Greenburgh Insider: WE NEED volunteer landscape/snow angels.

 

Introducing two leaders of the 2022/23 Greenburgh Landscape Angels and Snow Angels programs.

INTRODUCING THE 2022-2023 SNOW ANGELS/LANDSCAPING ANGELS LEADERS.

Sign up to volunteer or if you are a senior in need of assistance.

LANDSCAPE ANGELS WILL HELP SENIORS WITH LANDSCAPING ON OCTOBER 23 AND NOVEMBER 19TH    (NEED VOLUNTEERS--WE ARE COMPILING LIST OF RESIDENTS WHO NEED HELP).

 

I’m happy to introduce our new volunteers – both exemplary high school students – to head up this year’s Landscaping Angels and Snow Angels programs to help seniors on a limited budget rake or shovel their lawns and driveways/sidewalks. They are looking for both teenage volunteers to assist their efforts in getting to as many seniors as possible, and for requests from seniors who need help.

 

In their own words, here’s Liam and Zach:

 

LANDSCAPING ANGELS 

My name is Liam Mantini and I’ll be leading Greenburgh’s Landscaping Angels program this Fall. Landscaping Angels asks high schoolers around our area to help volunteer by assisting our senior citizens with their basic landscaping needs - primarily with raking leaves. In hopes to maximize the efficiency of this program, we plan on dedicating two days this Fall where we will go around responding to any requests for help. Those two dates this year are October 23rd and November 19th. I’ve been an active Snow Angel for the past three years, and to be able to head this new program is rewarding and exciting. To sign up as a volunteer or to request help, please visit the links below. You can email me at liam.mantini35@gmail.com.

 

SNOW ANGELS

My name is Zach Weinhouse and I’ll be leading Greenburgh’s Snow Angels program this winter. Snow Angels gathers high schoolers to volunteer and help shovel the driveways and walkways of homeowners who can’t do it themselves. I’ve been an active Snow Angel for the past three years, and feel prepared and excited to take on this leadership role. When I’m not shoveling driveways, you can find me playing football or tennis for Ardsley High School or studying for an upcoming test. If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to zachary.weinhouse@gmail.com! 

 

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Below you will find links to two simple Google Forms — one for volunteers to sign up, and another for citizens to request assistance. As always, if you have any questions, please do not hesitate to reach out to zachary.weinhouse@gmail.com or liam.mantini35@gmail.com with questions, comments, or suggestions! If you can’t get online and need assistance by phone, you can call: Program Coordinators Zach Weinhouse (snow) at 914-839-0301 and Liam Mantini (landscaping) at 914-200-8072.

For Seniors: help request form - https://forms.gle/SJJUfpQSzGPEwzHT9

Volunteer Sign-Up - https://forms.gle/gLGHq3RgRue57PRt8

 

Thank you, and to our new team leaders for coordinating this incredible service for our seniors!  The snow angel program is starting our 32nd year. And, the landscape angels program is now in our 2nd year. We are so fortunate to have some exceptional students living in our town.

Paul Feiner

Greenburgh Town Supervisor

Greenburgh Insider: Some FUN things to do this Saturday.

 

Dobbs Ferry Festa, Greenburgh library book sale, Tarrytown ECO FAIR on Saturday, Elmsford Day.

Want to have some fun this Saturday? The Dobbs Ferry Festa is amazing. A street fair with vendors, music, food, dancing in the streets, shopping. From 1 PM to 8 PM.  Thousands of people enjoy the event every year. The Dobbs Ferry business district is charming. Enjoy the views of the Hudson River from Dobbs Ferry.

http://www.ferryfesta.com/attending-festa

FRIENDS OF GREENBURGH LIBRARY FALL SALE

Friday, September 30 from 9:30 AM  to 4:30 PM and Saturday October 1 from 9:30 AM to 4:30 PM

The friends supports, advocates for and strengthens the library by fostering public awareness of its purpose and needs as an institution of life long learning.

