file photo by Boyd Loving
Fixing things that need fixing is a great idea. This park however looks beautiful. Paver bricks might have a limited life span, but based on the appearance of these bricks they still have plenty of life. Why change them out for ugly concrete “decorative” paver blocks? How ridiculous.
Fix the things that need fixing. Don’t waste taxpayer money on demolishing perfectly nice things to make something else. So ridiculous. This is not like a living room that you feel like redecorating. This is a park with many commemorative markers. The fact that YOU don’t know any of these people commemorated on them does not make them meaningless.
Here’s another reader/resident that couldn’t agree more!
I agree. Park and pavers still look fine. This sounds like someone’s folly.
Things that are a little worn-looking have charm. Those bricks could easily last another 20 years. They aren’t walked on that much. Terrible management! Waste of money sorely needed elsewhere! Grants never cover the whole thing and don’t begin to touch maintenance. Walking on bricks is nice, and they’re pretty.
It was Village Manager Roberta Sonenfeld’s excitement in describing this horrific and unnecessary new construction that gave me pause. She sounded just the same when talking about creating the H.R. job (which quickly and quietly segued from part time to full time) for her friend and essentially giving Habernickel Park to her other friend who runs the now-hated Health Barn. The Village Manager should not be so happy about these projects and in each case she had a personal stake in them (not financially, presumably). More and more and more expensive and disruptive construction, partly subsidized by grants to take the sting off (but not nearly enough, if you study the final numbers), was the theme under the Aronsohn years. She remains under his thumb and must be removed, as must Health Barn and the H.R. position, if we are to return to any level of benign stasis.
Queen Bee has money to burn and she will spend it and more.
Roberta will be telling us it is a CRISIS, Van Neste is falling apart I tell you it is a CRISIS.
Follow the money. Someone stands to make big money. Who is doing the ugly concrete sidewalks? Who is doing the $40,000 cheesy fence? Who will build the Vagiannos Pavilion aka the gazebo?
Roberta is all wound up about the is project because promises were made.
Follow the money
Fix the frigging roads and streets instead. It is a bumpy ride once you enter Ridgewood from any direction.
Vagiannos Pavilion aka the gazebo? Good one.
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
― George Bernard Shaw,
Are the contracts all signed? Should we write to the council, begging them to cancel this project? No gazebo! The park is not that big. This town will never take care of it, paint it, etc.–just a nice covered place for drug dealers to meet their patrons in the rain.