The pending takeover of the bankrupt Hudson Valley Mall is shaping up as another of those good-news-bad-news scenarios. The result could be a leaner, cleaner mall, with perhaps a major food store and expanded theaters. But the town is likely to take a huge hit on property taxes.
Everything in this store represents a celebration of local use, which puts Kenco in a strong position to survive category-killer national competition.
Congressmen Maurice Hinchey and John Hall are retired. Troubadour Pete Seeger is dead. But it appears the 70s no-nukes movement they championed will finally get its most fervent wish, the closing of Indian Point nuclear power plant in Westchester County.
Our new congressman’s vote against a plan to weaken ethics oversight should be applauded. He should show the same common sense on the upcoming votes concerning the Affordable Care Act.
The period between the New Year and spring is ideal to take things slower and find simpler pleasures. For many of us, it’s an economic imperative.
After losing two anchor stores, a bankruptcy and tax deal that reduced its value by 90 percent, the Hudson Valley Mall need some new ideas to turn things around. Here are a few possibilities.
Think of the middle and upper portions of the Hudson Valley not as New York City’s back yard but as its mirror opposite. Where New York is characterized by a dense sea of humanity punctuated by token islands of green, much of the Hudson Valley consists of islands of people within a still significantly green sea. The two struggle in uneasy complement to each other.
A society that grants rights and privileges to some but not all is unjust; and an unjust society is unsafe for all its members.
He said he’d give some consideration to my deadline and he wanted to make it to 2017 so he’d have the distinction of being the town’s longest serving supervisor. When he died on New Year’s Day, he successfully completed both goals.
A letter from the late town supervisor to the community he loved.