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DUBLIN, IRELAND (October 19, 2025) — New Rochelle City Manager Will Melendez issued a statement late Friday on October 17. He described the Flowers Park RFP as an “early step to explore ideas for improving the park’s facilities,” emphasizing upgrades to athletic fields, playgrounds, restrooms, and concessions while addressing flooding
NEW ROCHELLE, NY (October 16, 2025) — Last night’s Citizens to be Heard session ran for 1 hour and 50 minutes, with almost all of it focused on one topic, an RFP to turn over control of Flowers Park to a Master Developer. More than two dozen people (28) spoke
DUBLIN, IRELAND (October 12, 2025) — After more than two weeks travelling in the USA, I am back home in Europe. I booked so much activity — Ryder Cup, Metropolitan Opera Opening Night, Yankee’s’ Playoff Clinching Game, Notre Dame v. Boise State, Chicago and more — that it took me a few
NEW ROCHELLE, NY (September 28, 2025) — Quite a week at The Ryder Cup at Bethpage Black. I did not have time for any investigative reporting but stayed active on Talk of the Sound and socials especially Facebook. I cracked 1.7 mm views and surpassed 6,000 followers. Thanks everyone!
NEW ROCHELLE, NY (September 21, 2025) — I am back in the USA to work as a volunteer this week at The Ryder Cup at Bethpage Black. I am trying to squeeze in a few other things during my visit but my primary purpose is the golf. I worked the last
NEW ROCHELLE, NY (September 20, 2025) — The New Rochelle Corporation for Local Development is, pound for pound, the most corrupt element of the city government. Here is a good example of why.
NEW ROCHELLE, NY (September 19, 2025) — There is something very wrong with the Shrub Oak International School, a private institution in upper Westchester County, NY. We have been reporting for years on how the New Rochelle Board of Education paid millions of dollars to illegally place a tiny handful of
NEW ROCHELLE, NY (September 18, 2025) — Tuesday night’s New Rochelle City Council meeting was a masterclass in missed opportunities—about an hour of it, to be precise. Tucked into the agenda as a “Discussion Item,” Councilmember David Peters’ push for $200,000 in city funding for the Boys &
NEW ROCHELLE, NY (September 18, 2025) — During the so-called auditor’s report on New Rochelle 2024 financials, Finance Commissioner Lying Ed Ritter told council last week that sales tax is about fifty-fifty between brick-and-mortar and online sales. How he arrived at this figure is a mystery. Here is why.
DUBLIN, IRELAND (September 14, 2025) — Not my most fun weekend. Notre Dame lost in the closing seconds to Texas A&M due to a missed extra point by the Irish. The Giants lost in OT to Dallas after the Cowboys kicker (from Notre Dame) kicked a long field goal
NEW ROCHELLE, NY (September 13, 2025) — The City of New Rochelle issued a Request for Master Redeveloper Proposal (RMRP) late Friday to tear down and redevelop about 20 acres of Flowers (City) Park. There have been no hearings, no public input, no surveys — no engagement of any kind. The RMRP
NEW ROCHELLE, NY (September 13, 2025) — Several speakers at Tuesdays hearing on the Quaker Ridge Road (QRR) Complete Streets Project voiced concerns about outdated traffic data. They were told all the information they could want was contained in the Final Design Report (FDR). The QRR hearing required as part of