photos courtesy of the Village of Ridgewood
the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Ridgewood NJ, in what many in Ridgewood would say was 100 years in the making the ,the official groundbreaking ceremony, of the Hudson Street Parking garage took place on Saturday September 7th at 9:00 a.m.
The Village Council was present accompanied by Village Manager Heather Mailander ,Robert Rooney CFO, Christopher Rutishauser Village Engineer and Matt Rogers Village Attorney.
Special guests included District 40 Assemblymen Kevin Rooney and Christopher DePhillips and Bergen County Freeholders Chairwomen Germaine M. Ortiz ,Vice Chairwomen Mary J. Amoroso and Freeholder Thomas J. Sullivan .
Speakers included Deputy Mayor Susan Knudsen , Councilmen Mike Sedon ,Councilwomen Bernie Walsh , Ridgewood Guild President Tony Damiano and Ridgewood Chamber of Commerce President Scott Lief .
Closing remarks were spoken Mayor Mayor Ramon Hache and the benediction was said by Reverend Lemuel Brown Mt Bethel Baptist Church .
Not all was well at the “Love Fest” , Councilmen Jeff Voigt chose not to speak today at ground breaking. Perhaps because his “new friends” were there and he is ashamed he helped collect signatures for the smaller garage?
One of Councilmen Voigt’s comrades held up a protest sign expressing his unhappiness with the event .
They should save those shovels. They’ll need them to shovel more cash into this boondoggle than they projected.
It’s a real shame, the garage, plus the apartment buildings. No more Ridgewood, a charming quaint quiet village when I moved here over 40 years ago. And they call the over development of Ridgewood moving forward.
I’ll bet the pro garage and pro apartment people are super rich, with extra houses in rich quiet places, on Long Island , Nantucket, and places I don’t even know about. Quiet villagey places where the rich people who own the land would never allow apartments and ugly parking garages.
These rich people go to their quiet house or houses during vacation times, and they used , they raped and destroyed Ridgewood for their own profit. I would bet that Saraceno and Bolger and etc. all own big houses in quiet places and didn’t care if they turned Ridgewood into shit and didn’t care about me who love Ridgewood and wanted to preserve it. Aronsohn probably has a second home in a quiet place, maybe Florida who knows. And Puciarelli flying his plane to quiet places while proposing a big garage and apartments for Ridgewood. What horrible people. Is that what most people are like? Someone answer me.
Is it true that the shovels and hard hats cost taxpayers $24,350?
Crime scene photo …against every Ridgewood taxpayer..
no private company would build a hole that big just to
burn their private capital night and day of massive continuous loss making..on an operating parking lot that costs basically nothing to operate In comparison ….boondoggle ..
Yes, but they are nice looking.
People you’ll see this go to 15 million. There’s always overruns thank you have a nice day.
Why weren’t the Three Amigos carried around on chairs with Champagne? We owe it all to them.
$15 million? My bet is more like $18 million. Don’t forget that the Village Hall flood damage restoration went more than 100% over original projections.
Misguided…
Taxes going up in 2020!!!
Photos courtesy of the Village of Ridgewood?
Where is the picture of all of them giving the middle finger to the residents of Ridgewood?
Who’s going to clean it.
Isn’t the comment period over on this project?