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The Ridgewood Historical Society Congratulates the winner and runners up of the Ridgewood Historical Society Letter Writing Contest!

Ridgewood Historical society

February 28,2018

the staff of the Ridgewood blog

Ridgewood NJ, The Ridgewood Historical Society Congratulates the winner and runners up of the Ridgewood Historical Society Letter Writing Contest! In partnership with the social studies department at Ridgewood High School, we invited students to submit fictionalized letters after viewing artifacts at the 2017 exhibit “From the Revolutionary War to the 1960s Revolution!”
The award presentation was last night at the Board of Education meeting. View the presentation with this link at time marker 11:35 https://youtu.be/tB80BUw3Z8g
The winning letters will be posted on our website very soon!
We look forward to this year’s contest which will reflect our upcoming exhibit “The Thread of Life”, opening on March 11th.

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Zabriskie-Schedler house on the Public Meeting Agenda tonight!

Zabriskie-Schedler house

February 28,2018

John Paquin

posted for in Vintage Ridgewood New Jersey Facebook group

Ridgewood NJ, Zabriskie-Schedler house Public Meetings tonight @ 7:30! Come support the House! Great things on the agenda as the Mayor noted in her post. Getting a new roof and potential archeological study. The Dutch Gambrel roof on this house is both it’s most distinctive and threatened feature, and with no roof there’s no house. so getting this right is really important. Very special skill set. And just imagine what’s in the earth there. Hard to believe the roar of 17 is right next door. the ground is literally littered with the remains of old dressed sandstone foundations. You practically trip over them. Outbuildings? Haybarracks? soldier’s firepits?

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Ridgewood Village Coucil Public Workshop: Walker Report , Graydon Concessions , Schedler Archaeological Investigation ,Major Soil Permits

Ridgewood Village Council

Public Workshop Agenda 02262018

PUBLIC WORKSHOP AGENDA
FEBRUARY 28, 2018
7:30 P.M.

7:30 pm – Call to Order – Mayor
Statement of Compliance with Open Public Meeting Act
Mayor: “Adequate notice of this meeting has been provided by a posting on the bulletin board in Village Hall, by mail to the Ridgewood News, The Record, and by submission to all persons entitled to same as provided by law of a schedule including the date and time of this meeting.”
Roll Call – Village Clerk
Flag Salute/Moment of Silence
Public Comments (Not to Exceed 3 Minutes per Person – 40 Minutes in Total)
Motion to Suspend Work Session and Convene Special Public Meeting
Special Public Meeting – See Attached Agenda
Motion to Adjourn Special Public Meeting and Reconvene Work Session
Presentation
Walker Report on Hudson Street Parking Garage
Water Smart
Sustainable Jersey Award

Discussion
Ridgewood Water
Award Professional Services – Water Rate Study
Award Professional Services – Design and Administration of
Improvements at the Southside Reservoir
Award Second Year Contract – Supply and Maintain Cold Water Meters

Parking – None
Budget
Award Contract – Graydon Pool Concession – Refreshment Service
Award Contract – Coach Bus Transportation Services
Schedler Property – Phase I and Phase II Archaeological Investigation –
RFP
Deferred School Tax for 2018
Correction to Reso. #17-111 – Award Contract – Portable Fuel Cell Trailer
Award Contract – Tub Grinder
Policy
Use of Barn at Habernickel Park for Project Graduation
Approval of Schedler Ad Hoc Committee Recommendations
Business Improvement District
Operations
Purchasing Process
Major Soil Permits – The Enclave and Ken Smith II Projects
Declare Property Surplus – John Deere 544 H Loader – Streets Department
Declare Property Surplus – Ford F250 – Parks Department
Replacement of Tree at Graydon – Report by Shade Tree Commission

Manager’s Report
Council Reports
Public Comments (Not to Exceed 5 Minutes per Person)
Resolution to go into Closed Session
Closed Session
Personnel – Appointments to Boards and Committees
Contract Negotiations – Hudson Street Parking Garage
Adjournment

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Reader says I don’t get why it matters if Knudsen and Sedon don’t win

3 amigos in action Ridgewood NJ

Sorry, I don’t get it. Saraceno and the Aronsohn group got what they wanted. A garage, development at Schedler and most of all the big CAJONES, the multi-housing , MULTIPLEX FEATURE OCSCAR WINNER developments FOUR of them in the CBD.

