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its creation in 1792, Akin said there is historical significance to the house because it was the home to the American au-thor James Fenimore Cooper and his wife, Susan Delancey. Mostly known for his clas-sic historical novel “The Last of the Mohicans,” Cooper also wrote his second novel, “The Spy,” during his time in Mamaroneck.

“There’s nothing like that anywhere else in Mama-roneck,” Akin said of the prop-erty. “It has been there for 223 years of American history in Mamaroneck…its part of the fabric of this town.”

Currently, the building is being rented to two upper-floor tenants and a restau-rant, La Piccolo Casa, on the ground floor. However, Ed-die Chmelecki, the co-owner of the property, said it’s been up for sale for two years. On the market for several months, Chmelecki and his siblings who are co-owners have re-ceived three serious offers from separate developers. He has set a tentative deadline to receive any additional offers of June 12.

Of the three current offers, the family is talking to two de-velopers who are interested in

strictly purchasing and devel-oping. One other developer is offering an opportunity to the family owners to be a part of the development process to earn some capital. Chmelecki said that two other offers fell through.

“Now that the family is all getting older, it’s time to sell it,” Chmelecki said. He added that his father purchased the building 65 years ago and it’s now grown to become a very desirable waterfront location for developers.

“A lot of the interest has

time environmental consult-ing company and was a for-mer trustee and deputy mayor for six years in the late 1970s.

“We’re delighted and hon-ored that they have confidence to nominate us for the position of mayor,” Natchez said of re-ceiving the nomination along-side Burt. “The response to date has been overwhelmingly encouraging.”

As for Burt, his name re-mained mostly a rumor until the party’s announcement on June 5. Burt, who has handled several large-scale class action lawsuits with his firm Wolf Haldenstein Adler Freeman and Herz, LLP, is also equally involved in local quality of life issues and matters regard-ing the school district, accord-ing to Saenger. Despite Burt’s lack of experience in the vil-lage’s local government, he is currently a Democratic dis-trict leader, and has “shown great initiative in familiariz-ing himself with numerous is-sues in the village and in the school district as they arise,” the chairwoman said.

Saenger added that the Democrats are in the process of circulating petitions for their candidates, to eventually turn them into the Westches-ter County Board of Elections by July 13.

Burt could not be reached for comment as of press time.

CONTACT: [email protected] continued on page 7

Developers offer to purchase historic house

Dems to run Natchez, Burt

Kumar Nambiar celebrates the final out of Mamaroneck’s 5-0 state regional win over Horseheads High School on June 5. Nambiar and the Tigers will head up to Binghamton this weekend to vie for a state title. For more, see page 15. Photo/Mike Smith

ON TO STATES! By JACKsON ChENStaff Writer

In hopes of capturing an even larger majority on the Village of Mamaroneck’s Board of Trustees, and with an eye on the mayor’s seat, the nominating body of the vil-lage’s Democratic Committee has picked its slate.

After months of delibera-tion, the village Democrats, on June 5, nominated Dan Natchez as their candidate for mayor and Thomas Burt for a trustee seat.

Natchez, 70, who prema-turely announced his interest in seeking the Democratic Party’s nomination late last month, has been a lifelong resident of the village. Most nights, Natchez can be found in the village’s municipal building on Mt. Pleasant Av-enue, where he frequently approaches the podium to offer his thoughts and com-ments during various board meetings.

Since Natchez is often vo-cal about his opinions towards the board during meetings, he said that he wants to change the direction that the village is going in.

“I think you have a board that is being run in a manner that does not invite participa-tion, does not invite consen-sus,” Natchez said, adding that the village rarely uses the high number of volunteers who offer a different insight and knowledge base.

According to Elizabeth Saenger, chairwoman of the Democratic nominating com-mittee, Natchez was very well qualified and passionately ea-ger to be mayor. Besides fol-lowing current village issues, Natchez runs his own mari-

By JACKsON ChENStaff Writer

The Village of Mama-roneck’s history is being pulled taut yet again in a tug of war between modernization versus preservation as three developers offered to purchase a late 1700s house on the cor-ner of Fenimore and Boston Post roads.

The historic structure, lo-cated at 408-410 W. Boston Post Road, is one of the oldest buildings in Mamaroneck, ac-cording to Carol Akin, chair-woman of the Mamaroneck Historical Society. Adding to

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By Chris EBErhArTStaff Writer

The Westchester County Board of Legislators parks sub-committee was scheduled to vote on the Playland manage-ment agreement with the coun-ty and Standard Amusements during its June 10 meeting, but some legislators still had con-cerns that pushed the vote off.

However, Board of Legisla-tors Chairman Mike Kaplow-itz, a Yorktown Democrat, said he believes there is al-ready a majority vote to ap-prove the contract.

Any delay at this point seems to be a mere formality.

The subcommittee plans on voting on the contract at its June 15 meeting.

