No Trick, No Treat in Scarsdale
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At a briefing with the League of Women Voters on Monday morning October 31, Village Manager Al Gatta revealed that 2,800 village homes are without power --- a greater number of homes than were dark in March, 2010 --and the largest number of homes without power in his tenure as Village Manager.
Village teams have been hard at work picking up branches and clearing roads, but officials at Scarsdale Village Hall can do little to get service from Con Ed crews. As of Monday at noon, almost 48 hours after the onset of the storm, no repair crews are in the Village.
In other Village news, there will be no trick or treating tonight. As there are still live wires on the ground, it is not recommended that children trick or treat tonight. The Village has not set a new date to celebrate Halloween. In an email from Mayor Flisser, she recommends that you “keep children safe by rescheduling this evening’s activities.” She cautions against downed wires, heavy equipment and icy roads.
When will power be restored? Gatta says that Con Edison has promised to have power back in all homes by midnight on Wednesday November 2nd, but looked skeptical when making this statement. When pressed, Gatta said that he wouldn’t be surprised if it took until Friday for repairs on some streets.
Where can you go to get warm? Some are hanging out at the library where there is internet service and others are staying with friends or at local hotels. Rose at Five Corners Properties at 300 Heathcote Road in the old Scarsdale Ambulance Corps Building is inviting anyone from the community to come in and use their computers, pick up a hot cup of coffee/tea, or charge their cell phone.
(Pictured above: Halloween on Sage Terrace)
Lights Won’t Go Back On in Scarsdale Until Midnight on Wednesday
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Why? According to Mayor Miriam Flisser who had a 2 pm conference call with
Dan Lyons, public affairs manager of Con Ed, Con Ed is still assessing the damage in our area. In Westchester County about 70,000 customers are without power and Con Edison will establish public safety first and then prioritize repairs. Circuits with the largest damage areas will be restored first with individual outages assigned secondary priority.
Scarsdale, have been assigned local emergency liaison personnel to coordinate the restoration-- and crews have been called in from Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Virginia and Maryland to assist.
That doesn’t explain why some customers in Edgemont already have their power back on or why Scarsdale does not have a single crew at work now. In an email from Greenburgh Police Chief Jospeh Decarlo at 4 pm on Sunday, he says, "Con Edison has restored power to several areas and will continue to work through the night." Similar to the March, 2010 storm, while power was restored in Greenburgh, Scarsdale waited for crews to begin repairing power lines.
No information is available yet about the status of the schools and whether or not they will be open tomorrow. We will continue to post any updates we receive.
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Look Who Is Running for the Citizen's Nominating Committee
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The election for the Citizen’s Nominating Committee is just weeks away. Voting will be held at Scarsdale Village Hall on Tuesday November 15th, 2011, from 7 - 9:30 A.M. and 2 - 9 P.M.
Qualified voters must be18 years of age or older, a Village resident for 30 days prior to the election and a U.S. citizen. You do not need to be a NYS registered voter to vote in the Citizens Nominating Committee Election.
If you won’t be in town on the 15th, or for physical reasons cannot get to the polls, you can vote by absentee ballot. Absentee ballots will be available on the Procedure Committee web site at www.ScarsdaleProcedureCommittee.org, at the Scarsdale Public Library and at Scarsdale Village Hall or can be requested from Michelle Lichtenberg, Chair, The Procedure Committee, (914-725-6545). Absentee ballots must be received by the Scarsdale Post Office by 5PM Monday, November 14th.
The ballot will include the names of the candidates as well as proposed amendments to the Non-Partisan resolution. You can see them on the Procedure committee website and we will also publish them on the site next week for your consideration.
Below are the bios of the residents who are running for the Nominating Committee. Each of Scarsdale’s five districts will elect two nominators, with the exception of Greenacres, where three slots are open.
