July 4, 2008
by Christine Yeres
And those holes are in the ceiling. Carpenters, electrician and plumber come and go all day, working to finish up, “closed” signs on front and back. Yet still, every morning, some customers grab the new chubby pink “D” door handle and are puzzled, and then chagrined, to find resistance.
Read MoreEach week NewCastleNOW.org provides a list of New Castle real property transfers filed with the Westchester County Clerk’s office.
Read More. . . town board seeks to amend law, impose moratorium
Houlihan Lawrence’s 75 South Greeley Avenue space
June 27, 2008
by Christine Yeres
To encourage more retail businesses in the downtown hamlet, a year and a half ago the town board changed New Castle’s downtown zoning laws to prohibit any new financial institutions, professional offices and business offices from taking first-floor rental space. A few months ago, when real estate agency Houlihan Lawrence applied to the building department to move from its offices at 75 South Greeley Avenue to the newly rebuilt two story space on the same street just north of Greeley Home & Hardware, the building inspector said “No,” declaring that real estate offices fell within the “business offices” category of the new law and were, therefore, a prohibited use of first-floor space.
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June 27, 2008
by Christine Yeres
Owner of Dunkin’ Donuts, Jim Lash, estimates that his doors may open by the first week in July.
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John P. McGrory, IAO, Town of New Castle Assessor
June 5, 2008
by Ann Marie Fallon
The annual grievance day in New Castle is the third Tuesday in June, June 17 this year, when property owners may appear before the board of assessment review to dispute their property’s assessment.
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May 9, 2008
by Christine Yeres
By the time Takayama opened twelve years ago in downtown Chappaqua, sushi-dependent New Yorkers newly transplanted to the suburbs were relieved to find a sushi source already in place here. As a cuisine wave, sushi has since settled from Pacific-size to Atlantic-size, but Takayama remains a culinary staple of the town, plunk in the middle of the downtown’s “restaurant row”—OK, “triangle”—along with destination restaurants like Le Jardin du Roi and Grappolo and the remade Lyla’s. Weekdays, Takayama draws adults at lunch, students after school, and carrys on a brisk take-out trade weekday evenings, mainly of sushi.
April 4, 2008
by Suzanne Keay
With summer vacation looming, many of us will be traveling on airplanes. Actually, many of us seem to travel on airplanes during most of the year, and we accrue miles from the various rewards programs that the airlines offer . . . or we don’t. That second scenario would be a shame, as the miles we earn, with some patience and knowledge, can be quite valuable.
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July 4, 2008
by Christine Yeres
After about a year in the works, Asian-fusion restaurant “Spoon” finally opened its doors last Saturday night at the intersection of Routes 117 and 120. The fusion of two retail spaces next to D’Agostino’s, formerly a Chinese takeout restaurant and a card shop, the eatery offers both lunch and dinner, Monday through Saturday, with dinner only on Sunday night. The spare, modern black-and-gray interior is a spacious single room, with a bar (a liquor license is pending) along the right hand wall and a sushi station along the back wall.
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June 27, 2008
by Ann Marie Fallon
On Sunday afternoon, June 22, a lighting strike to building 16 in the Foxwood condominium complex in Pleasantville ignited a massive fire. Both the Chappaqua and Millwood fire departments responded to aid the Pleasantville Fire Department.
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June 13, 2008
by Christine Yeres
New Castle locals who run on Dunkin’ Donuts, will have to find other fuel for the next three weeks. On Monday, June 9, customers milled forlornly at the front and back of the closed shop, regrouping mentally without the aid of their first caffeine of the day.
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May 23, 2008
by Christine Yeres
The empty storefront in downtown Chappaqua that used to house Chappaqua Stationery and Giona’s Italian restaurant has long been leased, but still stands empty. Chase Bank has been paying rent on the space for the past 18 months, but cannot move in.
Read MoreMay 2, 2008
by Ann Marie Fallon
There are many signs that Mother’s Day is fast approaching, spring flowers, Hallmark posters heralding the May 11 event and jewelry commercials jumping out of flat-screen TVs and flooding the radio airwaves.
Read MoreApril 4, 2008
by John Ehrlich
Not only do Chappaqua Rotarians know their wine, they know how to toast area charities as 60 members and guests proved when they gathered Wednesday evening, April 2, to taste wines from four continents at Crabtree Kittle House for their 4th Annual Benefit Wine Tasting. While attendees sampled 79 wines, local organizations received the proceeds, including 20% of all wine sales.
Read MoreBy Madeline Rivlin
November 23, 2007
When Karen Lustig, the owner of Penny Auntie in Chappaqua, heard about the Thomas the Tank engine recall last summer, her immediate thought was, “This isn’t going to be the only one.”
Read MoreBy Ann Marie Fallon
November 23, 2007
When you hear “Reader’s Digest property,” many in New Castle think automatically about the proposed development plans that have been under debate over the last several years; it’s very unlikely that apples come to mind.
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By Christine Yeres
In answer to last week’s Editor’s note: “Why would someone move a station house from Briarcliff to Millwood?” You were thinking, “Hmm . . .Why indeed, since Millwood has no train tracks. ”
By Christine Yeres
It’s odd that we should keep an edifice so small and tumbledown as the red and white train stationhouse as the icon on our mental desktop for “Millwood,” but many of us do. And that file is connected in our heads to another along which the stationhouse sits: the Millwood bike path.
