Clean up and re- stripe and pave the current lots; get rid of valet parking using spots that residents want to use –let their employees drive further, not potential customers of competing businesses; make property owners repair their property (the Town Garage was hurriedly bought by speculators who had heard the village wanted it for a garage. They bought it to flip it quickly at a huge profit, not to maintain it. If the village won’t buy at their price, they plan to leave it an eyesore until the Village caves at the ugliness and finally buys it.) Last of all, do the repairs on the current lots first (while banning valet parking from using them) and see if we really need a garage more than a few nights a week. If we do, I doubt it, make the owners of these stores and restaurants pay at least half and sign the mortgage. If they need it so badly, they can help pay for it. If the builders of all these new condos need the parking to make their locations legal, let them join with the other owners to build a garage. Ridgewood residents don’t owe those owners anything and certainly not a garage built for their convenience.
Amen. And older folks that would be forced to park far away from a store using a valet – and then walk a long distance to a store and back instead of finding a free spot nearby – or even in front of a store – what are people thinking?
Truth shines the brightest..Stop the insanity that overburdened town taxpayers owe any business anything..we go to work each day as well to pay our overburdening town & state taxes & college costs and endless town fees for everything else.
Yes, yes, and YES
There’s no hope people. When I see how much power an unscrupulous person like Vagianos yields I can’t help but feel hopeless. People like him run this village. This VC is weak and can’t stand up to people like him. They just keep being hypocrites to each other. I could see it during tree lighting, so much hypocrisy it turned my stomach. He and his peers know they can and will get what they want. It’s a matter of time until they slice the pie accordingly. This is their playground.
Every picture tells a story…Look at the Rot…meantime leaders work on
happy together projects for their restaurant buddies…This needs to finally stop VOR get to work and fix the roads and main infrastructure ; then we can talk about possible nice to have Mayberry RFD projects …
Feeling wistful for the days when dining downtown meant the Daily Treat.
Completely agree! Sad to see what is happening to our lovely village.
Stop calling it a village, your dating yourself.
And fuck Paul…he wields ZERO power over anyone.
He’s nothing more that a Greek Gyro pusher.
Shitty Greek Gyro pusher at that.
Political wanna be and 3 time looser.
Power? Yea right.
The Daily Treat is still our ONLY choice in Ridgewood, eat there a couple of times every week. No place better