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
This article is part of a series: New Rochelle Thimblerig Table of Contents DUBLIN, IRELAND (July 12, 2025) — My Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) request in May led to the release this week of 1,621 pages of emails to/from Stanley Bernstein. The records cover the period to 2020
This article is part of a series: New Rochelle Thimblerig Table of Contents NEW ROCHELLE, NY (July 10, 2025) — After two grueling months of persistence, I finally received 1,621 pages of emails to or from Stanley Bernstein to New Rochelle officials, spanning 2020 to 2025, in response to my
This article is part of a series: New Rochelle Thimblerig Table of Contents DUBLIN, IRELAND (July 8, 2025) — Have successfully orchestrated a March 2024 coup to replace a professional, ethical City Manager (Kathleen Gill) with a spineless, unethical sock-puppet (Wil Melendez), Mayor Yadira Ramos and her cronies have looked for
DUBLIN, IRELAND (July 6, 2025) — My how time flies. It has now been two years since Loli and I moved to Ireland. We left New York out of JFK on the evening of July 3, 2025 and arrived at Dublin Airport on July 4, 2025. We brought with us six
NEW ROCHELLE, NY (July 6, 2025) — Four candidates in the May 20, 2025, New Rochelle Board of Education election ran active campaigns, raising and spending thousands of dollars to secure voter support, while a fifth candidate, Myriam Decime, did not run an active campaign and reported no financial activity. Elana