EDGEWOOD (Vote for up to 2)
Nathan M. Barotz, 272 Madison Road Years of Residency: 11
Education: Duke University, BA, cum laude (‘87); George Washington University Law School, JD (‘91)
Occupation: Attorney (principal in Nathan M. Barotz, PLLC)
Professional activities: Member, Judicial Advisory Committee, Village of Scarsdale (’08- ); Member, New York State Bar Association, Real Property Law Section, Committee on Real Estate Financing (’09- ) and Committee on Condominium and Cooperatives (’09- ); Arbitrator, Civil Court of the City of New York, Small Claims Division (’02- ); Arbitrator, Unified Court System of the State of New York, First Judicial District (’98-)
Current civic activities: Chairman, Board of Governors, Interfaith Hospital, Brooklyn, New York (September 2011); Member, Board of Governors, Interfaith Hospital, Brooklyn, New York (January 2011)
Betsy Bush, 980 Post Road Years of Residency: 12
Education: New York University, BFA (‘82); MA (‘88)
Occupation: Nonprofit grant writer; consultant
Professional activities: Program Officer, Westchester Community Foundation (‘05–‘11); Adjunct Professor, Pace University Graduate MPA program; Business owner, Drosselmeier’s, Inc. (‘98–‘05); Perlman & Perlman LLC, Government Affairs Specialist, (‘90–‘95)
Current civic activities: Hitchcock Church (’02- ): Session; Board of Deacons; community outreach committee; pastor search committee; Friends of Scarsdale Parks, 2011
Michael Duncanson, 8 Sprague Road Years of Residency: 23
Education: Brooklyn College, BS; New York University, MA
Occupation: Director of Planning and Operations, Family Court Mental Health Services, NYC/HHC
Current civic activities: Scarsdale Transfer Education Program (STEP) Board Member, (’99- ); Chair (’03-’05); STEP host parent; I.E. Scarsdale Tri-County Basketball League (’05- ); Village of Scarsdale Advisory Council on Human Relations (’08- ); IAABO Basketball Official (’95- ); Member-at-Large for Westchester Putnam Women’s Board of Basketball Officials (WPWBOA) (’08- ); member/leadership, Ridgeway Alliance Church
Previous civic activities: Scarsdale Bowl Committee (‘05-‘06); Coach, Scarsdale Youth Soccer Club (‘00-‘04); Special Assistant, Camp Winadu (‘00-‘09)
Ken Kehoe, 6 Southwoods Years of Residency: 15
Education: SUNY Oneonta, BA in Political Science
Occupation: Director Eastern Advertising Sales, Barron’s
Professional activities: Twenty-five years in Financial Advertising Sales including The Wall Street Journal (8 years) Barron’s Magazine, Barrons.com and Conference Event Sales; Member (’92- ), Financial Communication Society, an industry organization dedicated to raising funds benefiting three important children’s charities: Hope and Heroes Children’s Cancer Fund, Downey Side Adoption Agency and the Make-a-Wish Foundation of Vermont
Previous civic activities: Coach in Scarsdale Recreation Basketball, Soccer and Little League (‘99-‘06)
FOX MEADOW (Vote for up to 2)
Linda Blair, 11 Fox Meadow Road Years of Residency: 34
Education: Ohio State University, Goucher College, BA cum laude; University of Bridgeport, MA; New York School of Interior Design, Associate Degree
Occupation: Interior Design, commercial & residential, president of Blair Interiors Group and LBD Construction Management
Professional activities: President, American Society of Interior Designers (ASID), NY Metro chapter (‘04-‘05) and (‘95-‘96); Media Spokesperson, ASID National Society (’06- ); Arbiter, Construction American Arbitration Assn. (‘05- ); bylined columnist, New York Post; author, Design Sense, Wiley & Sons; Adjunct Professor, Pace University, NY School of Interior Design and Parsons
Current civic activities: Board member, Scarsdale Historical Society (’94- ); Member, Village of Scarsdale Historical Preservation Committee (’07- )
