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Perhaps Parker thought the verbal and mental abuse of a WW II hero by the City of Rye while she was on the Rye City Council would never be brought up again. She was wrong. We will never forget Bob Schubert and the way he was treated by Parker and the City of Rye. This is her legacy. Shame on Parker.
Parker has chutzpah calling anyone else a bully after the way she and the City of Rye treated Mr. Schubert.
#PhonyEnvironmentalist?
Rye is 47th Best City in USA - Survey
This and a couple bucks will get you a hot cup of coffee... But good news - Rye is the 47th best city in the USA, according to a survey by 247wallst.com. The survey-happy web site reports: "47. Rye, New York > Population: 15,862 > 5 yr. population change: +0.4% > Median household income: $180,95...
From what I understand interim Rye Police Commissioner Robert Falk was nominated for a Rye Human Rights lifetime achievement award for amongst other things frequently calling the Rye Police Department’s black custodian a SHINE. I guess he didn’t get it. Oh well. I think it would have looked nice hanging next to the GED he proudly bragged about. Or perhaps he could have put it in his desk next to any evidence he may be withholding.
First Ever Rye Community Earth Day Awareness Celebration Planned for Sunday, April 19, 2020
The first ever Rye community Earth Day awareness celebration is being planned for Sunday, April 19th, 2020. This year marks the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. Friends of Rye Nature Center (FRNC) will appear before the Rye City Council on Wednesday to request the use of the Village Green on Apr...
Cohn is the most incompetent Rye mayor I have ever witnessed. Cohn is a hot headed bully who can't handle the truth and fears public deliberation of issues. In my view he is a coward, a weasel and someone who cannot be trusted to oversee our city.
Cohn got out negotiated by RCDS. Rye taxpayers lose because of Cohn's incompetence.
#CohnShouldResign
Mayor Cohn on Thruway Property: Otis "Undercut" City Negotiation
Rye Mayor Josh Cohn has provided the following letter (in Q&A form) to MyRye.com is response to the recent news from State Assemblyman, former Rye Mayor and Rye Country Day School alumni Steve Otis that he has secured Rye County Day School the right to purchase the Thruway property. Cohn continu...
Why is Cohn withholding from the public the taxpayer paid Rye Fire Department study while having a guy who may not have graduated from high school running the place?
Transcript: Annual Message by Rye Mayor Josh Cohen
It's been a few weeks since Rye Mayor Josh Cohen delivered the "Annual Message" - Rye's version of the State of the Union. This year, it was slow going getting the transcript, but better late than never. The annual message is always a good inventory of the opportunities and challenges before our...
Why not just hire Serrano’s wife. Doesn’t she do most of his work anyway?
Rye City Council in Exec Session Monday
The Rye City Council will meet in executive session Monday, July 30, 2018 at 7pm. They are expected to discuss attorney-client privileged matters, personnel matters and labor negotiations. No further details have been provided. The next regular meeting of the City Council will be held on Wedn...
Maybe Rye's outside counsel should be Roy Cohn.
Any relation to you know who?
SERIES PART 8 – A TALE OF TWO CITIES: RYE OFFICIALS HIDE EMPLOYEE WRONGDOING, RECORDS TAMPERING IN MUNICIPAL GOLF GREEN’S FIASCO. COMMENTARY BY TED CARROLL
Guest Column by Rye Resident Ted Carroll A new bombshell secret memo from Rye City Manager Marcos Serrano reveals his officially advocating for Rye City Attorney Kristen Wilson to simultaneously represent both Rye City and the Rye City employee, Charles Lafferty, who would later go on to plead...
Nice investigative reporting Mr. Carroll. Thanks for shining some light onto the City of Rye's suppression of public records.
Does Rye's Moving Rye Forward party (the Democrats) do anything to correct this or do they turn a blind eye? Tonight marks their 24th day in office. They have a legal obligation to respond tonight to the FOIL Appeal you mentioned. Let's see what they do.
