NewRoc Now

Blogging interest comes in spurts. Especially for the ADD amongst us. This summer I will blog about New Rochelle Downtown. Then I will leave New Rochelle Downtown.

Brickyard Bistro is finally hitting some stride. Fledgling bar scene, late night food are the best attributes. Trying hard with the music and that is good.

Not to be outdone, Mason’s, has introduced a great bar-food menu sprinkled with some good ‘ol Irish home cooking like Shepards Pie and the like.

Gnarly Vine is only getting better. So rare to see a devoted chef/owner who is also personable. Great food and decent wine. Nice atmosphere on many nights.

Top businesses in downtown New Ro - Barbers and hair dressers, churches, dollar stoors, Mexican restaurants, Glass House, others.

Top businesses needed in downtown New Ro - take out sushi, sex toys.

New Rochelle is trying to be White Plains with parking tickets. Advice to government, get some property taxes from Avalon, Trump and New Roc and stop nickel and dimeing us to death. Its not our fault that previous administrations made bad deals with developers.

My car inspection cost me $10 to renew.  New Rochell gave me a $100 ticket, that has doubled to $200 for something that cost $10!

Ridiculous.  You let Capelli have the downtown for free and then you nickle and dime me because you are too stupid to make business deals?

Bunch of idiots.

I have been excited about the chance of lowering my cell phone bill and I wanted to try the MetroPCS store in New Rochelle, a recent addition in the downtown.  I am one of the last of a dying breed that tries to support local businesses over other options, but every once a while I am reminded how stupid that is.   Bottom line is that the guy on Main St sold me a phone for 4x what it was sold for on the web site of metropcs and forced me to pay cash.  Some weird shit is going on there.  All I can say is avoid that store unless you need to pay cash for a cell phone and you don’t mind spending 4x the web price.   I did lower my overall expenses though and MetroPCS seems to be great, just avoid this store unless you need to pay cash.

Can you believe that New Rochelle has laid off three parking ticket writers?  Living in the downtown area I have gotten to know most of them pretty well - at least by face.  One kind one kept me out of jail when I tried to ruin my life one day and others are kind to merchants and visitors.  New Rochelle mostly works on keeping the roads clear by ticketing congested streets justifiably and gives customers a break by not writing tickets within seconds of violations.  It is hard to believe that parking ticket writers don’t bill more than they cost so things must be really really bad in New Ro.

I am very happy about the Shoprite in New Ro.  Great fish, great prices, have everything, FAR better service than Super Stop and Shop. SSS charges crazy prices and are moving as fast as they can to the terrible self-checkout while Shoprite has great prices, great selection and GREAT service. Good riddance to Super Stop and Shop.

Check out this new blog about divorce, Divorce Consultants.

Annoyingly snowy in New Ro today.  Happy New Year.

Check out the new what’s cooking with Will’s amazing new oven at Gnarly Vine.  Possibly the best food in downtown in New Ro in a very unlikely place.  He can do wonders with a small space.

I am really enjoying <a href=”http://www.arcadiapublishing.com/news_article.html?id=2294″>Barbara Davis’s book</a> about New Rochelle, NY.  Many of us recent residents have no idea about the rich civil war and pre WWII history of New Rochelle.  It was an amazing place and Barbara brings it to life from her experience at the New Rochelle Public Library.

Thanks Barbara.

I love Westchester Yoga which moved from Pehlam to Center and Main St in New Rochelle.  Great people. This is the only yoga studio in downtown New Rochelle and it is a great space with great teachers.   I am no expert but this is certainly a welcoming and friendly place that will give you a tremendous workout.