Previous civic activities: Member, Village of Scarsdale Board of Architectural Review (BAR) (‘95-‘01); Chair, BAR (‘00-‘01); Board member, United Way of Scarsdale-Edgemont (‘03-‘05); Member, Village of Scarsdale Special Ethics Board (‘92-‘94); Pro Bono design work: Show house for Scarsdale Woman’s Club (‘05), Scott & Dickenson Rooms, Scarsdale Library (‘03-‘04), Children’s Advocacy Center, Valhalla
Anita Mann, 28 Overhill Road Years of Residency: 8
Education: Baruch College, BBA Computer Information Systems (‘87)
Occupation: Currently stay-at-home mom with two sons attending Fox Meadow Elementary school. Fifteen-year professional career in Information Technology management; technical sales and consulting to financial services industry with Microsoft (‘99-‘02); various network and infrastructure technology management roles at MetLife (‘88-‘92) and (‘95-‘99) and at AIG (‘92-‘94)
Current civic activities: Active in the Fox Meadow PTA; Co-Chair, Junior League of Central Westchester nutrition project (‘09-‘10) and Chair, “Let’s Save the Earth” committee (‘11-‘12)
Previous civic activities: Fox Meadow Elementary School class mother; Board member, Overhill Neighborhood Association; Scarsdale New Residents Club officer, serving as Secretary and Newsletter Editor; Board member, Wilmot Woods Neighborhood Association; Hoff-Barthelson pre-school class mother and fund-raising activities; Hitchcock Presbyterian pre-school class mother
Salvatore Rao, 3 Chateaux Circle Years of Residency: 9
Education: Fordham University, majors in Philosophy and English
Occupation: Official Court Reporter (retired) in the NYC Civil Court and NYS Supreme Court; also took arbitrations at the NY Stock Exchange, American Stock Exchange and American Arbitration Association; fiction writer
Professional activities: Vice President of the Supreme Court Reporters Association within the City of New York (‘77-‘79); served on committees of the NYS Court Reporters Association investigating sound recording and computer-aided transcription
Current civic activities: President of the Board of Directors at the Scarsdale Chateaux (’08- )
Theodore Tyberg, MD, 55 Old Orchard Lane Years of Residency: 20
Education: CCNY, BS; Rush Medical College, MD; Cornell Residency, Yale Cardiology Fellowship
Occupation: Cardiologist with NY Cardiology Associates; Attending Staff at NY Presbyterian for 30 years
Professional activities: Secretary/Treasurer of NY State ACC (American College of Cardiology); served as President of the Attending Staff, Chairman's Advisory Board and General Faculty Counsel at NY Hospital; Founder/President of NY Cardiology; Rogosin Institute Consultant/Researcher
Current civic activities: Board of Scarsdale Synagogue Temples Tremont and Emanu-El (SSTTE) (second term); Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation fundraiser
Previous civic activities: Board and several committees of SSTTE; Host parent of STEP student; various philanthropies
GREENACRES (Vote for up to 3)
Glenn I. Fishman, MD, 13 Colvin Road Years of Residency: 21
Education: Cornell University, BA (‘78); Stanford University, MD (‘83); Harvard University, Internal Medicine (‘86); Columbia University, Cardiology (‘88)
Occupation: Director of Cardiology and the William Goldring Professor of Medicine, New York University School of Medicine
Professional activities: Director of Cardiology, holds an endowed Professorship in Medicine, Physiology and Neuroscience and Pharmacology at NYU School of Medicine; chaired or participated in numerous search committees for senior faculty recruits at NYU School of Medicine; active in many heart-related professional organizations, including serving on the Board of Directors of the American Heart Association (Founders) and the Heart Rhythm Society; Chaired the American Heart Association Research Committee and currently serves as Chairman of the National Institutes of Health ESTA peer review group.