County Legislator Mary Jane Shimsky, a Hastings-on-Hudson Democrat who took over as the chair of the parks subcommit-tee after former chairman Peter Harckham resigned to take a position at the state level, ex-pressed her individual support for the Standard plan.

“I think this is the only way

Playland vote expected June 15

to save Playland,” Shimsky told the Review after the June 10 meeting. “So barring any blowups between now and the vote, I plan on voting for this agreement.”

The legislators had only 60 days to pass the plan, a clock that began running on April 15, when Republican County Executive Rob Astorino and Standard Amusements signed an agreement that allowed Standard to run the only coun-

ty-owned amusement park in the nation. As part of the agree-ment, Standard Amusements will pay $2.25 million in up-front costs to the county and would invest another $22.75 million into the park within the first three years.

The parks subcommittee, which has been vetting Stan-dard Amusements’ proposal, was originally scheduled to vote on the agreement during its June 10 meeting. If that vote

would have passed, the contract then would’ve gone to the floor of the legislative chambers for a full, 17-member Board of Leg-islators vote. But, county leg-islators were unsatisfied with the lack of specificity in the memorandum of understanding between Astorino and the legis-lative branch about the county’s responsibilities toward capital projects and the language about retaining Playland workers as county employees.

County Legislator Catherine Parker, a Rye Democrat who’s a member of the parks subcom-mittee, said the specificity in the memorandum of understanding is important in order to hold the Astorino administration accountable for the county’s obligations.

“We want to make sure the administration doesn’t say we can wash our hands of Playland because Standard has it,” Parker said. “I’ve seen two drafts of the memorandum [of under-standing] without any speci-ficity, and if I don’t see that, I can’t support the management agreement. We’re in the pro-cess of drafting a new memo-randum now and hopefully we’ll see the changes.”

While Kaplowitz acknowl-edged the question marks about the language in the agree-ment were valid, he said he be-lieves the speed bumps will be smoothed out in time for the vote next week and expects the agree-ment with Standard to pass.

“It was evident that there were some reasonable concerns that we need to work through,” Kaplowitz said. “But I think there’s wide support for this agreement once this punch list is worked out. We’ve made sig-nificant progress, and we’re still on schedule for a Monday vote.”

Personally, Kaplowitz said, he’s in favor of the plan, in large part, because it’s brought the capital projects needed at Playland to the forefront after years of neglect and no capital investments into the park on the part of county government.

“The good in this agreement far outweighs the concerns,” Kaplowitz said. “The only rea-son why we are evening dis-cussing capital projects is be-cause we have this $25 million investment from Standard. That investment plus ours...The dol-lar goes further than it would’ve if it was just [the county] mak-ing an investment.”

Included in the original $22.75 million investment into the amusement park was $4 million geared towards a great lawn and temporary fields. That provision was included in the contract between Astorino and Standard when he chose the vendor to manage the daily op-erations of Playland. But resi-dents abutting the Rye-based amusement park still had a bit-ter taste in their mouths after Astorino’s first choice, Sustain-able Playland, Inc., had touted a 95,000-square-foot field house in the main parking lot of the park as part of its plan to rein-vent Playland. SPI ultimately withdrew its proposal paving the way for Standard to reach an agreement with Astorino.

Aware of the sensitivity of the park’s Rye neighbors to-ward the fields, Nick Singer, who leads Standard Amuse-ments, removed the $4 mil-lion investment from fields and re-appropriated the money into other areas of Playland. A clause in the contract states that whatever money is leftover from the $22.75 million invest-ment goes to the county.

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The Westchester County Board of Legislators is scheduled to vote on the county executive’s pending agreement with Standard Amusements to operate Playland on June 15. File Photo


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Cerebral Palsy of Westchester’s Annual Golf Classic

On Tuesday, June 23, Cerebral Palsy of Westchester will host their 14th annual golf classic at Quaker Ridge Golf Club in Scars-dale. Corporate sponsors and individual players will enjoy a day of golf and have a shot at the

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Mamaroneck Artists Guild

The Mamaroneck Artists Guild Gallery wel-comes summer with a new exhibition called “Col-or! Color! Color!” opening on Wednesday, June 24, and continuing through Saturday, July 11.

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The New Rochelle Humane Society will be having an outdoor tag sale on Sunday, June 14, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at 148 Center Ave., in Mamaroneck. All proceeds will go to the organization.

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Reader: NYPD has checkered pastTo the Editor,Recent media stories have lauded and praised the NYPD as being a department that is full

of heroes and heroines that “keep us safe,” and “put their lives on the line for us every day.” Such as the fairy tale that “Columbus discovered America,” there are many in the NYPD who are not heroes by any stretch of the imagination. The history of the police throughout the United States, has been fraught with violence and lawlessness towards African-Americans and people of color and that has been especially true of the NYPD. For generations, cops in New York City have beaten, abused and been lawless. The Knapp Commission findings of 1970 as well as the Mollen Commission findings of 1993 confirmed systemic racism, brutal-ity and violence in the NYPD. Indeed there are literally thousands of cops over the last 50 years who have retired with a pension and should be in prison not jail. They have engaged in the merciless beatings and brutality of thousands of black and Latino men.

