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Westchester Home Prices Stall; County Inventory of Unsolds Increases; County Sales Off 12% in Second Quarter
Hits: 101 WPCNR REAL ESTATER. Special to WPCNR from the Hudson Gateway Multiple Listing Service. (Edited) July 9, 2014: Westchester and Orange Counties experienced the largest percentage year to year falloffs from 2013, in sales at 12.0% and 12.2% respectively … Continue reading
Council Hears 31 on FASNY Proposal. Many do not stay to speak because of Heat. Unique Dual Hearings Continue in August. Moratorium on Cabarets Voted. Bans on # 6 and #4 Fuel Oil Approved.
Hits: 2WPCNR COMMON COUNCIL CHRONICLE-EXAMINER By John F. Bailey. July 9, 2014: It was a hot and steamy night Monday evening in City Hall rife with hot air, rancor, and downright confusion during the opening hearings on the closing of … Continue reading
County Collected Mortgage Taxes Receipts PLUNGE 19% in first 6 Months
Hits: 136WPCNR COUNTY CLARION-LEDGER. From the Office of the Westchester County Clerk. July 8, 2014: Revenue figures released today by Westchester County Clerk Timothy C. Idoni indicate that county mortgage tax receipts in the first half of 2014 are the … Continue reading
America’s Best Bridge — THE BROOKLYN BRIDGE of Course.
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America’s Best Boatride–The Good Old Staten Island Ferry…Also Best Most Romantic Date and the Cheapest
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The Old Ballgame on America’s Birthday
Hits: 184 The Old Ballgame: No gloves, no steroids, no biting, flannel uniforms, no droopy pants and no tattoos. No electronic scoreboards, no out of town scoreboards, no runs just “Aces” and “Frames.” No jingles before every at bat, no … Continue reading
Nature’s Fireworks Celebrate the 4th
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Put a Tarp on It and Set Em Off Next Week. Did anybody think Wednesday and Thursday nights in the Michaelian Building and White Plains City Hall?
Hits: 146 WPCNR NEWS & COMMENT. By John F. Bailey. July 4, 2014: All I can say after the fiascos of two days of government-administered fireworks in active thunderstorms the last two days, is that I do not understand the … Continue reading
Fireworks Blast Off Early into the Rain at 8:30 Celebrating Independence Day. God’s Fireworks Upstage the Show.
Hits: 314WPCNR CITY SCENE. July 2, 2014: With cloud-to-cloud lightning and moderate rain coming down at 8:15 P.M. (light rain and grumbling thunder had growled and prowled across the skies since 5:30 P.M. )the White Plains fireworks were ignited at … Continue reading