County executive race in home stretch

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The Scarsdale Inquirer
Founded in 1901
VOLUME 91, NUMBER 42
Editor’s
Notebook
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2013
County executive race in home stretch
Astorino sees threat to local zoning
By ILENE NECHAMKIN
After a quiet Columbus Day weekend, the village will liven up this
Saturday and Sunday, starting with
a fire fair sponsored by the professional staff and volunteer companies
of Scarsdale on Saturday at Crossway
Firehouse, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., rain or
shine. The fair will feature apparatus
demonstrations, residential fire sprinkler information and videos, hourly
fire demonstrations, extinguisher
demos, fire prevention videos, fire
safety checklist completion prizes
and a “smoke trailer,” for kids to
crawl through and learn safe ways to
leave a building on fire. There will
also be literature, food and hands-on
children’s activities.
In the evening, a benefit concert to
revive a beloved institution for young
people, the Scarsdale Summer Music
Theatre will be presented at 7:30 in
the Scarsdale High School auditorium.
The best weather of the weekend is
currently forecast for Sunday, when
the Concours d’Elegance will bring
a prime example of the automakers’
art past and present to the village
center, 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. while at
the same time, young artists will be
decorating merchants’ windows for
Halloween (watch that paint around
the cars, kids!). The little kids’
costume parade, normally held at the
same time as the window painting
contest, has wisely been postponed to
Thursday afternoon, Oct. 31.
Over in Edgemont, the Greenburgh
Nature Center will hold a fall festival
Sunday, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., complete
with pumpkin carving, scarecrow and
cider making, scavenger hunts and a
petting zoo.
Last but not least, the Scarsdale
Woman’s Club tag sale will offer
diversions for bargain hunters both
Saturday (9 a.m.) and Sunday (noon),
37 Drake Road.
Inside
New Ro mayor seeks ‘revitalization’
nation property taxes might have catapulted him into office — either that, or
County Executive Rob Astorino, a
the electorate’s disappointment with
Republican, is seeking a second term.
the Democratic administration that first
“I love the job,” he told the Inquirer
laughed off, and then settled, the lawin a recent interview, “although it’s
suit. He’s carried that opposition into
been very challenging in these times
office, vetoing a source-of-income law
because of the economy and people’s
that the settlement agreement required
frustration over taxes.” Also challenghim to “promote,” positioning himself
ing, he said, is the ongoing “discussion
as the county’s defender.
with the federal government about the
The county executive, who is 46,
affordable housing settlement and the
is well known to Scarsdale residents.
Rob Astorino
tug of war with the Legislature. But
Most recently, he attended a fundraiser
overall I love it.”
for Scarsdale Republicans, but he’s
The discussion with the federal government also spoken to the nonpartisan Scarsdale Forum
refers to the 2009 affordable housing settlement and, in September 2012, held a town meeting at
with HUD, requiring, among other conditions, village hall.
the county to build 750 units of affordable housAccording to his website, Astorino was the staing in 31 mostly white communities in Westches- tion manager and program director of the Catholic
ter County. Astorino’s vigorous opposition to the Channel on Sirius-XM Satellite Radio and hosted
settlement and pledge to address highest-in-theContinued on page 13
By ILENE NECHAMKIN
But Bramson seems to be fairly unknown in the village. The 43-year-old
Mayor Noam Bramson, the Democandidate visited the Inquirer’s offices
cratic challenger to County Executive
a few weeks ago by way of introducRob Astorino, was the youngest city
tion. He was well versed in the issues
councilman and the youngest mayor
that should be explored as the candiin the history of New Rochelle, electdates battle to lead the county.
ed to the council at 25 and appointed
Although Democrats outnumber
mayor at 36. He grabbed local headRepublicans by nearly 2 to 1 in Westlines charting the restoration of that
chester — the statewide average is 2.5
city’s downtown, championing “smart
to 1 — Bramson is not counting on
growth,” sustainability and regional
an easy victory over Republican Rob
planning. He was elected mayor four Noam Bramson Astorino, the one-term incumbent,
times, most recently by 79 percent of
whose campaign, to date, has been
the vote. One local publication dubbed the Har- entirely negative.
vard graduate “the Boy Wonder.” The Scarsdale
Although the Inquirer customarily interviews
Democratic Town Committee endorsed Bramson candidates for the same office at the same time,
for county executive at the March convention Astorino declined the invitation, which his
of Westchester County Democrats, an unusual spokesman called a “debate.” Bramson was willmove because the village’s county legislator, Bill ing to sit down with his opponent.
Ryan, was also seeking the nomination.
Continued on page 13
Greene to
step down
as SFCS
director
By ILENE NECHAMKIN
COURTESY THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
Busy weekend
ONE DOLLAR
Anatomically correct
Scarsdalians create iPad anatomy manual
By CARRIE CROSSON GILPIN
Wall Street whiz
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very first-year medical student
knows about the gross anatomy
lab: a series of lessons on dissection of human cadavers, with
students working in groups and
struggling, usually, to learn every
inch of the body inside and out,
firsthand. For decades, students relied
on a medical textbook, “Grant’s Atlas
of Anatomy,” filled with diagrams to
match the human body in the lab.
Trouble was, no matter how skillfully
the diagrams were drawn, students often had difficulty matching them to the
actual human tissues. The classic text
also required backup texts to elaborate
and clarify the material, and the materials were cumbersome in the lab.
Three medical students and their
professor have collaborated on an iPad
manual to make gross anatomy dissections clearer and easier, and two of
the four are Scarsdalians: Justin Neira,
an M.D. candidate and neurosurgery
research fellow at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
and a 2006 graduate of Scarsdale High
School, and his professor Dr. Paulette
Bernd, professor of pathology and cell
biology at Columbia University Medical Center and director of clinical gross
anatomy and of the anatomical donor
program at the College of Physicians
and Surgeons, worked together on the
project.
In the summer after Neira’s first year
of medical school, he and three other
medical students thought it would be
possible to replace the diagrams with
actual photos and write their own text,
using the iPad as a platform. CU students Neira, Dustin Tetzl and Jose
Ramirez, along with Lily Grossmann, a
SUNY Downstate College of Medicine
student, approached Bernd about collaborating on the new manual, and she
agreed. Bernd, who told the Inquirer
CU COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS PHOTOS
Dustin Tetzl, Justin Neira, Dr. Paulette Bernd, Lily Grossman and Jose
Ramirez at the 2012 meeting of the American Association of Anatomists.
Top, first-year students at Columbia University College of Physicians and
Surgeons work with their professor in the gross anatomy lab.
she had often thought a photo manual
would be a preferred method of instruction, wrote and edited the work, and
continues to revise it annually with new
teams of volunteer student helpers. The
new iPad manual is now being used in
the gross anatomy lessons and labs at
Columbia.
Using the iPad manual, students can
zoom in on photos that are much more
realistic than the idealized drawings of
the former text. Terms and definitions
are linked to photos, which are clear and
color-coded. Diagrams are included in
the interactive manual.
“It’s a good example of self-directed
learning. Students know what they need
to know to learn best, and because Columbia is a wonderful place, we were
fortunate to find a professor who was
receptive and collaborative. That is really what medicine is, anyway, a collaboration,” Neira said.
The students worked throughout the
summer after their first year of medical school two years ago, painstakingly
shooting thousands of photographs and
working on the textbook. They worked
12 hours a day, trying to finish before
the incoming medical school class began the academic year. Bernd edited
and revised the text throughout the fall
and winter, and revisions are continuing to be made each year to improve the
manual.
Bernd said with the new manual,
“students are coming to us with fewer
questions, and their dissections have
fewer errors. Also, the exam scores are
Stenciled on the door to the small suite of offices of the Scarsdale § Edgemont Family Counseling Service is the organization’s motto: Our
door is always open. The agency provides an array of services to a wide swath of the community,
maintaining a presence in the public schools, and
working with the village and police department.
On any given day, the door opens to children and
teenagers, families, couples and older adults. The
service, appropriately headquartered in the Harwood Building downtown, has become a mainstay of village life, thanks to the vision and sheer
energy of executive director Geraldine Greene.
Greene recently announced that she will retire
in March, after 33 years at the helm. Her four
grandchildren will get more attention and she
will continue seeing clients at SFCS as well as
maintaining her private practice in Mahopac, she said.
She’s “incredulous”
how the years have
flown by. “It’s as if
I just got here. But I
think about that joke
about the missionary
when someone asks
him what his wristwatch is. He says, ‘It’s
about time.’”
“I was never bored,”
she said of her years Geraldine Greene
here. “There were always problems — and challenges.”
The biggest challenge, she said, “was trying to
do so much with so little, with our limited resources, but that’s always been the group’s story,
limited money, limited staff.” No community,
even one as privileged as Scarsdale, is immune
from stress and rapid change, she said. “But
we’ve always been there, we have an infrastructure that, no matter what the human problem, we
can respond,” she said.
In the first few days after the tragedy at Newtown, Conn., last December, SFCS was “besieged
by telephone calls from people who needed comfort and direction,” Greene said. The agency also
responded to other crises — 9/11, the high school
homecoming debacle, Hurricane Sandy, a rash of
suicides, come quickly to mind — and weighed
in proactively on issues like abusive relationships, bullying, “affluenza,” domestic violence
and, quite simply, life’s demands. It sponsored
community forums. It sponsored programs at the
schools. Greene wrote columns for the Inquirer.
The agency was a constant, nonjudgmental, helpful presence. Its door was always open.
Her greatest challenge? In 1983, after a cluster
of teenage suicides in North Salem, the service
moved in to identify “kids at risk,” she recalled,
high school students to watch closely. “There
was always a crisis in May.”
Greene’s sunlit office on the fourth floor of the
Harwood Building contains a couch and a few
chairs, with a battered desk against one wall and
awards and mementos, mostly from children,
hung on the walls. The small suite has a certain
sparse look; it’s under-decorated, but welcoming.
“It doesn’t look any different from when I first
got here,” she said, surveying the space. “I never
had time to change the desk.”
Thirty-three years ago, the United Way-funded
agency consisted of “an office, a waiting area,
not many clients and a part-time staff of three,
and used to close for the summer,” she said.
There was a clinician who worked with adults, a
nurse who “did some outreach with older adults,
and a young man who worked with teens and
groups. It was a sleepy place.” The previous executive directors, she said, “never lasted beyond
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Calendar
artéé
Candidate forum
Outdoor Sheers
The League of Women Voters of
Scarsdale will sponsor a candidates’
forum Thursday, Oct. 24, 7:30 p.m., at
village hall (note change in venue from
community calendar). Candidates for the
5th Legislative District for the Westchester County Board of Legislators, Ben
Boykin and Miriam Levitt Flisser, will
participate. Elections will be held Tuesday, Nov. 5. Call 777-1948.
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The Scarsdale Board of Architectural
Review will meet next Monday, Oct. 21,
7:30 p.m., in village hall to review the
following applications: Frederick Fish’s
plan for multifamily apartments at 2-4
Weaver St.; a sign for Vintology’s new
store at 2 Palmer Ave.; a sign and awning
for Second Time Around, at 37 Spencer
Place and an awning for Gabriella’s at 46
East Parkway.
The BAR will also consider landscaping plans for 34 Wayside Lane, solar
panels at 150 Saxon Woods Road, plans
for new houses at 11 Springdale Road,
22 Murray Hill Road and 10 Ogden
Road; applications to legalize a front
gate, fence and stone wall at 62 Park
Road and enclose a porch at 10 Lincoln
Road; additions at 55 Corell Road, 125
Birchall Drive and 10A Heathcote Road;
new gates at 260 Mamaroneck Road, a
cabana at 63 Griffen Ave., and a porch
and garage alteration at 91 Garden Road.
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The Scarsdale Planning Board will
met Wednesday, Oct. 23, at 8 p.m., in village hall to consider the applications of 5
Burgess Road, LLC for site plan approval of a new house and swimming pool; of
Avam Partners and 28 Garden LLC for a
resubdivision or lot line change between
two properties at 28 and 36 Garden Road
and the application of Joseph Zock for
a resubdivision or lot line change between properties at 16 Dunham and 11
Pinecrest roads.
The board will also consider a recommendation regarding a potential amendment to the zoning code relative to the
installation of distributed antenna systems technology in the village right of
way.
The applications are on file at village
hall.
Correction
In a press release about a book club
meeting at the JCC in last week’s Inquirer, the author of the novel “Canada” was
mistakenly listed as Michael Ford, rather
than Richard Ford.
Concours
d’Elegance
this weekend
The 10th annual Scarsdale Concours
d’Elegance will be held this Sunday,
Oct. 20, from 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. in
the village center. The show will feature over 120 vintage, classic and
super-exotic automobiles, dozens of
marques such as: Aston Martin, Alfa
Romeo, Bentley, BMW, Bugatti, Cadillac, Chrysler, Cisitalia, Cord, Corvette,
Delahaye, Duesenberg, Facel-Vega,
Ferrari, Lamborghini, Lancia, LaSalle,
Lincoln, Lotus, Maserati, McLaren,
Mercedes-Benz, Packard, Pagani,
Porsche, Rolls-Royce, Sabra and Talbot-Lago.
In 2003, high school students Evan
Cygler and Denis O’Leary III wanted
to do something fun and worthwhile
involving their love of cars, and got
the idea for the first Concours. They
gathered support from the police, local
government, merchants and car collectors. In the past nine years the event
has raised over $220,000 for charities
across Westchester County.
Vintage cars on Spencer Place last year.
A group of local businessmen have
assumed responsibility for the event
to ensure that the boys’ legacy will
continue. Ben Hasson and Sam Fried,
both 14, are now serving on the board
with their fathers, Ira and David. These
young men received a special honor
from Cygler as he stepped down from
his position as founder and CEO of the
Concours. Dan Patrizio, son of board
scarsdale inquirer/jim maclean
member Lawrence, is also coming on
board as is Jacob Goodman. The Scarsdale Concours board now has three father and son teams and four local high
school students.
This year the Scarsdale Concours
d’Elegance will support Scarsdale §
Edgemont Family Counseling Service,
White Plains Hospital, and the Warrior
& Family Assistance Fund.
What’s Ahead
FRIDAY, OCT. 18
Scarsdale Task Force on Drugs and Alcohol, SHS room 170-172, 9 a.m.
LWV board meeting Scarsdale Golf Club,
9 a.m., followed by Food for Thought luncheon, 11:45 a.m.
Scarsdale Seniors yoga, Girl Scout
house, 12:30 p.m.
SATURDAY, OCT. 19
Scarsdale Woman’s Club tag sale, 9
a.m.
Fire fair, Crossway Firehouse, 10 a.m.-2
p.m.
Rocktober Rock ‘n’ Roll party, library,
1 p.m.
SSMT Benefit Concert, SHS auditorium,
7:30 p.m
SUNDAY, OCT. 20
Halloween window painting, village
center, 9 a.m.
Car concours, village center, 10:30 a.m.4 p.m.
Car wash to benefit Lakota children, Congregational Church, 11:30 a.m.-2 p.m.
Scarsdale Woman’s Club tag sale, noon
MONDAY, OCT. 21
BOE community meeting, Fox Meadow, 7:30 p.m., followed by regular board
meeting at 8
BAR meeting, village hall, 7:30 p.m.
TUESDAY, OCT. 22
Book fairs at Quaker Ridge and Heathcote, 9 a.m.
Scarsdale Seniors yoga, Girl Scout
House, 9 a.m., followed by trip to Bronx
museum at 10 and senior advisory meeting, 10:15 a.m.
Kiddie Kabaret, library, 10:30 a.m.
Multicultural Committee potluck lunch,
SMS, 11:30 a.m.
Quaker Ridge PTA meeting, 1:45 p.m.,
followed by OctoBEAR Day, 2:15
Drop-in storytime, library, 4 p.m.
Chess for children, library, 6:30 p.m.
11th-grade parent coffee with principal,
SHS 170-172, 7 p.m.
Junior League meeting, Wayside Cottage, 7 p.m.
Village board meeting, village hall, 8
p.m.
WEDNESDAY, OCT. 23
Quaker Ridge book fair, 8 a.m. (also
Thursday, 9 a.m.)
Musical playdate, library, 10 a.m.
Nancy’s Book Group, library, 1 and 7
p.m.
Current events discussion, library, 3
p.m.
Third-grade book club, library, 4 p.m.
Free wine tasting, Scarsdale Woman’s
Club, 2 p.m.
Heathcote book fair, 6 p.m. (also Thursday, 9 a.m.)
Writers Center program on publishing,
library, 7:30 p.m.
Planning board, village hall, 8 p.m.
THURSDAY, OCT. 24
8th-grade parent coffee, Popham dining
room, SMS, 9 a.m.
Scarsdale Seniors tai chi, Girl Scout
House, 10:15 a.m., followed by exercise,
11:45, canasta, 1 p.m. and book club, 2
p.m.
Tri-M Honor Society induction, SHS
music tower, 7 p.m.
LWV county legislator candidate forum, village hall, 7:30 p.m.
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Greene to step down after 33 years at SFCS
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three years” and the agency did not enjoy a good relationship with the village.
The community was divided about a
proposal to place a social work intern
with the police department, she said.
“They questioned its appropriateness.
But I thought it was the best thing ever,
to liaison with the police and work together,” she said, switching staffing to a
group of family therapists, “mavericks
at the time, who weren’t subjects of
Freudian mysticism.”
Greene, who was a recently divorced
single parent, brought her son along
to Scarsdale, two nights a week. And
the family therapists “moved away
from the pathology of the individual,
recognizing that the family creates its
own culture, own dynamic,” she said,
describing the family unit as a “mobile
with individual pieces that are held together.”
