tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33594888.post6023018843441006989..comments2023-10-30T06:13:34.382-04:00Comments on Supervisor Feiner: PREVIEW: PHOTOS OF GREENBURGH LIBRARY-- LIBRARY TO OPEN MONDAYPaul Feinerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17087805120754057844noreply@blogger.comBlogger36125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33594888.post-22665420700399433622008-12-19T13:53:00.000-05:002008-12-19T13:53:00.000-05:00Dear Roof Swoop Surfers,What's under the roof. Th...Dear Roof Swoop Surfers,<BR/><BR/>What's under the roof. That fabulous design which would let oodles of light into the main reading room and reduce lighting expenses because of all that glass letting light in...<BR/><BR/>Even putting to the side that there are cloudy days, rainy days, snow days, night (George Carlin weather forecast for the evening, dark followed by darker) and night coming early in winter,<BR/>Even putting to the side that the extra height requires more installed lighting to fill the room and more HVAC to maintain a steady indoor climate,<BR/><BR/>Let's update this and go inside where we discover that the high roof (requiring a zoning variance) isn't as high as it appears because guess what, inside is a dropped roof, effectively blocking most of the light from the glass panels of the external high roof.<BR/><BR/>Not unlike the assumed brains of the Library Board of Trustees (Howard Jacobs, Susan Wolfert and Estelle Palevsky) contruction committee: blocked off from seeing the light.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33594888.post-36706486850682919812008-12-17T22:20:00.000-05:002008-12-17T22:20:00.000-05:00There is a company that will like to make necessar...There is a company that will like to make necessary changes at the library so that the great roof can be used as a ski slope and skate boarding.<BR/><BR/>They want to practice for the coming olympics.<BR/>They would like to use the ramp for bob sleding.<BR/>Paul you could make some money from this rental.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33594888.post-73172550577679582552008-12-17T09:50:00.000-05:002008-12-17T09:50:00.000-05:00which pool is that?the one subsidized by ardsley t...which pool is that?<BR/>the one subsidized by ardsley taxpayers but closed to them?<BR/><BR/>im pretty relaxed, i dont live in unincorporated greenburgh where juettner and feiner have been in office since 1991!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33594888.post-8589358173824889712008-12-17T08:26:00.000-05:002008-12-17T08:26:00.000-05:00Relax Ardsley! Have a sense of humor! Maybe a li...Relax Ardsley! Have a sense of humor! Maybe a little swim the a pool could help alleviate your stress?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33594888.post-69293299690270471802008-12-17T06:53:00.000-05:002008-12-17T06:53:00.000-05:00further to the idiotic post of hey ardsley - pleas...further to the idiotic post of hey ardsley - please read this (if you can read) from wikipedia and look at the side panel of any of unincorporated greenburgh's vehicles:<BR/><BR/><BR/>Hartsdale's earliest settlers were the Weekquaeskeeks (sometimes spelled Weekquasgeeks), a sub-tribe of the Algonquin tribe which lived in most of southern New York from Westchester down through Manhattan. Weekquaeskeek is an Algonquin term believed to mean "place of the bark kettle", and this kettle appears in the Greenburgh town seal today.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33594888.post-75408479941995980782008-12-17T06:07:00.000-05:002008-12-17T06:07:00.000-05:00its quite obvious you are a "graduate" of central ...its quite obvious you are a "graduate" of central 7 or its equivalent to make such a silly statement.<BR/><BR/>i thought unincorporated greenburgh was stuck in the 50s, 60s and 70s. - now it seems some of it residents are stuck in the 1600s.<BR/><BR/>the case for the villages leaving greenburgh is getting stronger each day.<BR/><BR/>enjoy your marlon brando shrine.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33594888.post-14377361743007295302008-12-17T05:42:00.000-05:002008-12-17T05:42:00.000-05:00i think marco polo is drinking some of that clorin...i think marco polo is drinking some of that clorinated water. <BR/>enjoy it while it lasts.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33594888.post-82063417167095534342008-12-16T20:38:00.000-05:002008-12-16T20:38:00.000-05:00The Weckqueskecks want their land back! Give it u...The Weckqueskecks want their land back! Give it up!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33594888.post-25147148712892377062008-12-16T18:44:00.000-05:002008-12-16T18:44:00.000-05:00*splashes chlorinated water on 3:21 to make him/he...