WHITE PLAINS CITIZENETREPORTER SETS RECORD VISITS FOR YEAR 7,017,658 VISITS! 2,098,003 VISITORS MADE 6 VISITS A DAY EVERY DAY. 63,330 UNIQUE VISITORS MADE 133,730 VISITS IN DECEMBER. WPCNR AVERAGED 17,284 VISITORS A WEEK, VISITING 31,270 TIMES.

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WPCNR TAPPAN ZEE BRIDGE NEWS . From the New York State Thruway Authority. July 15, 2013:

Beginning today, Tappan Zee Constructors, LLC will install the first test piles for the New NY Bridge.

The test pile operations will be conducted over the next three months at proposed locations for pile foundations. Work will start at the main span footings.  Piles will be placed by utilizing both vibratory and impact installation techniques.  The test pile program will verify subsurface conditions in preparation for the construction of the bridge’s permanent foundation. 

Multiple crews will conduct night time boring operations along I-87/I-287 in both Westchester and Rockland Counties.  The night time operations are necessary due to lane closure restrictions during day time hours that are in place to keep traffic flowing over the current bridge. Boring operations will begin at exit 10 in Rockland County and move west into Westchester County.

Ongoing operations

–          Temporary Westchester trestle construction including pile driving on weekdays from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.

–          Survey inspections on existing bridge

–          Rockland environmental monitor installations continue

–          Geotechnical land borings

–          Mobilization at the exit 10 staging area

–          Support for river-based work from the Rockland shoreline

Westchester:

Night time boring operations to investigate subsurface soil conditions will be conducted in the southbound shoulder of I-87/I-287 and will require a temporary right lane closure  between the existing bridge and exit 9 on Friday, July 19 from 9 p.m. to 6 a.m.

Rockland:

Night time boring operations to investigate subsurface soil conditions will be conducted in the southbound shoulder of I-87/I-287 and will require a temporary right lane closure between exit 10 and the existing bridge from 9 p.m. to 6 a.m. beginning Monday, July 15 through Thursday, July 18.

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Dear Mr. Bailey,

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WPCNR COUNTY CLARION-LEDGER.From the Westchester County Clerk. July 9, 2013 UPDATED JULY 10, 2013 WITH ANALYSIS BY WPCNR;

“The foreclosure activity in the first half of 2013 is the highest since the foreclosure crisis began,” reported Westchester County Clerk Timothy C. Idoni who serves as Clerk of the Westchester County Supreme Court where foreclosure actions are heard.

The information, though, does not signal a new wave of homeowners facing distress, according to an expert in distressed properties, Phil Faranda of J. Philip Real Estate, who spoke with WPCNR Wednesday morning. Mr. Faranda also runs the web newsite, www.nyshortsalesblog.com and www.jphilip.com

Faranda says these filings are filings of complete,  updated paperwork banks started three to four years ago when hundreds of people were being foreclosed on during what Mr. Faranda called the “robo-signing crisis” when the government declared a moratorium on instant foreclosure actions because people were losing their houses without getting due process in the courts. Faranda sees this sudden increase of foreclosures indicating that banks which attempted foreclosures in the county two to three years ago have finally gotten all documents necessary to begin the long process leading to repossession.

“I don’t believe this is the crisis it appears to be,” Faranda said, noting the inventory  would eventually come on the market, but not all at once. He did not  see the filings at all as  a new wave of new homeowners being unable to pay their mortgages. Some he said may not even know they still own those homes. Some he said, had already sold.them.

As the settlements of these foreclosures  come on the market, he said the properties would help real estate sales because buyers who could not afford homes at the steadily rising prices  would have lower priced homes to choose..

He added that the homes would be coming onto a stable market where mortgage money and favorable monetary policy by the government was available, and not in the climate of four years ago where mortgage money was not available. Prices were plummetting and there was no consumer confidence. Mr. Faran

The Office of the Westchester County Clerk reported one thousand four hundred and twenty six (1,426) foreclosure actions started between January 1^st and June 30^th of this year, as compared with eight hundred and twenty four (824) during the same period last year.  One hundred and fifty one (151) foreclosure judgments have been entered in the first half of 2013, in comparison to ninety three (93) entered during the first half of 2012.  A month-by-month breakdown of foreclosure filings follows:

“As foreclosure activity in Westchester County increases, so does the risk that our residents will fall prey to a foreclosure scheme,” cautioned Idoni who urged residents to seek help from a trained foreclosure counselor.  Westchester Residential Opportunities (WRO), a non-profit housing agency with offices in White Plains and Mount Vernon, conducts Mortgage Default Orientation sessions most Wednesdays in their White Plains Office.  Trained counselors are available to help at (914) 428-4507 ext. 334 or by visiting www.wroinc.org.

For more information on the Office of the Westchester County Clerk, please visit WestchesterClerk.com or call (914)995-3081.

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Tonight, the second back-to-back Campaign 2013 County Legislator District 5 interviews of White Plains Benjamin Boykin airs on White Plains Week at www.whiteplainsweek.com  You can also seenthe first interview with Miriam Flisser on www.whiteplainsweek.com.  The two candidates are interviewed by John Bailey and Jim Benerofe.

MIRIAM FLISSER, CANDIDATE FOR HARRISON, SCARSDALE AND WHITE PLAINS COUNTY LEGISLATURE DISTRICT 5  (ABOVE, AND BEN BOYKIN BELOW DISCUSS THE ISSUES WITH JOHN BAILEY AND JIM BENEROFE ON TWO SEPARATE WHITE PLAINS WEEK SHOWS. SSEE BOTH INTERVIEWS BACK-TO-BACK ON WWW.WHITEPLAINSWEEK.COM