NewRoc Now

Haven’t posted anything for a while… Here are my observations.
The Glass House seems to have customers all the time, it is obvious where people spend money in a recession.
Brickyard Bistro is my favorite non-Indian restaurant in downtown New Ro.
What The F happened to City Market?
I am very happy that the bridge project across 95 is […]

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Seems like these guys have given up on New Rochelle and are not coming after all.  Construction has been stalled for weeks it seems.

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The most unbelievable person I could imagine.   Total madness and genius.
You won’ t believe how clearly Bernie Madoff was called out in 2001
Do we have financial regulators that care about their jobs at all?  If he was selling pot and he was written about in the newspaper do you think that the cops would […]

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Sad to see that the Speckled Door is closing its doors, but we just don’t have density to support all of the bars in the downtown area.   In a 5 block area there are over 10 bars including the Speckled Door (RIP), Spectators, The Spot and many more.  How many half-empty bars do we need?
The […]

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Seems like good people are leaving us more and more before their time.  Rest in Peach to John, the owner of Optical on Main.  I personally bought 5 pairs of glasses from him over the years and while we weren’t great buddies, I knew his brother and daughter that worked there.  What a shock when […]

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The one complaint I have in New Rochelle is the complete disregard for pedestrians in the downtown area.  Crossing North Ave., from the north to south (K Buidling to Chase Bank) is literally taking your life in your hands.  I have seen people killed there and I hope that I am not the next.  Granted […]

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If there is a theme of New Rochelle it is reinvention. From the Huguenot origins to the revolutionary war to the civil war to prosperity to Glenn Island to Norman Rockwell to Eddie Foy to Dick Van Dyke to Lou Gherig to Rodney King riots and now to Capelli dreams, New Rochelle has seen it’s […]

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If you ever venture to Hudson Park you will see a green dilapidated building with a pretty cool clock that was the New Rochelle Yacht Club.  I have seen some pretty rockin weddings and other loud parties there, but it looks like going on the porch of that thing is tossing your life to fate.
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This post is not related to New Rochelle at all but it reflects two bizarre statistics that reflect the strangeness of our world.
In Myanmar, where we speculate that over 100,000 have died cnn.com reports “White House spokeswoman Dana Perino also announced Monday that the United States has offered Myanmar an additional $13 million in aid, […]

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I don’t know when the last time that these two groups of people were associated with each other, but there are two groups of people in New Rochelle that draw my curiosity.   They are both somewhat pervasive in the downtown area and somewhat ignored.  They both form a strong presence in downtown New Ro if […]

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