Who is in charge of the maintenance of the Trinity Elementary School fields? Is it the city of New Rochelle or the New Rochelle School District Buildings and Grounds? City Council? BOE?

Who can a person call? Email? Write a letter? Ask? To fix these fields?

The Journal News reported that the city council voted on awarding a contract in the demolition of the bell tower of the former church next to the New Rochelle police station.

I had read the article last week, but was still stunned to see the building today as I drove north on North.

Here are photos taken today of the building.

It is a lovely old stone building and is sad to see its decline. I remember discussions of making it a black history museum (not enough parking) and more recently opening up the building for public bidders to renovate and lease. I remember peeking into a window and seeing stored bicycles there.

There is a Farmer's Market on Fridays at the New Rochelle Library Green through November 15th. The hours are from 8:00am to 3:00pm.

Today there were gorgeous vegetables, happy crowds, and a busy marketplace. Besides the Indian corn, tomatoes, eggplant, cabbage, zucchini and other vegetables, there were freshly made pickles, homemade breads, nuts and coffees.

Here are three quick shots before my battery gave way --

The corn (6 ears for $2) was yellow and white, sweet and delicious, and it alone was worth a trip to the center of town for some quick and healthy shopping.

Enjoy!

Tonight at Hudson Park there was a free outdoor concert, another in the series of Wednesdays concerts sponsored by New Rochelle Parks & Recreation and Webster Bank. With a moment of silence, those gathered acknowledged the passing of Gentlemen Councilman Stowe.

New Rochelle High School students "Voices 6", just back from a trip to China, performed pieces from Rent, Jackson 5, among others.

Tonight at 6:00pm the trucks began to gather on lower North Avenue to begin the scheduled nighttime repaving project.

View from intersection of North & Pelham Road

It is an impressive fleet of vehicles, including the huge pavement scraper called a 'asphalt cold milling machine' (Roadtec RX-900) that scrapes the deteriorated pavement off the road and a conveyor belt moves the ground up debris up and shoots it into a big dump truck. One worker said that the machine costs $700K new.

The machine has big teeth that grind the pavement. According to the workers, it works great on asphalt, but less well on cement. A few teeth have to be replaced every 100 yards or so. The man has a few boxes of extra teeth and removes the damaged ones and hammers on new teeth.

The road remains open, but this is a lot of action and the team is geared up for the night. It will be great to have a nice new road. This stretch is a two day project, then they will move to the next section.

Trucks arrive after 6:00pm

Here is the massive Roadtec RX-900 at 9:30pm

Here the Roadtec RX-900 needs teeth replacement