BY SPECIAL REQUEST: EVEN MORE CROTON IN JULY 1967

Welcome to Everything Croton, a collection of all things Croton--our history, our homes, our issues, our businesses, our schools--in short, EVERYTHING CROTON. 

BY SPECIAL REQUEST: EVEN MORE CROTON IN JULY 1967.

CLICK ON THE IMAGES BELOW, COURTESY OF OUTSTANDING ARCHIVES MAINTAINED BY THE VOLUNTEERS OF THE CROTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY. 

And since the Shakespeare Festival is mentioned, you may also enjoy  https://everythingcroton.blogspot.com/2019/05/1967-croton-shakespeare-festival-loves.html

JUNE 19, 1956: MARTIN & LEWIS END FILM PARTNERSHIP

On this date in 1956 Jerry Lewis & Dean Martin ended their partnership after 16 films.

Read more Jerry Lewis here. Both went on to have successful solo careers.

Read more about Dean Martin, a member of the "Rat Pack", here.

Click on the photo to see them both in 1953.

REMEMBERING JEAN ARTHUR

Who died this date in 1991...Jean Arthur was an American actress and a major film star of the 1930s and 1940s.  She had feature roles in three Frank Capra films: Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936), You Can't Take It With You (1938), and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), films that championed the "everyday heroine". Read more here. 

MORE FROM THE EVERYTHING CROTON MAILBOX

A reader left a comment about ETPA (the Emergency Tenant Protection Act) that was unfortunately, rife with error. The reader is encouraged to do a little more fact-checking with their sources because....Ossining repealed its ETPA in March. This was an ongoing process and there were many articles citing, among other things, the fact that it is home owners who pay the burden of costs associated with ETPA. 

Examiner News--ETPA Repealed in Village of Ossining Amid Allegations--claims of unfairness, class warfare, etc.....among the highlights, County Executive Latimer, in a letter sent to the Village Board on January 25, requested trustees temporarily suspend any action on ETPA since the county is preparing to undertake a study.  “We are engaged in an effort to expand affordable housing options across the many municipalities across the county, as we seek to satisfy the requirements of the fair housing lawsuit,” Latimer wrote....The Ossining Board Repealed ETPA anyway. READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE HERE.

As for Latimer's most recent position on affordable housing throughout the county, read the Lohud article here.

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To the reader who wishes we had a children's clothing store in the Upper Village, we HAD such a store there just a few short years ago.  As to why we no longer have one, click here.  If, however, you truly believe that such a business would succeed now, you are encouraged to make the financial commitment and open one as soon as possible.  

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BAMBI 1941, ANOTHER RARE AND WONDERFUL FIND FROM EFSP

From our friends at European Film Star Postcards--Bambi (David Hand, 1942) was the fifth animated feature produced by Walt Disney. It was directed by David Hand who supervised a team of sequence directors, produced by Walt Disney and based on the book Bambi, a Life in the Woods by Austrian author Felix Salten. Creator of the visual style of Bambi was the Chinese-American artist Tyrus Wong. ....For this post, we combined exquisite Dutch postcards by Rembrandt publishers from the 1940s, with vintage French postcards by Superluxe and more recent postcards from Italy and Germany. read and see more at https://filmstarpostcards.blogspot.com/2019/06/bambi-1942.html

FOR MORE DISNEY FUN, CLICK HERE.

THE REST OF THE KATZ FOIL DOCUMENTS, VILLAGE HEAVILY REDACTED COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN THE WORKING GROUP AND THE VILLAGE'S ZONING CONSULTANT PLUS...

Thank you Croton United:  Residents are welcome to go to the following link to view the full response to Roseann Schuyler's FOIL request concerning the Municipal Place Gateway and North Riverside Neighborhood Working Group.
https://tinyurl.com/y4my6opn

The full response includes some documents that are already available on the village website.

The response indicates that the Working Group, whose existence was made public in March, has been meeting to discuss the possibility of zoning changes in the areas mentioned since at least last October. Communications between the Working Group and the village's zoning consultant regarding the group's goals and approaches to rezoning were heavily redacted, as were most substantive commentary about the group's work. 

Also redacted was commentary offered to the Working Group by Village Engineer Dan O'Connor regarding the right of way in favor of adjacent land owners that exists on the Katz Property.

All residents are encouraged to attend tonight's public meeting at the Harmon Firehouse at 7:30 pm, to ask questions and obtain more information about this issue.

