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Everyone loves a diner.
And these days there is a growing nostalgia for the old Thruway Diner which sat on the opposite side of Weyman Avenue for many years. As word has spread that a company with a long and storied history in New Rochelle is looking to build a diner not far from the site of the old Thruway Diner, it is natural that residents might be excited at the prospect of getting their diner back.
Don't be fooled.
UPDATE: City Council votes 7-0 to approve sale of Lot 50 and Lot 45A to DeRaffele, see complete update and bottom of this article, after the jump.
The City should not be selling valuable public property -- and a lot on the corner of one of the busiest intersections in New Rochelle, just off the New England Thruway, near a major retail area is valuable -- based on nostalgia or personal relationships but based solely on what is in the best interest of the City and, in particular, the taxpayers. In this case, getting the best price for a piece of retail-zoned city property from a purchaser that will deliver the maximum revenue to the city over the long-term.
To understand what is wrong with the current diner proposal that is now getting attention, it is instructive to look at two resolutions concerning City-owned property up for discussion by the New Rochelle City Council at the upcoming Committee of the Whole meeting on Tuesday, June 12th. At first glance, the two resolutions would appear to be entirely unrelated.
The first concerns the abandonment of a small parcel on Sylvan Place. The property is being sold to the abutting property owners for $1,000. The second concerns a property to be sold to construct a diner at the corner of Weyman Avenue and Main Street near the Home Depot. In the first case, the "natural buyer" of the property is the owner of the adjacent property. Not so in the second case. There is an interesting reason for that as will become apparent.
(Intro. 5115/12; Public Hearing 6112/12)
3. Communication dated April 20, 2012 from Howard Rattner, Commissioner of Finance, wherein he recommends that a portion of City-owned property located on Sylvan Place at the southerly dead-end terminus be sold to abutting property owners, subject to certain terms and conditions, forwarded with approval of Charles B. Strome, III, City Manager, noted thereon, and appropriate legislation for consideration.
3.1. Planning Board Resolution No. 45 adopted on Tuesday, May 29,2012, wherein the Board recommends, in the best interest of the City, that the City Council deny the requested variance.
3.1.1. Resolution authorizing the sale of City-owned real property (portion of westerly end of Sylvan Place) to abutting property owners and abandoning same.
3.2. Communication dated June 8, 2012 from Howal'd Rattner, Commissioner of Finance, relative to proposed additional condition of sale, as well as neighbors' lack of objection to the proposed sale, forwarded by Charles B. Strome, l/1, City Manager.
4. Communication dated May 25, 2012 from Michael W. Freimuth, Commissioner of Development, wherein he recommends that the City Manager be authorized to enter into a contract for the sale of the above-noted property, subject to certain terms and conditions, forwarded with approval of Charles B. Strome, III, City Manager, noted thereon, and appropriate legislation for consideration.
4.1. Resolution authorizing the City Manager to enter into a contract to sell City-owned property to DeRaffele Manufacturing Co., Inc. (Weyman Avenue/Main Street).
The original plan was for DeRaffele, the New Rochelle company that manufacturers diners that are shipped all over the country, to build one on a corner of the Home Depot parking lot.
Asked about the original plan, New Rochelle Development Commissioner Michael Freimuth told Talk of the Sound his understanding was that the plan for the diner on private property owned by Home Depot did not work out. Conveniently for DeRaffele, the City was ready with an alternative.
"The city put out a RFP in January for municipally owned land on Main/Weyman that is zoned retail. Among the respondents was a plan for a diner and a formal recommendation will be made in June to the City Council recommending one of the proposals for the site."
That is the recommendation to be made this week and discussed by the City Council.
There is little doubt among experienced commercial real estate brokers who spoke with Talk of the Sound that the Main/Weyman RFP was put together for the purpose of transferring the property to DeRaffele at the lowest possible price to DeRaffele after their deal with Home Depot fell through.
As the Sylvan Place deal highlights, the most natural buyer for a piece of property is the owner of the adjoining property. In the case of the Main/Weyman RFP they adjoining property is also owned by the City of New Rochelle.