Before coming to Scarsdale, Greene
worked in a group home for girls in
Tarrytown, Bonaventura House. “We
shared a life together,” she said. She
drove them to Sleepy Hollow High
School in a beat-up van, later took
them to Martha’s Vineyard for a break.
The girls had had frequent run-ins with
the courts and Greene was determined
to give them a second chance. She realized that providing therapy for the
girls, and then returning them to the
exact same environment, “made absolutely no sense.”
Greene wanted to focus more on prevention; family therapy, she said, could
prevent a breakdown and teen alienation.
And the work, she said, was “exhausting. I needed a change.”
Greene happened to see an advertisement in The New York Times “with the
word family in it,” and applied for a
job she never expected to get. “It was a
leap of faith. The agency was in Scarsdale. I wasn’t from Harvard or Yale and
I hadn’t even finished my doctorate,”
she explained.
And she was a single parent. “We
called it a broken family,” she said, a
term that is now avoided. But she told
the search committee, “My mission is
to let people know that there are all
kinds of families. And the committee
was awesome. The message was so
well received.”
She said she was given the “freedom
and blessing to just go forward.”
Despite the service’s chronic financial problems — it doesn’t have an
endowment — under Greene’s watch
it’s grown to a staff of 13, two office
workers, five youth outreach counselors, and adjuncts, she said.
Greene soon developed the youth
outreach program, which, since 1984,
has taken a team approach, installing
three counselors in the middle school,
two in high school, ensuring that “no
one falls through the cracks.”
“It’s an accomplishment I’m so
proud of. It could be a national model,”
she said.
An anonymous donor underwrote the
elementary school TalkAbout program,
which addressed social skills long before bullying became a hot topic. Other
programs morphed into the Girl’s Center, which celebrates young adolescent
girls.
The agency has always worked with
the village. After a spate of suicides a
few Decembers ago, it mobilized community meetings to help people grieve,
learn from the experience, and move
forward. A local clinical psychologist, Linda Hillman Chayes, created a
community support council, hoping to
The American Family: Can we keep up with it?
By GERALDINE GREENE
In America until recently, family to
most people meant mother, father and
children.
Families in your neighborhood
told you this, TV programs portrayed
this, and textbooks in school told this
to your children. But the face of the
American family is changing. No longer is there a single pattern of family normality. Rather it is estimated
that one half of all women marrying
now can expect at some point to be a
single parent. Approximately 17 million children in the United States are
living in stepfamilies. It is thought by
some that eventually the stepfamily,
where one or both partners had a prior
marriage, will become the most prevalent form of family life in the United
States, replacing the family structure
that we know best of original mother,
father and children.
One can look at the single parent
family pessimistically as a “make
do” situation, or as a positive challenge to the adults and children who
lie in them. Unfortunately, single
parent families are stereotyped negatively. The children are thought to be
neglected, or have discipline problems, and their parents are too often
perceived as unavailable and preoccupied with their own social life. The
negative stereotyping that somehow
the single parent isn’t “as good”
as the family “next door” is sadly
too often believed by these families
themselves. Hearing terms like “broken home” used in describing your
family is devastating — and untrue.
Many single parents are more parent
than single — that is, overburdened,
over-responsible people who would
do anything for their kids. They have
to have the skills of a juggler and the
energy of a locomotive to balance the
roles of head of household, mother,
father and career person.
For stepfamilies it is often the dilemma of who’s really in charge, or
prevent feelings of isolation. “Suburbia
can feed and fuel feelings of disconnect and depression,” Greene said. Her
message to the community was simple:
“When you see something” — a neighbor, for example, who seems particularly at risk — “say something.”
Greene’s approach has always focused on collaboration, well-prepared
groups working together to strengthen
family life. She works with Sherri Albano, a police liaison, to create a safety
net for older adults and youth.
She credits residents’ generosity
with much of the agency’s success. “In
Scarsdale people are open and willing
to come together.” The neighbor-helping-neighbor program, she said, came
from the community. “I hope Scarsdale won’t change,” she said, “in these
times of economic stress and economic
downturn.”
But people are, due to technology
and the 24/7 presence of the Internet,
decidedly less present to each other.
“When I’d get on the elevator in the
morning, I’d always say hello. Now,
there’s always someone texting on their
cell phone. We are more impersonal.”
The cell phone is so pervasive, she
said, that she often must ask people to
turn it off during a session.
Will Eisler & the SHS ALYN CLUB
will host the 4th Annual
Home Run Derby
Benefiting alyn Hospital,
a children’s rehabilitation
hospital
Sunday, oct. 27th
9am - 5pm
scarsdale little league
Field (Crossway 3)
Mamaroneck Road across
from Scarsdale Pool
Trophies
and prizes
will be
awarded!
Join Will Eisler and the
Scarsdale High School ALYN CLUB
for a great day — and a great cause!
Do something because you can
for the kids at ALYN who cannot!
To REgiSTER oR DoNATE:
www.alynus.org/HomeRunDerby
Registration fee: $25.00 per person online
100% of registration fees will go directly to Alyn Hospital
FRee T-sHiRT wiTH RegisTRaTion!
Walk-up registrations are welcome the day of the derby for $30.00
In case of inclement weather, see website for rain date details
THank yoU To oUR loCal sponsoRs
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The original staff at SFCS taken sometime in 1981. From left to right
are: Rita Bigel, office manager Annette Stoller, Geraldine Greene, Vincent Androsiglio, Fran Ackerman and Roz Rosenberg.
how, if at all, to discipline the spouse’s
children. Visiting relatives — original and newly acquired — can be
extremely stressful, especially during
the holidays. For many single parents
living in the suburbs, probably the
biggest problem other than finances
is loneliness — and loneliness can be
fierce and depleting, especially when
it comes just at the time when more
energy is required to perform all the
tasks previously done by two.
It is not surprising then that those
in single parent and blended households have those special times that
get them down. For most, one of
those times is during the holiday season. As this season approaches, it is
more important than ever to reflect on
and appreciate the uniqueness of your
family, whatever size or form it takes.
Since Nov. 23-29 has officially been
proclaimed National Family Week,
we at Scarsdale § Edgemont Family
The agency brought together grandparents, who were estranged from their
adult children, and wanted to see their
grandchildren. “We took a leadership
role,” she said, in alerting domestic
lawmakers to the problem. “It’s now in
the divorce agreement. Grandparents
have visitation rights.”
After the success of the youth services, the late Gert Hofheimer pointed
out that there “was nothing for older
people,” Greene said, prompting the
introduction of outreach and programs
to seniors.
“Older people are younger these
days,” she said. Susan Gilbert runs the
agency’s At Home in Scarsdale Village
program, providing outings and socializing for seniors. “It’s all about social
connections,” Greene said.
But seniors’ needs catch up on them.
The agency networked with local clergy for Meals on Wheels, a program
that delivers prepared food to older
adults. It’s helped develop plans for
older adults living on marginal or fixed
incomes. “In the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy,” Greene said, “we found
seniors who are house-rich and foodpoor, and we gave them guidance and
advice.”
The times are difficult, she said.
Counseling Service urge everyone
to use this week as a springboard to
foster positive feelings among one
another. The greatest gift we can
give of ourselves is time, time to create new habits, no matter otherwise
small, of sharing, listening, giving of
ourselves.
In this fast-track society, we need
to reset our emotional clocks back
enough to give that hug, have that
talk, or play that game of charades.
The child in each and every one of
us needs nurturing, too. In turn our
children will learn what they live, by
example, valuable lessons in living.
Right now is the best time to begin
planting those seeds from which your
whole family may reap.
Don’t wait until the frost!
— Geraldine Greene wrote this in
the 80s, as American society was undergoing dramatic change.
“Older people are younger, children
are more anxious, and parents are beleaguered.”
She does see a difference in couple
therapy, she said: People are more willing to work out problems, not end the
relationship. Divorced people aren’t remarrying as much. And while she once
worked with single parents only, she’s
now working with remarried couples
and stepfamilies.
Greene’s approach earned her the
dubious title of “pinhead” from the talk
show host Bill O’Reilly. (She doesn’t
hold any grudges, though, and admits
to enjoying his “killing” series.) When
interviewed by O’Reilly, who often
takes a simplistic approach, about the
homecoming fiasco — scores of teens
turned up drunk at a high school dance
— Greene said it wasn’t “just a teenage
failure. It wasn’t a parental failure. It
wasn’t just a school failure.”
Greene said the incident, which received wide coverage in the media,
was “a phenomenon that speaks to the
times. It is everyone’s responsibility.”
Now part of the responsibility will
be passed. “People always ask me what
I’m going to do next,” Greene said,
“and I think I have an answer: I’m going to do less and be more.”
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important time of year, we reflect on the impact this disease has on the lives
of women in Westchester and all across America. We remember and honor
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decorators, both professional and
amateur, gained a wealth of new options when artéé fabrics opened this
summer at 455 central ave. in edgemont. artéé carries a head-spinning array of fabrics and trims in silks, cottons,
linens, polyesters, blends, naturals,
prints and lots of heretofore unaffordable embroideries, including crewel.
the fabrics, arranged in coordinated
color groupings, come in drapery and
upholstery weights.
unlike most fabric stores that carry
books of samples, artéé’s fabrics are
actually available on the bolt in the
store, to see and touch. Sales people
can take the fabric off the bolt, drape
it, to give customers an idea of how it
might look on artéé’s furniture (made
in north carolina) or the customer’s
own. a large selection of design books
from well-known design houses will
start the designing juices flowing and
artéé will arrange to make and deliver
the finished product to the customer’s
home or business.
the store also sells linings, trims and
tassels, accessories and decorative pillows. high quality remnants are available at deeply discounted rates.
the brains — and charm — behind
artéé is arti bhandari Mehta, who
opened her first store in Hudson, Mass.,
and is now expanding across the country. a native of india, she is experienced
in every aspect of textile manufacturing and design, and owns her own silk
mills. She likes to say she keeps prices
low on her imported fabrics by eliminating the middleman.
Free rabies clinic
Free rabies vaccines will be available for dogs, cats and ferrets at new
rochelle humane Society this Sunday,
Oct. 20, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. no appointment is needed. cats must be in
carriers and dogs must be on a leash.
aggressive dogs are not allowed.
under new york State law, dogs
and cats must receive their first rabies
vaccine no later than four months after birth. a second rabies shot must be
given within one year of the first vaccine, with additional booster shots given every one or three years after that,
depending on the vaccine used. Owners
who fail to get their pets vaccinated and
keep the vaccinations up to date may be
fined up to $2,000.
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Arti Mehta
Mehta used to own a mill in long
island city, she explained in a recent
interview. but she soon realized that
“Since america doesn’t produce silk
and americans do not want to be weavers, it makes more sense to have the
fabrics produced where the raw material and workers are.”
although she has been involved in
fabrics and home design for 25 years,
Mehta’s roles have evolved as opportunities arose. back in india, she designed
for big hotels and clients from the u.S.
consulate. “they told me i’d do well in
america,” she said. When she married
her husband Shekhar, now vice presi-
dent of her company, she came to the
u.S. thinking a two-year visa would
suffice. “I didn’t know where to start,”
she said, but she figured it out fast and
two years became five. She went from
shop to shop selling her silks to individuals and then wholesalers, including
Robert Allen, a leader in the fine fabrics
business. “i brought embroidery into
american home furnishings,” she said
with pride. “i made silk affordable.”
When the economy turned sour,
Mehta and her husband decided to open
a retail store. “i thought about where i
like to shop,” she said. “i like bargains.
t.J.Maxx did fabulously in the reces-
sion. i decided that’s what i want to be.”
She bought two Waverly stores that
were closing — “they had been a customer for 15 years.” She leased space
from calico when it closed in new
Orleans. “i looked at how many sales
they had,” she said. “Since i’m a direct manufacturer i had better margins.
What was not working for them would
work for me.”
artéé has supplied fabric for movies
(“lincoln”) and television shows (“Sex
in the city”).
Mehta does in-home consulting and
says, “i’m very particular about giving
people what lasts.” if a fabric won’t
hold up to the use the customer plans,
she’ll warn the customer not to buy it.
the Scarsdale store is no. 11 in two
years; the next one will be in las Vegas.
then Mehta will look at Princeton or
Jersey city. She already has a store in
Westport, conn.
While Mehta is traveling around the
country researching new locations,
store manager Kay yang will be welcoming customers in Scarsdale. yang
has worked in the home furnishing industry for 35 years. “i learned how to
weave in mills,” she said, “and moved
to wholesale.” as the head buyer for
Stroheim & romann, she traveled the
world and bought fabrics in india from
artéé’s parent company. now she’s delighted to have the opportunity to sell
fabrics she’s long admired for a woman she’s known 20 years, close to her
home in Old edgemont.
Artéé Fabrics can be reached at 7133531or go to arteefabricsandhome.
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Business people form new athletic leagues
the house of Sports and the business
council of Westchester have partnered
to form the business council of Westchester corporate athletic leagues.
the goal of these leagues is to encourage fun and competitive athletic games,
with the opportunity for industry professionals to socialize with co-workers
and network with peers.
“this is the perfect opportunity for
business professionals from all industry backgrounds to roll up their sleeves
and have fun, while networking and
enhancing their team-building skills,”
said Marsha gordon, president and
ceO of the business council of Westchester.
the house of Sports is an Olympicstyle, 120,000-square-foot athletic
training facility located at 1 elm St.,
ardsley. it features an 80-yard true
grass turf field, four regulation floating basketball courts, a 6,000-squarefoot baseball training center, a
10,000-square-foot performance center
and a 60 seat café.
The county’s largest and most influential business membership organization, the business council of Westchester works to help businesses market,
learn, advocate and grow. it is actively
involved in reviewing federal, state and
county legislation and regulations to
assess the potential impact on the business community and to influence the
outcomes through advocacy when the
business community’s interests may be
affected. it also acts as an information
resource for the business community
and government leaders at all levels.
the leagues are being formed for basketball and soccer, and games will take
place thursday evenings and Saturday
and Sunday mornings at the house of
Sports. basketball will feature a men’s
open league and a 30+ league. Soccer
will be offered in a co-ed, open league
format.
discounts are available for council
members, and non-for-profit companies. Players are encouraged to form
teams with co-workers, but individual
player registration is also welcome.
leagues will start early October.
all registrations will be taken by
hOS staff, over the phone by league director nick ar-bab, 715-5173.
For more information, visit www.
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Residents lose almost $100K from ID theft
On Oct. 7, a Cornell Road man
discovered a fraudulent check had
been cashed against his Chase Bank
account on Oct. 3. The check was
written for $93,350, and its number
duplicated the number of a check still
in the man’s possession. Chase Bank
closed the account, and patrol advised
the man to report the incident to the
three credit reporting agencies.
On Oct. 9, a Fayette Road woman
discovered a fraudulent
credit card had been
opened in her name
in June 2012. According to her credit report,
the card was opened in
Las Vegas and had an
outstanding balance of
$2,495 in August 2013. Records indicated that on July 8, 2012, the suspect
made a $10 payment to the account,
and on Oct. 10, 2012, an additional
payment of $1,040. Patrol advised the
woman to follow up with the creditor
and to report the incident to the three
credit reporting agencies.
On Oct. 11, a Walworth Avenue
woman reported that some personal
information was changed on her cell
phone account, and fraudulent charges of $2,007 incurred.
Donation drive for My Sister’s Place
Once again the Scarsdale Police
Benevolent Association is sponsoring a donation drive for My Sister’s Place, a nonprofit agency that
advocates for and provides shelter
for victims of domestic violence. In
anticipation of this drive, the PBA
is asking parents to discourage their
children from purchasing Halloween-related, mischief-making items
such as eggs, shaving cream, “silly
string,” books of matches, cigarette
lighters, toothpaste, hair spray and
toilet paper — and instead to put
that money toward the support of
women and children served by My
Sister’s Place.
My Sister’s Place will gratefully
accept the following donations: new
or slightly used large and extralarge duffel bags, towels (any size),
cheerful and colorful blankets and
comforters, new and unopened full
Police
Report
Stolen
A Starbucks employee, from Chappaqua, reported his Samsung cell
phone stolen from his workplace on
East Parkway Oct. 10. He said he accidentally left his phone in the public
restroom at 6:30 a.m. One hour later,
he went back into the restroom to retrieve his phone and it was gone. He
cancelled his phone service.
A 2013 Lexus was stolen from an
Old Lyme driveway overnight between 1:30 a.m. and 8 a.m. Oct. 11.
The car was valued at $55,000.
On Oct. 11, a Springdale Road
woman reported two home health
aides, employed in her house, accused
a third aide of stealing money from
them. The woman said money had
also disappeared from her possession
in the past. A total of four aides work
in the house. Police are following up.
Criminal mischief
On Oct. 11, a Hampton Road resident reported that someone had removed a village parking sign from its
proper location and placed it against
the side of her house. Further investigation revealed that one landscape
light was pulled out of the ground
in the woman’s yard and deposited
nearby. The displaced items were not
damaged.
Two “no standing” signs were removed from Hampton Road and
placed in a nearby Hampton Road
yard Oct. 12. Police returned the signs
to their proper locations.
Someone removed a decorative
stone from a wall surrounding a
Crane Road property and smashed the
stone on the homeowner’s driveway
Oct. 14.
Disputes
A father called police because he
was arguing with his daughter at
12:30 a.m., Oct. 10. According to the
father, the daughter would not go to
sleep. By the time police arrived, the
girl was in her bed, and the father said
the problem had been resolved.
One village sanitation worker
claimed he was threatened by another
village sanitation worker Oct. 10.
