandchildren and enjoy his time to himself.

But when the town government ordered the townwide property tax revaluation Mr. Abel said, he could no longer keep his opinions to himself.

''He kept going on and on about reval,'' Richard Abel said. ''I don't happen to agree with him on the subject, but I said 'Dad, if you feel so strongly about it, I'll give you a column.'''

Last fall, Bernard Abel wrote his first Town Crier column. He hasn't missed a week since.
''I started digging and I thought perhaps reval wasn't the whole story,'' Mr. Abel said. ''Perhaps the story was the type of government they were running.''

No argument, it seemed, was too big or too small for the Town Crier.

One column chastised a town board member for not fencing in his pool.

Another criticized the entire town board because a Korean War memorial, built by a veterans' organization, includes the board members' names in letters that are larger than the names of the war heroes. In the column, several board members have been accused of nepotism and unethical behavior in their private dealings with town contractors. And the column has accused the town government of bid rigging.

''You tell me who is abusing whom?'' Mr. Morabito said in a telephone conversation. ''Every week there is an article against me, against the town board or about what's bad in the town of Rye. It's been 57 weeks in a row now. It never stops.''

Mr. Morabito said he and the town board didn't respond orally or in writing to any of the columns.......

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Source: New York Times

Publication Date: December 21, 2003

Reporter: Debra West

Source URL: http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C04E5DD133FF932A15751C1A9659C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=print

We$tmore $nooze - Bill Of Rights -You have the right to remain stupid and to keep sending Richard "The Drama Queen" Abel 30 bucks for biased reporting.

Anything you think will be replaced with meaningless information.

If you choose to read the hopelessly biased We$tmore $nooze you will only see more of the Same Old Crap.

Knowing or understanding your rights won't make a bit of difference, because you are funding the Abel's Personal Vendetta against the Town Of Rye.

Call 939-6864 To Cancel Your Subscription To The Hopelessly Biased We$tmoe $nooze.

10/05/07 - Port Chester Residents Are Being Warned - Don't Lose Your Home To Greedy Hedge Fund Guys And Their Predatory Subprime Loan Investments.

HEADLINE:

Business in the Burbs: Westchester starts subprime awareness campaign

QOUTE OF THE DAY:

"We're going to do everything we can to educate the community," said Geoffrey Anderson, executive director of Westchester Residential Opportunities. Ownership of a home is "an American dream."

"We need to keep that dream alive," he said.

STORY:

'Don't Borrow Trouble' is the theme of a campaign started yesterday in Westchester County to alert consumers to the dangers of subprime mortgages.

The subprime market provides loans for homebuyers who have less than perfect credit. The mortgages usually have adjustable interest rates, and the rates have been resetting this year to levels that are onerous for many borrowers.

The Westchester County Clerk's Office said 1,593 foreclosure actions were commenced in the county through September, an increase of 40.8 percent year over year. The number of foreclosure judgments reached 476, up 52.6 percent.

"There's not a month when somebody doesn't call my office and say, 'What can I do?' " County Clerk Timothy Idoni said at a program promoting the campaign yesterday outside the County Courthouse in White Plains.

A toll-free telephone number (877-WRO-4YOU) and a Web site (http://www.dontborrowtroublewro.org/), have been set up for county residents who are having problems keeping up with mortgage payments. Westchester Residential Opportunities of White Plains will counsel callers on their options. People who live outside the county will be referred to counselors in their area

........ in their area. The Westchester campaign will post signs, in English and Spanish, at five train stations: Port Chester, New Rochelle, White Plains, Mount Vernon and Yonkers. Notices also will be posted inside county Bee-Line buses. 'We're going to ......

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Source: The Journal News

Reporter: Jerry Gleeson. Reach him at jgleeson@lohud.com or 914-694-5026.

Source URL: http://www.thejournalnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2007710040348

ALSO:

Avoiding foreclosure

- Call 1-877-WRO-4YOU

- On the Web: http://www.dontborrowtroublewro.org/

Posters

Don’t Borrow Trouble Print Campaign (.pdf format)

Don’t Borrow Trouble Print Campaign (.pdf format)

Don’t Borrow Trouble Print Campaign (.pdf format)

Don’t Borrow Trouble Print Campaign (.pdf format)

10/03/07 - Unbeaten Records On The Line

Unbeaten records on the line

by Dan Pietrafesa

Port Chester at Poughkeepsie, 4:30 pm Mahopac at Ketcham, 4:15 pm Haldane at Keio, 4:30 pm Saugerties at Highland, 4:15 pm Rondout Valley at Spackenkill, 4:15 pm Wallkill at Pine Plains, 4:15 pm Onteora at Rhinebeck, 4:15 pm ...

Source: Varsity Club - http://pojosheahan.blogspot.com/

Also: http://poughkeepsiejournal.com

10/03/07 - Port Chester Building Inspector Leonard Cusumano Has Passed Away At Greenwich Hospital

Leonard Cusumano was the Chief Building/Plumbing Inspector of Port Chester, as well as, a dedicated family man and a lifelong Port Chester resident who volunteered in the community.

