Local residents can find out in person in the next few months if any of the $12 billion in unclaimed funds state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli’s is holding belongs to them. The office has $196 million in funds that belong to Westchester County residents. Unclaimed funds are money or the rights… Read More →
My Tax Watch story on the tax-break granted condominium sparked a response on Sunday’s editorial page by Daniel Finger, associate counsel to the Building and Realty Institute of Westchester, and its Cooperative and Condominium Council. That’s the group representing the region’s condominium complexes, which continues to fight to preserve the… Read More →
The Mid-Hudson RegionalEconomic Development Council was awarded $92.8 million dollars in grants this week for 84 projects around the region, including $1 million for restoration of the Glenwood Power Plant; $1 million for an iBio Incubator at New York Medical College in Valhalla; $775,000 to create a Hudson Valley Food Hub in Ulster County; and… Read More →
Superstorm Sandy caused more than $42 million in damages to Westchester-owned facilities and parks, damaging infrastructure throughout the area, County Executive Rob Astorino said this morning. During a news conference at the Westchester County Center, Astorino said the powerful storm’s damage touched every municipality in the county, damaging or destroying… Read More →
The Westchester Board of Legislators will vote Sept. 10 on an agreement with the state that would set aside $250,000 for cleanup of thousands of plastic discs that escaped from the county’s Mamaroneck sewage treatment plant during heavy rain early last year. The pending agreement is an update to a… Read More →
To bring fairness to their property-tax systems, Scarsdale and Mamaroneck have embarked on revaluation of their municipalities’ real-estate. The efforts come 44 years after their properties were last valued on a townwide basis. Tax Watch accompanied a data collector in Scarsdale as he knocked on doors in the village’s Edgewood… Read More →
