Greenburgh helping Greensburg
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- May
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Greenburgh Supervisor Paul Feiner has put out a call on the “town website”:www.greenburghny.com for Greenburgh residents to help the tornado victims of Greensburg, Kansas.
Feiner says that a number of residents have contacted him about how they could help the residents of the community with almost the same name. The weekend tornado destroyed more than 90 percent of the small Kansas town and has claimed 10 lives so far.
Similar efforts are happening in like-named communities nationwide. Yesterday, local officials in Greensburg, Pa., near Pittsburgh, met to talk about what they could do for their Kansas namesake. Read more about those efforts “here”:www.pittsburghlive.com/x/tribunereview/news/westmoreland/s_506536.html.
Feiner is urging people to visit the “American Red Cross website”:www.redcross.org. He also suggested sending donations to the American Red Cross, Westchester County Chapter, 106 North Broadway, White Plains, NY 10603 or to the national headquarters of the Red Cross, 2025 E Street, N.W. Washington, DC 20006.
Meanwhile, Feiner pledged to keep looking for other ways residents can help. Anyone who would like to organize a local community outreach effort or who would like to know about such efforts can e-mail him at pfeiner@greenburghny.com.
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What a shame that Ms. Baker signs her name to a “blog” that reprints, almost word for word, a Feiner press release.
Feiner would like nothing more than for residents of Greenburgh who don’t live, work or shop in flood-stricken Hartsdale village to think about weather-stricken communities thousands of miles from here.
The reason it’s a shame that Ms. Baker, who rarely attends town board meetings, continually falls for Mr. Feiner’s publicity stunts is that Journal News readers won’t otherwise get to read that the problems in Hartsdale village are far worse than Ms. Baker has reported, and that, on top of that, the town knew years before that flooding was likely to occur there because, among other things, the underground drainage pipe serving the area was not sufficient in size to accommodate high storm flows.
if what truthteller says is accurate, then why isnt the journal news pursuing this? for years critics of feiner has said he has performed his gadfly antics to the neglect of the town’s infrastructure. feiner’s chief tactic is government by press release. before this monumental storm, feiner issued a press release that the town waw being proactive. very soon we may be asking mr feiner, did you know the storm drains were inadequate, when did you know this, and what did you do with this knowledge? we have too often fallen for the bait of mr feiner’s side shows. lets hope the journal news sheds light on what the town knew months before the merchants and the residents of east harstdale were wiped out.
Leave it to the local gadflies to poo poo an effort to help Kansas. When the flooding happened on E Hartsdale I saw Feiner out there on top of things for weeks after. The flooding happened and now there has to be an effort to prevent it from happening again. When the flooding initially happened Feiner’s response, I feel, was good.
If a meteor fell on Central Ave. they would blame the supervisor and not the board, that’s how they work.
Civilis is wrong.
When all is said and done, Feiner will a lot to answer for on East Hartsdale Avenue, including, first and foremost, why he’s never leveled with the the local merchants and property owners that the town’s known for years that the infrastructure there couldn’t handle even a “moderate” storm, much less a nor’easter.
Documents show that the town was warned in 2005—right after Feiner squeaked by Greenawalt in the Dem primary—that the town’s stormwater infrastructure there was inadequate. Documents also warned that debris from storm runoff was making matters worse by blocking the drains.
Feienr knew that a powerful nor’easter was coming. He issued a press release two days before the storm congratulating himself for being “pro-active” in getting drains cleaned.
But he did nothing to get the drains cleaned on East Hartsdale Avenue, and even worse, knowing that flooding there was inevitable, he did nothing to warn property owners and merchants to get their property to higher ground.
Even worse than that, as these merchants pledge their life savings to get back on their feet, he’s done nothing to warn them about the infrastructure problem and the fact that the next major storm could wipe them out just as easily as the last one did.
I feel about as much sympathy for your Greensburgh and Hartsdale Ave and you do for my Greensburg and Iowa Ave. If everyone cared the way you do, all of my hometown’s residents would be dead.