*splashes chlorinated water on 3:21 to make him/her feel less deprived and cheated*Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33594888.post-70097718700626195362008-12-16T15:21:00.000-05:002008-12-16T15:21:00.000-05:00doesnt it sound like someone has village envy? vil...doesnt it sound like someone has village envy? <BR/><BR/>villages mean representative government run by people who live in your community, send their kids to your school - all with professional management<BR/><BR/>your jealousy is quite transparentAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33594888.post-31724244953768169532008-12-16T14:34:00.000-05:002008-12-16T14:34:00.000-05:00The same may be said for Edgemont, village idiot, ...The same may be said for Edgemont, village idiot, which has only 8% of the vote town-wide.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33594888.post-37013790198854461912008-12-16T13:12:00.000-05:002008-12-16T13:12:00.000-05:00to claim that juettner needs ardsley to retain her...to claim that juettner needs ardsley to retain her seat is laughable.<BR/><BR/>ardsley is a small voting district and in the scheme of greenburgh voting means very little.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33594888.post-48135121741016471792008-12-16T12:26:00.000-05:002008-12-16T12:26:00.000-05:00The last time Diana Juettner ran for town council ...The last time Diana Juettner ran for town council her highest percentage of victory came from, yes, you guessed it, the Village of Ardsley where she lives. Keep it up, village idiot.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33594888.post-42791807336442981082008-12-16T11:06:00.000-05:002008-12-16T11:06:00.000-05:00the last two posts should be marked as exhibit A a...the last two posts should be marked as exhibit A as to why unincorporated greenburgh is the fiscal disaster it is.<BR/><BR/>hide your head in the sand.<BR/>keep voting for juettner.<BR/>i guess you believe like cheney there really where weapons of mass destruction in iraq.<BR/>enjoy another two years of feiner and his foursome - the names change the bad policies dont.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33594888.post-34232227803905623392008-12-16T10:57:00.000-05:002008-12-16T10:57:00.000-05:00Pay no attention to the Village Idiot.Pay no attention to the Village Idiot.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33594888.post-85693474655423019022008-12-16T10:25:00.000-05:002008-12-16T10:25:00.000-05:00Another post from the Ardsley crowd who wants use ...Another post from the Ardsley crowd who wants use of Veterans without paying. How transparent.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33594888.post-9946707207863341402008-12-16T10:11:00.000-05:002008-12-16T10:11:00.000-05:00unincorporated deserves this disaster.they voted f...unincorporated deserves this disaster.<BR/><BR/>they voted for juettner for 18 years.<BR/><BR/>they let this village resident be the town board liaison to the library even though she doesnt pay one dime for it.<BR/><BR/>this was wrong but the self appointed leaders of unincorporated greenburgh thought juettner was a friend (meaning she would oppose feiner) and let her be.<BR/><BR/>juettner screwed up in so many ways on thelibrary that even hal samis is tearing what is left of his hair out.<BR/><BR/>enjoy this white elephant.<BR/><BR/>juettner is a disaster. unincorprated greenburgh is a collection of fools without a poltical clue.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33594888.post-33752377233073305372008-12-15T19:41:00.000-05:002008-12-15T19:41:00.000-05:00I visited the Greenburgh Library today. It is a la...I visited the Greenburgh Library today. It is a large imposing structure at first glance with a soring roof that extends into the abyss. Enter and one feels loss in the emptiness of space which lacks warmth despite efforts of the staff's greetings. Sorry. but the architect failed. Check out the White Plains library about a mile away, which Greenburgh residents are eligible to use. Now, that's a state of the art structure, that is inviting, beautiful and practical. By the way Paul who is going to wash all those useless high rise windows? Another needless, thoughtless job for the lowest bidder which is an added expense to tax payers. And then there is the cost of heating and cooling the massive empty space from floor to ceiling. Whoever approved the design for Greenburgh library should be tarred and feathered and dragged through the streets of our town.