My guess? They will continue to illegally suppress these public records and disregard their legal obligations. Why? I believe to coverup possible illegality by City of Rye officials.
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SERIES PART 8 – A TALE OF TWO CITIES: RYE OFFICIALS HIDE EMPLOYEE WRONGDOING, RECORDS TAMPERING IN MUNICIPAL GOLF GREEN’S FIASCO. COMMENTARY BY TED CARROLL
Guest Column by Rye Resident Ted Carroll A new bombshell secret memo from Rye City Manager Marcos Serrano reveals his officially advocating for Rye City Attorney Kristen Wilson to simultaneously represent both Rye City and the Rye City employee, Charles Lafferty, who would later go on to plead...
divman:
I think Mayor Cohn and his team are on to this possible scam.
I believe Sack and company scammed thru the senior housing project on Theodore Fremd Avenue by saying if they didn't approve it a trucking company could go in there. NONSENSE!
Did Sack or anyone on the city council have any connection to the developer or their representatives?
This was followed by the developers of 120 Old Post Road coming to Sack and the city council alleging they couldn't fill their office space and wanted to put a hotel there. Of course this was met with community outrage so Sack and company then allowed a very large residential community to go there instead. HUGE project.
Was bait and switch the plan all along?
Was there really an issue of not being able to fill their office space? Even if there was an issue, why would the City of Rye in effect have to bail out the developer who I believe only paid approximately $1.5 million for the property and now stands to make many $$$ millions of dollars?
Did Sack or anyone on city council have any connection to the developer or their representatives?
New Rye Mayor Delivers State of City: We Need Your Continued Participation
UPDATED: This story has been updated with a transcript of the Mayor's address (scroll down to read it). New Rye Mayor delivered his first annual state of the city address in city council chambers Wednesday night. The talk lasted about 14 minutes, with the Mayor telling listeners "we need your co...
Serrano's motto seems to be:
If you see something, say something. He will then ignore you and/or play(?) dumb.
Perhaps he will have his wife, who is a clerk in Yorktown, write an official City of Rye response to you.
Rye City Hall: Watch for and Report Water Main Leaks
(PHOTO: Work crew fixing a water main leak reported by MyRye.com reader Bob Zahm last week.) REPORT LEAKS Frigid weather can cause an increase in water main breaks. If you see or hear water leaking from fire hydrants, meters, catch basins, vacant homes or on street surfaces, please contact you...
Perhaps Serrano has to check with his wife to see what to do. You see despite making $195,000 a year Serrano at times has his wife assist him in doing his job.
Rye & The Tax Prepay: A Summary
For those of you frantically trying to track down your accountants and financial advisors on their holiday vacations, here is a summary of Rye residents' ability to prepay 2018 taxes to avoid the negative impacts of the new Trump tax plan. Specifically, the Trump plan limits the deductibility ...
To me this sounds like outright thievery of taxpayer dollars.
Is this even legal? Can attorney fees be retroactively given at all let alone one year later?
Wilson wants her retainer to be retroactively dated January 1, 2017. Why? Is there something that needs to be covered up or concealed from the public that she didn't do that she was supposed to do under the existing retainer?
What McCartney said was Wilson is on par with a first year associate.
Sack said he wants to fire her but that it's complicated.
I hope someone on the Rye City Council has the wherewithal to shoot down this proposal tomorrow night and then fire Wilson on January 1, 2018.
After she is fired don't let Wilson leave Rye with all the Rye Golf Club investigative files, the Breen Report, Crown Castle records, the Rye PD ticket fixing investigative records, the Falk investigative records as well as any other records that she wants to keep to herself to perhaps protect herself and other city officials.
Keep these records in Rye!!!!!
Defeated Rye GOP Plans Large Parting Gifts Using Taxpayer Money. Commentary by Ted Carroll
Guest Column by Rye Resident Ted Carroll (PHOTO: Rye City Attorney Kristen Wilson) After losing in the largest election landslide in city history you’d think Mr. Sack’s crew would accept that their jig is up. Nope. Joe Sack’s City Council GOP slate went down to a massive 61% to 39% defeat in t...