Many of these cops have come from Bensonhurst, Howard Beach, Staten Island, Long Island and Pelham Bay in the Bronx. The beatings and brutality have been talked about for decades by people living in Harlem,—where I grew up—Brooklyn, Queens and in racially segregated ghettos across the city. They have been expressed in the tens of thousands of police brutality complaints registered in this city. Those complaints were incessant during the Rudy Giuliani and Michael Bloomberg mayoral years where stop and frisk tactics were rampant. This police policy was a nonsequitor as far as having an impact on crime, because out of five million stop and frisk searches less than 1 percent led to an arrest. However, there were plenty of instances of police brutality that manifested itself in these scenarios, which the media ignored.

Thirty years ago, a woman told me that her uncle grew up in Bensonhurst in the 1940s and 1950s. He said, “the men in that community and other community’s like Bensonhurst would do one of two things: join La Cosa Nostra or the NYPD.”

The men that he referred to had the same racist and ignorant mentalities regardless of what organization they joined. Attorney Otis Graham and former Yonkers City Councilman John Murtagh were extremely disingenuous when they said police brutality is “a matter of percep-tion.” It is reality that they along with the corporate media deny. That history of violence and lawlessness manifested itself in Ferguson, Ala., Staten Island and the shooting of an African-American male at the Pink Houses project in Brooklyn that was labeled by New York City

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Police Commissioner William Bratton as “a mistake.” That lawlessness also brought a response from the community with the assassination

of those two NYPD officers in December. The difference was in the eyes of many in the media, as well as many whites, the lives of those two officers mattered, while the aforemen-tioned black males killed by the police did not. We also see it now as far as police violence and the rioting from the community with another murder of a black male by the police in Baltimore that the state attorney found to be a homicide. Retired Police Capt. Ray Lewis, formerly of the Philadelphia Police Department, said, “Rioting is the voice of those who are hurt and oppressed.”

The myth that all cops are heroes, echoed by U.S. Representative Eliot Engel, has been contravened by several retired cops that have told me personally that cops join the department for one of three reasons: they truly are looking to serve and protect and this is a venue that obviously provides that. Another third join because they are looking for the benefits, com-pensation and early possible retirement. The other third because they are gangsters, many of them racist, and this is an opportunity to engage in that type of behavior.

That’s the reality that the corporate media, politicians and lawyers like Graham and Murtagh are mendacious about. The NYPD is certainly not “New York’s Finest.”

Clifford Jackson, Larchmont


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By JAMEs PErOStaff Writer

For awhile it appeared as if the skinny house—a slender Mamaroneck home on Grant Street which stands just 10 feet wide—had a fat chance of survival. Now, however, af-ter its recent registration as a national and state historic site, it could finally get the support it needs.

The three-story house, which was built in 1932 by Nathan Seely, an African-American carpenter, is threat-ened by an extensive termite infestation that was discovered two years ago during renova-tions to the house’s kitchen.

Funding to restore the house and quell the growing termite problem, which would’ve fall-en squarely on the shoulders

of current owners, Ida San-tangelo, 94, and her daughter Nancy Picarello, was just too expensive—potentially total-ing upwards of $100,000.

But now, with the house’s May 18 listing onto the na-tional and state register of historic places, the chances that the skinny house may re-ceive federal and state grant funding, and consequently the much needed renovations to ensure the historic structure’s survival, have increased.

“Now that it’s listed with the historical [registry] it will be much easier to get grants,” Village of Mamaroneck May-or Norman Rosenblum, a Re-publican, said. “It’s not guar-anteed, but it will be much easier.”

But according to the state Office of Parks, Recreation,

and Historic Preservation, “properties owned by munici-palities and not for profit orga-nizations are eligible to apply for state historic preservation grants.” This means that if the house isn’t turned over to the village, the skinny house may never see any federal or state money.

And at the moment, the owners seem reluctant to do so.

Carol Akin, chairwoman of the Mamaroneck Histori-cal Society, warns that if the house isn’t turned over soon, the situation may only con-tinue to deteriorate. “If [the owners] would relinquish ownership, all of the funds to fix the skinny house are ready to go,”Akin said. “That’s the issue, [the owners] decided not to and to raise the money themselves. It’s an impossible task.”

For more than 80 years the skinny house has served as both a local, and sometimes even international treasure, attracting visitors from around the world.

Gloria Pitts, Mamaroneck’s village historian, remem-bers just how impressive the house was when she last visited.

“When I went into the house—this was about 10 years ago—the house,

at that point, was about 70 [years old],” she said. “It was so strong.”

And its strength, just like its width, is shocking, especially considering how the house was made—or more spe-cifically, what it was made with.

Seely, very much affected by the Great Depression, had little money to buy building supplies at the time of the house’s construction.

