P&Z Watch: Proposed Luxury Assisted Living Facility May Be Too Big, Too High
Terraces at The Ambassador Scarsdale, owned by the applicant, Renamba Greenwich LLC, who seeks to create a new “Assisted Living Facility Overlay Zone” and develop a property on Old Track Road at the...
View ArticleUp to the Minute Greenwich Property Transfers, June 24, 2020
Property transfers are transcribed from the Assessor’s office at Greenwich Town Hall 45 Ettl Lane #406 from Julie Hedrick-LeStrange to Yvonne De Santi on June 24, 2020 for $687,500 72 Putnam Park from...
View ArticleUp to the Minute Greenwich Property Transfers, June 29, 2020
52 Lafayette Place #3B from Robin Adamson and Jacob Friedman to Anna Gippious on June 29, 2020for $272,500 16 John Street 16 John Street from Susan Pollack Trustee and Samuel Pollack to Helen Doyle...
View ArticleGreenwich Real Estate Report: July 10-July 17, 2020
We have all heard about New Yorkers flocking to Greenwich since the pandemic began. Most were looking for short term and summer rentals, hoping that by September, Covid-19 would be a thing of the...
View ArticleP&Z Watch: Bobby Valentine is Surprise Guest in Saga of Illegal Baseball Field
During Tuesday’s P&Z meeting the owner of a baseball field at 56 Clapboard Ridge Road sought a special permit under 6-94 after receiving two violations from the town zoning enforcement officer....
View ArticleHow to Vote by Absentee Ballot for Greenwich’s Aug 11 Primary
Due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, Governor Ned Lamont signed an executive order allowing all registered voters in Connecticut to vote absentee in the August 11, 2020 primary. Secretary of State...
View ArticleSelectmen Take a Gander at Proposed Eastern Greenwich Civic Center
At Wednesday’s Board of Selectmen meeting Alan Monelli, DPW’s Superintendent of Building Construction & Maintenance, presented the project to replace the Eastern Greenwich Civic Center building...
View ArticleEverything You Wanted to Know about Police Body Cams
A two hour presentation to the Board of Estimate and Taxation by representatives of Axon, took place Thursday. Axon was previously named Taser International because its initial product was a line of...
View ArticleNew Commissioner Appointed for Greenwich Dept of Human Services
First Selectman Fred Camillo announced on Thursday that after an intensive five-month search, a new Commissioner Human Services, Demetria Nelson, has been hired. She will start on August 24. Since...
View ArticleAfter Weekend of Teen Parties, Greenwich First Selectmen Asks, “Why take that...
Thursday night around dinner time the robocall from Greenwich First Selectman Fred Camillo came through with a message for younger residents and their parents reminding them of the 4 W’s: wash your...
View ArticleUp to the Minute Greenwich Property Transfers July 1, 2020
Up to the Minute Greenwich Property Transfers July 1, 2020 transcribed from the Assessor’s office at Greenwich Town Hall 263 Riversville Road from US Bank National Association to Donald Selinger on...
View ArticleSelectmen Seek to Make Outdoor Dining Permanent on Greenwich Ave
At Thursday’s Board of Selectmen meeting First Selectman Fred Camillo asked to add an item to the agenda: the extension of outdoor dining to Dec 21, which is the weekend before Christmas. In the long...
View ArticleRegis Philbin, 88, Hardest Working Man in Show Business
“The hardest working man in show business,” Regis Philbin, a longtime Greenwich resident, died in Manhattan on Friday, July 24 of natural causes, a month short of his 89th birthday. Philbin, who held...
View ArticleGreenwich Mourns Loss of Beloved GHS Hockey Coach, Chris Rurak
GHS boys varsity hockey coach Chris Rurak died on Friday. Rurak, 47, lived in Greenwich with his wife Jennifer Walsh-Rurak and their boys Christopher and Matthew, members of the GHS class of 203. In...
View ArticleGreenwich Real Estate Report: July 17-July 24, 2020
NEW LAND LISTING! 28 Meeting House Road. Buyers are excited about land these days. This property is the perfect place to build your quarantine friendly home with plenty of room for multiple work...
View ArticleAllegra Dance Greenwich Adapts to No-Touch Dance Instruction
Written by Darian Fauser, Greenwich High School class of 2021 This week, Allegra Dance Greenwich filmed their students performing in Roger Sherman Baldwin Park in order to compile their dances into an...
View ArticleLamont: CT Travel Advisory List Expanded; Fairfield County Parties Have...
Travel Advisory As of Tuesday, July 28 Connecticut’s travel advisory list was expanded to include Illinois, Kentucky, Minnesota, Puerto Rico, and Washington DC. Anyone traveling from a state with a...
View ArticleNY Cab Drivers Protest Outside Greenwich Hedge Fund That Owns Thousands of...
On Wednesday afternoon, New York City cab drivers traveled to Greenwich to protest in front of Marblegate Asset Management, a hedge fund that owns thousands of taxi medallions and loans. Medallions...
View ArticleRose Presto, 85
Rose E. Presto, a longtime resident of Greenwich passed away peacefully on July 28, 2020 after complications of Parkinson’s. She was 85. Rose was born March 21, 1935, to Fred and Margaret Decker in...
View ArticleP&Z Watch: Despite Chair’s No Vote, Commission Okays Residential Baseball...
Previously, an application for a private baseball field in a residential neighborhood being used for practice by the owner’s son’s Cal Ripken team had been cited twice for a zoning violation. The...
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