Previous civic activities: Coach, Scarsdale Recreation Soccer, Basketball and Softball teams
Michael Green, 8 Farley Road Years of Residency: 13
Education: Georgia Tech, BS Mechanical Engineering (‘59); Technion, Israel, MS, Aeronautical Engineering (‘71)
Occupation: Retired
Professional activities: Citibank, Head of Operations, North American Investment Bank, New York and Senior Country Operations Officer, UK Investment Bank, London (‘82-‘93); GreenTrak, business start-up: investment reporting service, sold to publicly-traded company in ‘04 (‘93-‘07); Instructor and Research Associate at Israel Institute of Technology (Technion) (‘68-‘71); engineering and engineering management positions related to the US space programs and industrial and manufacturing operations (‘59-‘68); owner of Baker Clothes, Inc., a high-quality men’s clothing manufacturing company (‘74-‘77)
Past Civic Activities: Coach, Scarsdale Recreation Girls Basketball teams (‘04-‘09)
Barbara L. Jaffe, 28 Kingston Road Years of Residency: 38
Education: Brown University, BA
Occupation: Legislative Aide, Assemblywoman Amy Paulin (’06- );
Continuing Education Administrator, Westchester Community College, (‘00-‘06); Director of Public Affairs, Planned Parenthood (‘95-‘00)
Current civic activities: Scarsdale Representative, Westchester Community Development Advisory Group; Scarsdale League of Women Voters, member; Scarsdale Forum, member
Previous civic activities: Scarsdale Foundation (‘95-‘00), President (‘05-‘07); Citizens Nominating Committee (‘01-‘04); Scarsdale Planning Board (‘95–‘07), Chair (‘99–‘02); Scarsdale School Board (‘89-‘95), President (‘94-‘95); Scarsdale League of Women Voters: Board member (‘78-‘88), President (‘86-‘88); Greenacres, Middle School, & High School PTA Boards; PT Council Board; School Board Nominating Committee (‘83-‘85)
Mona Longman, 8 Varian Lane Years of Residency: 18
Education: Cornell University, BS; New York University, MBA
Occupation: Stock Trader
Current civic activities: Board member, Friends of the Scarsdale Library (’09- ); Co-Chair, Scarsdale High School Activities Fair (’07- ); Scarsdale High School Compact Committee (’11- )
Previous civic activities: Co-Chair, Temple Israel Center Dinner Dance (‘10); School Board Nominating Committee (‘07-‘09), Greenacres School PTA President (‘00-‘02)
Andrew Sereysky, 57 Walworth Avenue Years of Residency: 17
Education: Rutgers University, BA
Occupation: Marketing/Business Development
Current civic activities: Scarsdale Cable Commission: Member (’04- ), Chair (‘09–‘11); Greenacres Neighborhood Association Board: Member (’00- ), President (‘06–‘07)
Previous civic activities: Scarsdale Bowl Committee (‘08–‘10), Chair, Citation Committee (‘09); School Board Nominating Committee (SBNC) (‘03–‘05); SBNC Administrative Committee Member (‘05–’06), Chair (‘06); Scarsdale Neighborhood Association Presidents (SNAP) Representative (‘06–‘07); Member, Board of Directors, Scarsdale Forum (TVCCEF) (‘08–‘09); Member, Board of Directors, Scarsdale Education Transfer Program (STEP) (‘03-‘05); Coach, Scarsdale Little League and Recreation sports teams (‘94–‘01)
Jeannette Warner-Goldstein, 6 Farley Road Years of Residency: 9
Education: Vanderbilt University, BA, JD; NYU School of Law, LLM in Taxation
Occupation: Attorney
Current civic activities: Board member, United Way of Westchester and Putnam; Co-Campaign Chair,
United Way of Scarsdale Edgemont; Kips Bay Boys and Girls Club
Previous civic activities: Board member, Junior League of Central Westchester; Board member, Vanderbilt Alumni Association; Junior League of the City of New York; frequent volunteer at Greenacres School and with Girls scouts and Cub Scout troops
HEATHCOTE (Vote for up to 2)
Norman W. Bernstein, 14 Wakefield Road Years of Residency: 8
Education: Columbia College, BA (‘59); Columbia Law School, LLB (‘64)
Occupation: Attorney
Professional activities: Trustee at three Superfund sites, one on US EPA’s national Priority List (current); Past Chair of the Committee on Litigation Management and Economics of the American Bar Association (Litigation Section) (mid-‘80s); Adjunct Professor, Wayne State Law School; Guest Lecturer at Yale Law School; author of articles on environmental law
Current civic activities: Member, Board of Directors of the Columbia University Club of Westchester County (’09- ); Member, Scarsdale Forum