So, in 1932, after Seely purchased the property for $1 from Ida Santangelo’s father, Seely, an expert builder, decid-ed to repurpose many of the materials used to make up the house’s foundation, utilizing everything from old railroad ties to a chicken coop.

Its gabled roofs and ma-roon wooden siding only add to the skinny house’s allure.

The house, nestled approxi-mately 55 feet from the road, much further than any other house on the block, makes it—in addition to its size or lack thereof—easy to miss. But, right now, local Mamaroneck residents are worried about the house going missing all together.

“There’s nothing we can do if the owners don’t want to turn over ownership, so that’s the stalemate, we’re very frus-trated,” Akin said. “Someone who has persuasive ability I wish would come in and con-vince them to save this won-derful, special house.”

Picarello could not be reached for comment as of press time.


After 80 years, Mamaroneck’s skinny house—though threatened by a termite infestation—still stands tall. Its recent designation as a national historical site may help secure money to solve its bug problem. File photos

The skinny house, tucked away on Grand Street in Mamaroneck, may be easy to miss at first pass, but another look reveals one of the village’s most prized oddities.

The house is constructed of many makeshift materials including an old chicken coop and repurposed railroad ties.

Skinny house listed to

historic registry


been by developers, to devel-op either a condominium or apartments,” Chmelecki said. The co-owner added that he’s been in frequent contact with Akin and empathized with her concerns, but his family is also looking to gain the most value out of the property.

“The attitudes of so many people are to tear down the old thing and build new,” Akin

said. “But the identity of a town is in its history. If you tear that down, you lose the character, depth and value of the history.”

In response to the property being listed, Akin formed a committee called Friends of The Delancey-Cooper House to fundraise and seek donors in hopes of purchasing the build-ing. Her guess is the asking price for the property is around $2.5 million. In early negotia-

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The Delancey-Cooper House, pictured, that was first built in 1792, is currently awaiting its fate as the owner has three offers on the table from developers and the Village of Mamaroneck’s Historical Society attempts to preserve it. Photo/Jackson Chen

tions between the Chmelecki family and interested parties in February, Akin said that the price floated around $3.6 mil-lion and subsequently dropped to $3.2 million.

Akin said if the commit-tee receives enough support it would be able to purchase the property and transform the house’s garage into a village museum with archives. Within the museum would be arti-facts, pictures and other ma-terial and memorabilia of the village’s history, according to Akin. The chairwoman added that the first floor office area of the property could also be-come the headquarters of the Mamaroneck Historical Soci-ety, a nonprofit organization that aims to preserve historical landmarks and public records in the area.

As of press time, Akin said there are no offers from any donors to help the historical society secure the property and that a previously-interest-ed party seemed to be getting cold feet.

Since the deadline for offers is fast approaching, Akin said there might be an alternative

The Delancey-Cooper house in its original glory on Heathcote Hill, which is now known as Heathcote Avenue. Photo courtesy of the Mamaroneck Historical Society

of moving the building to an-other location. The alternative would be beneficial to both the developers—they wouldn’t need to demolish the build-ing—and the historical society as they can retain the structure, complete with all its history.

However, Akin said there’s still the issue of raising mon-ey for an expensive relocation procedure like that and finding a suitable location.

Chmelecki said that the process of moving the build-ing would prove to be too ex-

pensive and said it would ac-tually be cheaper to buy the property. While he hopes to have a decision by June 12, he said that it’s not an ultimate deadline.



By MiChAEL sCiANDrAContributor

Legible, understandable traffic signs with directions to parking may soon become abundant in the Village of Mamaroneck.

In light of issues with mini-mal parking options and con-fusing directions in the vil-lage’s Mamaroneck Avenue business district, the village board has finalized a contract of no more than $50,000 with MERJE Environments and Experiences for a wayfinding plan. In the hopes of improv-ing signage and parking di-rections, The consultant will evaluate problematic signage direction over the next six months in an effort to improve parking for both residents and visitors of the area.

The primary methods of improving parking and sig-nage direction that Village Manager Richard Slingerland cited include removing un-necessary signs, improving confusing signs and creating a parking app that will as-

Wayfinding plan to improve village parking

sist drivers in finding suit-able parking in the village. Although parking is a concern for residents too, Slingerland said maintaining tourism is a priority of the study and that

The Village of Mamaroneck is looking into creating a parking app for the Mamaroneck Avenue business district.

Traffic signs in Mamaroneck will be under survey in the next six months. Photos/Michael Sciandra

local business owners were among the most influential voices in developing the plan’s priorities and the hiring of MERJE as well.

“Rather than having it be subjective, one opinion over another,” Slingerland said, “we felt it was best to bring in an outside profes-sional company that can work with the local stakehold-ers and come up with a plan that’s best for the village.” Mayor Norman Rosenblum, a Republican, said, he feels the policy will be friendly to both visitors and residents of Ma-maroneck. However, he felt the cost, of up to $50,000, was excessive. Rosenblum added that increased input from resi-dents is essential to the plan. “I think that there’s a tendency

in government to spend a lit-tle too much money on stud-ies,” the mayor said. “Not that those studies are bad, but a lot of the studies…do not include input from the residents or the businesses on Mamaroneck Avenue, nor from the experts already available; those are the employees from the Village of Mamaroneck.”

