FOIL Wars
September 22, 2022
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History, Desegregation, the Lincoln Attendance Zone and the Continuing Question of a Neighborhood School
DUBLIN, IRELAND (September 28, 2026) — With a school in the Lincoln Attendance Zone back on the table in New Rochelle, I spent some time pulling together my past reporting, the work of the City School District of New Rochelle's District-Wide Health & Safety Committee — otherwise known as
New York Post Blasts Downtown New Rochelle in Scathing New Roc City Story
DUBLIN, IRELAND (September 28, 2026) — A reader sent me a New York Post story Monday morning about New Roc City, and my first reaction was: Hey, wait a minute. Criticizing downtown New Rochelle and poking holes in City Hall’s redevelopment narrative is my job. 🙂 The headline was hard to
A Primer: Lincoln Zone, Empty Seats, and No Land
NEW ROCHELLE, NY (September 24, 2026) - Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s line is the one this argument keeps violating: you are entitled to your own opinion, you are not entitled to your own facts. In New Rochelle, school debates so often go off the rails because people arrive carrying different calendars.
Crowdsourcing the History of Trinity School Traffic in New Rochelle
For decades, traffic around Trinity Elementary School has been a source of complaints in New Rochelle, particularly for residents of Davenport Neck who use Church Street to reach Pelham Road and the rest of the city. Exactly how long the problem has existed — and why a school with hundreds of