I don’t get why it matters if Knudsen and Sedon don’t win. Really tell me. I know I know that Knudsen and Sedon were against the housing developments downtown and voted them down, but HEY, they couldn’t convince the planning board.

I don’t want a parking garage nor development at Schedler just as much as I don’t want apt. with 50 units in CBD.

I know that Willet would develop Schedler, and a build a garage so what is the difference.

Really, if the garage were bigger and Schedler completely developed, who cares. If it is developed AT ALL I think is terrible a little more a little bigger, the shit is done by any development.

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Reader says The village needs additional parking for commuters. Period.

Ridgewood Train Station

The village needs additional parking for commuters. Period. Please stop with the notion that restaurants and shops need additional parking – this is a myth propagated by the apartment developers. Build a 2 story garage and charge a lower rate for in town commuters and $5,000 per year for out of town commuters. To ensure that no apartment dwellers park there, enforce a no parking ordinance between 2:00 am and 5:00 am. Developers will bail immediately.

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The village has already accounted for and already spends that new $ and every other dime of parking fees it collects and still taxes rise.

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February 28,2018

the staff of the Ridgewood blog

Ridgewood NJ, And when you dig in to the Walker Report 2015 , it gets worse. In 2017, the village hiked annual parking pass rates 25%. That money went right into the general fund for the village. The village has already accounted for and already spends that new $ and every other dime of parking fees it collects and still taxes rise. So if the current intake of taxpayer dollars and parking fees can’t support the village expenses, how would the additional $1.4 million dollars/year in garage expenses for the next 30 years get paid when the next round of proposed parking rake hikes only adds up to $325k a year?

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VILLAGE COUNCIL OF RIDGEWOOD SPECIAL PUBLIC MEETING : Prequalification Regulations for Prospective Bidders for the Roof Restoration for the Zabriskie-Schedler House

Zabriskie-Schedler House

Village Council Special Meeting
AGENDA
VILLAGE COUNCIL SPECIAL PUBLIC MEETING
SYDNEY V. STOLDT, JR. COURT ROOM
FEBRUARY 28, 2018
7:30 P.M.
1. Call to Order
2. Statement of Compliance with the Open Public Meeting Act
MAYOR: “Adequate notice of this meeting has been provided by a posting on the bulletin board in Village hall, by mail to the Ridgewood News, The Record, and by submission to all persons entitled to same as provided by law of a schedule including the date and time of this meeting.”
3. Roll Call – Village Clerk
4. Public Hearing on Prequalification Regulations for Prospective Bidders for the Roof Restoration for the Zabriskie-Schedler House
5. Resolution #18-72 – Adopt Prequalification Regulations for Utilization in Connection with Controlling the Qualifications of Prospective Bidders for Restoration of the Roof for the Zabriskie-Schedler House
6. Adjournment

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Ridgewood Police reported no credible threat was made to either students or school employees of Ridgewood High School

Ridgewood Police reported no credible threat was made to either students or school employees of Ridgewood High School

photos courtesy of Boyd Loving’s Facebook page

February 27,2018

the staff of the Ridgewood blog

Ridgewood NJ, Ridgewood Police reported no credible threat was made to either students or school employees of Ridgewood High School following an investigation that resulted in four (4) males being taken into police custody shortly after officers visited the school on Tuesday morning, 02/27. The individuals, two (2) juveniles and two (2) adults, were stopped by police and detained away from the high school’s property.