Graffiti
While on routine patrol, police discovered graffiti on a Garth Road alley wall and a Popham Road building wall Oct. 9. The graffiti on Garth
Road portrayed a dog’s head and
words of profanity directed at “Scarsdale.” Police described the graffiti on
Popham Road as “similar in style and
content.” Black spray paint was used
in both incidents. Patrol notified the
public works for cleanup.
Dog bite
On Oct. 11, a Walworth Avenue
woman reported a small brown dog
bit her leg while she was walking
home from Greenacres School with
her child. The bite occurred on Huntington Avenue. The dog’s owner, a
Brite Avenue woman, provided vaccination records showing the dog
was up to date with vaccines. Patrol
advised the owner to quarantine the
dog for 10 days, as per public health
policy.
Concerns
Neighbors reported seeing two men
on the porch of a house under construction on Valley Road Oct. 8. One
neighbor thought the men were holding flashlights. The men were gone
when police arrived. After speaking
with the homeowner, police learned
that the men were probably construction workers who were authorized to
be there.
Help
Patrol was called to a group home
on Post Road because of an escalating argument between two residents
Oct. 10. Although they had separated
before police arrived, one resident
was still in a very agitated state. She
agreed to be taken to White Plains
Hospital Center for evaluation.
Police helped an Eastchester man
get a ride home from Post and Mamaroneck roads at 5 a.m., Oct. 11.
The man said he had been drinking
and did not feel it was safe to drive.
Therefore, he started walking home.
He was tired and attempted to flag
down a few cars for a ride home. His
size toiletries, baby wipes and packages of diapers (all sizes). In particular, there is a dire need for new
twin sheet sets this year.
Donated goods can be dropped
off in the lobby of Scarsdale Police Headquarters, at Tompkins and
Fenimore roads, at any time of day
or night, from Oct. 18 through Nov.
15.
The PBA will deliver all donations to the shelter and will also
contribute to the cause. Victims of
domestic violence who have sought
refuge at My Sister’s Place have
been extremely grateful for previous
support from the Scarsdale community in the past. The Scarsdale PBA
is looking forward to continuing this
tradition and asks the community to
be as generous as possible for another successful donation drive this
year.
attempts were unsuccessful. One of
the drivers notified police.
Cars and roadways
Police issued a parking summons
to the driver of a car who parked too
close to a stop sign on Ferncliff Road
Oct. 7.
Patrol removed a fallen branch
from Penn Boulevard Oct. 7.
Police repositioned a manhole cover to safely close it on Leatherstocking Lane Oct. 11.
After a resident reported a child attempting to enter a Con Edison work
hole at the intersection of Sprague
and White roads, patrol used barrier
tape to secure the work site Oct. 12.
Patrol notified Con Edison.
Eight car accidents were reported in
the village this week.
Neighbors
A White Road woman reported a
neighbor walked his dog on her property, against her wishes Oct. 7. Patrol
spoke with the dog’s owner, who admitted that his dog defecated on the
woman’s lawn. He claimed he wasn’t
paying attention but promptly cleaned
up the feces after he realized what the
dog had done. Both neighbors said
they have had problems with each
other in the past. Patrol advised the
man to avoid the woman’s property
while walking his dog.
After surveying his property, the
new homeowner of a Quentin Road
house discovered a white fence erected by his neighbor was actually on
his property. On Oct. 10, the neighbor hired a company to remove the
fence and replace it with a new one.
The Quentin Road homeowner told
the contractor the fence could not be
removed without his permission because the fence was on his property.
Police explained the situation to the
contractor, and the contractor left.
Attempts to reach the neighbor who
hired the contractor were unsuccessful.
Village code
Police issued two summonses to
a company that posted advertising
signs on Mamaroneck and Greendale
roads Oct. 9.
On Oct. 9, patrol spoke with three
solicitors on Brite and Greenacres av-
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Lost and found
A Mount Vernon man reported losing his wallet in the village Oct. 7.
It contained his driver’s license and
credit cards, which the man promptly
cancelled.
On Oct. 8, a Berwick Road man reported losing his passport while riding a subway in New York City. Patrol advised him to file a report with
New York City police or Metropolitan Transportation Authority police,
as well as with a passport agency to
prevent identity theft.
A woman directed police to a red
bag peeking out of bushes in the
Scarsdale Pool parking lot Oct. 8.
The bag had the words “Santa’s bag”
printed on it. It contained an artificial
Christmas tree.
Fire
Firefighters shut water to a leaking hot water heater and helped drain
the unit in a Walworth Avenue house
while the homeowner awaited a
plumber Oct. 7.
Firefighters could not find the
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Firefighters stood by for Con Edison at the site of a gas leak in a Cohawney Road house Oct. 11.
A child and babysitter accidentally
got locked out of the child’s Greenacres Avenue house while food was
cooking on the stove Oct. 11. Firefighters helped them get back inside.
Firefighters helped Con Edison
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check seven White Road houses for
possible gas infiltration after a gas
leak was detected in a nearby sanitary
sewer Oct. 11.
A Heathcote Road resident reported
an indoor gas odor in her house Oct.
13. Firefighters stood by for Con Edison.
Filtration material in a roof-mounted air handler at Fenway Golf Club
caught fire Oct. 13. Fenway staff attacked the fire with hand-held extinguishers, and firefighters completed
extinguishing the fire with pressurized water. Outside the air handler,
damage consisted of blistered paint
on the cabinet containing the air handler.
Firefighters stood by for Con Edison after they detected a carbon monoxide leak from a Barry Road clothes
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Firefighters determined a reported
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Points of View
For county executive
The late u.S. Sen. daniel Patrick Moynihan famously said, “everyone is
entitled to his opinion, but not his own facts.” Sound advice, but the facts
about the 2009 affordable housing settlement between Westchester county
and the u.S. department of housing and urban development differ dramatically, depending on their source
all agree that the settlement document requires the county to build 750
units of affordable housing — for moderate-, not low-income families — in
predominantly white communities, including Scarsdale, and aggressively
market the housing to minorities and the least likely to apply.
robert astorino, a republican who was elected county executive after the
settlement was signed, has made his opposition to its terms the foundation
of his campaign, his administration, and, most recently, his campaign for
re-election. he has accused the federal government — Washington bureaucrats he says have never been to Westchester — of grossly overreaching the
original agreement by now requiring the construction of 10,000 units, and of
trying to dismantle local zoning.
his opponent, democrat noam bramson and representatives of hud say
that 750 is all that is required.
an ad hoc county committee charged with demonstrating the need for
affordable housing and federal funding was referenced in a March 15 letter
by the federal monitor overseeing the settlement. astorino claims the 10,000
figure suggested in the study is now controlling;
his opponent says subsequent correspondence
Defiance is not clears the matter up. and at a recent forum hosted
by the White Plains league of Women Voters, the
governance.
monitor and HUD officials put the charge to rest.
astorino isn’t listening.
astorino says further discussions with hud
will remain at an impasse, unless he agrees that seven municipalities have
exclusionary zoning. The monitor is now meeting with those communities,
re-examining the practical effect of zoning based on special permit rather
than as-of-right.
but enough said. It’s high time to end this costly dispute. The county is
paying legal fees, the monitor’s hourly fees of $1,050, and hud has withheld millions in public grants. Meanwhile the county executive continues his
campaign of public defiance — posing as the defender of local zoning and
self-determination, when there’s no threat. he told the Inquirer that without
his intervention, the time might come when a developer could buy property
on any block and erect multifamily housing. but the truth is that neither the
federal, nor state, nor county government can enact zoning.
astorino’s refusal to discuss things rationally with federal authorities is
also apparent in the federal lawsuit filed in August against the county for
violations of the Safe Water act. Water district no. 1 — White Plains,
Scarsdale, Mount Vernon, north castle and yonkers. The lawsuit seeks compliance with a 2006 environmental Protection agency rule requiring water
suppliers to implement ultraviolet treatment systems to prevent contamination by cryptosporidium. according to the complaint, the ePa issued an
“information request” Sept. 20, 2011, advising that failure to respond to its
letter could result in a civil penalty up to $37,500, daily penalties of $32,500,
and sanctions. The request was sent certified mail — and returned to the EPA
as “unclaimed.” That’s an embarrassment to the county.
Whether you agree with hud or the ePa is not the issue. We have our
own problems with the 2009 settlement. but you can’t solve a dispute unless
you’re willing to engage in discussion, and astorino has demonstrated contempt for the federal government and a reckless and antagonistic defiance.
Defiance is not governance.
We believe that Bramson exemplifies the values of the larger Westchester
community; he favors stricter, rational gun control, reproductive freedom
and marriage equality. and while the county can’t legislate these issues,
one’s worldview, advocacy and sense of fairness are bound up in them. We
believe we’re best served by someone who shares our ideals.
Inviting the gun show back to the county center is going backwards.
Astorino’s TV campaign has been completely negative; he doesn’t set
forth his accomplishments but levels charges against his opponent that the
Fair campaign Practices committee has determined to be untrue. We wish
the Friends of rob astorino would remove the ads from the airwaves. We
wish they’d include the fact that he is a republican.
astorino says the campaign committee is biased. he says that hud has
a hidden agenda, quite distinct from the settlement. he says that the water
safety case is a question of timing. He has difficulty submitting to federal authority and complying with federal directives and a hard time sharing power
with the county board of legislators. but he calls himself bipartisan.
We endorse noam bramson for Westchester county executive.
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On behalf of the Scarsdale chamber
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“thank you” to Stacey, rich and casey
baumer for the wonderful job they did
in organizing and running the SoWe.
They took the germ of an idea that the
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Garbage collection
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My home is at the end of catherine
road. I leave for work every morning
before 7 a.m., and put my garbage out
before that time on Tuesday and Friday. The collector has been missing my
home more and more frequently. This
is unacceptable.
When I arrived home from work today, Friday, Oct. 4, my garbage had not
been collected — again. I left a voice
message with the sanitation department
with instructions to call me Saturday
and to send someone to collect my garbage on Saturday — no excuses this
time.
a very frustrated taxpayer,
eIleen ZaMbeTTI
catherine road
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Education foundation’s gift disenfranchises Scarsdale voters
To the editor:
although it is not yet halloween,
something truly frightening happened
at last Monday’s board of education
meeting: the citizens of the Scarsdale
school district were summarily disenfranchised.
at the Oct. 7 meeting, the bOe voted
to accept a gift from the newly established and previously unheard from
Scarsdale education Foundation to fund
specific Center for Innovation projects
that were cut from the voter-approved
budget. This was done without community feedback and, in fact, without any
notice to the public whatsoever. Why
was the announcement of this gift the
first the community had heard about
this organization’s activities? What alternative uses for the funds were considered? Was the gift conditioned on a
particular use for the funds? What are
the foundation’s purpose and goals?
by funding these projects, is the
bOe addressing long-term facilities
planning as well as immediate educational needs? representatives of the
Scarsdale education Foundation stated
that they have raised $1 million to date.
What is the foundation’s remaining approximately $900,000 to be used for?
Many in the community are concerned about a shortage of teachers.
Will this money pay for another librarian for the middle school or another library aide or teacher at the high school?
Perhaps it will fund additional teachers
so that the overcrowded greenacres
fourth grade can return to four sections? Or, is it possible that these funds
are earmarked for the wellness center
that was rejected by voters last May?
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Perspectives on Technology
Peter Spitz
Titanium, chrome, ceramic: the chemistry of hip joint replacement
When I started to limp and hobble
around back in March, I visited some
orthopedic specialists and found out
that I needed a new right hip joint.
being technically inclined, I wanted
to learn as much as possible about the
operation and the materials used for
the implant. now that the operation is
behind me I can look back and share
some of my findings. There is a lot of
material chemistry involved.
The artificial hip joint consists of
four parts: (a) the femoral stem that fits
(is actually hammered) into the hollow
femur (thigh bone), (b) the femural
head or ball at the end of the stem,
(c) the artificial liner that replaces the
cartilage that was worn down and resulted in the pain as the ball bone joint
rubbed against the bone cup attached
to the pelvis, and (d) the artificial cup
that is placed into the hip socket. all
four of these components have historically been made of different materials
and the technology keeps improving
with time.
Material characteristics for the different parts must meet requirements
relating to hardness, structural performance, integrity (i.e. minimal wear
due to rubbing), corrosion resistance
and chemical antipathy, as minute particles of the materials used enter the
body as a result of wear. all four of the
following implants have been and continue to be used.
• Metal (usually a cobalt-chrome
alloy) on-plastic (polyethylene) has
been used for over 60 years. an original problem of excessive wear of polyethylene has been improved through
the use of ultra-high molecular weight
polyethylene that has been crosslinked to improve its mechanical properties.
• Metal-on-metal implants (cobaltchromium alloy, titanium alloy) have
also been in use for a long time, but
wear products disseminated into the
body have been an issue and the Fda
issued a partial recall in 2011. Some
patients had problems with metal ions
entering their bodies from tiny metal
particles worn off the metal surfaces.
• All-ceramic hip joints with ceramic
bearings are another alternative, considered a good combination for longevity and reliability. Originally, there
were a few issues of shattering and
squeaking, though the former problem
has now been resolved. ceramics have
the lowest wear rate and are sometimes
used for very active young patients.
• Ceramic on highly cross-linked
polyethylene is considered a good
combination of two very reliable materials. Wear rate is less than for metal
on polyethylene.
I was also interested in the different
operating techniques employed. Most
operations are based on either the posterior or the anterior method. In both
cases, the surgeon must work past tendons and muscles to reach the hip joint.
The anterior method is newer and is
considered to reduce pain, shorten hospital stay and achieve a faster recovery. In this method, the major muscles
in the buttock and thigh that stabilize
the hip joint are not cut, limiting the
risk of dislocation after surgery. nevertheless, the success rate is similar for
both methods. The important thing is
to use a surgeon with successful expe-
rience in the method he will use.
Interestingly, it was possible to look
at an entire anterior method operation
on youTube, which was instructive
if a little hard to watch. (Originally
shown on PbS — dr. Theodore Firestone demonstrating the operation at
Scottsdale Joint replacement center
in arizona.)
I chose a surgeon with substantial experience with the anterior method. For
the implant materials in my case, he selected a titanium alloy stem, a femoral
head made of zirconium heat treated to
develop a thin layer of ceramic at the
wear surface, a cross-linked polyethylene liner and a cup made of titanium
alloy with traces of aluminum and vanadium. The stem was inserted in the
femur in a press fit without adhesive
(though in some cases an acrylic material adhesive is used).
The operation at lenox hill hospital
went well, I had almost no pain afterward, I left the hospital on a cane and
then went through the recommended
rehab and outpatient physical therapy.
about seven weeks after surgery, the
hip was X-rayed. My surgeon, dr.
John cooper, informed me that the
bones and tendons had firmly secured
the implant so that I had no further restrictions on use of the right leg. Three
weeks later I played 18 holes of golf
with essentially no discomfort.
Peter Spitz of Scarsdale has spent
his entire career in the energy and
chemical industries. He now publishes
a blog, chemengineeringposts.com
that describes developments of general
interest in these fields.
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With public officials, what does
‘annual salary’ really mean?
By HAL SAMIS
It is not the world of our parents or
grandparents. Many of us grew up with
the notion that going to work meant
going to a fixed place at a fixed time
(usually Monday to Friday, 9 to 5) with
weekends off, major holidays and two
weeks’ vacation usually taken in the
summer months. The exceptions were
those who worked night and weekend
shifts or labored for low pay in the retail
sector.
Over the years, not only has the number of paid holidays increased by the
addition of new celebrations but the
vacation period has increased to three
or four weeks while Thursday holidays
became Thursday and Friday “observances.” Then work became modified in
recognition of those slow periods when
little business was conducted — like
the week between christmas and new
years, if not the month between Thanksgiving and christmas or the easter/Passover slowdown.
computers, smartphones and the Internet have had something to do with
the changing work pattern, as many
job classifications became mobile and
required fewer and fewer hours behind
a desk in the office. And work became
easier because research no longer required going to some other office and
observing that office’s work protocols.
Online search engines supplied answers once obtainable only by physical
appearance at libraries, arranged meetings requiring scheduling, travel and
shined shoes became second choice to
“googling” which is open 24/7/365. no
more time lost waiting in reception areas
to meet someone face to face ... instead
send them an email or text message. no
more phone calls lost because the party
called was “out” or even on the phone.
Oftentimes work was slowed down
for want of documents needed for examination. No problem: first the fax and
now email transmission.
yes, technology has changed the
workplace in regard to how work is performed. The change has far-reaching
consequences as far as office space requirements (rent); transportation/parking; clothing worn at work (shined shoes
replaced by sneakers, the expansion of
casual Fridays giving way to bathrobes
when working from home).
So when sympathizing with the “low”
annual earnings of many workers, we
should consider the large gray area of
what constitutes the actual performance
of work and what has been officially
sanctioned as the nonwork schedule.
how many days and hours does a job
actually entail? and how much of this
is the result of evolution, labor union
negotiation, technology, social change,
vying for talent or simply follow the
leader?
For example, one group that has always benefited from salary comparisons
(although this not measured on a level
playing field) is teachers. Yes, the education of our young is a sensitive subject
and hence those responsible have been
mostly exempt from a hard look at the
basis of their compensation. The most
glaring example is that teachers simply
don’t work 12 months a year. With summers off and winter and spring breaks
part of the tradition, their annual pay is
artfully disguised even while boosted by
discounts for educators. Opportunities
to increase their annual compensation as
private tutors after school abound, as do
summer work alternatives.
but the group that most interests me
are municipal employees in management level positions: not the civil Service employees association worker
bees. compensation databases do not
include how many weeks of vacation,
personal days, sick days, paid leave and
official holidays job titles allow. New
hires come on board with salaries that
may match that of their predecessors but
using only the salary and the state employment line code hides from taxpayers the true picture. hiring someone at
the same salary but giving him two more
weeks off with pay is nOT hiring him at
the same salary. Telling taxpayers that in
harsh times no one is getting a raise is
misleading if the truth is that instead the
employees have been given more time
off the clock. and “time off” means in
many cases that someone else is filling
in or the job was not as burdensome as
thought and that the manager’s presence
was superfluous from the start.