The Main/Weyman RFP describes the property as follows:
The City-owned vacant lot (Block 0550 Lot 50) is approximately one-half acre and is bound between Industrial Place, Weyman Avenue, and Main Street (See attached Site Map). The lot is zoned LSR Large Scale Retail allowing the development of retail facilities and other permitted uses (see City Zoning Code) with an Floor Area Ratio (FAR) of 1.0 and a maximum building height of 40 ft. Currently, The Home Depot has a non-exclusive easement at the northwest portion of the property for the purposes of erecting signage to their retail store. It should also be noted that the adjacent, municipally owned, Lot 45A is not included in this RFP but it may be reconfigured to create a more viable site at Lot 50.
The RFP specifically says that "Lot 45A is not included in this RFP". Compounding matters, the RFP includes a map which mistakenly labeled Lot 45A as Lot 40A. The RFP says Lot 45A could be "reconfigured to create a more viable site" but says nothing about the city offering Lot 45A for sale, in fact the RFP specifically states Lot 45A is not for sale as part of the Main/Weyman RFP.
Unlike Lot 50, there is a natural buyer for Lot 45A but this buyer says he was never contacted by the City and never informed that Lot 45A was available. As Lot 45A was specifically excluded from the RFP, and even mislabeled in the RFP, this buyer never submitted a bid.
Gene Pepe's company owns Section 2, Block 550, Lot 45 a property which is contiguous to Section 2, Block 550, Lot 45A. The building he owns is a three-story property zoned LSR Large Scale Retail which has an entrance off Main Street for an upper parking lot and another entrance on Nardozzi Place. Pepe has been interested to purchase Lot 45A because it would allow him to add additional parking for Lot 45 which would better enable to lease the 26,000 square feet of retail space above Allen Carpet and Floors and Tile City at 40 Nardozzi Place
Despite the fact that the RFP excluded Lot 45A and despite the fact that the adjacent property was never notified it was even possible, the City of New Rochelle intends to recommend that DeRaffele be allowed to purchase both Lot 50 and Lot 45A combined with not a single competing bid for both lots. The price is said to be about $600,000. By way of comparison, the property across the street was reportedly leased for 49 years at a price of $50,000,000 to Walgreens. It sounds like DeRaffele is getting quite the bargain which is what happens when you are the sole bidder and the only natural bidder is specifically told a piece of property is excluded from an RFP.
The City of New Rochelle knows all this. They know they have another bidder for Lot 45A. They know the RFP was defective because it excluded Lot 45A when it was later included and it labeled Lot 45A incorrectly as Lot 40A in the RFP map. They also know they are highly likely to get a lawsuit from Pepe if they attempt to proceed with the sale to DeRaffele.
None of this even addresses the rather significant traffic issues. As anyone who has been to the Home Depot or CostCo on a Saturday can tell you, the traffic can be extremely heavy. Under the DeRaffele proposal the road which cuts down from Main Street to Nardozzi Place, a road which allows drives coming off I-95 to bypass the traffic light at the corner of Weyman Avenue and Main Street will be eliminated and a new lane with two 90 degree angles will be cut into Lot 50, wrapping around three sides of the parcel -- Main Street, Weyman Avenue and Nardozzi Place. In addition, the proposed diner will have an entrance from Main Street. The result will be vehicles slowing to between 0-10 mph in order to enter the diner parking lot or make the two sharp right turns onto Weyman Avenue and then onto Nardozzi Place. The resulting traffic shocks at each of these three points will cause traffic waves or stop waves backing all the way up onto I-95 and out onto the highway.
At the end of the day, this deal should be about getting the City of New Rochelle the best price for Lot 50 and Lot 45A in the short-term (the sale price) and the long-term (the taxes to be generated).
The first question is whether correcting the Main/Weyman RFP and allowing Pepe to bid would generate a higher price than the current $600,000 bid by DeRaffele. It would seem obvious that a second bidder would insure a higher price. The City apparently has no idea what the property should be worth because they are selling the property without an appraisal. The combination of no appraisal and a single bidder should raise a major red flag. By way of comparison, Walgreens reportedly signed a 49-year lease for $50 million on the old Thruway Diner property (a 50-year lease is considered a sale so to avoid triggering the tax implications of a sale deals are often written for 49 years). That property is directly across the street from Lot 50. The Net Present Value, what the property is worth today based on the future cash flow from the lease payments is somewhere around $20 million.
The second question is what sort of sales taxes a diner would generate compared to the 26,000 square feet of retail space plus whatever Large Scale Retail Pepe might choose to build on Lot 50.