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Lucinda L. Johnson and the Founding of the Metropolitan A.M.E. Zion Church of Ridgewood

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February 27,2018
the staff of the Ridgewood blog

Ridgewood NJ, according to the Ridgewood Historical Society , (https://www.facebook.com/groups/356146547743521/ ) Lucinda L. Johnson was born a slave on a tobacco plantation in Virginia in 1848. She moved to New Jersey after the Civil War to find domestic work, and saved her money to buy a small house on S. Maple Avenue. Lucinda married twice and had no children of her own, but cared for many foster children who affectionately called her “Aunt Lucindy.”

She became very involved in the fight against discrimination, which motivated her to host lawn parties in order to found the Metropolitan A.M.E. Zion Church of Ridgewood, a house of worship “dedicated to the Negroes of Ridgewood.” The church is described in an article from the Ridgewood Herald on Jan. 8, 1908 as “a real addition to the architectural attractions of Ridgewood…The church has a basement chapel, kitchen, library rooms…The lighting is by electricity and a furnace gives heat.” Inside the church, there is a stained glass window with an angel’s face marked “For Lucinda.” Johnson’s obituary, published in The Ridgewood Herald-News in Feb. 1940, described her as “a remarkable woman”; she was buried in a lot in Valleau Cemetery that she purchased back in the 1890s.

As this month comes to an end, we encourage everyone to remember Black History and attend Tuesday night’s (Feb. 27th) Academy Award-nominated film at Ridgewood Public Library at 7pm. “I Am Not Your Negro” envisions the book “Remember This House” that James Baldwin never finished, a radical narration about race in America, using the writer’s original words, as read by actor Samuel L. Jackson.

www.ridgewoodlibrary.org/reelvoices2017

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Reader is tired of the lame excuses for photos showing plenty of parking

parking private lot

I am tired of these lame excuses. If you say you saw plenty of parking on any certain day, the garagaholics like you come back with any of the following:

. it was raining
. it was a holiday and people were out of town
. it was a holiday and people were busy with family
. it was a Monday and some restaurants are closed on Mondays
. it was too early in the day to get a fair estimate
. it was too late in the day and people had already gone home
. it was a Saturday noon and no one goes out until later
. it was a Saturday night and people were using UBER
. it was not raining so people were walking to town
. it was snowing so people were home shoveling
. it was snowing but then it stopped so people went skiing

Get it? There are ALWAYS available spots in town, in spite of Jeff Voigt’s declaration that there are 1000 cars looking for parking on the weekends. There are ALWAYS spots, regardless of whatever excuse you come up with.

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Walker 2015- net new revenue projected for the garage is not projected to offset its expenses

walker 2015

February 27,2018

the staff of the Ridgewood blog

Ridgewood NJ, walker report 2015-It is typical in downtowns that the revenue stream in a given garage is not sufficient to cover its operating costs and debt service. Downtown parking systems are just that – systems – that rely on pooled revenue from all resources, and especially the on-street meters (which tend to have the highest turnover), to cover the higher cost associated with building and operating a garage. This is the case in Ridgewood, where the net new revenue projected for the garage is not projected to offset its expenses. Therefore, our revenue projection includes all  bottom of page 1

Full report from 2015

https://mods.ridgewoodnj.net/pdf/manager/2015walkerFinal.pdf

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Willett certified as a candidate for Village Council

Village Council Candidate Janice Willet snoozed

February 26,2018

the staff of the Ridgewood blog

Ridgewood NJ, we have just learned that Janice Willett has been certified as a candidate for Village Council. Willett has run before and developer John Saraceno  supported Richard Brooks, Evan Weitz, along with Janice Willett for Village Council .

https://theridgewoodblog.net/developer-john-saraceno-is-supporting-richard-brooks-evan-weitz-and-janice-willett-for-village-council/