What would be a truer measure and
an eye opener for taxpayers, would be a
database showing how many days that
those occupying the position are required to put in an appearance. The pay
per day worked comparison would follow and thereafter, the revolution.
But enough about the “haves”; let’s
look more closely at the “have nots.”
concern for “affordable housing for
the workforce” or seniors is all the fashion but it does not address the plight of
those employed at or near minimum
wage. even were $10 the minimum
wage, 40 hours @ $10 = $400 a week
x 52 weeks = $20,800 yearly before
taxes. So while traditionally those
who “serve” the community (teachers,
policemen, firemen, sanitation workers) have been the focus of sympathy,
the fact is that their salaries are at least
double (plus real benefits) the salaries
of those at the bottom rungs. I maintain
that cashiers, stock clerks, salespersons behind counters or preparing fast
food are also “serving” the community.
While bMW owners have gotten used
to pumping their own gas, I doubt that
they are prepared to unpack truffles at
Fresh Market. Or to check out and bag
their purchases.
While being in the 1 percent may have
replaced the aspiration of becoming a
millionaire, living just above the poverty
line has become more and more the reality for increasing numbers of american
youths, college graduates and voluntary
or involuntary retirees. While municipal
workers have bettered their lot over the
years, it is now time for society to share
some of the paycheck wealth with those
considerably less well off.
Instead of the accent on “affordable”
defined by the market and its median income, it is time to recognize that there
are real low income needs in Westchester that are not even on the table: no one
is building low income housing. Minimum wage should not be federally defined; it should be regulated at the local
level where local cost of living is considered. Teachers, firemen, policemen
and municipal managers have achieved
their compensation goals; now catch-up
should be extended to the less organized
masses at the very bottom.
Focal Points
Todd Sliss
What do you like to go see live?
Darcy Katris: I like to see concerts
and plays. I have some favorite concert
venues, like the Tarrytown Music hall
and city Winery in Manhattan. They’re
small and the crowd is not young,
screaming children. I’ve seen John hiatt and aimee Mann. I like to go to a
couple of musicals and dramas each
year. I try to see a classic like “Who’s
afraid of Virginia Woolf?” and also
something new like “bad Jews,” which
was very good.
Adam Nussbaum: Sports and concerts. I like mostly new york teams. I
love hockey and basketball and football and seeing that live is obviously
great. It’s a different experience for
both bonding and enjoying the sport.
concerts, I like mostly rap and hip-hop,
maybe some alternative. Two years ago
I saw Wale at Webster hall and he was
really good. There’s a different sound
when it’s live. It’s more authentic.
Justin Schulthess: I like to see the
celtics and the yankees. One day I saw
the Celtics and they were the first team
I really followed. Most of my family
likes the yankees. I see the yankees a
lot every year. It’s just really exciting to
see the games. being there is really fun.
I also like to see broadway shows like
“Spider-Man” and “Mary Poppins.”
It’s really cool. you can see things that
you’ve never seen, like Spider Man flying up above.
Stewart Gager: Theater. We like to
go to lincoln center. We’re going to
see Shakespeare later on this month.
We also like the broadway dramatic
theater. For years my wife and I and
our friends have been very enthusiastic about good, quality theater. It sure
beats 98 percent of what’s on television, which is just about as bad as you
can get. We like both new drama and
classics. revivals and Shakespeare
never get tired.
Lyat Mizrahi: I love improv theater. I
like when they have to think of something on the spot. It’s just cool that
they can instantly connect with the audience. I love talent in all shapes and
forms, whether it’s music or whether
they can act. For concerts I like the
performance. It’s how they capture a
crowd by what they wear or what effects they have going on. It’s not about
the music, since you already like the
songs.
Shirley High: Definitely plays. I like
more light-hearted black comedies just
because it’s relaxing to sit there and
forget about work and life. but they
are very hard to find these days. Usually I go off-broadway and sometimes
even off-off-broadway is good. I saw
“The Mystery of Irma Vep” and it was
done by two men. They were changing
costumes for different characters, including women’s characters, and it was
very funny.
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Bronx River Parkway
wetland project under way
Westchester County’s restoration
of the largest wetland in the Bronx
River Parkway Reservation began
last month in the Greenburgh-North
White Plains area. It will continue
through the winter and spring and is
expected to be completed by early
summer 2014.
Restoration of the approximately
2.5-acre site will improve the wetland’s ability to cleanse and absorb
stormwater and greatly enhance the
attractiveness of the site for passersby who use the Bronx River Parkway
and the paved pedestrian and bicyclist path through the reservation.
The project will be overseen by
the county’s Department of Planning, and its design and construction
is paid for with $950,000 in county
capital funds. The project was recommended in the 2007 Bronx River
Watershed Management Plan developed by the county-led Bronx
River Watershed Coalition. Over
the past three years, the county has
completed similar projects in other
areas of the reservation, including at
Scout Field, Parkway Homes Road,
Popham Road and the Westchester
County Center.
Created in 1925, the 807-acre reservation was the county’s first linear
park and is the oldest park in Westchester. The project site adjoins the
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The Heathcote Five Corners Coalition,
a grassroots group formed in opposition
to the development of 2-4 Weaver St.,
has urged the Scarsdale Village Board
not to rezone village-owned property adjacent to the old Heathcote Tavern that
is now zoned for buffer parking or residence C to business A.
The tavern property, which is owned
by F.S. Fish Investment Co., is now
zoned business A.
Fish has proposed an 11-condominium
apartment building over decked parking
for the site; site approval is pending before the Scarsdale Planning Board. Within the development, one 2,000-squarefoot unit will be built and marketed as
affordable housing.
In a letter addressed to the village
board and signed by Millicent Kaufman,
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October 21st-December 6th
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EVERY TWENTY (20) BUSINESS DAYS
Comeback kids
Scarsdale Inquirer/Jim MacLean
The cast of Scarsdale Summer Music Theatre’s benefit
show rehearses the opening number for this Saturday’s
performance. SSMT supporters are working to bring back
the popular program that, for nearly 40 years, honed the
acting, singing, dancing and tech talents of Scarsdale teens
and entertained village residents young and old. Cast members Nicole Colon, Lee Sforza-Slocum and Alyssa Manning,
rehearse a dance number for the SSMT Benefit Concert at
the Girl Scout House. The concert will be held at the Scarsdale High School Auditorium this Saturday night, Oct. 19, at
7:30 p.m. Tickets are available at the door, $20 adults, $15
students.
5 corners coalition opposes rezoning on Weaver
By ILENE NECHAMKIN
Vivian Lem, Agent
590 Central Park Ave
Scarsdale, NY 10583
Bus: 914-725-5000 Fax: 914-725-5003
vivian@vivianlem.net
burgh north of Fisher Lane and the
North White Plains Train Station.
Through the decades, development
of roads, neighborhoods and recreational facilities have altered the
flow of stormwater runoff into the
wetland. Currently, the wetland is
physically separated from the river,
diminishing the wetland’s role as a
natural filter and sponge to treat and
absorb stormwater and the pollution
it carries.
Over the course of the restoration,
invasive reeds, shrubs and vines will
be eradicated and the wetland and
stream banks will be planted with
thousands of native plants. Topography within the wetland will be modestly altered with machinery to create shallow channels and pools that
will encourage a diversity of wetland
habitats.
The sediment-filled and partially
collapsed culverts that once connected the river to the wetland will be
replaced with more effective structures so that the wetland will once
more be connected to the river. This
reconnection will enable the wetland
to better absorb floodwaters and help
nourish the wetland habitats.
Maintenance practices within
an area north of the wetland, now
mowed, will be changed to allow
development of a more environmentally beneficial wet meadow.
Section 1
Post Road north (west side only) from Fenimore Road to
the White Plains border, west to the Bronx River Parkway,
south to Fenimore Road, east on Fenimore Road (north
side, entire length) to Post Road.
Section 2
Post Road north (west side only) from Popham Road to
Depending on weather conditions, at least one collection Fenimore Road, west on Fenimore Road (south side, entire
length) to the Bronx River Parkway, south on Bronx River
is planned for each street every 20 business days. Two
leaf vacuum trucks operate in each of the Village’s sev- Parkway to Popham Road, east on Popham Road (north
side, entire length) to Post Road.
en leaf collection sections.
Section 3
Popham Road east (south side only) from the Greenburgh
The leaf collection schedule is displayed and updated on border to Drake Road, east on Drake Road to the New Rochelle border, south to the Eastchester border, west to the
a weekly basis on Scarsdale’s Government Access
Channel 75 and Verizon Channel 43, as well as the Vil- Bronx River Parkway.
lage’s Internet website at www.scarsdale.com.
Section 4
Post Road north (east side only) from Drake Road to the
PLACING LEAVES FOR COLLECTION
White Plains border, east to Sheldrake Road, south on Sheldrake Road (both sides, entire length) to Mamaroneck
Residents may place leaves (no branches, grass, dirt,
stones, etc. mixed with leaves) at he curb line or edge of Road, east on Mamaroneck Road to Brookby Road, south
on Brookby Road (both sides) to Heathcote Road, east on
pavement for collection. Leaves may also be placed in
Heathcote Road (both sides) to the Palmer Avenue intersecbiodegradable paper bags for weekly curbside collection. Section includes Colby Lane, Mohican Trail, and
tions by Village crews. In accordance with the Village
Murray Hill Road (entire length).
Code, leaves may not be raked into the street, as this
creates traffic hazards for both motorists and pedestrians
and can clog catch basins impeding the proper function Section 5
Crossway north (west side only) from Weaver Street to
of the storm drainage system.
Saxon Woods Road, north on Saxon Woods Road (both
sides, entire length) to White Plains border, west to Secor
VILLAGE LEAF TRANSFER STATION
Road, south to Secor Road (both sides) to the Heathcote
Residents can bring leaves to the Recycling Center, 110 Bypass, south on the Heathcote Bypass to Weaver Street.
Secor Road, from 8AM to 3 PM, Monday through Satur- Section includes Canterbury Road, Cayuga Road, Crawford
Lane, Deerfield Lane, Hanover Road, Leatherstocking
day. Leaves can be dropped off free of charge either
loose or in biodegradable paper bags. Contractors work- Lane, Oneida Road, Seneca Road, Wheelock Road (entire
length), Brookby Road, and Catherine Road north of Maing for Village residents may bring leaves from Scarsmaroneck Road.
dale properties free of charge to the Recycling Center
upon obtaining a free permit from the Department of
Public Works. For more information, contact Eric Ger- Section 6
Griffen Avenue north (both sides, entire length) from
ringer at (914) 722-1150.
Weaver Street to Mamaroneck Road, west on Mamaroneck
Road (both sides) to Crossway, south on Crossway (east
HOW TO OBTAIN LEAF BAGS
side only) to Weaver Street, east on Weaver Street to Cornell Street. Section includes Cornell Street, Grand Park
Biodegradable paper bags are available for purchase in
lots of 5 at a cost of $4, weekdays from 9 AM to 5 PM, Avenue, and Quaker Square (entire length).
in the Coordinating Office located on the 2nd floor of
Section 7
Village Hall. Bags may also be purchased at the RecyIn accordance with certain operational efficiencies, this section concling Center, 110 Secor Road from 8AM to 3PM includ- sists of both sides and the entire length of the following 11 streets
ing Saturdays. Please note only residents, not their land- located throughout the Village and therefore is not identified on the
scapers are permitted to purchase the biodegradable pa- map: Beechwood Lane, Brookline Road, Cooper Road, Drake Road,
Dunham Road, Fox Meadow Road, Mamaroneck Road (from Post
per bags. There is no limit on the number of bags purRoad to Palmer Avenue), Obry Drive, Pinecrest Road, Reimer Road,
chased by residents.
LEAF COLLECTION SCHEDULE
and Winslow Place.
***Leaves placed in non-biodegradable plastic bags are not accepted by the Village’s hauling contractor and therefore will not be collected by Village crews. Also, branches placed at curbside must be separated from leaf piles and
tied in bundles less than 5 ft. long and 18 inch. in diameter, weighing no more than 50lbs. Residents should contact a
private carter for pickup of individual branches/logs larger than 3inch. in diameter***
coalition president, “We question the
necessity and wisdom of such rezoning
at this time, and oppose the proposed rezoning. The proposed rezoning is unnecessary, premature, and potentially harmful to the community.
On Oct. 1, the trustees’ Land Use
Committee recommended rezoning to
facilitate the eventual sale of the land to
Fish.
The coalition argues: “Business A zoning is inconsistent with, and unnecessary
for, the proposed use of the combined
village-developer parcels as a condominium apartment building. Residential
apartment buildings in Scarsdale are
zoned residence C,” including 45 Popham Road, 50 Popham Road and the
Chateaux Apartments, all of which are
solely residential.
Other apartment buildings, like Christie Place, the letter continues, have other
designations, such as PUD (planned use
development), but these are “mixed use,”
with commercial establishments at street
level.
The coalition notes that Fish has repeatedly stated that if the village sells
the village land to the developer, its sole
use “will be to facilitate and enhance the
construction of a purely residential condominium apartment building.”
The coalition concludes that “if there
is to be any rezoning, the lot(s) on which
the new building is to be located should
be rezoned residence C, the correct zoning for apartment buildings … We are
concerned that if the village-owned land
is rezoned to commercial A, then the
whole parcel will be zoned commercial,
opening up the possibility that in the future, before a definitive sales agreement
is signed, the developer will request
further amendments to the ‘nonbind-
ing’ terms sheet, such as including some
commercial (mixed) use of the building.”
At the committee meeting, Trustees
Jon Mark and Stacey Brodsky said that
the residential character of the development would be guaranteed by deed
restrictions that run with the land. But
“deed restrictions can be poorly drafted,
or waived, or changed by agreement
between the parties,” the coalition argued, “whereas zoning restrictions are
imposed by local law, and any changes
require public notice and hearing.”
The coalition also raised the possibility that if a lot merger is approved before
there is a definitive and binding sales
agreement, Fish could seek further modifications of the sale, “arguing that the
new zoning allows the commercial use.”
A public hearing on the zoning change
will be held next Tuesday, Oct. 22, at 8
p.m. in Rutherford Hall, village hall.
Village
Scarsdale
VILLAGE of
OF SCARSDALE
Flood Insurance & Map Determination: The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has promulgated Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRM) identifying areas in Scarsdale located within the 100-year floodplain,
or areas that are expected to flood, as a result of a storm that has a 1% chance of being equaled or exceeded in
any given year. Properties located within the Greenacres, Fox Meadow, Murray Hill/Middle Heathcote, Arthur
Manor and Drake/Edgewood neighborhoods comprise most of this floodplain area.
VILLAGE OF SCARSDALE
Insurance
Map Determination:
The Federal
Emergency
Management
has Deposit
promulAll residentsFlood
residing
in the &
FEMA
100-year floodplain
and financing
their
propertyAgency
through(FEMA)
a Federal
gated Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRM) identifying areas in Scarsdale located within the 100-year floodplain,
Insurance Corporation
(FDIC) approved bank are required to purchase flood hazard insurance for their home.
or areas that are expected to flood, as a result of a storm that has a 1% chance of being equaled or exceeded in
The Village’s
in the National
Floodthe
Insurance
Program
enables
Scarsdale
property
ownersArthur
to obanyparticipation
given year. Properties
located within
Greenacres,
Fox Meadow,
Murray
Hill/Middle
Heathcote,
tain federally-backed
flood
insurance
at
reduced
rates.
We
strongly
urge
property
owners
located
within
the
Manor and Drake/Edgewood neighborhoods comprise most of this floodplain area.
floodplain to purchase flood insurance to protect against flood damage. To access the FEMA Flood Insurance
All residents
residing
in the
FEMA 100-year
floodplain
and financing
their call
property
through a Federal
Deposit
Rate Maps and/or
find out
if your
property
is located
in the floodplain,
please
the Engineering
Department
at 722-1106.Insurance Corporation (FDIC) approved bank are required to purchase flood hazard insurance for their home.
The Village’s participation in the National Flood Insurance Program enables Scarsdale property owners to obtain federally-backed flood insurance at reduced rates. We strongly urge property owners located within the
Flood Protection
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Public against
Library
houses
reference
materials
on the
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at 722-1106.
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referencezone,
materials
Federal Flood
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property is
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ment and can be used as a directory of sources for more information.
Code and other
applicable local laws and regulations. The purpose of Chapter 167 is to promote the public
health, safety and welfare and to minimize public and private losses due to flood conditions in the FEMA Flood
Permit Requirements: If your property is located within a FEMA Flood Hazard zone, you are required to obHazardous zone
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Code
regulates construction
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more
information
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requirements
application
procedures,
call thetheBuilding
Code and
other
applicable about
local laws
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purpose
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167 is to promote
public Department at health,
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safety and welfare and to minimize public and private losses due to flood conditions in the FEMA Flood
Hazardous zone areas. The Village Code also regulates construction activities in and around freshwater wet-
lands.
obtain
more information
about
permit requirements
application
procedures,
call the it
Building
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If To
your
property
is located in
a flood-prone
area youand
should
be prepared
to protect
or, if necespartment
at 722-1140.
sary, evacuate
the property.