Mr. Carroll:
FYI.
The City of Rye has secreted the statement of final costs documents of all City of Rye building projects and are not providing them in response to a legitimate FOIL.
Why?
Will the new Rye City Council allow this to continue or will they demand these documents be released to the public?
HOSED. RYE TAXPAYERS SLAMMED BY APPARENT UNDERREPORTING FRAUD. Commentary by Ted Carroll.
Guest Column by Rye Resident Ted Carroll When the bottom falls mysteriously out of your 2nd largest municipal revenue category, resident tax increases are the only way to make it up. (PHOTO: Permit analysis. See the actual worksheet.) Up to $6.6M in possible missing fee receipts tells me som...
We miss you Bob. We honor your service to our country. It was a privilege to know you.
Rye Veterans Day Ceremony - 10:30 am on November 11, 2017 at City Hall
Vietnam veteran, Rye resident and Eastchester Post member Michael Fix will deliver the keynote address Rye’s 2017 Veterans Day ceremony. After introductory remarks by Post Commander Fred deBarros, additional welcoming remarks will be made by Post member and Mayor pro tem Terry McCartney, and NYS...
Yes this project was late but it was still done about 5 years faster than the other Central Avenue Bridge, AKA the "Scott Pickup Bridge".
The "Scott Pickup Bridge" is right next to the City of Rye public park that I believe Pickup tried to pave over.
Over a Year Late, Central Avenue Bridge Opens
(PHOTO: Click to expand. The bridge over the MTA tracks on Central Avenue.) Over a year late, the Central Avenue Bridge re-opened to traffic on Wednesday. From the City of Rye: "The City has been informed by the MTA that their project on the Central Avenue Bridge is complete and the bridge wil...
Sara's interview was by far the best out of all the candidate interviews. We would be lucky to have her on the Rye City Council with her vast experience, willingness to serve and selflessness.
Rye Candidates: The Sara Goddard Ten-Minute Interview
Your Name: Sara Goddard I’m running for: City Council I am: A challenger What is your political affiliation? Democratic. I’m also honored to have received endorsements from the Independence, Working Families and Women’s Equality Parties. MyRye.com: Why are you running? Goddard: I love Rye a...
My county taxes and many others have gone up 25% since Astorino took office.
Thanks to Joe Sack my 2017 Rye taxes went up 7% due to fiscal mismanagement and exorbitant legal fees. 7% increase while our roads are in horrible shape and our infrastructure is crumbling.
Sack hired a $195,000 a year City Manager who apparently needs his wife's help just to write simple memorandums.
Sack may have fired Pickup but he also hired him with much praise and fanfare when he did.
Sack has concealed his Rye e-mails. Why?
Sack is concealing the Breen Investigation Report that was paid for by taxpayers to explain to the public how, why and who stole and/or facilitated $5,000,000 from the RGC. Who is Sack protecting? Himself?
Wasn't Sack the RGC liaison when $5,000,000 walked out the door?
Isn't Rye under investigation for possible insurance fraud for one of their RGC insurance claims? Why won't Sack release the legal fees Rye's lawyers received from the settlement?
It seems to me that Sack was less than truthful about the Thruway property fiasco and has perhaps cost our kids and taxpayers free use of the fields that Rye Country Day wanted to build there with their money, not ours. Why no public discussion or other city council input when Sack sent veto letter to Cuomo?
Why did Sack drag his feet on a new master plan? Was it so developers could get the zoning changes, variances and other approvals they needed to make $$$$$$$ first?
Latimer Letter: Astorino Increased Your Taxes - Check for Yourself on the City of Rye Web Site
As part of the County Executive race, Rob Astorino has attacked George Latimer for unpaid taxes on a Rye property (the property belonged to his mother in law and the estate is still being sorted). Now in a letter in MyRye.com, Latimer is telling voters Astorino has raised property taxes - and h...