BY SPECIAL REQUEST: LARGER IMAGE OF THREE ALTERNATIVE KATZ DEVELOPMENT DESIGNS

SPECIAL REQUEST: LARGER IMAGE OF THE THREE ALTERNATIVE KATZ DEVELOPMENT DESIGNS obtained pursuant to freedom of information from the village.

Click on the image.

A REMINDER ABOUT TONIGHT'S "RE-ZONING WORKSHOP", A WORD FROM BOB ANDERSON

To be held at Harmon Firehouse 7:30-9 pm; 30 Wayne Street.

Dear neighbors: I look forward to seeing you all tonight (Tuesday 6/18) at the Harmon firehouse. It is important for all of us to make our views known and to understand what is planned for our village. These are some of the questions which I have: 

--What is the Board’s target number for Croton’s future population?

--Approximately how many apartments could be built “as of right” under the proposed zoning?

--Approximately how many new residents would those apartments bring?

--What is the estimate for new vehicles which would need parking, and where would those parking spaces be found?

--How many new students would the new apartments bring, and what input has the school district given with regard to the rezoning?

--What is the current spare capacity of the village water system, and how many additional residents can the existing system serve?

--How have the consultants accounted for the impact of climate change on the rezoning, and specifically the increased floodplain along Riverside?

--If the natural gas moratorium that currently impacts communities south of Croton is extended to us, how would this impact the rezoning?

--How many of the new apartments will be affordable and how many will be market rate?

--What is the opinion of the village attorney as to setting aside apartments for Croton residents and employees of the village and school district? 

--And for a bonus question: Given the declining demand for retail space, will developers be allowed to have ground floor apartments, and how many additional residents would this bring? 

Bob Anderson - Chair, Croton United

EDITOR'S NOTE:

--YOU MAY ALSO HAVE AN INTEREST IN SEEING THE (FOUR) DRAWINGS OF THE PLANS FOR THE KATZ PROPERTY, RELEASED THROUGH A FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST FROM ROSEANN SCHUYLER--CLICK HERE

--AND THE KATZ IS OUT OF THE BAG HERE

--Town of Cortlandt minutes; village discusses building levees, BUY-OUT PROPERTY options, on Brook and in the area they propose for apartments despite their comments on climate change, floodplain issues, etc.  CLICK HERE

--SURVEY EMAIL DATA BREACH ; click here 

--BY SPECIAL REQUEST, LARGER MAPS https://everythingcroton.blogspot.com/2019/06/by-special-request-larger-image-of.html 

BY SPECIAL REQUEST, A LOOK BACK AT JULY 1952 IN CROTON-ON-HUDSON

Welcome to Everything Croton, a collection of all things Croton--our history, our homes, our issues, our businesses, our schools, our houses of worship--in short, EVERYTHING CROTON.

COURTESY OF THE ARCHIVES MAINTAINED BY THE CROTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY, A LOOK BACK AT JULY 1952 in Croton-on-Hudson. CLICK ON THE IMAGES BELOW.

YOU MAY ALSO ENJOY...WHAT'S PLAYING AT THE STARLIGHT DRIVE-IN 1955; more here

MORE FABULOUS VINTAGE WEBSITES, FINDS, ETC. FROM EVERYTHING CROTON

As always, some wonderful finds. Click on the photos and links.

We just think this is the BEST mid-century modern car ad we have seen in a long time--for the 1957 Pontiac--the "Off the Shoulder Look". 

It's followed by a request for your editor's 2014 Christmas village featuring the Mr. Christmas Cable Car Ski Lift. Found in a tag sale for a fraction of its cost brand-new, it provided quite a few years of animation----until it bit the dust completely.  See more from the 2014 village tree featuring vintage and new houses by Karl Fey, Howard Lamey and more here.

And that's followed by a fabulous 1938 plaster figural lamp of Donald Duck, featured in a previous auction @ Croton's own SeriousToyz.com
 

Again click on the photos and links.

A fabulous old photo of a putz village display http://bit.ly/1y4wr15

Fourth of July goodies at Victorian Trading here. 

Love her, hate her, Martha Stewart still has some fun stuff on her website: PINE CONE VILLAGE made with balsa wood and pine cones; more here

Lee's art Deco City hall putz--with a perfect period car too. See it all here. Keep scrolling down the screen!

Marx Star Station Seven Playset No. 4115 from 1978, courtesy of Toys & Stuff here

Time to visit THE JELLO MUSEUM in Leroy, New York.  Click here for a quick tour. 

