WESTCHESTER VolumeH 4 • Number 167 ERALWHYTMedia.Typepad.com December 14,D 2009 • USA $1.50 Shifting Shopping Gears Addicts Page 22 Page 9 Of Significance Trend Alert®: Cappelli Sued for Books PGS . 4, 5 Breaking Point 2010 $11 Million-plus Computer Gaming and terror will strike again By Robert Cox Louis Cappelli is being before the decade ends. personally sued to the tune PG. 5 and Hezi Aris • The decade long wars of $11 Million plus. This Economic waged by US and NAT0 New Rochelle, NY and while the New Rochelle Development against Afghanistan and Yonkers, NY City Council Iraq are leading the world -- Robert Cox, d e l i b e r a t e s PGS . 1, 6, 7 to the first Great War of the publisher of over whether Government 21st Century. 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Yonkers No Plan Host Ribbon-Cutting for Minerva Weir Place Condominiums Only Plan Unraveling Human Page 13 anticipated tax revenues usurping past unrealized By Hezi Aris surpluses that became an Yonkers ever increasing burden on Mayor It was former Yonkers the homeowner / taxpayer. Mayor John Spencer who Spencer’s projections Amicone infused fiscal Pollyannas continued to worsen Page 16 on to the downtown despite the forecasts for waterfront development anticipated improvements. New scene. Spencer eloquently Spencer’s term limited White Plains, NY -- At 10:00 ribbon-cutting for Minerva espoused extinguishing status denied his mayoralty am, Tuesday, December Place Condominiums, York the financial burden long the opportunity to reach 15, Community Housing celebrating the city’s most Civic suffered by Yonkers with neither competence or Innovations (CHI), along energy efficient residence. incompetence. Succeeding Page 14 an influx of economic with White Plains Mayor The units, which are being growth. The promise of see Hezitorial Pg. 2 Joseph Delfino, will host a see White Plains Pg. 7 2 WESTCHESTER HERALD December 14, 2009 WESTCHESTER The Hezitorial From Page 1 HERALD his mentor, present vis-a-vis the choke hold tin cup in hand pleading Cappelli is the recent sale WHYTMedia incumbent Mayor Phil about the taxpayer throat for City Hall and the City of his 6,000 square foot Amicone, stood firm in and his wallet. Almost Council to compensate apartment in New York Published weekly postulating perpetual without exception, they them for an error of their City for $29.5 million. WHYTMedia optimism; a desirous have been proven unduly doing in not receiving a $4 Yet that is of no value to @gmail.com trait among the small optimistic by events. million grant, the imprint economic development in Tel: 914-562-0834 business entrepreneur, but The consequences of of their building have stood Yonkers. WHYTeditor@ undesirable in the demeanor this Pollyanna approach on financially precarious Nick Sprayregen, gmail.com of a strong mayor form of have been serious. The ground. Councilmember expected to have been the WHYTsubscription government. yet to be disclosed $25 Patricia McDow (D-1st developer to purchase the @gmail.com Background documents to million year end deficit District), acting as the Gazette Building from official statements defining may be exacerbated by defacto Majority Leader of Joseph Spiezio III, was Publisher economic development the financial crisis and the Yonkers City Council, instead kicked to the curb Hezi Aris projects were once its consequences, but the typically the “diva”, has by Economic Development objective, technical affairs, reason Yonkers’ fiscal not divulged the looming guru Jim Pinto who Editor read by the cognoscenti. problem is today so serious probability of foreclosure purchased the Title for Hezi Aris Today they are written in is that the city entered the of Collins Phase Two the City of Yonkers. The Columns the style of the corporate present recession with a building. So much for change of ownership Cam Bock PR executive. Selective large structural deficit. That honesty and transparency brought the Lee Daniels in their presentation of deficit is the direct result of on the part of the soon-to- Leggio’s, who own Zuppa’s Marilyn Elie information and suffused the persistently unrealistic be-announced Majority restaurant, to seek shelter Gail Farrelly with self-congratulation; projections made since Leader McDow and present from Spiezio and allegedly Lisa