TARRYTOWN ENVIRONMENTAL ADVISORY COUNCIL ANNUAL ECO FAIR  

SATURDAY, October 1 at Patriots Park from 10 AM to 2 PM

Learn about zero waste, alternative energy and solar power, food scrap recycling and composting, local sustainable DIY projects, healthy lawns, native plants

ELMSFORD DAY, Deluca Park (North Hillside Ave), mini golf, air hockey, dome hockey, DJ, Rides, dream dance studio performances, face painting and more

PAUL FEINER

Greenburgh Insider: SAVE THE DATE: EMPOWERING THE DISABILITY VOTE - Greenburgh Library, Thursday October 13 10 a.m.-12:30 P.M. - Information, Light Lunch, Trivia Games.

 

SAVE THE DATE: Empowering the Disability Vote

Let’s find out together why it’s important for People With Disabilities to vote!

 

Thursday October 13^th, 10:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

Greenburgh Public Library; 300 Tarrytown Road, Elmsford NY

 

LIGHT LUNCH WILL BE SERVED

 

Ballot Marking Device demonstration

Panel discussion on the importance of the disability vote

Informational presentations on voting rights and accessibility

Trivia Game with Prize

 

Sponsored by REV UP Westchester, The League of Women Voters, Disability Rights New York, and Westchester Disabled On the Move, Inc.

 

To request accommodations, please contact Lillian Mangi:

lillialillianm@wdom.org,  914-968-4717 ext. 113

Greeenburgh Insider: Public Hearing: Cannabis Wed at 7:30 PM...reminder first half of school taxes due September 30.

 

Town does not have any control over school taxes. School districts are independent of the town.

Reminder: First half of school taxes must be paid by Friday, September 30th (avoid penalties). The town of Greenburgh has no control over the school taxes. School districts are independent of the town. We only collect the taxes.

On Wednesday September 28th, the Town Board will hold a public hearing on a local law which would regulate various aspects of Cannabis, including retail dispensaries, indoor processing, indoor distribution facilities, etc. The public hearing begins after 7:30 PM at Greenburgh Town Hall.  Residents can participate by zoom if they do not want to attend the meeting in person.  The law would establish retail dispensaries as a special permit use in the PD Non-Residential Planned Development District. Other cannabis uses such as processing, distribution, and cultivation all would be restricted to be fully enclosed, and allowable by special permit in the PD District and LI Light Industrial and GI General Industrial Districts. A presentation of the law on Wednesday will include mapping that highlights these Zoning Districts and will include a comprehensive overview.  The sale would only be allowed in NON RESIDENTIAL neighborhoods.

PAUL FEINER Greenburgh Town Supervisor

Greenburgh Insider: TROUBLESOME BROOK IN EDGEMONT and MANHATTAN BROOK IN FAIRVIEW MAY CAUSE LESS TROUBLE NOW.

 

Town DPW makes significant flood mitigation efforts in various neighborhoods.

  

TROUBLESOME BROOK IN EDGEMONT and MANHATTAN BROOK IN FAIRVIEW AND OTHER WATERWAYS MAY CAUSE LESS TROUBLE NOW.

Town DPW makes significant flood mitigation efforts in various neighborhoods.

Town residents who have suffered decades of flooding issues with storm overflow from the Troublesome Brook in Edgemont, have already seen an improvement in conditions after this summer’s mitigation work. 

“Without question,” agreed resident Robert Dilorenzo who praised the project that is nearly completed. 

In the aftermath of Ida, the Department of Public Works received many urgent requests for flooding assistance, some of which persist through every substantial rainfall. The Edgemont area of Greenburgh has seen problems from the Troublesome Brook for over 60 years. 

The Town Board approved in this year’s budget funding allocated to flood mitigation, which enabled the DPW to put several essential projects out to bid. Morano Brothers Inc. won the contract to widen the channel along Central Avenue most impacting the Greenville Fire Department, Curry Chevrolet, and about six residences along Winthrop and Clarendon Road. 

The work increased the area of water storage and decreased it being prone to clogging. 

Another problem area surrounds Manhattan Brook, especially behind the Theodore D. Young Community Center. Twice they’ve lost their gym floor and after Hurricane Ida the pool was shut down when it filled with muddy water. In recent weeks, Morano crews cleaned out obstructions and silting up of the culverts alongside 119 and the Crossroads Shopping Center. Here again, Town engineers have seen improvements with recent rainfall that would have flooded the area otherwise. 

Finally, another area that received a clearing out is the tributary by the County Center that leads to the Bronx River. Six neighbors who live on Old Kensico Road have been most directly impacted. 

