Greenburgh Insider: OUR NEW MARKET IS AT TOWN HALL EVERY THURSDAY FROM 1 to 6 P.M.

 

Something exciting and nutritious is coming to Greenburgh! With the towns first ever MWBE contract . Gemstarr Entertainment in partnership with the Town of Greenburgh is bringing a new farmers market at Greenburgh Town Hall.

OUR NEW MARKET IS AT TOWN HALL EVERY THURSDAY FROM 1 to 6 PM.

Something exciting and nutritious is coming to Greenburgh! With the towns first ever MWBE contract .Gemstarr Entertainment in partnership with the Town of Greenburgh is bringing a new farmers market at Greenburgh Town Hall.  Join us at 177 Hillside Ave, White Plains every Thursday afternoon through the fall from 1 to 6 pm, starting June 30. Enjoy the fresh produce, food, crafts, plants,clothing, local product vendors. 

You could also stop by at Town Hall to speak with appropriate staff about town matters!

Gemstarr Entertainment, an MWBE-certified business is a full service event planning and vendor management company is founded, owned by Greenburgh's own Colby Jenkins, a resident and beloved member of our vast community.  Gemstarr is renowned for having over 10 years experience in providing popular events throughout the region. You might know Colby and her family from there Tasty Tuesdays events operating out of the TDYCC from 2014-2020, or the 2020 launch of TT seasonings line that extended from those hot fresh meals she offered, and as the Town pivoted from in person to socially distanced events she kept the flavor going by helping all of us make tasty dishes with her seasoning line at home. In addition to providing sustenance with great food Gemstarr Ent. produces the annual Women Who Dare to Be Different awards event since 2013 and the annual Breakfast with the Seniors at the community center. We are honored to have such a good community citizen, entrepreneur, and active member of the new Fairview Empowerment Group (FEG), company running this new market, and we encourage you all to come and help make this new effort a great success.

Vendors and volunteers are both needed! Please call or email us we look forward to working with you.

Athena Market managing Lead, Rukiat Vendor lead, or Patrick and shwayna media and promo lead at: 914-661-0604;greenburghfarmersmarket@gmail.com.

PAUL FEINER

Greenburgh Insider: Town Board appoints Joe Danko Interim Town Attorney.

 

Joe Danko has served as a Deputy Town Attorney since 2016.

The Greenburgh Town Board named Joe Danko as our Interim Town Attorney on Tuesday. Joe will  lead the department until a permanent Town Attorney is appointed. There has been a vacancy in the Town Attorneys office for a few weeks after long time Town Attorney Tim Lewis resigned after being appointed by the Governor and confirmed by the State Senate as a Judge of the NYS Court of Claims.  

Since 2016 our Interim town Attorney has served as Deputy Town Attorney, representing the town in all tax certiorari proceedings, including properties of six villages and ten school  districts. He is well versed in legal research and drafting legal documents and has excellent negotiation kills.

Joe has served as co chair of the Tax Certiorari and Condemnation Committee of the Westchester County Bar Association. He graduated from Pace University School of Law and received his BA cum laude from Binghamton SUNY.  He was President of the Student Bar Association at Pace University School of Law and Executive Vice President of the Student Association at Binghamton University. He resides in White Plains.

I think that Joe will do a great job during this transition period. And thank him for his service.

PAUL FEINER

Greenburgh Town Supervisor

Greenburgh Insider: Future of Elmwood Country Club- 113 single family homes, 14.2 acres of parkland.

 

Public hearing on July 13th to consider conservation overlay zone at 850 Dobbs Ferry Road & 113 detached one family residences. 14.2 acre park dedication.

In recent years there has been much discussion over the future of the  109 acres of the former Elmwood Country Club. After many public hearings and environmental, traffic reviews  there seems to be a consensus  to allow 113 single family homes.  There would also be a 14.2 acre park dedication.

The Greenburgh Town Board has scheduled a public hearing for 7:30 PM on July 13 2022  at Greenburgh Town Hall  to consider  a Zoning Map amendment (Conservation district overlay zone) related to the Elmwood Preserve project and property located  at 850 Dobbs Ferry Road. 

The Greenburgh Town Board has decided to support 113 detached one family residences at Elmwood instead of townhouses.  Recently, the applicant prepared and submitted a Conservation subdivision layout based on the 113 detached one family residences. 

 The conservation subdivision layout includes a rezoning petition for a Conservation District (CD) Overlay, which if approved, would retain the underlying zoning of R-20 and R-30 District mix on the site. 

The updated one-family subdivision layout includes 113 detached one-family residences and a 14.2-acre park dedication. 