Well said Ray. Thank you for such a great explanation.
$46K in Taxes Unpaid on Rye Home Owned by Latimer's Wife
LoHud.com has reported $46K in taxes remain unpaid on a Rye home at 60 Roosevelt Avenue owner by Latimer's wife Robin Phelps-Latimer. The two bedroom, one bath home was part of the estate of Latimer's mother-in-law, who passed in 2012. (PHOTO: $46K in Taxes are due on 60 Roosevelt Avenue.) Lat...
I'm guessing Rye City Hall.
Is Sack useing this heavy equipment to bury his City of Rye emails and the full Breen Report on the Rye Golf Club $5,000,000 scandal and now coverup?
Where in Rye?
Where in Rye will you see this piece of heavy machinery? Email your name, street you live on in Rye and answer to publisher AT MyRye.com or submit the same information as a comment below. The answer to the last Where in Rye? was the Rye marina boat ramp. Commenter Heal the Harbor had the right...
Ted,
You can now add that Joe Sack is also illegally withholding Kristen Wilson's 2016 City of Rye Conflict of Interest form that was mandated to be filed or to respond that Sack didn't require her to file the mandated form in 2016. .
I believe Sack is refusing to release it because Wilson represented Lafferty in Rye Criminal Court in 2016 in addition to also working on the settlement with AIG.
Gee, you think there may have been a conflict????
Why does Sack say he wants to get rid of Wilson but says it's complicated?
Why did McCartney say Wilson is on par with a first year associate but doesn't move to fire her?
SERIES PART 5 - A DEADLY PATTERN. RYE OFFICIALS HIDE EMPLOYEE WRONGDOING, RECORDS TAMPERING IN MUNICIPAL GOLF GREEN’S FIASCO. COMMENTARY BY TED CARROLL.
Guest Column by Rye Resident Ted Carroll (PHOTO: Google Earth photo of RGC and Milton Harbor.) “The complainant provided pesticide spray charts from 2014 that indicated the PHP Chip Lafferty applied some pesticides in a manner that violated the label requirements of said pesticides. In a previ...
As far as the water emergency there seems to be some relief on the way. A simple communication to Suez water yielded the following:
In September 2016 the levels were Greenwich system 33.3% & Stamford System 25.3% These are the two main reservoir systems that SUEZ receives water from.
As of 3/20/17 the current reservoir levels are Greenwich System 85.4% (normal this time of year 100% full), Stamford System 75.9% (normal this time of year 95% full).
According to Suez the outside watering restrictions (sprinklers) may soon be lifted.
Rye: Lock Your Cars and Save Water
Both seem like good practice but if you waste water, or leave your car unlocks so bad guys can steal stuff, that's a bad idea. Rye PD has reported "Our community along with surrounding jurisdictions is experiencing an increase in larcenies from motor vehicles. So far the suspects have only targe...
tedc:
How is it possible that none of these miscreants have been arrested?
In reading your article it is my opinion that this may have been a conspiracy to fraudulently obtain insurance proceeds and there is now a full blown coverup being perpetrated by our elected officials.
McCartney has said that Kristen Wilson is on par with a first year associate and Sack has said she has to go but it's complicated. So is it conceivable that she has knowledge of a possible conspiracy/fraud/coverup and this is what is keeping her employed and very handsomely rewarded?
RYE OFFICIALS HIDE EMPLOYEE WRONGDOING, RECORDS TAMPERING IN MUNICIPAL GOLF GREEN’S FIASCO. SERIES PART 3 – THEY KNEW. COMMENTARY BY TED CARROLL.
Guest Column by Rye Resident Ted Carroll (PHOTO: Rye Golf Club - Alt-70 Damaged Turf) “We have learned that the product [ArmorTech Alt 70] was used according to the label directions as part of the spray programs.” This is false. A lie, knowingly told or not, printed in a statement released o...
tedc,
Excellent investigative reporting.