Last time she ran the progress Ridgewood group ran an ad in the Ridgewood News saying Richard Brooks, Evan Weitz, along with Janice Willett will be at the candidates forum at Park West Loft on May 2nd. You can only go, if you signed the pledge. The pledge was the brain child of Paul Vagianos, see the Ridgewood blog below :

https://theridgewoodblog.net/village-of-ridgewood-candidates-willett-weitzand-brooks-continue-to-push-the-exclusionary-divisive-politics-of-the-current-council-majority/

Willett gained some notoriety when she was caught on camera sleeping at the Valley whispering woods hearings. https://theridgewoodblog.net/village-of-ridgewood-someone-was-sleeping-while-your-taxes-were-going-up/

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Welcome to Downtown Ridgewood — Circa 1830!

Zabriskie-Schedler 1830

February 16,2018

by John Paquin

originally posted on the Vintage Ridgewood New Jersey Facebook page

Ridgewood NJ, Welcome to Downtown Ridgewood — Circa 1830! (Or what did Zabriskie-Schedler look like, Part II). This view is from the opposite direction from the last one, and what this provides is context — and why this is about more than just “a house”. This is looking SW down West Saddle River Rd toward Paramus Church and what was then known as “Paramus Center”. What you can hopefully get a sense of is the important community that existed here (in Ridgewood!), first settled in the 1690’s as Anthony’s earlier post indicated. Why here? It was the convergence of indian trails that later became an important crossroads connecting the region (much as Rt’s 17, 4 and the parkway do today). As Peggy Norris detailed in her excellent history of the property, John Zabriskie bought just over 9 acres from the church in 1825 to build this house and farm, and incredibly, 7 acres of that purchase remain untouched to this day (the property originally extended across 17 to franklin tpke — those two-plus acres now lie under six lanes). I took license again with that 230 year-old tree — it’s drawn as it appears today — but that is to scale. it dwarfs the house and pre-dates it by some 40 years!

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RHS Class of 2018 Fashion Show is March 4 at 12 p.m., Teaneck Marriott at Glenpointe

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February 26,2017

the staff of the Ridgewood blog

Teaneck NJ, RHS Class of 2018 Fashion Show is March 4 at 12 p.m., Teaneck Marriott at Glenpointe. Tickets are on sale now for the RHS Senior Fashion Show!
Please spread the word! Invite a friend or two! The Fashion Show is PG18’s largest fundraiser and it promises to be a wonderful event you won’t want to miss!
Ticket prices remain the same as in prior years: from $55 (for students only) up to $150 (for front row seats).
Tickets are available for purchase online at: https://rhsfashionshow2018.brownpapertickets.com/
Questions? Please email [email protected].

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Ridgewood Knights of Columbus to Host Annual St. Patrick’s Dinner Dance

St Patrick Shamrock Image

 

February 26,2018

the staff of the Ridgewood blog

Ridgewood NJ,  The Ridgewood Knights of Columbus are once again proud to be sponsoring their annual St. Patrick’s Dinner Dance on Saturday, March 24, beginning at 7:00 p.m. in the Mount Carmel gymnasium at 52 Passaic Street in Ridgewood.

Hosting the annual St. Patrick’s Dinner Dance has been a Knights tradition for many years in Ridgewood. Guests are first be greeted by bagpipers. The Best of Everything will cater a full-course of traditional Irish fare including corned beef and cabbage. The Celtic Cross Band will be playing Irish classics and great dance music, along with a special appearance by the Irish Step Dancers. There will also be a grand prize raffle drawing for a trip to Ireland, with the proceeds going to benefit many local and worthy charities.

Come enjoy this annual celebration as the Knights of Columbus continue the tradition that the People of Ireland started over a thousand years ago. And what better way to celebrate the life of Saint Patrick then to gather with friends and family, enjoy a fine meal, and dance to great music!

Tickets are $55 per person.

For more information, please go to:
www.ridgewoodkofc.org

Come out and celebrate St. Patrick’s with the Ridgewood Knights!