If flooding should occur, take the following steps: (1) Call Con Edison and have the
utility cut off all electric circuits to your home; (2) Shut off the water service and gas valves in your home; (3) If
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furniture
to a higher
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areas
already
inundated
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away
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flood
water,
ditches,
culverts,
and
storm
drains
and
(6)
If
an
evacuation
order
cut off all electric circuits to your home; (2) Shut off the water service and gas valves in your home; (3) If is
given, cooperate
with
police
officers
who
will provide
and
assist with
safe
possible,
move
appliances
and
furniture
to a higher
elevation;
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notroutes.
enter areas already inundated with water (5) Keep children away from flood water, ditches, culverts, and storm drains and (6) If an evacuation order is
given, cooperate
police
officers who
assist
with safe routes.
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In a with
flood
emergency,
youwill
canprovide
protectand
your
belongings
and minimize water damage by
relocating furniture and appliances to a level that is above the projected level of flooding. Non-emergency
Property
Protection:(elevating
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emergency,
you canheating
protect your
belongings
and minimize
watercan
damage
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measures, such
as retrofitting
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be costly
relocating furniture and appliances to a level that is above the projected level of flooding. Non-emergency
and should be
reviewed carefully by a professional before any work is undertaken (see Flood Protection Assismeasures, such as retrofitting (elevating the house and/or heating system and utility connections) can be costly
tance). Thisand
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work
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so please Assiscontact
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before
any work
undertaken (see
Flood Protection
the Village.tance). This type of corrective work will most likely require Building or Engineering permits, so please contact
the Village.
Flood Protection Assistance: Personnel from the Engineering Department can visit your property and discuss
Flood Protection
Assistance:
Personnel
from
Engineering
Department
can visit
your property
your flood elevations
and retrofitting
plans.
Please
callthe722-1106,
Monday
to Friday
between
9 AMand
to 5discuss
PM to
flood elevations and retrofitting plans. Please call 722-1106, Monday to Friday between 9 AM to 5 PM to
schedule anyour
appointment.
schedule an appointment.
FEMA
FEMA
2014
2014
Drainage System
Many properties
in Scarsdale
are are
DrainageMaintenance:
System Maintenance:
Many properties
in Scarsdale
located nearlocated
a river,
stream
or
culvert,
any
of
which
may
flood
if
not
near a river, stream or culvert, any of which may flood if not
properly maintained.
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may cause
in thein tributarproperly maintained.
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cause obstructions
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and overflows.
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the Vilies, causingies,
water
backwater
ups back
and ups
overflows.
As a precaution,
the Village and
maintains
and its
inspects
its drainage
in order
to keep
lage maintains
inspects
drainage
systemsystem
in order
to keep
the the
tributaries
clear
and
free
flowing.
In
accordance
with
Chapter
tributaries clear and free flowing. In accordance with Chapter 302302
of of
the Scarsdale Village Code, private property owners are responsible
the Scarsdale
Village Code, private property owners are responsible
for maintaining the part of the stream/open watercourse that runs on
for maintaining
the part
of the
stream/open
watercourse
onnotheir land,
keeping
it free
of obstructions
that impedethat
flow.runs
If you
their land, keeping
it
free
of
obstructions
that
impede
flow.
If
you
notice an obstruction of an open watercourse, please report it to the Detice an obstruction
an open
watercourse,
please report it to the Department of
of Public
Works
at 722-1150.
partment of Public Works at 722-1150.
Flood
Flood
Information
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Scarsdale Schools
Summer@Brown offers
a taste of college life
Briefs
Lee PHOTO
Violinist Andre Tsou plays Suite
on Themes of Tartini by Arcangelo
Corelli.
Kids’ BASE fall festival
On Saturday, Oct. 5, Kids’ BASE and the Little School hosted its first fall festival for KBLS families, alumni
and friends. More than 200 children and their families, as well as KBLS teachers and staff, participated.
The free event featured bounce castles, arts and crafts, face painting, tattoos, games, prizes, food, a dJ,
games with KBLS’s very own Coach Steve, visits with Scarsdale firefighters and a fire truck, a backhoe
from Cum Laude Construction Group for children to sit on, and other activities provided by KBLS enrichment providers Kids r Cookin’, Beadz and Scarsdale Strings. The festival was planned by parents and
staff. Seventy parents volunteered their time to run activities at the festival. Above, Little School teacher
Stacey Torchio, Little School student Zoe Wechsler, parent Marcie Wechsler and Kids’ BASe student
Alyssa Marvin have fun face painting. Below, coach Steve Stone and students play the parachute game.
Driving class
The Scarsdale association of
educational Secretaries (SaeS) is
sponsoring a defensive driving course
Saturday, nov. 16 from 8:30 a.m. to 3
pm. The course, to be held at Scarsdale high School in rooms 170-172,
is open to all Scarsdale residents with
valid drivers’ licenses.
Participants who complete the
six-hour session can receive up to a
four-point reduction on their driver’s
licenses and/or discounts on auto
insurance. The coursework is valid
for three years.
coffee will be served, and pizza
and soda will be provided for lunch.
If you’re interested in participating,
send a check, payable to SaeS, in
the amount of $45, to anne agostino,
quaker ridge elementary School,
125 Weaver St., Scarsdale, ny
10583.
For more information, call 7212780. a minimum number of participants is required for the course to
take place. If the requirement isn’t
met, the session will be cancelled.
Eye to Eye
eye to eye is a nationwide mentoring program offered to students
labeled with language- and mathbased learning disabilities and/or
adhd. Students are matched with a
mentor who is a successful Scarsdale
high School student also labeled with
a learning disability and/or adhd.
The program, which has been offered
before in Scarsdale, is starting again
Oct. 20, and will be held weekly at
the girl Scout house from 1:30-2:30
p.m.
ShS’s eye to eye club is a nonprofit organization with no charge to
participants. The group is looking for
more students in grades 4-7 to participate. For more information, contact
Mariel henkoff, national program
coordinator at mhenkoff@eyetoeyenational.org or call (347) 754-2134.
ShS’s junior class government and
the eye to eye club will be hosting
Fall Festival at ShS on Oct. 25 from
4-6 p.m. Students of all ages are welcome to paint pumpkins, make their
own candy apples and enter a raffle.
Pumpkin painting will cost $12, apple
dipping $8, combo ticket $18 and
raffle tickets $1.
all proceeds will go to the junior
class government and to raise awareness for learning disabilities. Fall
Festival is sponsored by Iris nail and
Spa, Imagine candy, Scott afran,
Md: Pediatric/adult Ophthalmology,
and Scarsdale Flowers.
College Mailbag
college news about Scarsdale,
edgemont and hartsdale residents
will be published periodically in the
college Mailbag column, usually on
page 4 of the paper.
Please send news about graduations, dean’s list and other awards to
cgilpin@scarsdalenews.com or danders@scarsdalenews.com, or by mail
to college Mailbag, The Scarsdale
Inquirer, Harwood Building, 5th floor,
Scarsdale, ny 10583.
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TEEN
TALK
Classical Cafe
On Thursday, Oct. 3 edgewood students performed at the first Classical
cafe of the school year. The secondgraders were all smiles when they
entered their lunchroom where the
tables were covered with tablecloths,
centerpieces and cups overflowing
with popcorn.
Fifth-graders ashley george and
danielle eforo introduced the performers grace Scott and claire Scott,
who played the piano, andre Tsou
and Karl li, who played the violin,
and arden costello and Megan lee,
who entertained the students with
a dance routine. While eating their
lunch, the second-graders listened to
music from composers nancy Faber,
arcangelo corelli, Jon george and
antonin dvorak. at the end, teacherin-charge ellen anders presented the
performers with red roses and student
waiters and waitresses served popsicles to all of the students and guests.
When school lets out in June, the
last thing that most high school kids
think is “yay! More school!” but for
many Scarsdale high School students,
summer does consist of more school
in various formats, such as SaT prep,
language immersion and precollege
programs.
This summer, I attended a precollege program at brown university,
Summer@Brown. I took a two-week
course called “Invisible cities and
ideal states,” about what constitutes a
utopian society. The second two weeks
I took a class in analytic writing, which
taught me plenty I did not know about
writing
the
analytic essay.
I am only 16,
but these four
weeks were the
sh
best four weeks
By Leah Ka
of my life.
I
enjoyed
learning what it is like to live on my
own (with a curfew) for a few months.
Previously, I had never been given
that kind of freedom and responsibility. The first few days, I was a little
lost. I felt like I had to ask permission
of my ra to do anything. but then I
got used to it, and began to really love
being independent. I learned how to
better manage my time and money
without the help of my parents, and
how to balance a social life with academic work. The program was extremely helpful, not only in giving me
a taste of college life, but helping me
feel much more independent when I
got home.
My experience with Summer@
brown also gave me a taste of various
types of majors and paths I might take
in life. Through a series of discussions
by and with current brown students
and admissions officers, I learned
about different majors, as well as how
to write the admissions essay and how
to engage professors. I even learned a
little about Japanese poetry.
Besides the benefits of learning how
to get into college, I got to experience
what a college class might actually be
like, including the workload. I have
I learned how to better
manage my time and
money without the help
of my parents, and how
to balance a social life
with academic work.
never gotten so much homework in my
life for one class, but I’m not complaining. I got to pick the classes I took and,
as a result, I enjoyed the work I was
assigned. The professor never checked
the homework. For the first time in my
life, the punishment for not doing the
homework would not be a lower grade,
but the fact that I would not enjoy class
as much because it would be harder to
follow. This kind of self-motivation is
a valuable skill that I am glad I had a
chance to discover before college.
The final reason that Brown was
so fantastic was the social life. I met
kids from all over the world. I can
boast that I have friends in russia, nigeria, beijing, and everywhere in between. Of course, I also met plenty of
people from new Jersey to San Francisco, but the diversity in the program
was astounding. I have never heard
so many different perspectives in the
same room, at the same time. everyone brought his or her own culture to
the table, which made the experience
at Summer@Brown all the more interesting (the fascinating accents helped a
little bit too!). Sharing the same space,
dorm room and classrooms with so
many people so different from anyone
I had ever met before was extremely
eye opening. I learned something from
everyone I met, and made some new
best friends.
This kind of experience was priceless. The only drawback is that my
friends from home are getting a little
bit sick of my stories about brown. Oh
well.
High school in good shape, Bonamo tells board of ed
Education reports will now be school level specific
By CARRIE CROSSON GILPIN
education reports to the Scarsdale
board of education have for the last
several years taken the shape of coursespecific or initiative-specific themes,
such as world language or advanced
topics. This year, however, the board
has asked administrators to report on
each school level, and Scarsdale high
School’s principal Ken bonamo gave
the first of such reports Monday, Oct. 7.
The detailed 45-minute overview
highlighted a wealth of information on
an array of programs and services and
ended with Bonamo fielding questions
from all board members.
bonamo said several things make
the school unique, including its tutorial
system, where teachers reserve free periods to help students individually or in
small groups. In other districts, teachers
are contractually limited in the number
of hours they are available to help.
he said that professional development, the staffing and scheduling
structure, innovations in curriculum
and student success win high marks
for the district and, in particular, the
high school. The high school has 133
teachers for 1,526 general and special
education students, with an 11:1 ratio.
bonamo said the number of vice principals at ShS is proportionally consistent
to the number at his former high school,
Townsend harris, given student totals,
and that teaching quality has the greatest influence on students’ academic success.
bonamo said a student survey was
administered in the spring of 2013 to
343 students in grades 9-12, with 95
percent of students reporting that teachers are readily available. ninety-eight
percent have taken advantage of the
teacher tutorial support.
nine counselors/deans, two psychologists, two academic support teachers
and a school nurse provide student support services, in addition to two outreach workers.
bonamo made the point that professional development for teachers,
including summer programs, leads to
new programming in the high school
classrooms, and that innovations in the
curriculum include american studies
for 11th-graders and new interdisciplinary courses this year such as “Man and
the environment” and “Food policy.”
Other courses are in the works for future rollout, including one on “the city”
and several math applications. Older innovations include the civ ed courses for
freshmen and advanced topics classes.
bonamo said the per-pupil investment for supplies, materials and textbooks is $245, an amount that covers
furniture, art materials, library books
and textbooks (usually costing $100
each). This year, electronic textbooks
have been implemented in world languages and science.
In technology, two computer teachers
and two aides support teachers and students, and new items include electronic response systems, student laptops,
chromebook carts and a library mobile
technology classroom.
bonamo covered the many extracurricular offerings at the school, including
drama, music, athletics, publications,
debate, school government and community service. he said students who
participate benefit with greater personal
engagement with teachers and other
students, development of leadership
skills, ability to work in teams, perseverance, ability to deal with ambiguity
and a desire to help others. a survey of
ShS graduates revealed that extracurriculars helped them with time management skills, work ethic and resilience.
bonamo said school safety changes
such as monitors at main entrances
have received positive feedback from
the community.
he said Scarsdale’s SaT scores at
the high school are the highest among
peer schools like chappaqua, Jericho,
ardsley, edgemont, great neck South,
rye and briarcliff, and that these high
scores have remained stable over five
years. Mean SaT scores for the class of
2013 were 1937 out of a possible 2400.
advanced placement exam scores were
also high, he said, with 240 students
taking 375 exams in 2013, and 97 percent of students receiving a score of 3
or better. Postgraduate performance is
also high, with 97 percent of the 324
members of the class of 2013 attending
127 four-year national and international
colleges and universities. One percent
entered two-year colleges. Seventy-one
students in the class of 2014 were recognized by the national Merit Scholarship corp. Sixty-four percent of the
class of 2013 attended the “most competitive” colleges and universities.
bonamo said the high school would
“like to take credit for all of this, but
we know it isn’t just us.” he said elementary and middle school preparation for ShS was excellent, according
to respondents in a 2012-13 survey of
136 members of the classes of 2008 and
2011, who reported a 4.23 rating out of
5 points. Sixty-eight of those same respondents said they felt better prepared
than their freshman college peers for
college work. Student comments on
that survey reported good class size,
teacher quality and support in and out
of the classroom, high standards of
excellence that fostered a competitive
environment that promoted students to
strive to achieve, and a challenging curriculum and heavy work load.
bonamo answered questions from
the board about advanced placement
classes content compared to advanced
topics, given his former school offered
aP courses to many students without
the restrictions of a test or teacher recommendation. bonamo said the magazine rankings of high schools are a driving force behind some of this and that
“packing students in” to aP classes is
a strategy for attempting to get a higher ranking. he feels having a smaller
group of students who are well prepared
to succeed in those college-level classes
produces better classes and a better outcome.
Fewer colleges are accepting aP test
scores as a means of exempting a student from the freshman level class in
that subject, bonamo said, and student
survey respondents seem more concerned about content knowledge than
placement levels, often opting to take
their college’s own course even when
they have taken an aP test, and feel better prepared doing so.
“aT is the best of both worlds,” he
said, giving an example of teaching an
aP u.S. government class himself during the months when hillary clinton
was in the primary race with barack
Obama. bonamo said he had to cut current events discussion to five minutes
because he was “marching to an exam.”
The conversation could have continued
in June, after the aP test is over, but by
then the discussion holds little interest.
hewing to a strict schedule of discussions disallows student led tangents that
are meaningful and educational, he said.
Scarsdalians create improved gross anatomy manual for iPad
significantly higher, and those scores
have been stable for years.”
bernd and husband Steve erde have
three children: alex, david and rebecca,
all graduates of ShS. She said she didn’t
know neira personally until she saw her
class roster, and the two figured out they
were from the same town.
bernd said Mcgraw-hill made her an
offer for the text but she felt “a publisher
didn’t have much to offer us” and that
the manual was best marketed directly
to course directors at medical schools
through conferences and other means.
“each year other students volunteer
and become involved, taking more photos. now there is a glossary, and students
can click on a bold term and a photo pops
up. They love that,” she said. bernd said
she hopes the manual will be available
in the future on other platforms besides
just the iPad, and said students will be
involved in the ongoing project for many
summers to come.
The manual has received national at-
tention, with a Wall Street Journal article
and related video that appeared Oct. 8,
and an article that appeared in the columbia’s online publication last May.
The four students and their professor
presented the manual at a meeting last
spring of the american association of
anatomists.
neira said he and his classmates
were, at the beginning, simply trying to
fix something for the incoming year’s
students that wasn’t working for them
as well as it should. now, however, the
bigger impact of the manual is evident.
“It is providing a strong foundation in
the basics of medicine and we carry that
with us for the rest of our professional
lives,” he said. but the utility is not just
educational, neira said: “It is a spiritual
one. The cadaver is our first patient, and
we must treat it with a respectful manner.
how do we thank these generous people
who donated their family member’s remains? There is a ceremony at the end
of the anatomy class where we meet the
family members and many tears are shed.
same thing, jumping off the swing. Fate
sealed the deal because I had the most
fantastic orthopedic surgeon,” he said,
who allowed him to observe and told
him what was happening step by step.
no one in his family is a doctor, although
he has a cousin who is a pediatric neurologist. as an undergraduate at cornell,
economics and business drew neira’s interest, but they didn’t stick and the medical field won out as planned all along.
For his senior options project at ShS,
neira assisted in neuropsychiatric research with schizophrenic therapeutic
patients at the nathan Klein Institute.
“It was fun. It was the first chance I got
to see science out of the classroom,” he
said.
COurTeSY THe WALL STreeT JOurNAL
A page from the newly created iPad gross anatomy manual.
Some people are extremely passionate
about this donation to education,” he
said, noting that the new manual helps
the dissections go smoothly.
neira said he was “the classic story.