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33594888.post-46334958724674016922008-12-15T19:28:00.000-05:002008-12-15T19:28:00.000-05:00Hal attended the opening of the library and was we...Hal attended the opening of the library and was well behaved!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33594888.post-66756706296342013042008-12-15T15:28:00.000-05:002008-12-15T15:28:00.000-05:00Hey Samis -You're bitching about the limited numbe...Hey Samis -<BR/>You're bitching about the limited number of taxpayers and residents who could be accomodated at the library opening - AND - You're right about it.<BR/>NOW - how about noting that while the Theodore Young Community Center's celebration of the Presidential Inauguration is "open" to anyone, the number will be restricted to the first 200 people on line when the doors open on January 20th at 9AM (for a noon event!) Naturally the 200 places will be reduced by the number of places "reserved" by Feiner and colleagues for their friends, TDYCC employees and their families and "community" seniors.<BR/>Want to hazard a guess how many spots will be left for the taxpaying community members who are footing the bill?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33594888.post-34470957471777202312008-12-15T15:00:00.000-05:002008-12-15T15:00:00.000-05:00Yesterday the Library put on its "Grand Opening" f...Yesterday the Library put on its "Grand Opening" for a select group of well-wishers.<BR/><BR/>However, what is apparent is that even though the basic library functions are restored, the Library building is not finished. And I'm not talking about the items lacking funding either.<BR/><BR/>What yesterday represented was the culmination of the strategy to "open" the building while the three most guilty Library Trustees were still around to revel in the misguided pats on the back. Think, "I'll pat your back, you pat mine".<BR/><BR/>If you know what to look for, you know that the Library is still a good two months from completion. But, it was politically strategic to open in 2008 vs 2009.<BR/><BR/>Money sure doesn't go far if the circulation desk at the entrance consumed $125,000 of a grant. Or doesn't go far if you are shopping with the Library Trustees.<BR/><BR/>Perhaps because of my real estate background I think in terms of square feet however; on that basis the children's library is about 2000 feet too large. They are swimming in unused space.<BR/><BR/>Note too that the main reading area contains fewer work spaces at tables than were available in the old library. This is the result of an awkward design by vampires which just sucks up the doubled size of the new building and spits it out as unusable for any practical purpose.<BR/>Consider all the space acting as a second floor buffer between the tot/ya/teen area and the rest of the adult library.<BR/>Consider all the extra hvac and light needed to fill the extra height reading room (swoop), the extra cost in window washing and the extra time needed to obtain the building's zoning height variance. Consider all the space wasted on the ground level, space which may one day contain tables for the cafe but if that vital need was the basis for an excessive building size, then the architect should be taken out to the woodshed and flogged. And, maybe if you are a favored person, you can get the tour of the space that is not for the public but for the library staff. There is probably an EXTRA 3000 square feet that serves no purpose other than it can't be used for anything else.<BR/>More meeting rooms than the old library? Where are they? Of course there is a back of the house (still unfinished) conference room for the library staff but the public would have to go past the staff only door, walk the employee hall of lockers to get there. The much promoted electronic display screens are far too undersized to be of much use; what should be bigger is smaller and the reverse being true is the overall theme of the library of tomorrow.<BR/><BR/>Anyone up for holding the special olympics competition on Sheehan's folly, the ramp from nowhere? Wave goodbye to your $175,000 taxpayers.<BR/><BR/>There is just so much to point out to readers who likely don't recall two years later what the library used to be. "All those books and dvds" were sitting on the shelves of the old building. <BR/><BR/>I've already made known my thoughts on the limitations of the new auditorium and limited parking for the pre-referendum "cultural center" of this library of tomorrow. Those who attended yesterday might rightfully question where patrons using the library will park when there is an event being held in the auditorium.