Please direct any comments for the Town Board to planning@greenburghny.com and townboard@greenburghny.com  The civic association and many residents have been pushing the Town Board to approve single family homes.  The 14.2 acre park dedication is also welcome news which could be used to enhance recreation in our town. 

PAUL FEINER

Greenburgh Town Supervisor

Greenburgh Insider: Congrat's Mary Jane Shimsky...Ukrainian community to open child care center off Jackson Ave.

 

Day Care Center to operate at former First Unitarian Society off Jackson Ave.

Congratulations to County Legislator Mary Jane Shimsky on winning the Democratic Primary for State Assembly. We look forward to working with you to make Greenburgh even better!   And, thank you to Assemblyman Tom Abinanti for your hard work and dedicated & effective  service to the Greenburgh community. 

Greenburgh Town Board approves permit authorizing a new Child Care Center run by the Ukrainian Community at the  former First Unitarian Society off Jackson Ave

Another action step to help the Ukrainian community!  Greenburgh has the 2nd largest Ukrainian population in Westchester

Last night the Greenburgh Town Board approved a special permit that will enable the Ukrainian community to have a Child Care Center (Steppe Education) at 25 Old Jackson Ave. The building where the child care center will open was previously owned by the First Unitarian Society of Westchester.  Steppe Education will convert the building (which had been used as a religious institution and accessory child day care use) to a child day care center.  According to Peter Duda, representing Steppe Education, one of the goals of the child care center is to "help our citizens and more recent immigrants/refugees raise their children to be good people and decent citizens."

In recent months the Town Board and I have tried to show support for the Ukrainian community. Ukrainian flags have been placed at Town Hall and on E Hartsdale Ave. I have assisted some families with immigration issues and also provided some leaders of the Ukraine community with names of residents who have offered refugees temporary housing.   We are so pleased that this day care center will open to serve the Ukrainian community and hope we can do more to provide help to residents of Greenburgh who have family members in Ukraine or who are refugees.

PAUL FEINER

Greenburgh Town Supervisor

Greenburgh Insider: New News Flash Irvington's Shakespeare Company announces summer programs.

 

Shakespeare Company announces their 2nd annual summer festival at Mercy College.

Irvington Shakespeare Company is thrilled to announce their 2nd Annual Summer Shakespeare Production: Love’s Labour’s Lost coming this July!

IRVINGTON, NY — We at the Irvington Shakespeare Company, an Irvington Theater Arts Partner, are excited to welcome you to our 2nd annual Summer Shakespeare Festival! This summer, we are thrilled to present a production of William Shakespeare's: Love's Labor Lost. We are staging our production outdoors on the rolling green hills of Mercy College on the stunning terrace of their Verrazzano Hall. It is a beautiful, rustic space and easily accessible. Unlike last year, there are no tickets or registration required, just bring your own chairs and blankets for a wonderful summer night of free live theatre, with an option to donate (please if you can!)

Love's Labour's Lost follows the King of Navarre and his three companions as they attempt to swear off the company of women for three years in order to focus on study and fasting. But, when the Princess of France and her ladies arrive, things get...complicated.

Exploring themes of masculine love and desire, reckoning and rationalization, and reality versus fantasy, LLL is a rarely performed comedic triumph with an ending you won't see coming.

The Bard’s classic comedy will spring to life with a professional cast that stars Caturah Brown (she/her) as the Princess of France, Juliet Perrell (she/her) as Rosaline, Emma Freeman (she/her) as Katharine, Jane Abbott (she/her) as Maria (and Movement Director), Sarah Bitar (she/her) as Boyet, Julia Schonberg (she/her) as Ferdinand, Sage Newman (they/them) as Berowne (and Dramaturge), Traci Redmond (she/her) as Longaville and Kamran Saliani (he/him) as Dumaine (and Producer).

Original lyrics and music composed, written and performed live by Irvington’s Sierra Scott (she/they) as Co-Music Director, Jonah Scott (he/him) as Co-Music Director of The Altogether!

Stage Managed by Elizabeth Hetzel (she/they) and Technically Directed by Sarah French (she/they).

Performances take place at the Verrazzano Terrace at Mercy College on Friday & Saturday- July 15 & 16 at 7:30PM, Sunday (Special Performance at Hudson Park in New Rochelle) - July 17 at 6:30PM Friday, Saturday & Sunday - July 22, 23 & 24 at 7:30PM Friday, Saturday & Sunday - July 29, 30 & 31 at 7:30PM All admission is free with a donation option, visit irvshakespeare.org for more info! 

Shakespeare's works reflect many of the themes and challenges present in our world today, offering catharsis and hope. The Irvington Shakespeare Company (ISC) seeks to decolonize and perform Shakespeare's plays in ways that everyone can understand in order to better process this critical moment in time.