Slingerland said the village board felt MERJE had the vi-sion, expertise and grasp of

modern technology that would fit into the village’s plans. Slingerland and the village board have formed a Wayfind-ing Committee of five to seven voting members that will work directly with MERJE as well as with the public.

The wayfinding committee meetings will be held late June and will be open to the pub-lic. The Board of Trustees and MERJE will be working with Village Planner Bob Galvin

and Assistant Village Planner Greg Cutler for detailed infor-mation on the village’s infra-structure. Galvin said one of the focuses of the survey will be the downtown area as well as other attractions for tourism through-out the Village of Mamaroneck.

According to Galvin, MER-JE was among six to eight can-didates researched; Galvin cit-ed MERJE as “one of the fore-most wayfinding companies in the United States.”

Confusing signage in the downtown has been a bit of a deterrent to patrons of the village’s business district. Village officials are looking to change that after hiring a firm to conduct a wayfinding study.


Oppenheimers honored for serviceThe UJA-Federation of

New York’s Larchmont-Ma-maroneck community honored Suzi and Martin Oppenheimer of Mamaroneck at its 2015 Community Celebration. The event took place on Thursday, June 4, at a private waterfront home in Mamaroneck.

The event provided guests with an opportunity to pay tribute to the Oppenheimers for their leadership, service, and community commitment, and to support the vital work of the UJA-Federation, which includes caring for those in need, strengthening the Jewish people, and inspiring a passion for Jewish life and learning.

The Oppenheimers sit on UJA-Federation’s Commis-sion on the Jewish People, COJP, Task Force, which seeks to celebrate and strengthen the breadth of Jew-ish and Israeli life. COJP’s work is united by the desire to foster a shared identity and a common set of values based on democracy and Jewish tra-dition — inclusion, respect for

diversity, pluralism, and love of Israel — and shared Jewish experiences.

Suzi Oppenheimer served in the New York Senate from 1985 to 2012. For more than three decades, she has been a tireless champion for the rights of women and families, as well as for an early quality ed-ucation, a sustainable environ-ment and the arts. A true trail-blazer, Suzi Oppenheimer has many “firsts” on her résumé, including being the first wom-an to chair the state Senate’s powerful Education Commit-tee, among the first women to receive an MBA from Colum-bia University, and one of the first women to work on Wall Street in the 1950s. She also was the first woman mayor in Westchester County, serving four terms as mayor of the Vil-lage of Mamaroneck.

With the help of UJA, Mar-tin Oppenheimer came to the United States from Germany when he was 2 years old. Mar-tin Oppenheimer is a partner in the New York law firm of

Proskauer. A former chairman of its labor and employment law department, he earned a national reputation for rep-resenting employers in labor relations matters. He has also counseled a wide range of cultural and educational orga-nizations, including Yale Uni-versity and the Metropolitan Opera. Actively engaged in the New York City philanthropic community, Martin served as chairman of City Center of Music and Drama, Inc., for 25 years and is currently a director emeritus of the Lincoln Center, and a member of the boards of the 92nd Street Y, New York Road Runners, Columbia Mail-man School of Public Health and the Emelin Theatre.

Michael and Nancy Kan-terman of Mamaroneck and Judith Hyman Darsky of Larchmont served as event chairs. Journal chairs were Laurie and Stephen Girsky of Mamaroneck and Joy and Steven Zelin of Larchmont.

For more than 95 years, the UJA-Federation has inspired

New Yorkers to act on their values and invest in commu-nity for the biggest impact. Through the UJA-Federation, more than 50,000 donors ad-dress issues that matter most to them, pooling their resourc-es to care for New Yorkers of all backgrounds and Jews ev-

erywhere, to connect people to their Jewish communities, and to respond to crises close to home and around the globe. Working with nearly 100 net-work beneficiary agencies, synagogues, and other Jewish organizations, the UJA-Fed-eration is the world’s largest

local philanthropy. Its reach spans from New York to Israel to more than 70 other coun-tries around the world, touch-ing 4.5 million people each year. For more information on how to donate or volun-teer, please visit ujafedny.org. (Submitted)

From left to right, Laurie and Stephen Girsky of Mamaroneck, Michael and Nancy Kanterman of Mamaroneck, Suzi and Martin Oppenheimer of Mamaroneck, Judith Hyman Darsky of Larchmont, and Sherry and Robert Wiener of Mamaroneck. Photo courtesy UJA-Federation of New York. Contributed Photo



Two months after high-profile case in which the Eastchester Police Depart-ment received a hoax call from a man in a Joyce Road home claiming to have killed his girlfriend and tied up her family in what turned out to be a “swatting” incident, U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer, a Democrat, proposed a bill that would establish harsher pen-alties for those convicted of such crimes.