Chief Inspector Leonard Cusumano headed the Port Chester's Building Department, at 110 Willett Ave, and later at 222 Grace Church Street. Mr. Cusumano headed a staff of five that assisted Port Chester Property owners and developers determine whether they needed to receive any special permits for building projects.

Much of Mr. Cusumano's work boiled down to helping people win approval for projects by making sure plans confirm to government regulations.

Residential Projects that commonly require permits include swimming pools, decks and sheds.

Mr. Cusamano and his staff were responsible for helping landlords and tenants:

Relocate within the village.
Renovate their building.
Demolish all or part of the building.
Receive certificates of occupancy.
Correct housing code violations

Mr. Cusumano was a very active parisioner at Corpus Christi Catholic Church on South Regent Street in Port Chester

Please see previous post for more information.

10/03/07 - Sports Roundup: Port Chester beats Harrison 3-1; John Jay beats Brewster

Roundup: Port Chester beats Harrison 3-1; John Jay beats Brewster ...

Port Chester 3, Harrison 1, OT: At Port Chester, Mauricio Paiva scored two overtime goals, and Luis Barajas made nine saves. Juan Ocampo added two assists. Gianpiero Torres scored for the Huskies.

Source URL: Lohud.com: High School Sports - http://www.LoHud.com

10/02/07 - Busted - Westmore News Publisher Richard Abel Is Stealing Rival Publishers Newspapers In Port Chester

A Relative Of Former Port Chester Police Chief
Catches

Richard “The Drama Queen” Abel
Stealing Copies Of
True Blue Conservative Review
From A True Blue Conservative Review
Newspaper Box

Virginia “Ginny” Geldart went to Monday nights Port Chester Board Of Trustees Meeting to complain about Richard “The Drama Queen” Abel and his ugly red commercial newspaper box being placed in front of her home on Haines Blvd.

Ginny also Mayor Dennis Pilla and the Board how about 11 Police cars from Port Chester and Rye Brook harassed the Editor and Publisher of the True Blue Conservative Review as he installed his newspaper box near the We$tmore $nooze newspaper box.

Ginny also reported that she saw Richard “The Drama Queen” Abel take all of the issues of the True Blue Conservative Review Newspaper box when he came by to service the We$tmore $nooze Box.

Be sure to hear and see Ginny blast Richard “The Drama Queen” Abel in this week’s cablevision telecast of Monday’s Port Chester Board Of Trustees Meeting.

http://www.portchesterny.com/page.cfm?pageID=22

10/02/07 - Resturant Review - Inca Gaucho Of Port Chester

Latin food in Port Chester???

I agree. As close as PC gets to argentine is inca y gaucho. And that's just very so so. And mostly uruguayan...

Source URL: Chowhound's Latest » Tristate Region - http://www.chowhound.com/boards/20

10/01/07 - "We're called the Pride of Port Chester," said Jose Bautista, a senior at Port Chester High School and co-president of the marching band.

he Port Chester High School marching band performs during yesterday's East Ramapo Marching Band 2007 Competition

East Ramapo Marching Band hosts competition in Spring Valley

The thundering sounds of drum lines filled the air at the Ramapo High School football field yesterday, where the East Ramapo Marching Band hosted its fourth annual U.S. Scholastic Band Association competition.

... Long Island to compete. Suffern High School marching band placed second in Class II and received a trophy. The Port Chester High School marching band, the only Class V band to participate in the competition, won best in color guard, percussion, ...

...Holding their trophy, the Port Chester band leaders explained that preparation begins in Band Camp, where all the members work intensely for two weeks before school starts and grow close.
"We consider ourselves a family," said Kimberly Irwin, the band's drum major.

Their hard work has paid off. Senior Madeline Rende, the band's other co-president, recalled that the entire band was invited to play in the movie "Spider-Man 3."

"We played when he got the keys to the city," she said....

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Source: Journal News

Publication Date: October 1, 2007

Reporter: Annie Shreffler

Source URL: http://www.thejournalnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2007710010367

ALSO:

VIDEO:

• Video: East Ramapo Marching Band 2007 Competition

PICTURES:

• Photo gallery: Band competition

10/01/07 - Port Chester Fire Department Provides Emergency Responce To Westchester County Airport

Concern over landing gear sensor prompts emergency response at county airport

Westchester County Airport officials launched an emergency response yesterday after a pilot received an abnormal landing gear reading after takeoff. The corporate jet returned and landed without incident.....

... as a precaution for an emergency landing, Boyer said. The airport asked area fire departments in Purchase, Port Chester and Armonk, emergency medical services, and its own emergency crews to wait on standby at the airport. At 10:17 a.m. the Hawker ...

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Source: Journal News

Publication Date: October 1, 2007

Reporter: Kathleen Ryan O'Connor

Source URL: http://www.thejournalnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2007710010332