We produce professional theatre to entertain and inspire audiences, aiming to showcase local talent in Westchester, the greater Hudson Valley, and throughout New York State. We will take steps to ensure our productions are inclusive creatively as well as accessible physically by producing plays with an intersectional lens, at free or affordable cost, while being mindful to stage performances all people can attend through public transportation.

Forever grateful to Mercy College’s own Lisa Mills-Campbell, Peter West, Marc Palmieri, Jessica Ward, Kelli Johnn and Maria Walsh-Regotti.

Love's Labour's Lost is a co-production with our Executive Producer Mercy College, as well as our fiscal sponsors Center for Independent Productions and Fractured Atlas.

 

Greenburgh Insider: Locations where children between the ages of 0-4 can get vaccines.

 

Vax Up Westchester (a vaccine advocacy group started by the Town of Greenburgh ) prepared a list of facilities that are offering vaccines to children between the age of 0-4. Please click onto the link below for a list of convenient locations.

Locations where children between the ages of 0-4 can get vaccines

Vax Up Westchester  (a vaccine advocacy group started by the Town of Greenburgh ) prepared a list of facilities that are offering vaccines to children between the age of 0-4.  Please click onto the link below for a list of convenient locations.

 

Please note that the Greenburgh Health Center is also offering vaccines for small children.

Our vaccines for under 5 year old have arrived and vaccines are available at all

our sites.  We are ready to give vaccines during our scheduled hours, (PFIZER, MODERNA)

to under 5 years and all ages.

Greenburgh -  Wednesdays – 9AM – 7PM

The Health Center is located on Knollwood Road (almost across from the Greenburgh Library).

Stay safe and healthy.

PAUL FEINER

Sorry for the exclamation points everyone, but lest you think #VaxUpWestchester has been resting on its laurels, we have -- with a wonderful assist from newly minted volunteer Skylar Sloane -- updated our Youth Vaccines directory to reflect sites that are administering to children 0-4. Please share far and wide. Parents across the county are very stymied about how and where to vaccinate their youngest, and they have waited long enough. And please do let us know if you have updates for us to add/include. (We have also updated our News and Resources page with general info on cohorts of eligibility.) 

 

All the best to you and yours,

 

Kenny
 

Kenny Herzog

Executive Director, #VaxUpWestchester

http://vaxupwestchester.org/

https://www.instagram.com/vaxupwestchester/

 

Greenburgh Insider: Election Desk 2022 News: Endorsement Alert: Yonkers PBA Endorses Judge Erin O'Shea-MoGoey for Grrenburgh Town Justice: Elections 2022.

 

We are proud to announce that the Yonkers PBA has officially endorsed our candidacy!

A big thank you to President Keith Olson - and the entire organization - your support means so much!

For our full list of endorsements, check out the Endorsement page of our website!

https://www.friendstoelecterin.com/endorsements

#TeamErin

#ElectErin

Greenburgh Insider: Great News—Greenburgh to receive $5 million from NYS---sidewalk to be built on West Hartsdale Ave.

 

The Town Board of the Town of Greenburgh has made pedestrian safety a major priority for years. Over the last several years the Board has supported the development of over five miles of new sidewalk.

Great News—Greenburgh to receive $5 million from NYS---sidewalk to be built on West Hartsdale Ave.

 

The Town Board of the Town of Greenburgh has made pedestrian safety a major priority for years. Over the last several years the Board has supported the development of over five miles of new sidewalk through direct Town expenditures, grant funding and private sector development. On Thursday, June 23, 2022, Lt. Governor Antonio Delgado, Senator Andrea Stewart Cousins, Assemblyman Tom Abinanti, County Executive George Latimer announced that the Town of Greenburgh is the recipient of a $5,000,000 Transportation Alternatives Program (TAP) grant for improvements which will include: (1) over 1 mile of sidewalk extending from Four Corners (intersection of Central Ave/West Hartsdale Ave) up West Hartsdale Avenue to Pat Capone Road connecting to three school campuses; (2) Adaptive Traffic Control Signals from Four Corners to the Hartsdale Train Station which will be synched to relieve congestion in the corridor; and (3) pedestrian safety enhancements spanning all of the East Hartsdale Avenue downtown corridor. 

 

West Hartsdale Avenue is the most significant gap in the Town’s pedestrian network and will be one of the most important infrastructure projects ever undertaken in the Town. These projects will benefit businesses, residents and commuters throughout the Town. The improvements will also strengthen the viability of redevelopment at Four Corners, which was the subject of a strategic land-use plan approved by the Town Board in 2019. 

 

The Town has successfully partnered with New York State Department of Transportation on two prior TAP grant projects with a sidewalk recently completed on Central Park Avenue and a sidewalk along Hillside Avenue, soon ready for construction.