In the spring, the Town filed a multi-million dollar FEMA grant in the hopes of getting a handful of houses in the Babbitt Court neighborhood of Elmsford who suffer from Saw Mill River overflow regularly lifted to a higher elevation. The grant awards won’t be announced until Spring 2023.

“The work we have been doing will substantially improve the quality of life for many residents.. Further work for the Troublesome area may come following an engineering study underway from Woodard & Curran environmental engineering consultant firm.  

We have substantial areas around town with flooding problems. Resolving all the flooding problems in town will cost hundreds of millions of dollars. Our strategy is to include in upcoming annual budgets funds for flood control initiatives. We will also reach out to Westchester County, NYS and the federal government for grants and will gradually try to address problems in different neighborhoods of town.  

PAUL FEINER

Greenburgh Town Supervisor

Greenburgh Insider: Link to video-Andre Talley street dedication.

 

Global fashion icons and local friends, neighbors and officials came together to celebrate renaming a portion of Worthing Street "Honorary Andre Leon Talley Way".

LINK TO VIDEO OF ANDRE TALLEY WAY DEDICATION   September 21, 2022.

 

September 21, the last day summer, marked a special day in Greenburgh when global fashion icons and local friends, neighbors and officials came together celebrate the renaming of a portion of Worthington Street “Honorary André Leon Talley Way.”

 

André, larger than life Vogue creative director who lived in Greenburgh and died in early 2022, “gave us a picture of what life can be when we believe in ourselves,” said Deacon Frank Williams.

 

Azline Suber, owner of Azline Unique Fashion, worked hard to make this event happen and the reception to follow at the place where she met André, the City Limits Diner he loved. He said she looked "fabulous." Azline co-chaired the event with our Town Clerk, Judith Beville.

 

Fashion designer Diane von Fürstenberg spoke of her dear friendship of over 45 years, sharing that this “was a very emotional day for all of us; I love André” and that “no matter how big he was, sometimes he felt small” but she was happy to report that before his death, “he felt big.”  "The idea that now the street will be named for him fills my heart," said Furstenberg in a WWD interview.

All the members of the Greenburgh Town Board- Ken Jones, Gina Jackson, Ellen Hendrickx, Francis Sheehan and myself had voted to dedicate the street in Andre Leon Talley's honor and memory

 

See the full street renaming ceremony and learn more about André Leon Talley on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9h7unmH4jQQ

PAUL FEINER

Greenburgh Insider: APPLICATION FOR FREE EYE EXAM, FREE EYEGLASSES AND LENSES FOR THE UNINSURED.

 

This Sunday Sterling Optical will be offering free exam, eyeglasses and lenses to 75 people who don't have insurance.

APPLICATION FOR FREE EYE EXAM, FREE EYEGLASSES AND LENSES FOR THE UNINSURED.

 

The town of Greenburgh is working with Sterling Optical. This Sunday Sterling Optical will be offering free exam, eyeglasses and lenses to 75 people who don't have insurance this Sunday. Those interested in taking advantage of this generous offer to only those who are uninsured) must complete the form by Friday. We are so lucky to have Hartsdale Sterling Optical in Greenburgh. This company always gives back and helps residents in need. 

PAUL FEINER

 

Greenburgh Insider: Free eye glasses for uninsured - need to make request quickly.

 

e mail me if you want the application -pfeiner@greenburghny.com

Hartsdale Sterling Optical is located on Central Ave. They want to give back and are offering free eye exams, frames and lenses to up to 75 individuals  who are uninsured. If you e mail me at pfeiner@greenburghny.com by Friday AM I can e mail you the application form. The exams, frames and lenses will be given out only by appointment.

PAUL FEINER

FREE EXAM, EYEGLASSES AND LENSES TO QUALIFYING MEMBERS OF OUR         COMMUNITY. JOIN US FOR A ONE DAY MASSIVE GIVE BACK TO OUR COMMUNITY.

 

Fill out an application and see if you qualify for a free eye exam, frames and lenses. Fill out an application and submit to HartsdaleSterling@gmail.com before (Friday) September 23, 2022. Only qualified applicants who complete the application forms will be considered.  All emails should have the subject heading “COMMUNITY GIVE BACK”. Only patients who have a confirmed appointment time will be seen. Unfortunately, no walk-in appointments are available. .