Previous civic activities: Dean’s Award, Columbia College 50th reunion for leadership of ROTC panel (’09)
Ray Cooper, 18 Canterbury Road Years of Residency: 12
Education: Lehigh University, BS; University of Chicago, MBA
Occupation: Managing Director, Citigroup Global Healthcare
Professional activities: 19 years advising public & private healthcare services companies in the areas of Mergers & Acquisitions, corporate financing, and strategic planning
Previous civic activities: Little League coach (‘07-‘08); Tri-County Basketball League & JBL Basketball coach (‘09-‘10); enthusiastic neighbor and participant in the Scarsdale community
David Michaels, 41 Graham Road Years of Residency: 22
Education: Cornell University, BS in Business (’80)
Occupation: Senior Relationship Manager in Wells Fargo Bank’s New York City Regional Commercial Banking Office with over thirty years of commercial and investment banking experience; previously held senior management positions at JPMorgan Chase and Wachovia Bank
Current civic activities: Presently serves on the Boards of The Tuberous Sclerosis Alliance and Cornell Hillel; active congregant at Westchester Reform Temple, serving on the Board as Treasurer, Vice President, and Chair of the Finance Committee (‘99-‘09)
Previous civic activities: Scarsdale High School PTA Scholarship Fund (‘06-‘08); Maroon and White (‘07-‘10); Scarsdale Youth Soccer Club (‘98-‘08)
Emilia Rodriguez, 334 Heathcote Road Years of Residency: 17
Education: New York University, BA in English & Politics (‘81), New York University School of Law, JD (‘84)
Occupation: Volunteer Attorney
Professional activities: Pace Women’s Justice Center: Volunteer Attorney, (’09- )
Current civic activities: Scarsdale School District: Committee on Special Education, Representative (’06- ); Scarsdale High School PTA: Library Volunteer (’10- )
Previous civic activities: St. Pius X Church: President, Religious Education PTA, (‘99-‘09); Scarsdale High School PTA: Volunteer Service Committee, Co-Chair (‘04-‘06), CHILD (Children Having Individual Learning Differences) Representative (‘03-‘04); Heathcote PTA: Multicultural Committee, Co-Chair (‘00-‘02); Notecards Committee, Chair (‘95-‘97); Junior League of Central Westchester (‘94-‘96)
QUAKER RIDGE (Vote for up to 2)
Douglas R. Birns, 15 Haverford Avenue Years of Residency: 19
Education: Middlebury College, AB, cum laude (’77); SUNY Downstate Medical Center, MD (’81); The Mount Sinai Medical Center, Surgical Internship and Residency in Genito-Urinary Surgery (’81-’86)
Occupation: Physician and Partner at Klein Birns Urology
Professional activities: Managing Partner, Manhattan Medical Development LLP, a real estate management firm for medical facilities; Managing Partner, Premier Professionals of NY, a multi-specialty medical practice in Manhattan specializing in Urologic and Oncologic medicine
Current civic activities: Member, Heathcote Five Corner Coalition; Vice President, Quaker Ridge Neighborhood Association
Previous civic activities: Men’s Club President, Westchester Reform Temple (‘01-‘03); Trustee, Westchester Reform Temple (‘04-‘11); Coach, Westchester Reform Temple Basketball team (‘02-’10); Coach, Scarsdale Recreation Soccer teams (‘01-‘02)
Norbert Elsner, MD, 5 Westview Lane Years of Residency: 16
Education: MD, MA
Occupation: Associate Director, Dept. of Emergency Medicine, Jacobi Medical Center (Bronx, NY); Attending physician; Emergency Medicine
Kenneth Keats, 6 Thornwood Place Years of Residency: 11
Education: Syracuse University, BA (‘86); Fordham University, MBA (‘91)
Occupation: Deutsche Bank, Director, Emerging Market Sales
Current civic activities: TVCC Education Forum; Beach Point Club Dining committee
Previous civic activities: School Board Nominating Committee (SBNC) (‘06-‘09), SBNC Chair (‘09-‘10); Scarsdale Bowl Committee (‘07-‘09)
Joseph E. Sarachek, 22 Harvest Drive Years of Residency: 13
Education: Cornell University, BS in Economics and Political Science; New York Law School, JD
Occupation: Managing Partner, Triax Capital Advisors; Restructuring Professional and bankruptcy lawyer
Professional activities: Founder and Managing Partner, Triax Capital Advisors (‘01- ); Chairman of the Board of Chazak Value Corp. (‘04- ); Member, Board of Directors of Kominox, a South Korean-based experimental cancer drug company (‘06- ); awarded 2010 Turnaround of the Year for Small Companies by the Turnaround Management Association, for work as Chapter 7 Trustee of Agriprocessors; Portfolio Manager and consultant, Balfour Investors, Inc.; Partner, McDermott, Will & Emery, LLC (dates?); Bankruptcy Attorney, Kelley Drye & Warren (‘89-’93)
