Web based journal created to document environmental and architectural conditions in Scarsdale. Read articles Scarsdale10583.com or the local newspaper The Scarsdale Inquirer will not publish! Come to Scarsdale New York, see what a beautiful town this is. Now, we need your help. Funds or time, whatever you can, whenever you can will be appreciated. See the PayPal icon below or email me at Lika@Save-Scarsdale.org. Thank you.
Thursday, May 12, 2022
6 Fenimore Road, May 12, 2022 - Saved !!!
Wednesday, May 11, 2022
24, 26 Overhill Road, Scarsdale
On Monday evening, May 9th there was a BAR ( Board of Architectural Review ) meeting at Village Hall. Anyone can attend these meetings. The neighbors of a property where a new construction is coming up are usually sent notices so that they can appear at the meeting and/or voice concerns.
When I started this website the then chair of the BAR was very strict about comments and not very kind to neighbors expressing dismay, concern if not anger at all the Mac Mansions coming up. The current chair Brad Cetron at least this time around seemed kinder.
The applicant for the site, a developer had first appeared more than a year ago and then did nothing for a year. A year ago somehow I did not receive the notice. As I told my neighbor I surely would have attended.
Anyway, there were a few neighbors expressing various concerns: the width of the proposed driveway ( why does it have to be this wide - as in for two cars - it should taper down, to the trees coming down, to the height of the structure, to its over all bulk, to its incongruence with the character of the over all neighborhood. Finally they were asked to revise their plans and come back. Do let me know if I am missing anything, down below or by e-mailing me.
I advised the applicant to look at 2-4 Weaver Street as opposed to 2 Palmer and see how those two structures differ: one a poor design and the other a carefully designed building after much public debate and input that lasted years...
So, this afternoon I thought I would drive by and take pictures of the trees, the site before they came down. Unfortunately I was already too late. Instead this is what I saw: sad stumps crying all the way to heaven. What can justify such mutilation I cannot fathom. They could have worked around these trees. I even thought I heard the developer saying the hemlocks are staying, the oak is staying. Which oak, where I wonder...
Instead there was this village permit flying in the face of natural justice. Slowly but surely we are killing our environment.
At Village Hall Monday night, there were still these signs for "Social Distancing" and wearing masks, but no one was paying attention.
Had we been more careful with Nature, had we not allowed for so much devastation theorists state we would have avoided Covid...If all the trees, the green space had been there would we have had Covid still ? I do not think we have concluded why or how Covid started, still. Two years later.
WebMD sites two possibilities: Exposure to an infected animal or genetically engineered by humans. However, no conclusive evidence either way. WebMD
In my opinion devastation caused by humans is certainly contributing to disease and air pollution. Had more trees, more evergreens been available where it all started in China this would not have spread. Look at this Most Polluted Countries 2022 map: most-polluted-countries
Sunday, May 8, 2022
5 Heathcote Road
Old house, getting rid of the trees, demolition, same old, same old...
Turns out, contrary to my assumptions, house is getting renovated by a Scarsdale resident, neighbor here.
Just getting a makeover: New trees, new shrubs, a new lease on life !
We hope and expect renovated house will have many evergreens planted for screening as well as greening.
Of course, preference should be given to native plants, trees, vegetation.
See here: Healthy Yards
Friday, May 6, 2022
Force Majeure - New Development Nearby -
Dear readers,
It has been almost four years since my last post on this website. But the events of the last few years has finally caused me to get out and want to write here again.
A couple of years ago on Circle Road here in Scarsdale, there was one house on a double lot that got razed and we got two new houses on that same lot, looking like this:
On Mon, May 2, 2022 at 1:02 PM wrote:Ingrid and Michael,I am very upset at the proposed new constructions on Overhill Road. After Circle Road double insult this is yet another slap in the face.The Village government is doing nothing to preserve our Village. All mechanisms exist, but all is being ignored, side stepped for more money, less environmental or architectural concerns.If you look carefully at the picture below, you will see two rabbits trying to find refuge this morning in my backyard. This is within two steps of my back door. There is simply nowhere to go for these creatures, but there is no end to human greed.<IMG_0933.jpeg>I had started a web site for this purpose over nine years ago or on April of 2013 that I had temporarily suspended. It is now live again for you to see it all - once again: Save-Scarsdale.org.Is this Planning or Board of Architectural Review or the Village Board doing what it is supposed to do ?With hopeful wishes,LikaBe good.
Do better.Do not waste.Only dust gathers by itself.Equal rights is not enough. Women need better rights.Do what is right.Be nice. It spreads.Reduce, reuse, reycle.Live free or die. NH-USA License Plates.