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Town of Greenburgh to Sell former Frank’s Nursery on 9A to an Assisted Living Company

Posted on December 9, 2015 by John Bailey

WPCNR THE FEINER REPORT By Paul Feiner. Town of Greenburgh Supervisor. December 9, 2015:

The Town Board is close to an agreement to sell Frank’s nursery to an assisted living facility for $3,525,000. We anticipate that the facility will be between 90-100 units. In recent years residents have encouraged the town to sell the property, which we took over by foreclosure, for residential purposes or for an assisted living facility. Our current code authorizes assisted living facilities to be built at this location so no zoning changes will be required. We hired a broker over a year ago to help us market the property and worked hard to market the property. This was the best offer we received.

(1) Valterra (Capital Senior Housing) will now assume responsibility for the environmental remediation of the property but will do so at the Town’s expense;

(2) upon execution of the contract, Valterra (Capital Senior Housing) will deposit $100,000 in escrow and then assist the Town in working with the DEC during the (90) day feasibility period to quantify the cost of remediation and determine necessary remediation measures;

(3) once the cost of remediation is quantified, both parties will agree upon an amount of money to be placed in escrow that Valterra can draw down from to complete remediation;

(4) remediation will take place after closing and money placed in escrow for remediation will be deducted from the Town’s $3.5 purchase price;

Public Relations ploy by FASNY, Anti-FASNY Writer Feels.

Posted on December 8, 2015 by John Bailey

WPCNR THE LETTER TICKER. DECEMBER 8, 2015:

This (ACT White Plains movement ) is just another example of FASNY’s heavily financed PR in action.

I have not seen this letter yet but I am certain it contains the same names that we have seen over and over again; most whom have some personal ties with FASNY and/or live nowhere near the project. It is silly for anyone to actually believe this is a group separate from FASNY.

A super majority (5-2) is needed on an Environmentally sensitive site for a good reason; to protect the environment. To suggest the council who voted “NO” to closing a public street and giving the property to FASNY so they could build their mega development, should change their vote because this small group is launching a website is silly.

The only thing that FASNY has demonstrated is they want what they want and they will do anything to get it. The new President of the Board of Trustees of FASNY waited just two days before the council voted to write a very strong letter to the City threatening to bring legal action if they did not get what they want.

Make no mistake about it, this latest publicity stunt is nothing more then trying to influence the judge by using the media. They even go as far as to claim they deliberately did not file a damages suit because why??????? Could it have something to do with the fact they have already received handsome offers to buy the property? Even an offer from a golf course developer who has offered almost DOUBLE what they paid for the property. We are not going to stand by while they try to bully their way into destroying a neighborhood.

Ellen Lee

White Plains

Neighbors Organization– ACT White Plains Says “Tail is Wagging the Dog” at Citizens to Be Heard Asks Krolian, Lecuona, Hunt-Robinson to “Reconsider Your Vote” on French American School.

Posted on December 7, 2015 by John Bailey

WPCNR COMMON COUNCIL-CHRONICLE EXAMINER. By John F. Bailey. December 5, 2015:

Four persons representing some 90 signers of a letter to the Mayor from a new political action group they call ACT White Plains, called upon Councilmembers Nadine Hunt-Robinson, Milagros Lecuona, and Dennis Krolian to “reconsider” their 3 negative votes that denied the closing of Hathaway Lane August 5, which killed the proposed plan for a new French American School of New York campus on the former Ridgeway Country Club.

The letter said the three councilpersons who voted “No” on Hathway Lane closure, as “The tail is wagging the dog.”

The vote that Monday night in August resulted in a suit filed by The French American School of New York to reverse the council ruling. That suit is now under consideration by Judge Joan Lefkowitz in New York Supreme Court.

The group in their letter to the Mayor and Common Council which was read to the council, did not specifiy what they wanted the Common Council to do.

WPCNR has learned that the French American School has financing in place with a “reputable” financial institution to start and complete the project if the Common Council should reverse its decision either before or after the Judge makes their decision.

WPCNR has also learned that the school’s present attitude is simply that they want to build the school, and the source told me the school deliberately did not file a damages suit, because any court decision in their favor would have the potential of amplifying the damages the school they could ask for.

The letter presented by ACT said they were acting before it was too late and the city lost the prospect of a park and a school that would benefit the neighborhood of Gedney Farms and city.

A knowlegeable source from the French American School told WPCNR, they had no idea the group was being formed or was going to present this evening before today.

THE DAY OF INFAMY –74 YEARS AGO TODAY. PEARL HARBOR HORROR REMEMBERED

Posted on December 7, 2015 by John Bailey

Out of the Sun

A Memorial Poem

Out of the sun on quiet Sunday morning they came

Birds of death blazened with red suns raining fiery havoc on Battleship Row.

One by one, ruthless planes dove, destroyed wantonly to their nation’s eternal shame.

Thunderous explosions scattered fiery death in Sunday dawn’s glow.

Flames belched from bowels of stricken Arizona, America’s pride,

On Hickam Field pilots raced to planes to defend

As their birds were crippled on ground by Zeros’ glide

Gunners in turrets on ships floundering filled skies with flack’s din.

In search of aircraft carriers, marauders could not find

Ruthlessly strafed and bombed leaving Pearl

Smoking ruin. Ships sunk, burning as raiders flew back into the Sun

The day of infamy had been ignited in the Zeros’ swirl.

America listened a world away, somber FDR

Spoke of this day that will live in infamy.

America must never forget that Pearl Harbor Scar

When an unsuspecting America slept in complacency.

To the 2,403 perishing that day under merciless bombs

Hails of bullets,terror of torpedos out of nowhere

America must remember forces against our freedoms

Relentlessly work always to remain aware of surprise of deadly bombs’ glare.

Vigilence is the price of freedom always to be defended

Against those who would destroy our republic from within

By dark forces in far off places we have offended.

The answer is not curtailing freedom at home rather it to champion.

The USS Arizona lies today in Pearl’s waters, bleeding lives

Of her men through the eerie eternal slick marking the rusting hulk.

Beneath Pearl’s waters, the blood of free people oozes from the shadowy bulk,

Bleeding forever, freedom’s spirit living eternally in lost lives remembered.

The Arizona never rests.

Note: The Pearl Harbor attack took place 74 years ago today at 7 A.M. Honolulu time –just about 12 noon Eastern Standard Time. Its aftermath is dramatically depicted at

http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/events/wwii-pac/pearlhbr/pearlhbr.htm