Current civic activities: Member, Young Israel of Scarsdale (’98- ); Member, Senate Club of AIPAC (‘03- ); Member, Turnaround Management Association (‘97- ); the American Bankruptcy Institute (‘87- ); the Commercial Finance Association (‘03- ); American Bar Association (‘87); Lecturer for the Cornell Entrepreneur Network, Winter 2010 and the American Bankruptcy Institute
Past civic activities: Chair, Annual Golf Outing and several large fundraisers, Young Israel of Scarsdale (’01- ); Coach, Scarsdale Little League (‘01-‘03)
Storm Catches Scarsdale By Surprise
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A very early winter storm hit Scarsdale hard on Saturday making it feel more like December than October. Heavy snow and ice weighed down branches, splitting trees and bringing down power lines. Live power lines littered the streets as darkness fell, resulting in extremely precarious conditions. As of Sunday morning, Con Edison reports that about 1200 customers in Scarsdale are without power.
In an email from Mayor Miriam Flisser on Saturday evening she reported that "Scarsdale is experiencing severely hazardous road conditions due to road surfaces and low lying and fallen limbs. There are approximately 70 locations with fallen limbs blocking streets; and electrical wires are involved in about half of those." Police, firefighters and ambulance crews have been working to clear the roads and clear up hazardous areas. According to the Mayor, at that time, about 40 homes in Scarsdale were without power, but the Con Edison outage map seemed to show far more homes in the dark. The Mayor did not expect that Con Edison crews would come to town anytime soon and said that Con Edison has called in crews from out of state to help.
The Mayor asked residents to avoid driving unless absolutely necessary and to drive with headlights on to avoid branches and power lines.
If your power is out, report it to Con Edison at 1-800-75-CONED. To track outages, check the Con Edison outage map that is updated every fifteen minutes. On this map you can see where there are outages and also find out when Con Edison expects to restore power to the area. Here is the link:
Also, here are some important phone numbers:
Scarsdale:
- Scarsdale Police Department: 914 722 1200 non-emergency line
- For power outages, call Con Edison at 1-800-75-CONED (1-800-752-6633)
Greenburgh:
- The Village non-emergency number is 682-5300
- For Con Edison power outage or gas and electrical service problems: call (800) 75-CONED and for NYSEG electricity power outages call (800) 572-1131 for NYSEG natural gas power outage : (800) 572-1121
- Updates will be posted on the Village website at http://www.greenburghny.com/
- Paul Feiner will accept phone calls at 478-1219. His office number is 993-1545 and his cell phone number 438-1343.
Thieves Hit Two More Scarsdale Homes and a Downtown Jeweler
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Thieves continued to prey on Scarsdale this week, hitting another home in Greenacres as well as a Heathcote home. This week’s burglaries follow similar incidents on Windmill Road on 9/25, Greenacres Avenue on 9/29, and River Road on 10/12. In all cases the thieves entered the homes through the back or side of the house and proceeded directly to the master bedrooms in search of jewelry. According to Thomas Altizio of the Scarsdale Police, “All of the burglaries are active investigations and our Detectives have been pursuing leads across Westchester and Rockland Counties, and into New York City. We believe some of the burglaries that occurred in Scarsdale are related to perpetrators who have struck in Greenburgh and White Plains and we are working together with those agencies and sharing information regarding possible suspects. Burglaries have increased across the local region and we encourage residents to utilize alarm and security systems and make sure their homes are secured. One of the best things residents can do is look out for one another. Homeowners should stay alert to activities in their neighborhood, keep an eye on their neighbors homes and most importantly call the Police Department when they observe suspicious persons or activity in the area so it can be checked out by a Patrol Officer.”
