Comments on: Greenburgh helping Greensburg

By: Communicator

Communicator — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 20:44:14 +0000

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.

By: Veritas

Veritas — Thu, 10 May 2007 17:50:47 +0000

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.

By: Civilis

Civilis — Thu, 10 May 2007 15:27:54 +0000

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.

By: investigation needed

investigation needed — Wed, 09 May 2007 16:11:35 +0000

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.

By: Truthteller

Truthteller — Tue, 08 May 2007 20:03:15 +0000

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.