Searching for the truth in Upper Saddle River
March 3, 2022 Source: Facebook Clarkstown – What They Don’t Want You To Know from: Journal News – Steve Lieberman Jeff Phillips bought his Hillside Avenue house four decades ago. At that time, he and his family could sit outside and commune with nature and watch deer and other animals wander around the property. The…
Spring 2020. While we were all occupied with COVID19, quarantined and on pause some troubling happenings across the border in Rockland county were going on. A reader, a resident of Rockland County, wrote of social happenings occurring – in Airmont – that were against the directive of Governor Cuomo. In the close vicinity of Upper…
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The Village of Airmont Community Design Review Committee -CDRC- is meeting this week Wednesday 11 March 2020 @ 1pm. On the agenda: The Skill Building Center 99 Oratam Road Proposed School 98 & 100 Hillside Avenue Revised Site Plan This is part of the overall plan that is connected to the mikvah and much more….
Hillside Avenue Airmont Board of Trustees Meeting February 3, 2020 had some very interesting issues regarding what is currently happening on Hillside Ave. This quiet community is no longer what it appears. Lists of violations, intimidation, illegal construction were highlighted in the meeting And there are plans for a change in zone, and use, which…
The proposed development at Hillside that borders Upper Saddle River includes the construction of a community mikvah containing 48 prep rooms and 6 ritual bathing pools. What exactly is a mikvah? From Wikipedia: Mikveh or mikvah is a bath used for the purpose of ritual immersion in Judaism to achieve ritual purity This video…
On the border of Upper Saddle River and New York state there are plans for a change of usage along the Hillside Ave corridor. What has been a rural residentail neighborhood of modest homes on 1+ acre lots, with well and septic have the potential to change significantly in usage. This will impact Upper Saddle…
Enormous changes are occurring in and around Upper Saddle River, right before residents eyes, but you wouldn’t easily see it unless you looked hard. The 2 developments by Toll Brothers – despite Stop Work Orders and other setbacks – are still creeping forward steadily. Houses are sprouting up and sometime soon homes will be occupied….
Chestnut Ridge, a neighbor of Upper Saddle River, is an interesting place with occasional weird and questionable occurrences. Homes being used as houses of worship that gridlock streets and turn them into parking lots. Daily. Single family homes bursting with people, who live in closets and basements, and every other room and space. Something new…
In a disappointing result the election in Chestnut Ridge has returned the sitting trustees to office. Shaut and Wasserman were defeated which means the status quo remains. Running a campaign that should be noted for its energy, clear vision, accessibility and responsiveness they energized their community. Kudos to them. In a statement on Facebook they…
The Village of Chestnut Ridge is a neighboring community of Upper Saddle River and if you have been there recently you can’t have missed the signs for the upcoming election (March 19, 2019) for Village Trustees. For the residents of Upper Saddle River and its neighbors, issues from across the border are barely heard, with…