“Swatting” is an incident in which a fake phone call is made in an effort to have police SWAT teams respond to an unsuspecting resident’s home and has been on the rise in Westchester County and the Lower Hudson Valley area, Schumer said.

“These dangerous actions are not ‘pranks’ at all—these ‘swatting’ attacks are serious incidents in which our emer-gency responders use up their time, energy, and resources

Schumer looks to crackdown on swatting

responding to false threats,” Schumer said. “What the per-petrators of these calls see as a practical joke is actually a terrifying experience for in-nocent bystanders, a business-detractor for local commerce, and a costly crime that forces our local emergency respond-ers to use up thousands of tax-payer dollars on fake alerts.”

Schumer’s bill would in-crease the maximum prison sentence of those convicted of swatting from five years to eight years, force convicted offenders to pay restitution to police and make it illegal for perpetrators to evade police by disguising caller ID over Skype or internet calls. Cur-rently it is illegal for people to

U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer proposed a bill that would create harsher penalties for those convicted of swatting attacks, like this April incident in Eastchester, pictured, when a man called the Eastchester Police Department claiming to have stabbed his girlfriend and was holding her family hostage in Joyce Road home. File Photos

In Eastchester, traffic on the busy Mill Road going towards the town’s business district was tied up for an extended period of time as police, SWAT teams and hostage negotiators from Eastchester and surrounding areas responded to the Joyce Road swatting incident.

disguise their voices on calls placed via traditional phone lines, but there is no such prohibition on calls placed via internet phone services, so Schumer said he’s look-ing to close the loophole with his bill.

“We need to stop this dis-turbing trend before it is too late, and someone gets seri-ously hurt,” Schumer said regarding the emergence of swatting cases.

The incident in Eastchester was just one of four swatting incidents seen over the last few years, including a May

incident in Garrison, N.J., that forced the Garrison Union Free School District and near-by Haldane schools in Cold Spring, N.Y., to order pre-cautionary lock-downs while police and SWAT teams re-sponded to a scene where the caller claimed that a woman and her son were being held hostage at gunpoint.

In a July 2014 incident in Rye, police and SWAT teams were dispatched from Rye, Harrison and Westchester County when a report of an armed man invading a nearby suburban home was called in

through Skype. Responders found no one home.

And in March 2011, fake 911 calls were made to the Rockland County Sheriff’s office claiming a shooting at Mercy College was be-ing planned. Police reported that they believed the caller was using a voice-alteration device in order to make this false report.

Eastchester Police Chief Timothy Bonci could not be reached for comment, as of press time.


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Jay Estate property on Boston Post Road.

During the summit, John Baker, director of the county Conservation, Parks and Rec-reation Department and head of the county’s deer manage-ment program, said the coun-ty will likely launch a deer hunting program in the Rye Marshlands, which is owned by the county, during the next hunting season, which runs from Oct. 1 to Dec. 31.

Kiley Blackman, founder of the Animal Defenders of Westchester, called Westches-ter County’s plan to hunt deer in the Rye Marshlands “a reckless course of action.”

“The appropriate concern has been raised about public safety, to the close proxim-ity of homes and generally crowded areas, but was quick-ly and arrogantly dismissed by the Westchester bow hunt-ers,” Blackman said, “despite the fact that bow hunting is notoriously inaccurate.”

Some of the inaccuracies of the bow and arrow, Blackman said, can lead wounded deer leaving blood trails through-out the neighborhood or dying on residents’ lawns.

Sack said he was never served with anything. He said he respects the opinions of the animal rights activists, but “people come first.”

“For those of us who actu-ally live in Rye and the Sound Shore area, deer overpopula-tion is a real and serious is-sue,” Sack said. “Our ecosys-tems are being eaten down to the nub, and that’s bad for all other animal species. We’ve got herds of deer squeezed into postage stamp-sized plots, which wasn’t the case just a few years ago.”

Sack said if you add that to

the threat to human life with the spread of Lyme disease and deer leaping in front of cars, then there’s a real public health situation.

Rosenblum said the notice serves as “an attempt to in-timidate.”

“Under no circumstanc-es will we be intimidated,” Rosenblum said. “We’ve re-ceived just as many concerns from people who are asking us to do something about the overpopulation. We’re not try-ing to kill Bambi; we are try-ing to deal with encroaching wildlife.”

But Simon backed Black-man’s claims of the ineffec-

tiveness of hunting because of the deer’s ability to adapt. Si-mon said, killing them “is an exercise in futility.”

“Their numbers will keep bouncing back up,” Simon said. “They’re amazingly adap-tive. They’ll produce more fawns and breed at an earlier age after their numbers are re-duced. So the cull is continu-ally repeated at much expense and to no avail.”

Simon said she sees the same pattern in many commu-nities: deer are killed each year, their numbers bounce back and the complaints continue. “It’s a vicious cycle,” she added.