I was always interested in medicine. at
age 5, I broke my arm on the same day
my older sister got her cast off doing the
Karin Eskenazi-Tzamarot, director
of media relations at Columbia University Medical Center, obtained reprint
permission from The Wall Street Journal/Dow Jones for this story’s photos.
Eskenazi-Tzamarot is also a Scarsdale
resident.
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Edgemont/Hartsdale
Town board drafts
sublease for former
WestHELP facility
Briefs
Spooktoberfest
The annual Spooktoberfest will
take place Saturday, Oct. 19 from 1-4
p.m. at Hart’s Brook Park Preserve
on Ridge Road in Hartsdale. This
year the event will feature a familyfriendly pirate show. There will
be face painting, inflatable slides,
hayrides, musicians, clowns, jugglers
and crafts, and animals from the
Greenburgh Nature Center. Tickets
are $5 per person, children under 2
years old are free.
For more information contact PJ
Murphy at 693-8985 Ext. 116 or visit
www.greenburghny.com/parks.
By GABRIELLE BOWYER
Fall festival
The Greenburgh Nature Center
will host the annual fall festival
Sunday, Oct. 20 from 11 a.m. until 3
p.m. There will be scarecrow building, pumpkin carving and painting,
cider making, a petting zoo, scavenger hunts, tractor rides and a tree
swing.
The fees for members who register
online by Oct. 19 is $5, nonmembers
$8. On the day of the event the fee
for members is $7, nonmembers $10.
Scarecrows made by guests will be
displayed in a parade at the GNC on
Sunday, Oct. 27.
Parade
The annual GNC Scarecrow and
Pumpkins Parade will be Sunday,
Oct. 27, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Children
and families may come in costume.
Friendly scarecrows and storybook
characters will be stationed along
the pumpkin trail, along with apple
cider, treats and fun tattoos. The
parade will be held rain or shine.
For more information about the
fall festival or the parade, call 7233470.
JARED THALER PHOTO
Walking the walk
Greenburgh police officers, Greenville School students and their
parents participated in International
Walk-to-School Day on Oct. 9. The
event promotes walking as a healthy
physical activity that is an alternative
to vehicular traffic and pollution and
a way to connect with the community.
Special guest, former NBA player
Greg Butler, in the top photo, was
among 500 walkers. Members of the
Greenville Fire District also escorted
the group. Walk-to-School Day is coordinated in the U.S. by the National
Center for Safe Routes to School.
For more information, visit walkbike
toschool.org.
Window painting
The annual Halloween windowpainting event, sponsored by the
Hartsdale Kiwanis Club, will take
place in Hartsdale Saturday, Oct. 19
from 9 a.m. until noon along East
Hartsdale Avenue. The rain date will
be Sunday, Oct. 20. Children ages 5
to 12 are invited to participate. The
fee is $10.
For registration information and
contest rules contact Keith Wright at
693-8985 Ext. 15.
Zumba Gold
Greenburgh Parks and Recreation
will offer a Zumba Gold class on
Mondays at 5:30 p.m. beginning Oct.
21, in the multipurpose center at Anthony F. Veteran Park. Zumba Gold
is a dance fitness workout modified
for active adults. Seven classes will
run through Dec. 9. The fee is $56
for residents, $70 for nonresidents.
For more information, call 6938985 Ext. 1116 or email pmurphy@
greenburghny.com.
Candidates’ forum
The Sierra Club Lower Hudson
Group and the Greenburgh Nature
Center have rescheduled a candidates’ forum on environmental issues
to Tuesday, Oct. 29, at 6:30 p.m.
at the GNC, 99 Dromore Road in
Edgemont. Participating candidates
include Noam Bramson, candidate
for county executive; majority leader
Mary Jane Shimsky, legislator,
county district 12; and Paul Feiner,
Greenburgh Town Supervisor.
For more information, visit www.
newyork2.sierraclub.org or call 7253470.
Scouts climb for Gilda
Although members of Greenville’s
6th Grade Girl Scout Troop 2670
were younger than the minimum
required age of 14 to participate in
last week’s Gilda’s Stair Climb at
the Ritz Carlton, the scouts did their
own “virtual” climb of the outdoor
steps next to the D building at Edgemont High School. They climbed 70
flights and raised $548, which they
donated to Gilda’s Club. The event
was part of their project promoting
healthy minds and bodies.
Datebook
TUESDAY, OCT. 22
E’mont Board of Ed meeting, large group
instruction room, 8:15 p.m.
WEDNESDAY, OCT. 23
G’burgh Town Board meeting, town hall
auditorium, 7:30 p.m.
MONDAY, NOV. 4
E’mont Community Council meeting,
high school faculty lounge, 8 p.m.
KRISTEL HUNT PHOTO
Got a stock market question?
Take it to the Max
By DEBBIE ANDERS
Lots of teenagers are wizards on Facebook, Google and Apple computers.
But investing in those companies?
Using leverage for triple returns on the
S&P 500 index or on volatility-based
funds? Hmm, not so much.
Not unless you are Max Ganik, who,
at 16, cites Facebook, Google and Apple among his favorite stocks, along
with Bank of America, Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, eBay and Macy’s.
Ganik, a junior at Edgemont High
School, runs a blog about investing, is
the co-founder of Edgemont’s Economics Club and said he has taught himself
everything from basic stock options to
patterns and indicators and managing
risk with “spreads” and “butterflies.”
Ganik has enjoyed “playing” with all
things Wall Street since he was around 7
years old. He has a monthly blog called
TopStreetPicks.com and a Twitter account. The trajectory of the market is
what interests him the most. “From all
the research that I do, I would have to
say that reading and interpreting charts
and then projecting to where a stock will
go is my favorite focus, which is also
what I do best,” said Ganik.
He likes analyzing company earnings
reports, macroeconomic data and political events such as the debt ceiling debates in 2011 and 2013, and how those
events influence the market. Ganik also
interprets financial data about global
markets. “I analyze international political events, particularly Europe, China
and Japan, in addition to our domestic
affairs,” he said. He doesn’t analyze
bonds, which are generally low-risk,
he said, “but I realize it is necessary to
gain a good understanding of bonds to
make better predictions on the market
direction.”
Ganik got started following the markets when his mother, Dahlia — a web
designer who does long-range investment planning and some day trading for
herself — exposed him to the stock market. Soon, she said, “he went off on his
own and became totally fluent,” reading
books, watching CNBC, subscribing to
different financial blogs and following
earnings reports on Wall Street. “Any
time there was a discussion about business analysis or about finances he’d
jump in or ask questions about it. Anytime someone would discuss anything
financial, he would chime right in,”
Dahlia Ganik said. “He not only was interested, but he’d understand.”
Dahlia said her son was always comfortable managing his own money and
would buy his own computer games at
Max Ganik
a young age; his parents allowed him
to have a credit card (in their name) to
make purchases and donations to civic
fundraisers in New Orleans, for example, or animal rights organizations.
It is legal to trade under the age of
18 if a minor has a custodial account.
Using his parents’ accounts, Ganik actively invests in several different stocks
through trading options. “I direct my
parents on the trades that should be
done. Depending on the time of year
(school year and summer time) I do
day-trading and long-term trading,” he
said. He described some of his options
trading as “risky,” and said he is “not at
liberty” to share information about how
much he has profited from his investments.
A patient of Ganik’s father, Ron, who
is a dentist, recently introduced Max
to traders on the floor of the New York
Stock Exchange, and, his mother said,
Max “jumped at the chance. It made
him feel good that he could communicate with professionals.”
Most parents think their child is exceptional, but a former investment
banker in Edgemont, Susan Wolfert,
said Ganik is, in fact, well-versed in the
areas that he blogs about, that his use of
technical vocabulary is correct and that
he understands that many factors, including political issues, affect economic
markets.
Michelle Merlini, the Economic
Club’s adviser, said she has not seen
much of Max, who launched the club
last year with another faculty adviser,
but that the Econ club members “are
pretty independent.” She said, “The older classmen share their suggestions at
meetings. Outside of that, students work
on stockmarketgame.org,” a trading and
investing simulation website.
When Ganik is not investing, he enjoys hanging out with friends, playing
varsity baseball, watching sports, exercising, driving and volunteering with
his dog Zak, who is training as a therapy
dog.
He is enrolled in several AP history
courses at Edgemont, “in order to learn
about different eras,” he said. “Understanding how economics evolved over
the centuries helps me understand current economic and political affairs and
market swings. Key examples are the
U.S. presidential elections, the debt ceiling challenges and the European debt
crisis in 2011.”
Ganik said the biggest misconception
that young people have is that they think
they needn’t learn about the market and
don’t always realize how the current
fiscal and world affairs and world history affect what happens in the market.
“Everything is interrelated. By gaining
an understanding of such events, you
can prepare for the future. A person can
learn about the long-term importance
of money and how to best handle their
money responsibly,” he said.
It is no surprise that Ganik will major
in finance and economics in college and
would like to work for an investment
bank or a hedge fund, either trading
stocks and/or derivatives or analyzing
stocks and the stock market environment. His “ultimate professional goal
in life” is to run his own hedge fund or
have a senior position at a major investment bank.
When asked why he is drawn to the
world of investing, Max told the Inquirer, “I would like to deliver the financial returns for clients so that they
can better enjoy their lives and not have
to worry about money so much. Today,
we constantly hear sad stories of how
middle class families and retired people struggle to make ends meet, causing them to worry about their financial
future. I hope that with my knowledge
and expertise, I can help these families
have the financial security that they deserve.”
Max’s mother, Dahlia, is proud of her
son. “How many 14-year-olds understand the options markets, which is one
of the most complicated?” she asked.
But for now, she said, it is important that
people understand that Max cannot offer professional advice. “He’s not of age
where he can do anything except provide
an exchange of ideas and thoughts,” although he will keep advising his parents
on short-term investments. Said Dahlia,
“He’s been right more than I have.”
The Greenburgh Town Board unanimously approved a resolution authorizing the town to enter into a sublease and affordable housing facilities
agreement with Group MRH, LLC to
provide affordable housing at the former WestHELP site. The resolution
was presented Oct. 3 during a special
town board meeting, which was not
open to the public nor streamed on the
town’s website.
The terms of the sublease agreement with Group MRH affect the remainder of the town’s current lease
with Westchester County — a 30-year
lease set to expire Sept. 30, 2031. The
sublease stipulates that the rent will be
$500,000 per year, paid monthly to the
town. Upon the signing of the lease,
the “build out” period will begin, during which Group MRH will have the
first six months rent free. After that
time Group MRH will be required
to deposit $1 million with the town
comptroller, up to $600,000 of which
will be returned “upon the town’s receipt of invoices documenting such
expenditures incurred by Group
MRH, LLP for road, parking, and security improvements.” Combined with
the full first year’s rent, Group MRH
must agree to a total initial payment
of $1.5 million immediately following
the signing of the lease.
The abandoned WestHELP facility
has fallen into disrepair and neglect
since 2011 when the second 10-year
lease between the town and WestHELP expired. The town has required
Group MRH to “be responsible for all
maintenance of and repairs to the facility,” and to “make no less than $2
million in general renovations to the
residential buildings.” Both the residential and administrative buildings
need extensive remodeling and renovation — particularly kitchens, floors
and bathrooms inside the 108 apartments.
The lease also states that Group
MRH will enter into two agreements:
one with the Housing Action Council
Inc. and another with Cornell Pace
Inc. The former is a not-for-profit
organization that will “market the
residential units to households with
incomes meeting the affordable housing income guidelines as determined
by the U.S. Department of Housing
and Urban Development.” The latter is a corporation that will “manage the lease premises with respect
to the maintenance, operation and repair of the residential and administrative buildings and the grounds of the
leased premises.”
Notably, the big news of the sublease draft and the board’s approval
of it reached the public via the Green-
burgh town email list-host from Town
Supervisor Paul Feiner. No mention of
it was made at the Oct. 9 town board
meeting except during the public comment section by Hartsdale resident Hal
Samis. In an interview with the Inquirer, Samis was angry that the lease was
not made available to the public until
after the special meeting. He also noted that Group MRH has little to no experience in affordable housing, which
is “a complex issue — you can’t just
put anyone in there. They have to be
qualified,” he said.
Feiner said in his email that the
lease cannot be signed until the county
executive and board of legislators approve it. Should the board of legislators fail to approve the lease by Dec.
31, it will go into default and will be
terminated.
Other news
The town council reported that
Greenburgh continues to have the
highest possible bond rating (AAA)
from both Standard & Poor’s and
Moody’s.
Tim Downey, a Hastings-on-Hudson resident, raised concerns about
election signage during the public
comment section. He reported that the
town is “trashed” from all the signs
left over from elections and implored
the board to consider “a law or policy
that requires the parties to remove
the signs — perhaps the first or second Sunday that follows an election.”
He also suggested posting a bond, so
that if a candidate does not clean up
the “litter,” he or she would forfeit the
monies used by the government to collect it.
Feiner, having campaigned many
times himself, pointed out that volunteers often post signs without the candidate’s knowledge and suggested that
the town consider keeping a register
of volunteers and quantity of signage
similar to that kept by the Village of
Ardsley. He offered a possible solution in the form of fining candidates
every two weeks for each sign not collected, adding that this solution does
not constitute “an infringement on free
speech.”
The board unanimously approved a
resolution scheduling a public hearing
on Oct. 23 to consider an application
to add 3,200 square feet of new classroom space at the New York School
for the Deaf, also known as Fanwood.
Several of the buildings at the school
are in disrepair and officials say that
it would be less expensive to simply
build a new structure. After the new
construction is complete, the school
will shut down the buildings that need
renovation and wait for the receipt of
funds that will enable them to perform
the necessary upgrades there.
Phone scammer fishes
for computer access
By DEBBIE ANDERS
A 69-year-old Hartsdale woman
got a phone call Wednesday, Oct. 9 at
around 6:45 p.m. from a man who said
he worked for Microsoft
and that he needed to access her computer to fix
a problem. The woman
downloaded a program
that allowed the man to
gain access to her computer for approximately 20 minutes.
The woman said the man called from a
Magic Jack phone service number. Police tried calling the number but reached
a voicemail only. They told the woman
to contact her bank and credit card company about the incident.
Police
Blotter
Stolen
A 58-year-old White Plains woman
reported that a Samsung cell phone and
a wallet containing cash and credit cards
worth $300 was stolen Saturday, Oct.
5 at around 9:30 p.m. from her purse
while she was at Wash and Dry Cleaners
on Central Avenue in Edgemont. Police
were unable to contact the cleaners by
phone to ask about the shop’s video surveillance. They followed up in person
on Oct. 10.
Patrol officers saw a 42-year-old
Brooklyn man walking near East Hartsdale Avenue Friday, Oct. 11, at 1:20 a.m.
quickly get into a black 2005 Cadillac
Escalade and drive away. Police stopped
the car and questioned the driver, who
said he worked for an environmental
company removing asbestos from a
building on East Hartsdale Avenue. Police verified the identity of the man, but
the car he was driving had dealer license
plates that were stolen from Delaware.
Police took him to headquarters and
charged him with criminal possession
of stolen property in the fourth degree,
driving an unregistered car and driving
without insurance. He was instructed to
return to town court Oct. 15.
An Edgemont man reported a thousand dollars worth of electronics, including an iPad and a skin cleansing system,
stolen from his luggage that arrived two
days after he did at Kennedy Airport on
an Iberia Airlines flight from Spain Oct.
11. When both bags were later delivered
to his house on Skytop Drive, contents
from them were missing. He made a
claim with the airline fraud department
and was told to file an additional report
with Greenburgh police.
Welfare check
A 90-year-old Hartsdale woman with
early dementia wandered away from her
home on Standish Place and knocked on
the door of a neighbor on Joyce Road.
The Joyce Road woman escorted the elderly woman back home and then called
police. The officers on duty contacted
her son in Hastings, who went to her
home to take care of her.
Cracked
A Connecticut man who parked his
car near Woodlands High School to
watch a football game Saturday, Oct.
12, found the rear windshield of his
2004 Cadillac shattered, but still in
place, when he returned to the parking
lot after the game. No items on the back
seat of the car were missing and there
was nothing else damaged on the exterior of the car. Police said the window
damage appeared unintentional and
filed a report for the man’s auto insurance company.
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Astorino
defends
a weekly radio show from St. Patrick’s
Cathedral with the archbishop of New
York. In 2001, he helped launch ESPN
Radio in New York and became the station’s senior producer. He is a graduate
of Fordham University.
Like Bramson, Astorino entered public service at an early age. When he was
21, he was elected to the Mount Pleasant
Board of Education. He then served for
12 years on the Mount Pleasant Town
Board, including six years as deputy supervisor. In 2003, he was elected to the
Westchester County Board of Legislators.
What he calls “the three Ps of his administration — protecting taxes, promoting growth and preserving taxes” — are
firmly in place, he said. With regard to
property taxes, “first and foremost why
I ran,” he said he’s reduced the county
tax levy by 2 percent “bringing stability and some relief. It’s not about doing
more with less. It’s about doing more
with what we have.” He said that during
his administration the county workforce
had declined by 15 percent, through a
combination of retirement, attrition and
“a small amount of layoffs.”
As for promoting business, early on,
Astorino was determined to keep businesses like PepsiCo, Atlas Air and IBM
in Westchester, and not have them “flee
to a more tax-friendly state.” PepsiCo,
for example, was offered tax incentives
to remain here, and stayed, saving, by
Astorino’s estimation, about 1,000 jobs.
And relative to providing essential
services, “I’II always say that in public
life, you need three body parts, a head,
a heart and a spine,” he said. He used
all three parts in tandem in dealing with
the subsidized childcare, increasing the
co-payments from parents by 15 percent
to keep the program solvent. Astorino’s
calculations (enrollment times cost per
child) showed that “legislature had unfunded it by $2.5 million … so we asked
parents to pay one or two dollars more
per day.”