If you add in the $1,000,000 or so in legal fees that Joe Sack authorized in 2016 ($500,000 over budget) we should of had our taxes reduced in 2017.
So what was the $1,000,000 in 2016 legal fees for? We may never know. Just like he is illegally concealing his City of Rye e-mails, Joe Sack is refusing to release the 2016 legal fees and invoices.
Joe Sack is not running for reelection at the end of this year so I predict he will be on an all out corruption tour in the furtherance of rewarding his land use friends.
It appears Laura (Deer in the headlights) Brett wants to be Rye's next Mayor. Sack placed her on the Planning Board the past few years to ensure his personal agenda is carried out and perhaps believing we would all forget Brett's role in the Rye Golf Club mass corruption and the subsequent concealing of public records.
We haven't forgotten.
Your Tax Contribution To Rye Builder Wealth Is Appreciated! Commentary by Ted Carroll.
(PHOTO: Read Court Construction Accident in March 2016. Source: Rye PD Commish.) by Ted Carroll, Guest Columnist Welcome back everyone. Let’s begin our new 2017 season of Rye Municipal Corruption columns here by restating our simple core thesis – which is that an elected official looking the o...
Ted,
i find it amazing that Councilwoman Bucci says the only expenses the city council can control is retiree health care costs. She must be an idiot because she and the other members of the city council are throwing our tax dollars away with these tax settlements.
What about the $1,000,000+ in legal fees in 2016 that was $500,000+ over budget?
Waters Edge is getting a $275,000 refund and a $75,000 annual tax assessment decrease going forward.
Why is Rye Corporation Counsel Kristen Wilson's former law firm Harris Beach the attorney of record on the settlement?
Did Harris Beach and/or Wilson receive outside legal fees for this?
Is there some kind of quid pro quo in place?
Sack should stop conducting City of Rye business behind closed doors in executive session.
Rye's Apawamis Gets Prop Taxes Slashed & $900K Refund Including $328K from Rye City Schools
Rye City Schools are in the hole $328K. (PHOTO: Apawamis just scored a $900K tax refund, and $328K is coming from Rye City Schools.) And members of Rye's Apawamis Club, the elite private golf course and squash mecca, are feeling like they just hit a hole in one. The Club won a tax fight with R...
Dear tedc,
Great analysis. This Rye City Council is useless and clueless.
BTW I go to bed at night resting easy knowing that Councilwoman Epstein is taking such a strong stance on swastikas being painted on walls in Chicago or wherever. Im guessing it's probably to deflect from Rye's ongoing corruption and her ignoring it.
Rye's Apawamis Gets Prop Taxes Slashed & $900K Refund Including $328K from Rye City Schools
Rye City Schools are in the hole $328K. (PHOTO: Apawamis just scored a $900K tax refund, and $328K is coming from Rye City Schools.) And members of Rye's Apawamis Club, the elite private golf course and squash mecca, are feeling like they just hit a hole in one. The Club won a tax fight with R...
tedc,
What are Joe Sack and Kristen Wilson hiding from the public?
The contents of these e-mails must be pretty damaging for Sack and Wilson to pull this stunt in front of a Judge while in Westchester County Supreme Court.
Perhaps these e-mails implicate Sack and others and that is why Sack and Wilson will not to even provide one e-mail.
Sack said in July 2015that the City of Rye was looking for a new Corporation Counsel and an RFP would be done. Why hasn't that been done yet? It's been 1 1/2 years and no RFP.
Is Sack keeping Wilson have something to do with Wilson protecting Sack from exposure to the contents of Sack's e-mails?
WANTED: Rye Mayor Sack’s City Emails. Commentary by Ted Carroll.
by Ted Carroll, Guest Columnist Was someone on the city council bench recently holding forth about municipal accountability and transparency? Here’s a quick update on a story we’ve brought to you here, and here, and here, and here - Rye Mayor Sack’s Secret Emails – before. On November 30th 20...
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