On the other hand, non-lethal methods, such as fertil-ity control options like surgi-cal sterilization or immuno-contraception, prevent deer from having fawns to cut the bounce-back numbers, accord-ing to Simon.

“It’s true that fertility con-trol options are more expen-sive, yet the pay-off is a popu-lation that slowly declines,” she said.



A local animal defense group is looking to protect deer from hunters by threaten-ing to take legal action against Rye, Mamaroneck, Westches-ter County and the state if they move ahead with a bow hunt-ing or firearm hunting pro-gram in an effort to curtail the local deer population.

Last month, Delice Selig-man, attorney of the Kingston-based law firm Seligman and Seligman, who is represent-ing the Animal Defenders of Westchester, filed a “notice of dangerous condition” against Mamaroneck and Rye mayors Norman Rosenblum and Joe Sack, both Republicans, along with state and county officials. Seligman said they’ll seek a restraining order if the hunt-ing plan continues.

According to the notice, hunting in Mamaroneck or Rye “may cause serious in-juries to the general public as a result of impaling, gor-ing, shooting or death, along with emotional and psycho-logical distress to the public and other risks including the possibility of increased deer/car collisions resulting from frightened deer running into the road way.”

Laura Simon, a wildlife ecologist for the Urban Wild-life Program, said bow and ar-row isn’t a quick-kill method, therefore there’s a high crip-pling rate, and when people see an arrow-struck deer in their yard, that can be trau-matic for children.

The notice comes four months after Rye hosted a February deer summit in Rye City Hall that included Sack, Rosenblum, the State Depart-ment of Environmental Con-servation and the Westchester County Conservation, Parks and Recreation Department, which conducted a prelimi-nary count of the area and said there were 74 deer in a quarter of a square mile in the Green-haven section of Rye and the

Animal rights group fights deer hunting

A local animal defense group filed a notice of dangerous condition against the Village of Mamaroneck and the City of Rye in an effort to protect against the hunting of deer in the municipalities’ efforts to control that population. File Photo

“We’re not trying to kill Bambi; we are trying to deal with encroaching wildlife.”

– viLLAgE Of MAMArONECK MAyOr NOrMAN rOsENBLuM, on the deer population in the sound shore area


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Those questions not printed will be answered by her at your email address, so be sure to include it. Only your initials and the town in which you live will appear in the newspapers and no one, except Tonia, will see your url. Please email your question(s) directly to her at [email protected].

Dear Tonia:

As I grow older, I’m be-coming more and more uncer-tain about how to dress. This may be a common problem, but I haven’t encountered it before, at least to this degree.

Can you help me?

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Dear M.B.:Nothing makes you look

Stay in style as you agemore out of style than outfits that are too “matchy-matchy.” Unlike what you learned a long time ago, follow these simple new rules to update your look effortlessly:

Don’t match your shoes and handbag; try using nude shoes; wearing black in the summer is okay; mixing two different patterns looks fresh; black and navy work well together, brown and black look great; Metallic is not just for evening; and cos-tume jewelry is in so mix your bracelets and necklaces.

Dear Tonia:After attending several fu-

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Dear C.L.:Funerals are respectful oc-

casions and part of being re-spectful is dressing appropri-ately for the service. It is also important because it shows re-spect for the deceased and for the other loved ones attending the service. Age and position in the family should dictate a higher degree of dress.

Wearing strictly black no longer applies unless you are a family member. Traditional colors like navy, purple, gray and earth tones work well.

Although a person’s death should be grieved, it is appro-priate to celebrate the person’s life with a subdued color. It is nice, too, to wear what the per-son who passed would have liked to see us in.

Denim and athletic wear may be appropriate or com-fortable for casual activities but should never be worn to a wake or a funeral. Shorts or sandals are never acceptable. Wear what is tasteful and con-

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is not appropriate. The most im-portant thing women should re-member is not to wear anything too tight or low cut. Not only is it disrespectful, but it would also make you look trashy. You want to be remembered as be-ing supportive of the family, not for what you wore.

The rule for skirts and dress-es is knee length or longer. Think basic, simple pencil skirt, trouser or a suit you might wear to a job interview. It is accept-able to wear dress pants with a nice top, although wearing a jacket will pull the outfit to-gether. Your shoulders should be covered for some churches.

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legged legends like Secretariat and Seattle Slew. And while racing enthusiasts will forever

utter his name with reverent tones, to me, it’s just another race at Belmont Park.

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My apologies to anyone who considers themselves to be a fan of horseracing, but to be perfectly honest, I don’t give a fig about the sport.

On Saturday, after Ameri-can Pharaoh became the first horse since 1978 to win the coveted Triple Crown, the sports world was abuzz with news about the thoroughbred. Clearly, we were dealing with a momentous occasion, a his-toric race and a legendary horse.

And I couldn’t have cared less.

I’m not exactly a newcomer to the world of horseracing ei-ther. I’ve been to the Preakness twice, the Belmont Stakes three times, and when I was in college, I spent quite a bit of time betting on the ponies at the classiest off-track betting site in central Pennsylvania.