Getting the answer to the second question should be quite simple: look at the sales tax paid now by Tile City and Allen Carpet and look at both the old Thruway Diner and the Mirage Diner on North Avenue. By doing this, the City Council could evaluate which type of use -- a diner or a retail space would generate the most revenue for the City.
If you want to understand why the City of New Rochelle is broke, you need look no further than deals like this one, the $1 lease of a Church to Mariano Riviera a long-time friend of former City Councilman Joe Fosina or the many other "insider" deals that reap big profits for the few at the expense of the many.
The solution is simple. Repair the Main/Weyman RFP so that it includes Lot 45A and put it back out for bid. That is certainly going to be faster than tying up the property in lawsuits and New Rochelleans will get the best price and the most productive use of the property.
Meanwhile, if you area in the area and really want to understand how poor the planning is here in New Rochelle, take a good look at the trees growing on Lot 45A. They are not indigenous. They are not the remnants of some forest that was cut down to build a Home Depot. Those are trees that were purchased to line the roads in that area. That they are all growing wild, clumped together on Lot 45A is is a story for another day.
UPDATE: The New Rochelle City Council voted 7-0 to approve the sale Lot 50 and Lot 45A to DeRaffele.
New Rochelle Development Commissioner Michael Freimuth said the City was projecting the proposed diner would have $3.5 million in sales which would generate $87,000 in sales tax for the City or about $7,250 a month. He told the Council that the traffic engineering study would be done after CostCo completed work on new gas pumps. CostCo intended to sell heavily discounted gas to members, a move expected to cause a significant increase in traffic.
Mayor Noam Bramson described the diner as a "expression of interest in the community."
Council Member Louis Trangucci described a meeting of the South End Civic Association the night before, saying "they were all excited about the diner".
Council Member Ivar Hyden hoped that the diner could be an attraction for New Rochelle.
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Johnson injured his hamstring in the first inning of a double header on the 18th and hasn't been around to help the Fish since.
According to South Florida Sun-Sentinel's beat reporter Juan C. Rodriguez, Nick Johnson attempted to run a bit to test his tender hammy before yesterdays game…it didn't go too hot:
"It didn't go too good," said Johnson, who has not played since the first inning of the first game of the Aug. 18 doubleheader because of a strained right hamstring. "When I'm running, I still feel it."
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Asked about the possibility of returning during the upcoming Mets series, which starts Tuesday at Land Shark Stadium, Johnson said: "After what I just did, I don't see that happening."
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These days, auto racing is one of the world's most glamorous sports and racecars often reach speeds over 200 mph. We've come a long way since the first sanctioned automobile race ever, won by Frank Duryea with an average speed around 5.4 mph in 1895.
Piloting a 2.0L two-cylinder engine mounted to a used horse carriage of his own creation – years before Ford revolutionized the industry – Duryea won the 54-mile race from Chicago to Evanston, IL and back to claim a $2,000 prize sponsored by the Chicago Times-Herald. After several flat tires and stops for repairs, Duryea defeated five other competitors to cross the finish line first in a blazing time of ten hours. It ended the first gasoline-powered automobile race in U.S. history.
Duryea and his brother, Charles, were early automobile innovators that took their passion for bicycle mechanics and applied them to the burgeoning world of automobiles. The Brothers Duryea actually claim credit for the first gasoline-fueled automobile ever test driven in America, with their 1.0L engine and three-speed transmission mounted to another used horse carriage that they tested in September 1893 in Springfield, MA. The following year, Frank developed the 2.0L version that would enter him into the motorsports record books.
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Today I took home some fantastic leftovers from the Chinese restaurant with my Dad & others ($10). So I put some of it into a lunch container for tomorrow. I also received some soups (yay!) ($10) and cleaned out the coffee press so that I can use it in the morning ($2). Didn't buy any drinks last night ($15). Baked my own breakfast & snacks yesterday ($4). Went out & was social but didn't buy anything! ($4)
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- tracked expenditures from the past week
- budgeted for the next few weeks
- wrote down a grocery list with items listed by store
- brought my lunch to work (every time)
- mostly resisted coffee & spontaneous food
Saw K, and didn't feel the need to make a big night of it. Healthier and a few dollars richer as a result, and left the gang while I was still having fun. :)
Made a new challenge for myself: I can only buy one "alone" coffees per week (Sunday-Saturday), not including scheduled get-togethers and private lessons. Also only buy alcohol 'out' once a week at most.