Fine the quintessential dog and the 1950s. Wallowing in a Co-chair of the Real Estate Sprayregen, who wanted, Peggy Godfrey pony show. City Hall clings fiscal and cerebral malaise Committee. and had both joked about Anthony Greco to modernity in this regard. until Spencer’s accession to Neither City Hall, nor replacing Zuppa’s with Diane M. Grassi The politicization of the mayor, Spencer’s bravado McDow, nor Yonkers City another tenant. City Hall’s Joe Klock, Sr. civil service was a feature turned Yonkers mind set Council President Chuck rescue lightened the rental Edward I. Koch of the Spencer years, but it toward a can do demeanor Lesnick have divulged that burden for the Leggio’s Bob Marrone gathered momentum and only to become unhinged the property hoped to be who still complain that Dan Miller pace under the present, by his second term. developed by now deceased City Hall has not been Richard Nestro Amicone government. Mayor Amicone’s Yonkers Firefighter Patrick quick enough in coming to Martin McGloin The people who prepared accession from deputy Joyce, his surviving brother, their call for help nor done Barbara Barton Sloane the filtered data and the mayor under Spencer’s and a third partner, have enough for them. Tsk, tsk. Zuri A. Stanback irritating prose are not Administration to Mayor withdrawn future interest in Robert MacFarlane’s Henry J. Stern primarily, or often at all, of Yonkers re-engaged developing the former Pier Homes for America Andy Wainer motivated by partisan the promise of success View Restaurant. In the building has earlier this Bob Weir loyalties. They are certainly and enlightenment under meanwhile, the property week come to market Roger Witherspoon not dishonest and the his aegis. Yet Amicone, was internally gutted. No for sale at the advertised Advertising documents do not contain incapable of grasping potential investor has come cost of $7 million. Acid- [email protected] information that is untrue, his attaining office, forward. More secrets to tongued bloggers advise or call 914-562-0834 although that cannot be said floundered his first two hide from the taxpayer. the foreclosed property of the political statements years, nurturing ridicule The most significant is ready to be let go by that accompany them. and derision about those debacle to make the bank for less than $3 We But loyalty today who were afraid Yonkers Yonkersites’ hair stand million. In MacFarlane’s Welcome is valued more than would miss another cycle to attention may be the case, City Hall despised competence. Advancement of opportunity to revitalize inability of Cappelli him. City Hall made him Your is better achieved by telling itself through the promise Enterprises to allegedly sit out their vision for your superiors what they of economic development. meet pending financial him until he was forced Comments wish to hear than being Those visions have obligations whether they into foreclosure. AKRF the bearer of unwelcome unraveled before the public be contentious demand sat on the “Findings” for Tell us if we news. The economic world and our elected officials. for payment of alleged his Point Street Landing are doing is necessarily uncertain Residents of Phase Two back taxes demanded by property at the behest of and there is usually a of the Collins development the City of White Plains; Commissioner Lou Kurven. something range of estimates that can project, situated north of the landowners, such as New City Hall realized its vision. be defended. To always Yonkers Railroad Station, Rochelle’s Michael Longo, Vindictiveness won over wrong, and choose the best from that between the Hudson River who assert that Cappelli economic development what we are range is to create bias, and and the Metro-North is in arrears to him for 14 concerns yet again. the bias may be very large. Railroad tracks, have been months; as well as other We reported moths ago doing right. So it seems to have been advised to send their rental financial notes that may that the Yonkers Parking WHYTEditor@ with the forecasts about payments to HSBC. Ever soon come due. In fact Authority’s fiscal position economic development in since the Collins Brothers, the only positive financial gmail.com Yonkers downtown and about a year ago, came deal that is a credit to Mr see The Hezitorial Pg.