<BR/><BR/>Susan Wolfert, outgoing (not in the sense of friendly) Library Trustee VP oozed sour grapes, a theme more broadly hinted at by outgoing Trustee Prez Howard Jacobs. All of the other speakers from politicos to professional library supporters all welcomed this long time coming day and spent their speaking time falling over each other with praise for each other. Not so much self love since the revival of Hair.<BR/><BR/>And, if you're looking for the $50,000 "special project" asked for (actually asked for $75,000) in their 2007 budget, you won't find it. It seems that this was just another bogus entry to sucker punch the Town Board into providing more funding.<BR/><BR/>I'll return to the opening and what it portends in 2009 later.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33594888.post-21432174687549664022008-12-15T12:07:00.000-05:002008-12-15T12:07:00.000-05:00taxter ridge has been a very divisive and expensiv...taxter ridge has been a very divisive and expensive purchase<BR/><BR/>outside of mr feiner and danny gold, does anyone feel it was worth it?<BR/><BR/>also - can anyone (outside of mr gold) provide directions as to where it is?<BR/><BR/>any can anyone show me a picture of diana juettner ever having been to taxter ridge before she voted to buy it?<BR/><BR/>shockingly juettner, a village resident, is town board liaison to unincorporated greenburgh's parks and recreation dept!<BR/><BR/>you cant make this stuff up.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33594888.post-57982558571020149922008-12-15T09:04:00.000-05:002008-12-15T09:04:00.000-05:00To Anonymous at 3:42 on Sunday -Your statement abo...To Anonymous at 3:42 on Sunday -<BR/>Your statement about Sunrise paying taxes on its proposed facility on the old Town Hall site is a bit off. Even before it was ready to purchase the site at a very much below market rate, Mark Weingarten (Sunrise's attorney) told then members of the Town Board, including Mr Feiner, that Sunrise would need to negotiate a payment in lieu of taxes to keep costs at a level which would permit Sunrise to earn an acceptable profit. Mr Feiner indicated that as the property was currently not paying taxes, even a token payment would be acceptable.<BR/>When discussing how much the library has added to the current budget please remember that Mr Feiner told the TOV taxpayers that the purchase of Taxter Ridge would add less than $30 annually to our tax bills - because the $10 million was going to be borrowed and paid off over 20 years. And the Town wasn't even a AAA credit yet. Our AAA credit should allow the Town to borrow $20 million for less than twice as much - meaning the additional taxes for the library might be as much as $60 per taxpayer. Or has the financial mis-management of Greenburgh been so bad that we have to pay cash for everything?<BR/>Sorry Mr Feiner - you can't have it both ways. If protecting Danny Gold's backyard was worth $30 a year surely a library, even if only used by Fairview is worth about $1 per week.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33594888.post-37449123608514572472008-12-15T00:42:00.000-05:002008-12-15T00:42:00.000-05:00The idea is good. From the NY Public Library we re...The idea is good. <BR/><BR/>From the NY Public Library we receive large amounts of fundraising literature, all with good fundraising ideas. <BR/>I think the Greenburgh Library Foundation will be wisely guided to pick up some of those NYPL ideas and use them locally. <BR/><BR/>Well, Bernie Madoff, Mort Zuckermann and others will not be able to give much this season. <BR/><BR/>About all the whinners of the new library: the voters spoke in 2005, thpose interested as you are, voted for or against, the Yes won!<BR/><BR/>Now, it is time to help make it better withposistive attitude.<BR/>We have enough critics and underminers.VMcDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12779986941033550449noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33594888.post-74099893938260549832008-12-14T23:49:00.000-05:002008-12-14T23:49:00.000-05:00No, the person who came off poorly at the ceremony...No, the person who came off poorly at the ceremony was Paul Feiner himself, whose name was not mentioned at all until 55 minutes into the ceremony, when Regent Harry Phillips mentioned his name in passing. Feiner was probably the least welcome person at the ceremony. The people who spoke the best were Susan Wolfert and Howard Jacobs, who spoke elequently about their efforts to get the library project off the ground despite efforts by Feiner to trash them at every opportunity. Ms. Wolfert never mentioned Feiner by name, but everyone knew who she was talking about.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com