He said the county is “more generous”
in its subsidies than New York City and
20 other counties in the state. “I needed
a balance between what we can afford
and what we need,” he said, creating 593
more slots. He said he asked the county
Department of Social Services and was
told that “not one family dropped out of
the program” because of the higher payment.
The biggest surprise during his fouryear term, Astorino said, was “how aggressive the federal officials were in
enforcing the 2009 affordable housing
settlement with the U.S. Department
of Housing and Urban Development,”
making demands that are not in the settlement agreement.
He believes that HUD will require the
county to “take part in dismantling local zoning” in all municipalities, requiring the lifting of restrictions on height,
density, acreage and environmental protections to allow for the construction of
affordable housing.
He voiced little confidence in the federal monitor, James Johnson, who “is
hired and fired by HUD, obviously not
a referee,” and earns $1,050 per hour in
implementing the settlement.
For Astorino, the settlement has become a question of “who should have
the power to plan and zone” Westchester County; individual municipalities, or
bureaucrats in Washington, D.C., who,
Bramson challenges
Astorino’s tenure
Republican Rob Astorino’s administration, he says, is based
on the “Three P’s”:
· Protect taxpayers
· Preserve essential services
· Promote economic growth
Preserving essential services
goes to the fundamental reason government exists — to
provide society with the things
that individuals sometimes cannot provide for themselves and
to provide for things that benefit
he claims, have never visited the county,
who consider “zoning and discrimination the same. Even quarter-acre zoning
is potentially discriminatory,” he said.
“And they don’t understand that the
county doesn’t zone.” (The state constitution empowers municipalities to enact
their own zoning codes.)
The controversy over the analysis of
impediments — the federal monitor has
rejected eight versions submitted by the
county — he said, will be “open-ended
forever.” In the past, the analyses were
two, three or four pages, ensuring that
federal funds were being used properly.
He said the county analyses will continue to be rejected until “we agree to
the monitor’s conclusions,” that seven
municipalities are exclusionary.
On the positive side, he said the
county is in compliance with the building requirements, with 400 units already
constructed or in the process. “We will
continue to meet our obligation under
the settlement to advertise the units to
noncounty residents,” he said.
He saw no way out of the impasse
with HUD. “If you were accused of
murder, and you hadn’t done anything,
there’d be nothing to negotiate, right?”
he said.
He believes the HUD rulings “will
turn everything upside down, and bring
high density to every neighborhood. A
developer can buy what’s available and
build anything he wants.”
Federal authorities, he said, “are hell
bent on trampling over local control …
wanting to strike a socioeconomic balance on every block.”
Astorino remains firm in his belief
that, despite the terms of the settlement,
HUD will require 10,000 units to be
built, according to an old study by an ad
hoc county committee. “It’s now at least
750 units,” he said. “Read the letters.
They’re on the county website.” In a
March 13 letter, he said HUD stated that
environmental concerns, existing infrastructure, sewers and the like shouldn’t
be used to restrict housing.
Astorino is also battling with the Environmental Protection Agency over
requirements to treat drinking water
with ultraviolet light. “I want to stress
that our water is safe and clean. This
is a timing issue. The federal authorities changed the standards and imposed
arbitrary deadlines.” He said that twothirds of the water districts in the county
already comply with the standards. The
county needs time, he said, to switch
from a plan developed in 2006 that costs
$100 million, to one developed later that
will cost $4.7 million.
Astorino is proud of the progress he
has made saving Rye Playland, once a
revenue loss, by planning a transformation of the 85-year-old, 100-acre seasonal amusement park into a yearlong
the society as a whole: a social
safety net for needy residents;
roads, bridges and airports; public safety, health and education;
and parks and open space with
environmental safeguards.
Economic growth means encouraging the private sector to
start and grow businesses and
create jobs.
— adapted from the candidate’s
website
destination for families. “The Children’s
Museum is on its way! I love Playland
and couldn’t see it die,” he said.
A private company will maintain full
ownership and control of the park and
preserve the historic rides.
Astorino has been criticized for allowing a gun show to come back to the
county center. “We never had a problem
before Spano decided to cancel,” he said
unapologetically. He said it was “the
most attended show” at the center, with
extra safeguards in place. Allowing gun
vendors into the county center, he said,
“strikes the proper balance between
people’s rights and protections.”
While he has “no problem” with banning assault weapons, he opposed the
state Safe Act, “because of the way it
happened. The public and the press were
completely shut out” and it made local
police departments violators of the law.
He said that after the Newtown massacre, he met with police and school
officials and talked about protocols to
secure campuses, and in April, mental
health officials met at county center
to establish a framework for a public
health approach to gun violence prevention.
Astorino pointed out that his four
years at the county helm have withstood two freak snowstorms and two
hurricanes. “We have to fortify the infrastructure for the next storm,” he said,
with $15 million in county grants.
He said he is proud of River Rescue,
which made improvements bypassing
the intricate “federal bureaucracy. The
Bronx River is owned by the county
and we started cleaning it up with volunteers” and significantly improved the
flow.
He also worked with Con Ed to review emergency protocols. “Now the
team leader can make decisions” on a
local level, he said, which will speed
up restoration efforts during power outages.
Although Astorino paints Bramson
as a “typical” Democrat, he has assiduously avoided labeling himself as a Republican in his campaign literature and
TV ads. A recent print ad from his camp
encourages voters to elect a “bipartisan” leader, despite the “tug of war” he
describes with the largely Democratic
county Board of Legislators and his ongoing battle with federal authorities.
He’s also been criticized for not removing a TV commercial that the Fair
Campaign Practices Committee ruled is
unfair. But he said the deciding board
was biased, 11 registered Democrats
and one Republican. “The whole ruling
was semantics,” he said. Bramson “took
a car, health care for life, and raised
taxes by 109 percent. Even over 18
years, that’s 6 percent annually. That’s
all true,” he said.
“I have enormous differences of
opinion with Rob Astorino on a great
number of issues, and I look forward
to a campaign in which we can contrast
our visions and engage the public in a
thoughtful discussion,” he told the Inquirer.
Four years ago, Astorino won over
voters who were disturbed by the
county’s settlement with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, requiring the construction of
750 units of affordable housing in 31
mostly white towns, including Scarsdale, by 2016. Many blamed the underlying lawsuit on Spano’s arrogance and
inattention.
Astorino vehemently opposed the
agreement during his campaign to oust
Spano. But Bramson said that Astorino
has not since provided the “mature
constructive leadership” to deal with
the settlement “and get it out of the
way.”
“Astorino has engaged in an unprecedented campaign of public deception”
about the settlement, he said, “to pose
as a protector,” misrepresenting the
cost of construction, the number of
units required and warning that HUD
wants to eliminate local zoning ordinances “and put a high rise on every
block.”
But Bramson said that the settlement, and the analysis of impediments
that the county is required to undertake, doesn’t set new standards for
zoning, which simply test whether it’s
possible to build affordable housing in
a particular community. There needs
to be an intelligent conversation with
federal officials, he said. “My approach
would be fundamentally different …
and we’d get it behind us, without it
costing us millions of dollars.”
As for Astorino’s promise of property tax relief, Bramson said the county
executive has simply borrowed money
to make up for a deficit and pay for
ordinary operations without raising
taxes, hardly prudent or far-sighted and
it’s “unsustainable.”
Astorino has taken a “meat cleaver
approach to reducing taxes,” in drafting a county budget that’s often counterproductive, Bramson said. He said
that Astorino’s child care policy [requiring higher payment by the parent]
has forced “parents who want to work
to go on welfare, or obtain substandard
care,” for their children, eventually increasing costs for kindergarten to grade
12.
When you cut back on eviction relief, you have more people in shelters,
Bramson reasoned, and when you cut
back on home care funding, you have
more people being treated in the hospital, ultimately at a higher cost.
Astorino, he said, “seems ideologically opposed to public action. I don’t
consider myself pro- or anti-government. It’s a matter of thinking things
through carefully and assessing their
impacts.”
Bramson grew up in New Rochelle,
the youngest of four brothers, and returned there after graduating from Harvard University. He was a speechwriter
for Nita Lowey, Scarsdale’s longtime
U.S. representative, before the 2010
redistricting. He’s running for executive, he said, because county government presents opportunities to “impact
lives in a positive fashion. I’ve lived in
Westchester County my whole life, and
I care very deeply about the extended
community.”
But the leadership under Astorino
has been neglectful, he said, and shortsighted. “We need a coherent plan to
strengthen our economy and protect our
environment,” he said. Where there’s
access to mass transit, we should invest
in infrastructure, he maintains, especially transportation infrastructure, “to
unlock the economic potential of areas
that are not realizing their full capacity
to contribute to the regional economy.”
Asked to identify the challenges
facing the county, Bramson promised
long-range planning for the economy
and environment, a plan that goes beyond “offering tax break A to company
B.” He wants to work with municipalities to prepare comprehensive plans,
model zoning codes and reduced reliance on the automobiles.
He said the reconstruction of the
Tappan Zee Bridge can strengthen the
287 corridor with mixed-use nodes
served by mass transit. At the same
time, a new rail link from Westchester
to Penn Station offers fresh possibilities along Westchester’s southern tier.
“We need a conversation between local
and regional leaders,” he said.
His opponent “eviscerated the county planning department” and withdrew
from regional sustainability alliances,
he said. “Westchester was the only
county,” he said “that didn’t participate
in the mid-Hudson sustainability plan.”
Bramson also believes that significant tax savings will occur if municipalities and school districts were to
share services. “That doesn’t mean
consolidating smaller villages or
school districts,” but creating a framework that enables partnering, he said.
Issues aside, Bramson said that he
Bramson’s plan of action
• Revitalize cities
ning, and climate adaptation
efforts. Strengthen regional
corridors
• Invest in infrastructure
• Compete for job creation by
developing
transit-oriented
housing for young professionals, low-cost energy, marketing, and financial incentives
• Streamline “smart,” green
development and reinstate
regional, environmental, plan-
• Cut the tax burden by sharing
municipal services
• Balance budgets without borrowing money to pay for the
county’s day-to-day operations
• Fight for state mandate relief
Candidates to
debate
The Westchester County
League of Women Voters is
sponsoring a candidate forum
at 5:30pm next Wednesday,
Oct. 23, together with Pace
University, at Pace’s Graduate Center, 1 Martine Ave. in
White Plains, for the county
executive, district attorney
and county clerk positions.
The forum will be moderated
by Sally Robinson, the president of the New York State
League of Women Voters
and a former president of the
Scarsdale league. The above
mentioned candidates are not
participating in the Scarsdale
league’s forum Oct. 24.
“shares the moderate mainstream progressive values of the county.” Like
most of Westchester, he supports a
woman’s “right to choose,” gun safety and marriage equality. Though the
county executive doesn’t directly affect reproductive freedom legislation,
“When there are close votes in the state
Legislature, that’s when regional leaders can speak up and make a difference,” Bramson said. Astorino vetoed
clinic access legislation, and brought
gun shows back to the county center.
Astorino has also voiced opposition to
state legislation banning assault weapons. Bramson, though, joined Michael
Bloomberg’s Mayors Against Illegal
Guns, and advocates “common sense”
regulations.
Astorino, he said, “lines up with the
extreme right of the Tea Party.”
He’s governed poorly, Bramson said,
striking a “defiant pose” against federal agencies, “a consistent pattern of
ignoring problems, hoping they’ll go
away on their own, and not addressing
them until the 59th minute of the 11th
hour — all in a way that’s deeply harmful for the county.”
Bramson said that Astorino had
known about the need to treat Westchester County water with ultraviolet
light “since the day he took office and
failed to act responsibly.”
His inaction exposed the county to
thousands of dollars in fines and penalties, Bramson said. The Environmental
Protection Agency and the U.S. Attorney filed a civil suit against the county
for violation of the Safe Water Act in
Water District 1, which includes Scarsdale, after the Astorino administration
refused to settle.
The Justice Department seeks compliance and $37,500 in fines for each
day the county was in violation.
Astorino’s TV ads have charged
Bramson with increasing taxes in New
Rochelle by 109 percent, painting him
as an irresponsible tax-and-spend liberal in a county that has the highest
property taxes in the nation. “It’s a perfect example of a statistic taken out of
context to create a false impression,”
Bramson said. Taxes did go up — over
18 years, 10 of which he spent on the
city council. And the municipal tax rate
in New Rochelle is among the lowest
of all cities in Westchester County,
Bramson said.
“Astorino campaigns like he’s Nelson Rockefeller, but he governs like
Newt Gingrich,” Bramson said, “His
is the most ideological administration
in the history of Westchester County.”
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Lifestyles
Concert to benefit Israeli pediatric cancer care center
Briefs
Women’s Guild fundraiser
The United Nations Women’s Guild
will hold a fundraising sale of “kitchen
goodies” and fashion eyewear Monday,
Oct. 21, from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.,
at St. James the Less Episcopal Church,
10 Church Lane South. The guild,
established in 1948, is a voluntary organization of women connected with the
UN whose fundraising efforts benefit
children in need around the world. For
information, call 202-7511.
Women empowering women
Westchester Reform Temple guest
speaker Ruth W. Messinger, president
of American Jewish World Service
(AJWS), will speak during tonight’s
service, Friday, Oct. 18, at 7:45 p.m.
Messinger will speak about “Women
Empowering Women, Worldwide,” exploring movements around the globe for
women’s rights. She will also highlight
grassroots projects that AJWS supports
that empower women to take the lead.
This service is free and open to the
public at Westchester Reform Temple,
255 Mamaroneck Road. Call 723-7727.
Soul-ifying worship
Naomi Less and her musicians will
hold an experiential worship journey
through music, meditation, prayer and
community with Shaarei Tikvah kindergartners, first- and second-graders,
tonight, Oct. 18, at 6 p.m.
Shaarei Tikvah, the Scarsdale Conservative Congregation, is at 46 Fox
Meadow Road. For information, call
472-2013.
Lakota Day
The Youth Action Committee at
Scarsdale Congregational Church,
1 Heathcote Road, is organizing its
second annual Lakota Day, a fundraising car wash and bake sale to benefit the
Lakota Children’s Enrichment project,
Sunday, Oct. 20, from 11:30 a.m. to 2
p.m.
LCE, founded by Maggie Dunne, is
a nonprofit organization that serves the
children of the Pine Ridge Reservation
in a variety of ways, including a young
writers’ contest for middle school students, a leadership conference for high
school students, and providing material
support to students at all grade levels
through the donation of books and
school supplies. Call 723-2111.
From Bima to Broadway
Scarsdale Synagogue Temples Tremont and Emanu-El, 2 Ogden Road, will
hold “From the Bima to Broadway,”
an evening of song, Saturday, Oct. 26,
at 7:30 p.m. The program will feature
cantors Chanin Becker, Gerald Cohen,
Leigh Korn, Benjie Ellen Schiller and
student cantors Rachel Rhodes and
Amanda Kleinman.
Tickets are $18 in advance, $23 at
the door. Proceeds benefit Westchester
Jewish Community Services’ Partners
in Caring. For information and reservations, call 725-5175 or email Teresa@
office@sstte.org.
American Friends of Soroka Medical Center will present three singers
in a concert to benefit pediatric cancer
care at Soroka Medical Center, Be’er
Sheva, Israel, this Saturday night, Oct.
19, at 8 p.m. at Young Israel of Scarsdale, 1313 Weaver St. Professor Joseph
Kapelushnik, head of pediatric oncology, will speak on his groundbreaking
research into early detection of cancer,
and the unique challenges of delivering
health care in the Negev.
Kapelushnik developed a blood test
for early detection of cancer, with the
aim to find an effective, inexpensive
and simple method that will detect as
many types of cancer as possible. He
also helps indigent families gain access
to cutting edge, experimental therapies
for their children that are not covered
by insurance. Kapelushnik has created
a special fund at Soroka for pediatric
cancer patients.
Baritone Gerard Edery, a grandmaster of interpreter of Sephardic and Latin
American guitar classics, will perform
with Argentine basso profundo Claudio Betan and Polish mezzo-soprano
Malgorzata Panko. This concert has
an additional dimension: the resonance
of deep family connections. Edery and
Betan are cousins who first played together in Rome in 1973. Panko is Edery’s fiancée: they met during one of
his frequent tours to Poland. Panko
performs with the Polish National Opera in Warsaw and with philharmonic
orchestras in Poland and Eastern Europe.
Soroka is one of the largest and
most strategic hospitals in Israel, and
the only major medical center for the
Negev, an area that comprises 60 percent of Israel, with a population of 1
million, including 400,000 children.
The hospital cares for all patients regardless of race, religion or politics.
Through the delivery of urgently
needed medical care to the vast and
diverse society in the Negev region,
Soroka makes a unique contribution to
the building of a future of security and
peaceful coexistence for Israel.
American Friends of Soroka Medical Center is based in Scarsdale. It is
a tax-exempt not-for-profit dedicated
to supporting Soroka Medical Center’s
mission.
Tickets are $36 each. Event sponsorships are $180, which includes admission for two. There will be a wine and
cheese and dessert reception. Reservations may be made at www.soroka.org.
Walk-ins OK. For more information,
the number to call is 725-9070.
Creative Cooking
Traditional Greek cuisine prepared with loving care at Elia Taverna
The slogan of esteemed chef Alain
Ducasse is “simple, sain et bon,” which
means simple, healthy and good. This
thought, with the addition of generosity
of food, spirit and pride in one’s work,
describes the atmosphere at Elia Taverna in Bronxville, where traditional
Greek food is thriving.
