The New Rochelle Thimblerig — Part XXXIV

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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 potential blueprint for other suburbs facing housing shortages. There is not a single dissenting voice in the article.

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The article reads like an urban rendering of the classic American folk song, Home on the Range.

Home, home on the range,
Where the deer and the antelope play,
Where seldom is heard a discouraging word,
And the skies are not cloudy all day.