 

The East-West Hartsdale Avenue TAP grant announcement builds upon another recent announcement, as the Town of Greenburgh successfully partnered with Congressman Mondaire Jones to receive $1,000,000 of Community Project funding for a new sidewalk along Dobbs Ferry Road which will connect West Hartsdale Avenue to Rt. 119-Tarrytown Road, projected to be constructed in 2023. 

 

The Town will also soon construct a pedestrian activated HAWK signal at the intersection of Central Avenue and Lawton Avenue, one block north of Four Corners. This signal will be the first of its type in the Town, with construction to begin in July. Planning for a sidewalk along North Washington Avenue also continues, as does pedestrian safety planning Town-wide. A special thanks to the Town Board, civic associations, residents and other Boards and committees that provided letters of support for the grant. The TAP grant was also strengthened by the work of Consultant AKRF, who provided technical assistance with the grant application under the supervision of Planning Commissioner Garrett Duquesne, who authored the grant. 

 

A summary of the grant-based improvements planned are identified in the graphics below. 

Link to News 12 story:

 

https://westchester.news12.com/hartsdale-to-get-new-sidewalks-as-part-of-180m-in-transportation-climate-funding-in-ny

PAUL FEINER

Greenburgh Town Supervisor

Greenburgh Insider: 2 events today: PRIDE RALLY and Yoga.

 

Pride march and rally co-sponsored by Greenburgh Human Rights Committee & International day of Yoga.

Two special events today:

Saturday June 25 1 PM  Greenburgh pride rally co-sponsored by the Greenburgh Human Rights Committee in support of the LGBTQ community that resides in our town

1 PM March to the waterfront from Cedar/Main in Dobbs Ferry

2 PM  to 5 pm rally at the Dobbs Ferry waterfront park

5:30 to 8 PM 

International day of Yoga at Richard Presser Park, Hartsdale.  

Enjoy Yoga. Free Yoga mats and tee shirts to the first 100 participants. 

PAUL FEINER

Greenburgh Insider: International Day of Yoga at Richard Presser Park.

 

One of the most enjoyable programs the town participates in is our annual International Day of Yoga at Richard Presser Park on Central Ave. The event, organized by Sivadasan Nair, is being held this Saturday June 25 from 5:30 to 8 PM.

One of the most enjoyable programs the town participates in is our annual International Day of Yoga at Richard Presser Park on Central Ave. The event, organized by Sivadasan Nair, is being held this Saturday June 25 from 5:30 to 8 PM. FREE yoga mats and tee shirts to the first 100 participants.  It's lots of fun.

PAUL FEINER

Greenburgh Insider: Eat & vote --food truck @early voting....farmers market at town hall starts a week from Thursday.

 

Food truck at Town Hall on 3 early voting days....farmers market begins a week from Thursday at Town Hall...save the dates for summer jazz and community celebration.

VOTE AND EAT TOMORROW, FRIDAY AND SUNDAY AT GREENBURGH TOWN HALL EARLY VOTING SITE.

  

Rob Del Balzo will have a food truck outside Greeenburgh Town Hall Thursday, Friday and Sunday. It's our third year we will have food trucks available on some early voting days.

 

Hours: Thursday: 2 PM to 8 PM

 

Friday all day 8 AM to 4 PM including breakfast egg sandwiches in the AM. 

 

Sunday.  10 AM to 3 PM.

Instagram @chefrobonwheels

 

 

Facebook chef robs catering

 

Website robcookfood.com

Chef Rob Del Balzo has made a number of appearances on food network and Fox News on Cavuto Live. Known for lobster rolls, chipotle bbq pulled pork and smoked Gouda mac and cheese. Full menu can be found on the website. 

STARTING THURSDAY JUNE 30th  GREENBURGH FARMERS MARKET AT GREENBURGH TOWN HALL     1 TO 6 PM

 

   Every Thursday starting a week from tomorrow - enjoy our new Farmers Market at Greenburgh Town Hall from 1-6 PM. Fresh produce. 

SAVE THE DATES--JULY 9 AND AUGUST 6  FAMILY DAY OF JAZZ

 

The Department of Community Resources (DCR) at the Theodore D. Young Community Center (TDYCC) invites you to "A Family Day of Jazz," our annual community celebration and jazz series. Enjoy a day of live music, bouncy rides and attractions, face painting, food and fun for people of all ages. This year's celebration is being held in two acts; Act I, Saturday, July 9th and Act II, August 6th both events from 11am to 6pm in Yosemite Park (40 Yosemite Ave, WP, NY 10607), located behind DCR/TDYCC. Vending opportunities are available for both events! Contact Tina Harper for more information at 914-989-3620 or by email at tharper@greenburghny.com.

 

Paul Feiner