Olives grow in Greece. Their flavor
dominates Greek cuisine, so it’s no surprise that the traditional Greek tavern
in Bronxville honors the olive with its
name, Elia Taverna. In the three and one
half years since its opening, Elia Taverna has been offering a large variety
of traditional Greek dishes simply prepared with loving care. It is owned by
brothers-in-law Rui Cunha and Michalakis Sarris. Cunha attends to the dining
room and business end and Sarris is the
chef.
Cunha said, “Our success is a result of
the fact that we have fun in what we do,
and it reflects on our customers. Simple is better, and our fair prices add to
our success. Our staff has been with us
since we opened which keeps our guests
comfortable and we welcome customer
feedback.”
Sarris said, “My successful kitchen
is the result of my passion for cooking.
I love to cook and everything is homemade and traditionally prepared. My
many years of experience has perfected
my grilling skills.” Both hope to expand
the flourishing catering facet of the business.
The restaurant seats about 88 in its
two dining rooms. Family photos, dark
wooden tables and chairs, tile floors,
large attractive posters of Greece, olive
related artwork, sea blue curtains, ceiling fans, olive stencils on the windows,
a wicker bench outside and lilting Greek
music set the mood.
No sooner had I been seated then a
plate of warm pita and assorted olives
marinated in oil and herbs were set
upon the table. Immediately following,
a colorful white bean salad arrived. This
special salad included firm white beans,
enhanced with red pepper strips, soft
parboiled onion strips, parsley, cilantro
and a perfectly balanced oil and fresh
lemon juice dressing. The fruity, thick
and green Greek olive oil is used. The
appetizers are numerous. Previous visits
included the excellent and popular cold
dips of skordalia with potatoes and garlic, tzatziki with yogurt, cucumber and
pa i d o b i t u a r y
Robert A. Yoken
August 6, 1946 - October 4, 2013
R
obert A. Yoken, 67, resident of Brookline
for more than 40 years, entered into rest
October 4, 2013. He was the dear son of
the late Charles & Sylvia (Marcus) Yoken. Loving
brother of Phyllis Ruttenberg & her husband Jim of
Scarsdale, NY. Beloved uncle of Sherrie Goldstein
of Katonah, NY and Julie Mandell of New York
City. Also survived by his cousins Jocelyn Arnold
of Newton, David (Irene) Wheinstone of Danvers,
Melvin Yoken of New Bedford, Stephen Yoken of
Fall River and Marilyn Goldsmith of Worcester.
Graveside funeral services will be held Monday
at 2:00 PM at Lindwood Memorial Park, Temple
Emanuel Section, 490 North St. Randolph, MA.
In lieu of flowers, contributions in his memory may
be made to the American Diabetes Association, 10
Speen St., Framingham, MA 01701
RECIPES
Tzatziki (cucumber, garlic and yogurt dip) (serves 4-6)
2 English cucumbers
6 cloves garlic, peeled
salt to taste
4 cups Greek style yogurt
2 Tbsp. red wine vinegar
freshly ground black pepper to
taste
4 Tbsp. olive oil
Grate the cucumbers and place
in a colander weighted down with
a plate for 15 minutes, so some of
the liquid drains out. Gather the
grated cucumbers in muslin towel
Octopus is a fine entree.
Your Bill
Appetizers, soups, salads..............
................................. $4.95-$14.95
Gyro, souvlaki sandwiches/platters
................................. $6.95-$14.95
Entrees ................... $12.95-$26.95
Desserts ..................... $4.95-$5.50
garlic, and taramasalata, a caviar dip.
This time we chose several hot appetizers. From the menu of specials, which
changes regularly, we loved the Cypriot
ravioli. Chef Sarris prepared a wheat
flour dough and filled it with a mint and
halloumi cheese filling, sealed into half
moons and served in a homemade tomato sauce which was nicely spiced.
From the regular menu, we especially
enjoyed garides saganaki. Here, large
succulent shrimp were sauteed with tomatoes and feta cheese that melted into
the sauce. Topped with crumbled feta, it
was hearty and delightful. Ktapodi followed. This is chef Sarris’s signature
octopus. These tender morsels are chargrilled and seasoned with oregano, red
wine vinegar and Greek olive oil and
served warm. They signify perfection in
their simplicity.
We continued with a salad and several entrees. The Paphos Island salad
included lettuce, onion, tomato and cucumber tossed with fresh cilantro and
crumbled feta and dressed with oil and
vinegar. The crowning glory was thick
slices of beautifully textured halloumi
cheese. The salads can be topped with
gyro, falafel, calamari, shrimp or grape
leaves for a more substantial dish.
From the specials, I was adventurous
as I was served lagos stifados. This dish
of rabbit on the bone was sauteed in a
sauce of red wine and Spanish onion,
and stewed in a light subtly flavored
tomato broth seasoned with bay leaves
and fragrant cinnamon. The sauce was
divine, and I must confess that after so
many years of dining out, this was my
first experience with eating rabbit. The
meat was tender and moist, but I had
trouble not thinking about those cute
rabbits that eat my flowers in the spring.
More familiar was the lamb kebab.
Cubes of lamb alternated with green and
red peppers and onions and were grilled
to perfection. Served with wedges of
oven roasted lemon potatoes, this combination was excellent.
Judging from the grilled dishes served
at Elia Taverna, I conclude that Sarris
is a master at the art of grilling, where
the dishes are nicely charred on the outside and juicy within. From the special
entrees, the kotopoulo spanakorizo was
divine. A large mound of fresh leaf spinach pilaf seasoned with fresh dill and
tomato paste was the base for strips of
grilled nicely marinated chicken breast.
The dill enhanced this dish. We couldn’t
resist a plate of Greek fries with our entrees. Thin rounds of potato were fried
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and squeeze out the remaining
liquid. Crush the garlic and salt in
a mortar and pestle until it is pureed. Place cucumber, garlic, yogurt, vinegar and pepper in a food
processor. Blend until smooth,
slowly adding the oil while the
machine is running. Cover and refrigerate until ready to use.
This is a great sauce for chicken, meat or falafel or for dipping
pita. Diners go through almost
50 gallons of it each week at Elia
Taverna.
Spanakorizo (spinach rice) (serves 4-6)
4 Tbsp. olive oil
4 green onions including green
stems, finely chopped
2 cloves garlic, peeled and finely
chopped
1/3 cup long grain white rice,
washed
3 Tbsp. finely chopped fresh dill
including stems
1 Tbsp. dried oregano
1 Tbsp. dried mint
2 pounds spinach, including
stems, washed and roughly
chopped
salt and freshly ground black
pepper to taste
Heat half of the oil in a large
saucepan over medium heat and
saute the green onions and garlic for about five minutes or until
softened. Add the rice, dill and
until crisp and topped with oregano,
cheese and fresh lemon juice.
Save room for a cup of strong Greek
coffee and housemade baklava, kataifi
or galaktoboureko, the classic phyllo
pastries. During the week, those fried
puffs of dough dripping with honey
syrup and cinnamon, loukoumades, are
offered, and are a memorable finale to
your Greek meal.
Gyros and souvlakia on pita or on
dried herbs and saute for another
two minutes. Add enough water
to just cover the ingredients. Add
the spinach and stir until it wilts.
Add the remaining oil and salt and
pepper and if necessary, enough
water to cover the mixture.
Simmer for 15-20 minutes or
until the rice is cooked and most
of the liquid has been absorbed,
stirring occasionally so the mixture doesn’t stick to the pan. At
the end, if the mixture is too liquid, remove the pot from the heat
and stretch a thick dishtowel over
the pan and place the lid on the
pan. The cloth will absorb any extra moisture. Set aside for a few
minutes and serve.
This is a hearty dish alone that’s
also delicious with grilled chicken
strips or stuffed shrimp on top.
platters are very popular and are a nice
lunch option.
Shouts of “opa” (cheers) or the tradition of breaking plates to indicate joy
and appreciation may be heard at the
end of your meal at Elia Taverna.
Elia Taverna
502 New Rochelle Road
Bronxville
663-4976
We Give Back
Through Racing!
After successfully completing my
first World Championship Ironman in
Kona, Hawaii on Saturday, my attention turned to New York to cheer on
Team Zachys this past Sunday at the
Westchester Running Festival. With
over 50 runners & walkers from Zachys
(Retail, Auction & New York Fine Wine
Storage), Team Zachys showed up in
full force and clad in neon orange to
make our 5th year of participation the
best yet. We certainly made an impact
with our combined efforts raising over
$10,000 for 25 charitable causes.
Don’s mantra for a long time has been
“What Makes Zachys Different?” and
the answer is simply put, our Team! I
can’t wait to see what we do next!
All My Best,
In the Garden
Lee Reich
Believing in cabbage
For years, Thompson & Morgan
nursery has offered seeds of a cabbage whose drawn out stalk is reputedly used for walking sticks: the
“Walking Stick Giant Cabbage.”
Their catalog shows a photograph of
a little boy looking up, awestruck, at a
bare cabbage stem towering overhead
and topped by a rosette of leaves. “A
famous tourist attraction in the Channel Islands for nearly two centuries,”
claims Thompson & Morgan’s ad
writers. I wonder whether the attraction is the growing plants, or the walking sticks made from the dried stalks.
I never believed a cabbage stalk
could make a sturdy walking stick.
And wouldn’t rain and mud reduce it
to a slimy mush? The Walking Stick
Giant Cabbage was on my list of horticultural “lemons,” along with vine
peach, tree tomato, celtuce and garden
huckleberry.
Last week, I became a believer
that a cabbage stalk could, in fact, be
transmuted into a serviceable walking
stick. My conversion came about as I
was probing the innards of a year-old
compost pile, shoveling out compost
to spread over the garden. The shovel
slid easily into the dark, crumbly material as I loaded the wheelbarrow, until I got down to where the remains of
last autumn’s garden was composted.
There, my shovel was suddenly jarred
to a stop, as if it had struck a piece of
wood.
The hard objects turned out to be
the remains of last year’s Brussels
sprouts stalks, plastered with a dark
brown, sticky coating but otherwise
still durable. My thoughts turned to
Gay Edwards Reetz
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ay Edwards Reetz, of Bronxville, passed
away on October 10, 2013. Fifty-six years
ago, Gay Reetz packed up four children, a
St. Bernard and moved to Bronxville. Soon
there were six, a large porch and a VW bus. A graduate of
Elmira College, after raising her six, she earned a Master’s
Degree from Manhattanville College, going on to teach in
the Scarsdale Public Schools for over 30 years. Hundreds of
children were touched by “The Gay Reetz Way”. A lifelong
volunteer, she served her church, her village and her country
on countless committees, councils and boards, a preceptor
to her children and family at large. The lamp she lit still
burns in the five children, 10 grandchildren, nieces, nephews, cousins and village she loved. “For God alone my soul
waits in silence, from him comes my salvation.” A Memorial
Service was held at The Reformed Church of Bronxville on
Tuesday October 15, 2013 at 11am. In lieu of flowers donations can be made to The Reformed Church of Bronxville
or Jansen Hospice and Palliative Care.
sels sprout, but a variety of kale. (They
are all within the same genus and species, along with broccoli, cauliflower
and collards.) I rarely find the remains
of cabbages or broccolis in my compost piles, because these plants are
not in the garden long enough for their
stalks to become woody. Like Brussels sprouts, though, Walking Stick
Giant Cabbage seed is sown in early
spring to grow throughout summer
into autumn, which is sufficient time
for the stems of either of these plants
to toughen.
Even better would be to allow two
or more seasons of growth for Walking Stick Giant Cabbage. VilmorinAndrieux wrote a hundred years ago,
in “The Vegetable Garden,” of growing Walking Stick Giant Cabbages
near Paris, where the plants would
survive the winter, perhaps even two
winters, before throwing out a seedstalk and dying. After a couple of seasons of growth, plants might be 10 or
15 feet high, with stems still narrow
enough for walking sticks. All the
while the plants were growing, the
older leaves were used to feed cows.
I like the idea of a dual purpose
plant, but I have no cows.
After I harvest my Brussels sprouts
by the end of this month, I’m going
to see if these plants can be pressed
into double service. Instead of throwing all the stalks on the compost pile,
I will save those that are straightest,
thickest and longest. Once dry, I’ll bet
they will make tough, lightweight, ornamental (from the scars where leaves
and sprouts were attached) walking
sticks.
The Thompson & Morgan nursery
catalog shows a child with a Walking Stick Giant Cabbage.
the Walking Stick Giant Cabbage
(the Walking Stick Giant Brussels
Sprouts?). I realized that anything
that could remain so intact within the
bowels of a compost pile for a year
surely could remain in prime condition for many years outside a compost
pile.
The Walking Stick Giant Cabbage
is really neither a cabbage nor a Brus-
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This week the Scarsdale Village Justice Court calendar consisted of 14 defendants facing criminal and/or vehicle
and traffic charges and five defendants
facing village code violations.
Peter Calviello pleaded guilty to the
reduced charge of a registration violation. He was fined $200.
Dawn Handler pleaded guilty to the
reduced charge of driving without a license. She was fined $200.
Joseph Roberson pleaded guilty to
driving without a license and disobey-
ing a traffic control device. He was
fined $400.
Edgar Martinez pleaded guilty to
second-degree aggravated unlicensed
operation of a motor vehicle. He was
sentenced to jail on four consecutive
weekends.
Brianna Lee Vesey pleaded guilty to
the reduced charge of driving without a
license and was fined $240.
The court issued one warrant letter
and five appearance letters to defendants who did not appear in court as
directed.
Adjournments included cases with
the following charges: third-degree
grand larceny, third-degree criminal
possession of stolen property, seconddegree grand larceny, second-degree
possession of a forged instrument,
second-degree criminal impersonation,
false personation, driving while intoxicated (first offense), DWI with a blood
alcohol level of at least .08 of 1 percent
and various vehicle and traffic violations and village code violations.
This report covering police and fire
department activity from Oct. 7-14, and
the Village Justice Court calendar from
Oct. 9, was compiled from official information.
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couples shared a service of marriage vows renewal in the chapel. At 3
PM, John King and Greg Zelek provided an organ concert.
Saturday night, the congregation gathered at the Renaissance Westchester
Hotel for cocktails and dinner. After welcoming remarks and dinner, a
featured speaker, Pastor Michael Lindvall of Brick Church in Manhattan,
provided a hilarious talk about a Midwestern church and an evangelist
obsessed with “Rapture”.
A highlight of the Festival Weekend was an illustrated history of
Hitchcock over the previous 100 years, rolled out in 25-year periods.
A video of photographs of the church and environs was shown on two
huge screens while music of the period and brief historical summaries
were heard. At the breaks between each period, professional performers sang top songs of each period. Cabaret singers were Heather
Meili and Steve Taylor, while Greg Zelek accompanied on piano.
Kathleen Mahan was director. The video and the summary was printed
as text with DVD for each family to take home. The evening ended with
a song written for the occasion to the tune of “You are my sunshine”.
Celebrate 100! Festival Weekend, October 4-6, 2013,
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a high point in a year’s set of activities. The congregation and
Sunday morning’s Festival Service packed the sanctuary with worshippers.
A combined choir included “alumni” as well as regular choristers. A brass
ensemble with tympani provided fanfare and orchestral accompaniment
for hymns and anthem, prelude and postlude. A call to worship led by
centennial co-chairs Lynne and Merrell Clark preceeded the celebratory
procession of choir, clergy and the President of the church corporation,
Steve Bush, who carried the centennial banner to the chancel. After a
powerful sermon by Pastor Miller, the choir and orchestra performed the
commissioned anthem. Dr. Miller and Rev. Elizabeth Smith-Bartlett then
celebrated a service of Holy Communion.
former members who have moved away responded enthusiastically to
plans and to the unfolding of 100! from January when banners featuring
Celebrate 100! became permanent fixtures in worship.
The Festival Weekend began Friday with a reception in the Children’s
House. It included lavish hors d’oeuvre and cocktails. Upstairs, after the
first hour, a Youth Orchestra under the baton of Donna Elaine performed
several classical numbers. Also, a collection of paintings and other art
created by Hitchcock members were exhibited.
Events of 2013 included a group pilgrimage to Israel and Sunday visits
by former Pastors. A new hymn was commissioned, as was a new
anthem for the chancel choir.
Saturday at noon, a group was led through the campus of Hitchcock
to see the new (1990) sanctuary, the renovated chapel, other changes
in the buildings, the gardens and artifacts, including murals, stained
Officers of Hitchcock Presbyterian Church – (Elders and Deacons) who attended the Gala: Seated in front are
Linda Camp, Beverly Thornhill, Venetta Amory, Adriana Galhardo. Terri Brooks and Sheila Trindal. Standing: Chip Love,
Martha Binder, Jonathan Hwang, Tom Veres, John Miller, Yzette Swavy-Lipton, Bob McFarlane, Betsy Bush, Lisa Moffit,
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Festival Service at Hitchcock Presbyterian Church sanctuary on October 6, 2013. Maestro John T. King, Minister of
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Models in Historical Perspective and Garments – Members of Hitchcock modeled fashions of the last century. Seated:
Rose Marie Garnier, Martha Flanders, Barbara Hudock. Standing: Jensina Olson, Kathy Gray, Marge Herold, Cheryl Veres,
Aliceann Vogel, Juliet Gopoian, Scott Nammacher, Diane Gismond, Paulette Talley, Constance Haslett, Aimee Clark Peterson
tClergy, Staff, Speaker and Spouses – Seated: Elizabeth Smith-Bartlett, Minister of Nurture and Formation, John King,
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Following the service, the usual “coffee hour” became a full brunch.
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weekend. People lingered before departing with happy memories.
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