Last week, this was on Friday. This week, unfortunately, this happened already with my killing-time coffee before the shop opened yesterday, but it was quite lovely since I got some good reading in at the same time.
If I don't feel like going home to do whatever sedate activity I could probabaly do just as well there as in a coffee shop, it's probably because I'm dreading the mess and should clean it up!
- bought very practical, more timeless items with the help of my giftcard
- made a bit more food today
- plan not to drink very much tonight
- filled my water bottle
- about to grind coffee for tomorrow
- bought the least expensive frames & pic holders
- got earring fixer thingies
- brought my lunch and coffee thermos all week, only spent $1.25 on coffee all week!
- planned my weekend cooking (cookies, soup, granola, quail, salad, egg salad, tuna salad)
- did my grocery shopping with a list
- went out for coffee instead of beer last night, spent $5 instead of $10-15ish
- paid off my credit card purchase on the same day, plus a bit more
- started to plan more regular food swap with roommate
- went halfsies of some food with roommate
Brought my lunch today and yesterday, along with coffee. Didn't spend any money on Saturday or Monday (just groceries on Sunday).
Unfortunately, a trip to the drug store turned out to be a lot bigger than it really needed to be. Damn drugstore impulse buys!
So far this weekend…
- Immediately paid off yesterday's credit card donation
- Did lots of veggie chopping to make meal prep easier
- made my lunches for (most of) the next week
- Started planning my meals…
- chicken, beer bread, cookies
- granola, orange, yogurt
- leftover chicken & sweet potatoes, cookies
- veggies & hummus
- soup & beer bread
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98. Champ Bailey, CB, Denver Broncos (80th)
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WVLT) -- Knoxville police shut down a bar after drugs, including cocaine, were found inside.
Police boarded up the little red barn, known as "Martha's Place", on Rutledge Pike after showing a search warrant and then serving a nuisance injunction. Cops found cocaine, marijuana, and drug paraphernalia inside.
They placed pieces of plywood over windows and doors and stapled public notices on the wood Tuesday afternoon.
Police also had a search warrant for the one of the bartender's house. There they found evidence of cocaine distribution and several firearms.
Knoxville police found cocaine, marijuana and drug paraphernalia in the bar. A 20-year-old, Amanda Crawford, was charged for selling cocaine inside. Another woman was also arrested who had just purchased cocaine.
Knoxville police and the Knox County District Attorney's Office send a warning: if your business has drugs, you're next.
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Southern Women's Review
Welcome to the Southern Women's Review.
Whether you are a born and bred Southerner, a Southern transplant, or merely a frequent visitor, we welcome you to submit your poetry/prose, fiction, creative nonfiction/memoirs, and photography. Submissions should be from women who were born in or grew up in the U.S. South; currently live in the U.S. South; or write about the U.S. South. For editorial purposes, we consider the U.S. South to be a region comprised of the following areas: Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and Maryland, Washington DC, and West Virginia.
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Volume 4: Issue 4


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Daily entries from the 17th century London diary
from L&M Companion
Catholic soldier; Deputy-Governor of Tangier 1662-5 and Colonel of the Irish regiment there. By 1672 he was in England, made governor of Yarmouth and given a regiment of foot to serve at sea. 'Hee owed his ende to his modesty which would not suffer him to discover a clapp till a gangreen made it publick to the world and mortal to himselfe' (Rochester}.
[L&M is a whole joy unto itself. Regiment of foot at sea? Gangreen (just where?) both publick and mortal? ]
Fitzgerald up to '63.
"Colonel John Fitzgerald was an experienced officer who had commanded an Irish Regiment in the service of Charles II in exile in the Low Countries, and commanded it at the battle of the Dunes in 1658. Pepys records that Fitzgerald was a great favourite of the Duke of York, who wished to promote him, but Norwood, Bridge, and Peterborough were all hostile and so the Privy Council blocked his preferment. His regiment had joined the Dunkirk garrison after the Restoration on 12th March 1661, and he sailed with his regiment and the regiment of Farrell for Tangier in January 1662.
In April 1663 Andrew Rutherford, Earl of Teviot, the Governor of Tangier, was ordered to reduce the two Irish regiments in the garrison to one of five companies, under Fitzgerald's command. "
For more, that may be considered spoilers see…
More on Fitzgerald to 1664.
