NewRoc Now

Two curiosities of downtown New Rochelle, or SoNo as it seems to be called, caught my eye this week, both on the same run to Glen Island on Sunday morning.   First thing is the new shop, Glass House, that opened at 5 Church Street that sells bongs, glass pipes, hookas and other assorted glass things.  […]

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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?
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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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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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one of the more unusual stores in New Rochelle is the Little Ranch at 328 Huguenot st, 2 blocks south of the Avalon.  They have a lot of funky cowboy boots for cowboys and cowgirls, more than anywhere else I have seen in Westchester.  Such a little funky store doesn’t really belong here, it seems, […]

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