Mary Jo is an honorable person who has always spoken clearly and honestly. She cares deeply for the children and parents in New Rochelle. Given her professional, real work background, she is well suited for this next phase. Good luck Mary Jo!! Martin Sanchez View Comment

Any comment from Mayor Bramson? View Comment

The Mayor speaks in niceties and vague references to what will probably happen. It’s the epitome of Teletubbies. As most New Rochelleans have deduced, he is disconnected from the realities of the working class people in New Rochelle. The protest by New Rochelle finest is indicative of this lack of awareness , sense of responsibility and consideration on the part of the Mayor. His political role is to use this State of the City platform with bells and whistles; it is a game of three card monte. There is no teeth to anything he has to say, but it sounds nice – Harvard does that to you. You have here an inept ceremonial Mayor who’s never worked a day in his life trying to lead a city that needs action and real solutions instead of poetic sound bites that we have become so sadly accustomed to. His only motivation is to dress to impress with his English language skills and to line his pockets to move up the political ladder at the expense of all of us proposing upscale housing developments to nowhere. Anyone from the North End listening? View Comment

The relocation of the DPW yard to the West End of New Rochelle is not urgent. Given our economic situation, we must re-think what our priorities are. A couple of years ago when the relocation was presented by the Mayor, there was no input nor opinion sought by the residents of the West End. It seemed then, and now, that our opinion and our welfare was not important. I am led to conclude that this effort is nothing more than a strategic case of Environmental Racism that will lead to a disproportionate impact of environmental hazards on the overwhelming majority of people of color who live in the West end. Many letters were written to mayor Bramson and no response has ever occurred which leads us to conclude that the Mayor considers the people of color in New Rochelle expendable. Does he have the chutzpah to meaningfully engage the West End community on this issue? View Comment

The buzzer systems at the three identified schools is fine. Is there a system in place for David, Ward, Webster, ALMS and IYMS? just curious. View Comment

Just curious where these cameras will be placed. I say, they should be on QuakerRidge and North; on Quaker Ridge where Ward & Albert Leoanrd are; All along Pinebrook; North near Wilmot.There is no need to put them anywhere else as there is an overwhelming police presence in the West End already. View Comment

Cristobal Colon initiated the plunder of the Americas. Why do we celebrate this man? The fact is he murdered indigenous people for wealth in the name of religion. The tales of Columbus and cluster of other myths, constitute the mythology of America and they must be destroyed. We must re-write history. View Comment

Are these funds going to be used as compensation for these young people? All of it? Or will 1/2 or more go to the City to cover Admnistrative expenses or re-allocated to pay for something not currently envisioned by this grant? View Comment

Interesting how the Mayor has tow computers on his desk. Is one for New Ro work and the other for Nita Lowey work on city property and on city time? View Comment

Is there any public comment by Mayor Bramson or Forrest City? In light of these revelations & misgivings, will the City Council move forward with Forrest City/Echo Bay and the relocation of the City Yard? Has the Mayor returned the political contributions made by Forrest City to his Campaign? View Comment

This is regrettable. Police coverage in the wee hours is thin and we all have to be vigilant. View Comment

I hope the school district will publish each answer that is submitted by the survey participants. Posting those answers on the nred.org website would be useful and transparent. Selectively choosing convenient answers would be unethical. View Comment

To the Mayor of New Rochelle: Mayor Bramson You recently posted on your web site that “the status and potential relocation of New Rochelle’s Public Works Yard on East Main Street has stirred a long-running and sometimes heated debate. With the release of a new, detailed and conclusive engineering study, that debate should now be over”. With the development of the Echo Bay site promised many times before, there is the inevitable relocation of the public works yard to a new location. This new location has been identified as being on 85 Beechwood Avenue in the West End of New Rochelle. We live in this neighborhood! This is a congested area where many working class residents lived and work. It’s also where I-95 traverses overhead with thousands of cars spewing noxious fumes everyday. It is where children play and walk to their respective schools. In reviewing the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS), the City of New Rochelle produced , it was quite puzzling that the engineers did not look at any other residential open space in New Rochelle. Now with the Mayor and City Manager’s pronouncements, it smells like a done deal. A congested area would soon become even more congested and hazardous. Visualize if you will a huge salt dome, a fueling facility, a recyclables storage facility and a facility for city-owned and employee vehicles. Oh, yes, and plenty of sanitation and public works trucks. As these trucks rumble through our dilapidated streets, our children walk to Jefferson Elementary School or Isaac Young Middle School. The Beechwood Avenue site mentioned in the DEIS will be more distress than any other neighborhood in New Rochelle. Now the neighborhood with dilapidated buildings and streets, odors and smoke from factories & auto shops, noise from trains and traffic congestion, or another neighborhood characteristic will be more stressful yet. I would argued that our local government needs to be more aggressive about understanding community viewpoints before proposing multi-million dollar potentially hazardous & unhealthy plans that could be resisted by our community. In February 1994, President Clinton issued an executive order requiring "each federal agency [to] make achieving environmental justice part of its mission by identifying and addressing, as appropriate, disproportionately high and adverse human health or environmental effects on minority and low income populations in the United States." In that same year, the New York State Board of Regents on Environmental Quality in Schools affirmed the right of all children to be taught in a safe learning environment and of children, parents, and school employees to know about environmental health hazards in the school environment. Can these same principles apply when you consider the relocation of the department of Public Works to the congested neighborhood of the West End of New Rochelle? There is a 62-acre parcel of land in the northern part of the city that would be more suitable. In the governmental rhetoric that proclaims our rich diversity of community, diversify the allocation of our public works to other parts of the city. Build a community park at 85 Beechwood Avenue. Get my drift! Martin Sanchez New Rochelle View Comment