Mar 5
By MARTIN WILBUR
Residents and regular visitors to Mount Kisco demanded this week that the Village Board address the exploding number of incidents of public drunkenness, vagrancy and other quality-of-life issues that have plagued the community.
About a dozen speakers pleaded with officials at Monday evening’s board meeting to take action because the situation has gotten out of hand, making women and children feel unsafe and hurting the village’s reputation and potentially its businesses.
“I think Mount Kisco is under siege. I think we have a serious problem. I think it’s becoming more and more unsafe,” said Sandra Nohavicka, a Chappaqua resident and social worker who regularly visits numerous seniors in the village. “Women are afraid to walk out in the community. There are blotter reports daily and even multiple times of dysregulated, inebriated, intoxicated people who are defecating and urinating in public. They are harassing other people. They’re very unhinged. They’re using a lot of resources and I think we have to come up with a humanitarian solution for this issue, but it’s serious.” MORE AT Village ‘under siege’ as vagrancy surges
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