As part of the Keep Rockland Beautiful-sponsored Great American Cleanup 2012, we met for a few hours in the Village (Downtown and the Greenway) to do some spring cleaning. Check out the pics (thanks to Alex Guarino for taking them – that’s why he’s not in the pictures!):
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Great American Cleanup 2012
Posted: April 30, 2012 by HaverstrawLife.com in Activities, Downtown, Sustainability, Waterfront2
“Reconnecting Rockland” Column in the Rockland County Times
Posted: April 27, 2012 by HaverstrawLife.com in Downtown, History, Opinions & Politics, SustainabilityI stared writing a monthly column in the Rockland County Times called “Reconnecting Rockland.” In it I focus on planning, engineering, real estate development, and architecture issues that are facing the County. Check out Part 1 and Part 2, aptly named “Back to Our Roots.”
Get Your Mob Gear Ready . . .
Posted: April 2, 2012 by HaverstrawLife.com in Cafes & Restaurants, Downtown, Events, Local Artisans, New Stores, Opinions & Politics, SustainabilityTags: Broadway, Brooklyn, Cash Mob, economic growth, food, hardware store, Haverstraw, Hudson River, Hudson Valley, local economy, local food, Main Street, mobbed, New York, NYC, restaurant, river, slow food, slow money, small economy, State, upstate new york, upstater, village of haverstraw
The North Rockland Cash Mob started with a flash. Local resident Ellen Donovan contacted me via Facebook to get a local cash mob initiative launched and generating buzz. Well, the mob is buzzing. Now over 700 members in size, and growing by the hundreds each day, the North Rockland Cash Mob is becoming, well, unruly. [...]
Waterfront Promenade is About to Double in Size
Posted: March 6, 2012 by HaverstrawLife.com in Waterfront, SustainabilityTags: beauty, esplanade, Haverstraw, health activity, high tor mountain, hiking, Hudson River, Hudson Valley, nature, New York State, promenade, recreation, river view, scenery, scenic, village of haverstraw, walking, walkway, waterfront
The waterfront promenade, currently stretching from Warren Avenue to the old chair factory peninsula and from the edge of the Tilcon rock quarry to the ferry landing, is about to grow.
TZB Transit Alternative: Expand Ferry Service
Posted: February 15, 2012 by HaverstrawLife.com in Ferry Service, Sustainability, WaterfrontGovernor Cuomo has worked with the federal government to “fast track” the Tappan Zee Bridge replacement environmental review. Planning will speed along and the project could be ready for groundbreaking by fall 2012. No funding sources have been secured. Rockland County and Westchester County residents were shocked to learn that the originally planned-for mass transit [...]
How or Why Cars Erode Cities & Villages
Posted: February 7, 2012 by HaverstrawLife.com in Downtown, History, SustainabilityTags: Architecture, automobiles destructive, car, cars, Cars Erode Cities, downtown Haverstraw, downtowns, Haverstraw, Jane Jacobs, Main Street, New York, Old Fashioned, parking, storefronts, streetscape, sustainability, traditional neighborhood, village of haverstraw, walkability, walking
Jane Jacobs was one of the first writers to document the effects of cars on urban fabric. By “urban,” I mean “old-fashioned” or traditional towns and downtowns. Densely populated cities and villages throughout the United States were beginning to take steps to incorporate automobiles into the built environment. Planners and politicians began to see parking [...]
Downtown2GAGA: An Art-focused Pedestrian Path
Posted: February 1, 2012 by HaverstrawLife.com in Cafes & Restaurants, Downtown, Local Artisans, SustainabilityTags: artists, arts, bike path, Celebration, community, Conservation, Crafts, creekside, Downtown, Emeline Park, farmers market, GAGA, garnerville, Haverstraw, haverstraw ferry, haverstraw new york, haverstraw village, Haverstraw Village Hall, Henry Hudson, high tor mountain, hudson art, Hudson River, Hudson Valley, industrial complex, minisceongo creek, new urbanism, pedestrian, sculpture park, sustainability, The Picturesque Hudson, village of haverstraw, walking path
Wouldn’t it be great if a resident or a visitor to the Village of Haverstraw could walk, jog or bike to the Garnerville Arts & Industrial Center, also known as GAGA?
A new documentary by Gary Hustwit (Helvetica and Objectified) explores the changes happening to our cities, villages, and other settlements. The world is urbanizing and the places that do it well will ultimately win. Places with the best quality of life and the best urban environments (all places are ultimately “urban,” even suburb and rural [...]
Lower the Floor in the Haverstraw Tunnel?
Posted: November 29, 2011 by HaverstrawLife.com in History, SustainabilityThe great Cap’n Transit wrote a blog post on the virtues of lowering the floor of the Haverstraw rail tunnel, which is seen by State officials (and the CSX freight rail company) as the biggest impediment to restore passenger rail services on the West Shore Line.
Sound Off: How will high energy costs affect the Village in the future?
Posted: November 17, 2011 by HaverstrawLife.com in Downtown, SustainabilityTags: ecological sustainability, economic turmoil, Economy, Energy, energy production, energy scarcity, EROI, finance, financial markets, haverstraw ferry, Hudson River, Hudson Valley, New York, New York State, Oil Production Decline, oil scarcity, Peak Oil, sustainability, unemployment, village of haverstraw
In your opinion, how might the growing price of oil affect the Village of Haverstraw? Might we see an influx of new residents as suburb dwellers seek ways to avoid driving expensive cars? Might a rebirth in local manufacturing and commercial river traffic emerge? Perhaps the future of the Village will look much like its past?
Haverstraw Village Local Currency Plan
Posted: October 14, 2011 by HaverstrawLife.com in Downtown, Events, History, SustainabilityThe Concept: Haverstraw Notes Local currency is a powerful, local economic development engine. The problem with national currency like the U.S. Dollar is that value is quite often removed from a local economy, as that value is transferred to national retailers (chains) or is spent elsewhere, in other communities. By creating a local currency system [...]
Haverstraw in the Toronto Sun
Posted: August 2, 2011 by HaverstrawLife.com in Downtown, Ferry Service, Sustainability, WaterfrontTags: $14 per night, camping, Celebration, community, Conservation, Downtown, ferry, Harriman, Harriman State Park, Haverstraw, haverstraw new york, Haverstraw Village Hall, high tor mountain, Hudson River, Hudson Valley, local food, New York State, NY Waterway, stone cabin, The Picturesque Hudson, vacation, village of haverstraw
While trekking through the blogosphere, I came across a nice article from the Toronto Sun about a $14 per day option to vacation in “New York City.” Instead of paying $150+ per night at a New York hotel, a visitor might enjoy more rustic accommodations for, yes, around $14 per night. The article highlights that [...]
The Village of Haverstraw wins at WalkScore in North Rockland.
City/Nature or Nature is NOT a Saint Bernard
Posted: July 18, 2011 by HaverstrawLife.com in Downtown, SustainabilityWe’ve sentimentalized Nature, which has led to its destruction and to a damaging blurring between urbanism and the natural world. Because we don’t recognize that humanity is part of nature, and cities themselves are natural creations (much like a coral reef, an ant hill, “colonies of prairie dogs or the beds of oysters”), we have bastardized the urban form by creating suburbia, semi-suburbia, and exurbia.
Scenes from Ossining (Sing Sing)
Posted: July 18, 2011 by HaverstrawLife.com in Cafes & Restaurants, Downtown, Ferry Service, Sustainability, WaterfrontFive elderly women ride the NY Waterway Ferry to Haverstraw for an evening of fun and dinner at Union Restaurant.