For the reader who was looking for miniature die-cut vintage looking snowman stickers, we think these will fit the bill--they would also make excellent faux flatties--but don't know how long the link will last---click here

SEE THE LAST EDITION OF MORE FABULOUS VINTAGE WEBSITES, FINDS, ETC. FROM EVERYTHING CROTON HERE. 

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IN CASE YOU MISSED IT - KATZ PROPERTY DEVELOPMENT PLANS, SCHUYLER'S FREEDOM OF INFORMATION RESPONSE, DRAWINGS

In response to Roseann Schuyler’s efforts over the past 3 months, the village has now released documents regarding the Zoning Working Group. Croton United is processing the 66+ megabytes of files and will soon post them so that all residents can read them. In the meantime, below are plans for the development of the Katz property from a handout for a Zoning Working Group meeting on February 21, 2019. We assume the colored drawing is the preferred design and the other three are alternatives with different building and parking area layouts.

SEE THE COLORED DRAWING HERE

SEE THE OTHER THREE ALTERNATIVES WITH DIFFERENT BUILDING AND PARKING AREA LAYOUTS HERE.

ANOTHER FAB JUNE WEEKEND IN CROTON & THE HUDSON VALLEY

Welcome to Everything Croton, a collection of all things Croton--our history, our homes, our issues, our businesses, our schools, our houses of worship--in short, EVERYTHING CROTON.

ANOTHER FAB JUNE WEEKEND IN CROTON & THE HUDSON VALLEY--click on the photos and links.

Starting with Flag Day on Friday the 16th--the weekend was a mix of quick showers and late spring sunshine. Thank you to everyone who acknowledged this flag flying tradition--click here for just a few of many examples----and thank you Holy Name of Mary as well. (Click on the photo in front of the parish center; the previous fraying and worn flag had been replaced in 2018 by Livia Maghiar Andrews and her husband Mike to honor Livia’s late father, Liviu Maghiar.) 

On another note, many thanks as well to Lenny Amecola for installing a very beautiful--and solar powered light-up pole and American flag on his property across the street from Holy Name--check it out the next time you visit the area.  Thanks to these members of the community, "Old Glory"--once again conspicuously missing from the business district poles this year--always flies in the Upper Village.

THE 16TH was also TIGER FRIDAY! And the weather was fantastic. Stay tuned for photos.

If weekends are for fun, they're also for shopping and errands...but first, it's always time to decompress at The Duck Pond and enjoy the turtles.  Your editor counted 11 in various sizes resting in the sunshine on the recently fallen willow.

And of course, the new boardwalk at The Jane E. Lytle Memorial Croton Arborertum is a fantastic place for peace and quiet.  (You may also enjoy seeing some photos from their recent Spring Walk with Ed Kanze here). Donation info is here.

With the Clearwater Festival back in Croton for the weekend after experiencing some financial issues not all that long ago, we knew there would be plenty of traffic in the area.....and so, back to the real world.....

Since SHOPRITE completed its expansion in Croton, it's been our weekly go to place for just about everything from milk to bedding plants to heirloom tomatoes to lots of fun stuff in their seasonal aisle.  Of course we couldn't leave without at least two of the TNT CONFETTI CANNONS they just brought in.

We keep our feeders up year round and in the warmer months prefer the "dough" and "seed" cakes which hold up better in the heat than standard suet cakes.  Since Feed the Birds is now on summer hours, we picked up some of those.

Despite the recent rain, there are still lots of beautiful roses to be enjoyed...especially at Holy Name of Mary. 

Plus on Saturday night, THE CROTON CHORALE put on a top notch performance at Asbury Methodist.

And with Father's Day on the 16th--and prom and graduation season right around the corner--there was lots of last minute shopping and ordering at Upper Village Blooms.

Feeling a bit warm, we had to have the new seasonal flavor at Croton Carvel--Orange Sherbert--on the way to Buchanan Hardware a.k.a. Buchanan Home Center.

And one more of course--we had to make a quick stop at the Verplanck Nature Preserve.

Back to Buchanan Hardware for a moment--we are so fortunate to have it in the area along with Melrose Lumber in Ossining (941-1888) and Ossining Hardware too.

Father's Day saw lots of activity at the local churches, many of which had special blessings for Dad's important day and later, lots of activity at our local eateries....the weather held up too...

All and all, another fab weekend in the Hudson Valley.

p.s. If you haven't been to it yet--hop on over to Apple Farm in the Van Wyck Shopping Mall--fab produce, exotica for the foodies, the best Blue Stilton around for miles, and amazing breads!

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