Highly Dense Housing Proposed for New Rochelle's Downtown by Peggy Godfrey

Russell Albanese, chairman of the Albanese company, and George Andrus presented their vision for a highly dense housing development in New Rochelle. An initial set of apartments along with a five deck parking garage would be build on a downtown city parking lot in the southern section of the City. Eventually these buildings could be followed by another seven story garage at the present Church-Division site along with an 23-24 story apartment building with 550 housing units. The project would be developed in several phases.

Parents in a Westchester school were unhappy with the Mathematics Investigations Program being used in an elementary school. They believed the children were falling behind in mathematics because "standard ways" of doing math were improperly expressed. The principles expressed in the MIT program emphasize a "constructivist approach" in order to facilitate children thinking in a mathematical perspective. One parent who objected to the program had to supplement his son's middle school mathematics with additional instruction. Children incorporate constructivism in mathematics in order to surmise solutions deduced through their own thinking processes, as opposed to first being taught and thereafter using rules or processes. They are supposed to construct their own solutions to the problems. This theory is often attributed in education to Dewey and Piaget.

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In the December 8, 2011 issue of the Westchester Guardian

Recently Charles Strome , New Rochelle City Manager, said on WVOX that the City was making money on the Weyman Avenue (Home Depot and Costco) site. With curiosity an inquiry was made to Strome asking for these figures. The answer was that in 2010 the sales tax, property tax and "amortized land sales proceedings" totaled $5.5 million while the debt service was $2.9 million creating a excess of $2.6 million in profits. Since it is well known that Home Depot had been given a certiorari reduction in taxes a few years ago, sales tax figures were requested. Now it was learned that in l998-9 the Weyman Avenue Development generated $4 million, but it was the highest recorded amount through 2010 which was given at $3.2 million. But don't these figures generate more questions than answers?