The sport of kings?I even remember my first-

ever winning bet, when I was just 10 years old in Saratoga, N.Y. The horse? Wild Irish-man. The jockey? Mike Smith. So why didn’t I watch one sec-ond of the race to the Triple Crown this year?

It’s tough to say. I think it comes down to

personality. When I don’t have a vested interest in who wins or who loses, I approach sport-ing contests from a reporter’s mindset. What are the story-lines coming in? For example, the NBA Finals this year are a matchup between an un-stoppable juggernaut from the west and a depleted Cavs’ team that just so happens to employ the best basketball player on the planet. Will the Warriors’ depth prove the dif-ference? Can Lebron take his squad full of castoffs all the way? What would a Cavs’ win mean for King James’ larger legacy?

These are the questions that keep me captivated.

As for horseracing, more often than not, it just comes down to which horse happens to be the fastest on a particu-lar day.

I know there’s more to it than that. The racing world is filled with colorful charac-ters, from jockeys to owners, and the sport itself was once extremely important in our sporting culture, especially in the first half of the 20th cen-tury. But frankly, I’ve always found attempts to personalize the horses themselves as a des-perate way to pull viewers in, and it’s never something I’ve understood.

Maybe it’s just that I’m not a big “animal”, guy. Maybe I just don’t know the sport well enough. But when I can’t buy in to an athletes’ backstory, I just have a hard time caring who wins.

So yes, we all witnessed a piece of sporting history on June 6. American Pharaoh’s name will go down in the books alongside other four-

On June 6, American Pharaoh captured racing’s first Triple Crown since 1978. Sport Editor Mike Smith remained unimpressed, however. Photo courtesy Wikipedia.com

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On June 5, the Mamaroneck Tigers punched their ticket to the state semifinals with a 5-0 win over Section IV Horseh-eads at John Jay High School, using the same formula that has gotten them to this point: trust in the pitching staff, de-fense and in the man calling the shots.

Ace Kumar Nambiar flirted with trouble throughout the course of the game, but re-fused to yield a run to the Blue Devils, picking up a complete game shutout win. Horseh-eads wasted little time putting the pressure on the lefthander, loading the bases with just one out in the top of the first inning. Nambiar, however, re-sponded by notching back-to-back strikeouts to get out of the jam.

“I think I came in a bit amped up, and it just took me a little bit to settle in,” Nam-biar said. “I think it was a big momentum swing for us to get out of that first inning.”

It wasn’t the only time Nambiar made a big pitch to shut the door on a potential Blue Devils’ rally, however. He also made the most of the defense behind him, inducing a couple of double-play balls, such as the one that ended a

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bases loaded scoring threat in the fourth inning.

“Mentally, Kumar is an ab-solute animal,” said catcher Andy Karlan said. “He will stop at absolutely nothing to get it done.”

Although the Tigers made four errors in their June 4 re-gional semifinal game against Valley Central, they were much sharper behind Nambiar

the following day. “We had a bad game

[against Valley Central] and we said we couldn’t do that again,” head coach Mike Chi-apparelli said. “This is how we’ve played all year, and we know that we’re always one pitch away from getting out of anything.”

As effective as Nambiar was, the Tigers had trouble

stringing together hits off Horseheads’ ace Jake Burl-ingham until the fifth inning, when the Tigers connected on four straight two-out hits to take a 3-0 lead. Centerfielder Emerson Genovese plated Nambiar with a single to right, and the following batter, Andy Karlan, doubled in both Geno-vese and Miles Haughton.

“Early in the game, I

thought we were taking too many pitches, and the kid clearly wasn’t walking any-body,” Chiapparelli said. “So we tried to get three swings, put the ball in play, and we just found some holes.”

The Tigers would add two more runs in the bottom of the sixth inning and Nambiar closed the door in the final inning, prompting a some-what muted celebration on the mound as the team accepted its region championship plaque.

The Tigers will head to Binghamton, N.Y., on June

13, where they will take on Connetquot in the state semi-final. Although this crop of Tigers hasn’t ever advanced to the state tournament, Nam-biar said they know that their coach is no stranger to the fi-nal four.

“None of us have been there, [nobody] really knows what to expect,” Nambiar said. “But Chap has been there, he’s won it twice, so we’re just going to follow his plan until the end.”


Kumar Nambiar throws a pitch during the June 5 regional championship at John Jay High School. Nambiar threw seven scoreless innings to propel the Tigers to the state semifinals.

Bill Flatow fields a bunt at Cantine Stadium on June 4. Flatow threw a four hitter as the Tigers topped Valley Central 4-3. Photos/Mike Smith

Mamaroneck poses with the region title at John Jay High School. The Tigers are headed to the state semifinals for the first time since 2009.

Emerson Genovese smacks an RBI single. Genovese’s hit plated Mamaroneck’s first run against Horseheads on June 5.

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