Free single vision eyeglasses will be provided, for many, on the same day as your exam.  You must be available to come for an eye exam on Sunday, October 25th to the Greenburgh location provided during the confirmation process. All emails should have the subject heading “COMMUNITY GIVE BACK”.

***PLEASE NOTE: Only patients without eye insurance will be considered. 

 

Greenburgh Insider: NYS repaving Saw Mill River Road beginning this week.

 

Thank you Jennifer Glen- a graduate of the Elmsford school district who collected 1,400+ online signatures. She made a difference.

The NYS Department of Transportation will start repaving 9A in Elmsford/Greenburgh from Babbitt Court to Fairview Park Drive  this week thanks to funding secured by State Senator Andrea Stewart Cousins. Credit also goes  to a lobbying effort organized by a graduate of the Elmsford public school system, Jennifer Glen, who is currently studying for her MCAT to apply to Medical School this coming year.

This summer Jennifer organized an online petition drive and collected over 1,400 signatures from motorists, pedestrians and citizens who were upset at the numerous potholes, craters and bumpy/unsafe road conditions.

The NYS department of Transportation had claimed they had no funds to repave the road just months ago. Jennifer highlighted the fact that one citizen can make a difference.  Watch the link to the CBS TV news story about Jennifer and her successful lobbying effort.

I hope that Jennifer's success will motivate others to get involved and to speak out on issues of concern. You can also be heard. And you can make a difference in our community.

Thank you, Jennifer Glen for being an inspiration. And, thank you Senator Cousins for securing the funds needed to repave this important road.

https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/video/pothole-petition-gets-action-on-route-9a-in-westchester-county/#x.

PAUL FEINER
Greenburgh Town Supervisor

Greenburgh Insider: Students wanted- for Greenburgh Youth Court.

 

A great opportunity for students Program starts October 19-December 14.

 

Greenburgh Police Department Youth Court 8 Weeks Training Program Application.

APPLY TODAY TO BECOME A MEMBER OF YOUTH COURT

Wednesday, October 19, 2022 thru Wednesday, December 14, 2022

Excluding Wednesday, November 23, 2022

5:00 pm – 7:30 pm

Youth Court is a unique collaborative approach to help reduce juvenile crimes in a process that incorporates teens, victims, families and the community in a new form of justice – one that assigns youth to make difficult decisions about delinquent behavior of our young people by carrying out the roles of Judge, Prosecutors, Defense Attorneys, Bailiff, Court Clerk, and Jurors.

All Youth Court Members go through an intensive training program conducted by experienced Judges, Prosecutors, Defense Attorneys, Bailiffs, Court Clerks, and Police Officers.

Students who are presently in the 8th – 12th grade, are eligible to apply.   Applicants must be willing to donate at least 1 evening per week usually Wednesdays during the school year as well as volunteering their time for special events and community activities.

For more information contact:

Teresa Robinson

Youth Court Secretary

(914) 989-1785

M-F 9:00 am – 5 pm

 Gpdyouthcourt@greenburghny.com

 

Greenburgh Insider: Community Mental Health Resources Event: How to Connect and What to Expect" at GPL.

 

In observance of National Suicide Prevention and National Recovery Month, on Wednesday, 9/28 at 6:30 PM, the Greenburgh Library is pleased to host "Community Mental Health Resources - How to Connect and What to Expect" .

In observance of National Suicide Prevention and National Recovery Month, on Wednesday, 9/28 at 6:30 PM, the Greenburgh Library is pleased to host "Community Mental Health Resources - How to Connect and What to Expect" .

 

Join us to learn about positive developments in Westchester to provide compassionate, evidence-based mental health and related support in our Greenburgh and greater Westchester community. 

 

The program is a collaboration with the Westchester County Department of Community Mental Health (DCMH), MHA Westchester, and the Greenburgh Police Department, among others to share how to CONNECT and what to expect from the folks at: 

• MHA Westchester's "Driving Towards Resilience" Mobile Mental Health units at Greenburgh Public Library and other Westchester/Rockland locations
• Westchester County Crisis Prevention and Response Team 
• County-wide "Project Alliance" resources 
• Greenburgh Police Department and its Mobile Crisis Response Team
• National 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline
• 911 emergency line

Thank you!