In addition, this week a downtown jewelry store was robbed. Here are the details:
Two diamond rings, one valued at $6,000 and the other at $9,000, were stolen from Sam Lehr Jewelry on Harwood Court on the afternoon of October 22. According to the owner, a clean-shaven, bald, black man came to the store around 1 pm and asked to see two rings. After he considered them for a while he said he was going to leave and asked for the name of a place to have lunch. Ten minutes later he re-entered the store and asked to see the rings again. This time, with the rings in his hand, he fled the store on foot and went through the underpass onto Popham Road. Police had a description of the man’s car but were unable to find him. A surveillance video is available from the store and will be reviewed by police.
Burglaries: Wheelock Road residents returned home around 11 pm on the night of October 21 and found that their home had been entered and robbed. It appeared that burglars had used a rock to break a sliding glass door and enter the house. Once inside they rummaged through the dining room and master bedroom. In the bedroom, they threw clothes on the floor and emptied the contents of a jewelry box. The residents reported that a large amount of jewelry and watches were missing and possibly the silverware as well. They will provide a complete list to the police.
On October 22, a similar incident occurred on Eton Road. The homeowners returned to the house at 10:30 pm and found that a glass back door was broken. There were pry marks on the door and the glass had been pushed in. The master bedroom and master bathroom were tossed and jewelry was stolen. Though the alarm was on, the motion detector was off as the family has a dog so the alarm was not activated. The owners will supply a full list of the missing jewelry to the police.
Custody: A father from Stormville, NY came to Scarsdale Police headquarters on the evening of October 17th with a court order allowing him to take his 16 year-old son from his mother’s home on Mamaroneck Avenue. In compliance with the court order, the mother brought the boy to headquarters to turn him over to his father until November 29, 2011.
Fraud: A White Road man got a call from American Express on October 5 telling him that someone had opened a credit card account to be billed to his address. On October 6th he received the credit card in the mail and on October 7th, Amex called again to say that $6,179 had been billed to the unauthorized card account.
On 10/20 Tunstall Road residents reported that someone had printed fraudulent Chase checks using their account number and business name. Six checks, totaling $8,832, were chased at six different Chase branches, two in Jamaica and Corona Queens. Copies of the checks were sent to the residents who noted that their signature was forged on the checks. Chase made good on the funds.
A Brite Avenue woman reported that she had received a Western Union package with a survey and U.S. Postal money orders with instructions to cash them on 10/21. Police contacted Western Union who found that these were falsified documents.
Sprague Road residents found that someone had used their name and social security numbers to file a fraudulent tax return and get a refund to boot! The imposters also had a refund check mailed to them. However it has not been cashed. When the Scarsdale residents tried to file their legitimate return it was rejected twice. The IRS is investigating. The report was filed with the Scarsdale Police on 10/12.
Missing: A 38 year-old resident of Search for Change on the Post Road was reported missing on 10/20, but later found to be in the custody of the White Plains police, where she had been arrested for Criminal Possession of a Controlled Substance. The woman was sent to the County jail, the missing person alarm was cancelled and the woman’s mother was called.
A Rectory Lane woman reported that a 6 year-old boy was missing from the Girl Scout House on Wayside Lane at 10:30 am on 10/22. By the time police arrived, the boy was found.
Seasoned: June Sandberg of Popham Road reported that someone had poured salad dressing on her car when it was parked in the church lot behind 45 Popham Road overnight on 10/17 – 10/18.
Kids: Police received a report of kids congregating in George Field Park at 10:15 on the night of 10/21. By the time Police arrived the kids were gone.
Accidents: An 11 year-old Scarsdale boy riding his bike on Griffen Avenue was hit by a Larchmont woman driving a 2010 SUV at 5:20 on 10/17. According to the driver, the boy rode into the roadway without looking. In an attempt to avoid the cyclist, the car hit a curb. SVAC was called but medical attention was refused.
A 23 year-old man from Tory Lane hit a fire hydrant while driving on Mamaroneck Road on the night of 10/18. The hydrant was damaged. The driver claimed he fell asleep at the wheel.
At 3:48 am on 10/22 George Nader of Eastchester was driving his 2010 Mercedes southbound on the Post Road when the car crossed into the northbound lane, went over the curb on the opposite side of the street and clipped a tree at 956 Post Road. The car flipped over. Nader had a bloody nose but was otherwise uninjured and refused medical attention.