BAYREUTH, GERMANY (August 26, 2025) — I submitted my response Monday to the complaint filed on August 4 by David D. Lin and Michael D. Cilento of Lewis & Lin, LLC on behalf of New Rochelle Corporation Counsel Dawn Warren (Dum Dum) and New Rochelle Development Commissioner Adam Salgado (Loverboy). You
PRAGUE, CZECH (August 17, 2025) — Over the past week I have been traveling with stops in Budapest, Vienna, and now Prague. I am off to Germany tomorrow to the attend the Bayreuth Festival. I booked so many things to do each day that I am too tired at the end
NEW ROCHELLE, NY (August 24, 2025) — I could write a detailed account of the disastrous Taste of Horton event yesterday — or the equally poor showing at the Coffee with the Mayor event — but I am going to ask my readers to do that in the comments.
DUBLIN, IRELAND (August 17, 2025) — I will be on holiday starting tomorrow with stops in Budapest, Vienna, and Prague before crossing into Germany to attend the Bayreuth Festival to see two Wagner productions (Tristan & Isolde, Parsifal) at the opera house he built to showcase his compositions; the Bayreuth Festspielhaus
NEW ROCHELLE, NY (August 14, 2025) — In a recent opinion piece for Governing magazine, New Rochelle City Manager Wilfredo Melendez extolled the virtues of the council-manager system of government, crediting it with balancing democratic accountability and operational expertise to drive the city’s progress. But just weeks before the article’
This article is part of a series: New Rochelle Thimblerig Table of Contents. DUBLIN, IRELAND (August 13, 2025) — In a significant GETTING RESULTS win for New Rochelle taxpayers, competitive bidding for the 2025 Jazz Under the Stars and LINC-ing Futures events has slashed costs by over $67,000 compared to
DUBLIN, IRELAND (August 10, 2025) — The big news this week is that Dawn Warren and Adam Salgado — now on their third (or fourth? or fifth?) law firm over the past year— finally found a lawyer willing to file their personal defamation lawsuit — funded by the City New Rochelle, meaning the
DUBLIN, IRELAND (August 11, 2025) — A copyright dispute has emerged between Robert Cox, a journalist who owns the subscription-based website “Words in Edgewise,” and attorney Lalit K. Loomba and The Quinn Law Firm, PLLC, according to court documents filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of
DUBLIN, IRELAND (August 8, 2025) — On Thursday, August 7, 2025, I had an email exchange with Nate Adams. I expressed my disappointment about him calling me a motherfucker. He repeatedly denied it and then called me out, demanding I prove it, saying, “the floor is yours”. Well… per his request…
NEW ROCHELLE, NY (August 7, 2025) - Samantha Antrum, the community news and outreach reporter for The Journal News/lohud.com, has brought attention to New Rochelle's escalating traffic and infrastructure challenges in a recent article. Antrum's reporting details how multiple construction projects are disrupting daily
360 Huguenot, appraised at $170.9 million in 2022, was sold by RXR for $122,025,000 on January 27, 2025 (a 28.6% discount) NEW ROCHELLE, NY (August 6, 2025) — A 28-story apartment building in downtown New Rochelle, known as 360 Huguenot, was sold for $122,025,000 on
NEW ROCHELLE, NY (August 5, 2025) — New Rochelle is experiencing a surge in boutique coffee shops, a trend that signals economic and cultural revitalization in its downtown area. Since 2021, several independent cafes have opened, often in new apartment buildings, enhancing the city’s walkability and vibrant food scene. These
DUBLIN, IRELAND (August 3, 2025) — This was quite the busy week. I finally heard back on my ethics complaint against New Rochelle City Manager Wil Melendez, I got a response to my copyright infringement lawsuit against the lawyers for Dawn Warren and Adam Salgado, and I cranked out two Thimblerig
DUBLIN, IRELAND (August 4, 2025) — A legal battle is brewing between Robert Cox, a pro se plaintiff and owner of the subscription-based website “Words in Edgewise,” and attorney Lalit K. Loomba and The Quinn Law Firm, PLLC, according to a letter filed on August 1, 2025. The defendants notified Cox
NEW ROCHELLE, NY (August 4, 2025) — My ethics complaint against New Rochelle City Manager Wilfredo Melendez, filed in April, has drawn a response from the city’s Board of Ethics, prompting further scrutiny of municipal transparency and resource use. I submitted the complaint on April 28, 2025, alleging Melendez violated
This article is part of a series: New Rochelle Thimblerig Table of Contents. NEW ROCHELLE, NY (Aug. 4, 2025) — The Wall Street Journal is working on a new article on New Rochelle’s downtown development which appears to be a reaction to the growing media traction of the grassroots group
This article is part of a series: New Rochelle Thimblerig Table of Contents. NEW ROCHELLE, NY (July 31, 2025) — The Wall Street Journal published an article on August 15, 2023 which presented New Rochelle’s downtown development as an unalloyed good. New Rochelle is described in glowing terms as a
DUBLIN, IRELAND (July 27, 2025) — After a few days of recovery from working The Open at Royal Portrush, I spent the rest of the week clearing up a 10 day backlog of emails and chores so gotten little done in the way of publishing stories. There will be a bunch
DUBLIN, IRELAND (July 21, 2025) — I am back home after 8 days working as a member of the Practice Ground Staff at The Open at Royal Portrush Golf Club. I worked every day for 4-5 hours each afternoon. Between working, walking the course to watch the golf and a long
PORTRUSH, NORTH OF IRELAND (July 13, 2025) — I am working all week as Practice Ground Assistant at The Open at Royal Portrush Golf Club, at the large green quadrilateral shape in the center of the course map. I just arrived today. Most of the players will show up tomorrow but
This article is part of a series: New Rochelle Thimblerig Table of Contents NEW ROCHELLE, NY (July 13, 2025) — Stanley Bernstein, the Entitled Prince of Young Israel of New Rochelle (YINR), emailed New Rochelle Mayor Noam Bramson at Bramson’s personal optonline email account on December 6, 2021, to secretly