On 4th May 1664, Teviot was killed in a Moorish ambush. Fitzgerald was then on leave and was instructed to return immediately. This he did and was appointed Governor, and thereby Colonel of the Governor's Regiment, on 7th June 1664. He was at the same time instructed to reorganise the two Regiments into two of roughly equal size, eliminating the national differences. This was done for two reasons. First to spread the veterans of good fighting quality around and stiffen the rest, secondly to eliminate a dangerous degree of Republicanism present among the soldiery of the English Regiment - who were in great part former Protectorate men. Interestingly, it was Norwood who was to command the Lieutenant Governor's Regiment.
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Wednesday, April 02 16:58:23
The Exchequer deficit fell to E2.3 billion in the first three months of this year from E3.7bn a year ago with income taxes coming in slightly ahead of forecasts, latest returns from the Department of Finance show today.
Income tax totalled E3,795 million to end March, an increase of E129 million (3.5pc) year-on-year and up E4 million (0.1pc) on profile.
VAT receipts for the year to date totalled E3,509 million, up E56 million (1.6pc) on profile and an increase of E210 million (6.4pc) on the same period last year.
Corporation tax receipts of E256 million to end-March are E138 million (35.1pc) down year-on-year, but E38 million (17.5pc) above profile. The year-on-year performance is primarily driven by a non-recurring, unexpected payment from a large company in 2013 of E140m.
Excise duties, at E1,104 million for the first 3 months of the year, are E114 million (11.5pc) up year-on-year and up E111 million (11.2pc) against profile.
Stamp Duties were down E155 million (50.6pc) year-on-year, to E151 million, but up E15 million (11.2pc) on profile. Excluding once off payments, mentioned in previous information notes, stamp duties are up E15 million (11.0pc) compared to the same period last year.
Capital Gains Tax is up E28 million (40.9pc) year-on-year, to E98 million, which is E4 million (4.3pc) above profile.
Local Property Tax receipts of E214 million were collected to end-March, up E2 million (1.1pc) on profile. Significant property tax monies were received in March (E157m), most of which can be attributed to the receipt of the Single Debit Authority related payments.
Net voted expenditure to end-March 2014, at E10,264 million, is down E631 million (5.8pc) year-on-year and is E261 million (2.5pc) below profile, with 14 of the 16 Departments at or below profile.
Net voted current expenditure at E9,891 million was down E618 million (5.9pc) year-on-year and is E184 million (1.8pc) below profile.
Net voted capital expenditure to end March amounted to E374 million, a reduction of E13 million (3.4pc) year-on-year, and is E77 million (17.1pc) below profile.
Gross voted expenditure is down E164 million (1.2pc) on profile, of which E88 million arises on the current side and E76 million on the capital side.


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Object ID: WV0038.6.014
Description: Army Nurse, may be Daphine Mastroianni, attired in summer work uniform, sitting on Army vehicle with two men, one in Army uniform and one who may or may not be in uniform.
Collection: Daphine Doster Mastroianni Papers
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20 Slim-You-Down Sundresses
No matter what your size, these flattering frocks will have you looking more slender in seconds
By Jenyne Raines
20 Slim-You-Down Sundresses
Let's face itcome summertime, it's just too darn hot to try and hide that tummy pooch or those less-than-toned arms under multiple layers of clothing. Instead, why not opt for sexy dresses that strategically disguise your trouble spots? The frocks that follow hide common figure flaws and make the most of your body shape, the way it looks today. It's never been so easy to stay cool while looking so hot!


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Something we didn't include in the New for 2007 news release is the batch of new water-play animals for Crocodile Isle in Splashin' Safari.
They will replace the original animal slides, which were part of Splashin' Safari premiere season in 1993.
Let's start with the upper pool:
This zebra slide (shall we call them Zippy and Zappy for now?) replaces the turtle.
Zippy and Zappy make up a "dual slide" for added capacity, and will "load" from outside of the pool.
Next the children may splash about in the pool and then slide down one of
the body slides and into the lower pool, where they'll find…
This happy parrot (let's call her Pandora) is replacing the elephant slide.
Pandora's pretty umbrella will spray cooling water down on the happy tykes below.
Can you just imagine the toddler happy dances that will ensue?
And the shrieks of delights?
(Please, though, no crackers in the pool.)
And what may we have chosen to replace the popular crocodile slide?
Another crocodile! …er, alligator.
Hmm. Let's just say we'll call him … fun.