🏢 Featured · Planning Board
A 49-unit apartment building proposed at 425 S. Riverside Avenue opened its long review before the Planning Board: the chairman recused himself, the village’s consultant flagged 31 items, and no variances go to the zoning board until the application is complete. Also inside: the animal-law rewrite’s first committee review — a ban reaching a bird that isn’t biologically fowl — and the two different drafts of it circulating in village packets.
Board of Trustees Work Session
With New York's new budget exempting many housing projects — including those on most sites in Croton — from SEQR review, the Board of Trustees walked through code amendments meant to preserve local scrutiny of development, leaned toward steering cannabis dispensaries into a defined Riverside-area zone, and reached consensus to raise the income limit for senior and disabled rent relief in the village's rent-regulated buildings.
Editorial · Analysis
Croton is set to prohibit pigeons village-wide, with no grandfathering. The record shows one known pigeon keeper — told yes by village staff — and a ban whose most persistent advocate disclosed that the pigeons were coming to his own street.
🃏 The Parody Department
In May, the Chronicle put its number of corrections at “about a dozen.” But then someone instigated a maneuver in favor of nine, sources say. Satire, with 40 footnotes.
Board of Education
At its July 16 organizational meeting, the Croton-Harmon Board of Education swore in newly elected trustees, elevated Anamika Bhatnagar to president and Omar Mayyasi to vice president, seated two student ex-officio trustees for the first time, appointed an interim athletic director, and — after a trustee flagged unchecked AI-generated committee minutes — made an AI policy a priority.
Croton History
From manor rents paid in hens to a Revolutionary spy selling eggs, Croton's historical record is full of poultry — and the village's relationship with backyard livestock is older than the nation.
Board Of Trustees
The Board of Trustees adopted a revised debt policy, authorized a slate of state grant applications, and commissioned an independent Kaplan's Pond assessment, while the village manager announced a 53,744 county sidewalk grant. Trustees also addressed a committee's minutes that documented discussion of the Croton Chronicle: Trustee Stacey Nachtaler — saying she would have called it an inappropriate topic had she been in the room — praised the paper, and Mayor Brian Pugh said committees should be judged on their work product, not 'table talk.'
Board Of Trustees
The Village Board introduced a sweeping rewrite of animal regulations, approved student participation on eight advisory committees, and heard sharp resident complaints about Con Edison's disruptive gas main project during a wide-ranging July 1 meeting.