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Ridgewood NJ, just when you thought that there couldn’t possibly be more to report about Peter Primavera, the Village’s Historic Preservation Consultant, there is.
In a lawsuit filed with the Superior Court of Essex County on Thursday, May 2, 2024, Mr. Primavera has charged the YMCA of Newark and Vicinity, and other unnamed parties, with negligence in connection with serious injuries he sustained in a fall from a bunk bed on their premises at 600 Broad Street, Newark, NJ, on June 14, 2023.
Background:
Village Council Public Work Session, June 28, 2023: Before the commencement of public comments, Village Manager Heather Mailander announced that the scheduled presentation by Peter Primavera, a Historic Preservation Consultant for the Schedler property, will not be held this evening and instead, the presentation will be held on July 12, 2023.
Village Council Public Work Session, July 12, 2023: Mr. Primavera addresses the Ridgewood Village Council as scheduled. A large white bandage is visible wrapped around his lower left arm/wrist throughout his presentation. A black splint is also visible on the same arm. Ridgewood Mayor Paul Vagianos said: “We see that you hurt your arm. You took a spill. Hope it’s ok.” Mr. Primavera replied: “It slowed me down for a couple weeks. I fell off a six-foot ladder. As my 12 year old son says, you’re starting to look like a transformer.”
Temporarily homeless, or just visiting someone in their bunk bed at the Newark “Y” Mr. Primavera?
You could not make this s*** up no matter how hard you tried!
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You have no idea how much I love this mess!
Who gives a shit where he lives. He was hired to help out the village, not where he lives. It’s either he’s a help or not. Which is it?
He did a shitty job.
He’s a SHYSTER
Not the first in the Village
not
To “who gives a sh*t” ??? I am guessing your standards are just as low as Vagianos, Weitz, Winograd and Perron who were elected to make sound business decisions on behalf of their constituents. Seems like Ridgewood chose to look the other way when details were presented about this guy’s qualifications and credentials that were not factually aligned with work he had completed and many believe that how you conduct yourself in your personal life extends to who you are as a professional. I guess in a town where people who don’t pay their taxes are celebrated and still hold positions, the bar is set pretty low.
Peter Primavera, Mayor Pee Wee and the 3 Stooges, belong together , just snakes in the grass
I am hearing the village people singing (not the Ridgewood Village people)
It’s fun to stay at the Y.M.C.A.
It’s fun to stay at the Y.M.C.A.
You can get yourself clean
You can have a good meal
You do whatever you feel
Is this why Siobahn Winograd picked him up at the train station and drove him around town when she was detailing the history of the village as his informant? If she knew he was homeless at that time, maybe she should have offered to take him out for a burger and fries instead.
So Siobhan knew he was homeless and said nothing?
Did she do his laundry for him too?
If he is homeless he probably doesn’t have a car either.
We live in a corrupt town, corrupt county and corrupt state!
Post of the day! No truer words have been spoken
Check out the Westwood BOE! Same crap. Giving teachers more power to indoctrinate the children taking away parental rights, without a discussion at the meeting, just voting. I’m calling for a recall on the election of these idiots.
Well, it’s gonna be interesting to see what the results are regarding the huge pile of dirt along route 17. And the park. If it comes back Contaminated than the Village must deal with that. If not then let’s see what they continue regarding more construction at the park. Anyway, it doesn’t matter how you look at it this is becoming one big money pit.
Do we know if the dirt is contaminated from the 100 year old barn being taken down
It definitely should be checked.
Just wait til the toxic garage the village just bought starts adding up. Remediation out the yin yang. will cost tax payers and arm and a leg.
If it’s a money pit, that’s fine. Whoever sanctioned this catastrophe with properly mitigating its risks will pay for it out of their own pocket – not out of the taxpayers’ pockets!
Let him live in the shitty house at shedler
The house will need to generate revenue (I was going to say just like Healthbarn, but we already know that isn’t really a money making endeavor), so letting him live in the house is probably a no-go. It sounds like he is in a bit of a financial quandry, being sued and all. Just a guess that this suit with the Newark Y may be to offset the other leins and judgements he has lined up when he is the defendent. Perhaps Vagianos would consider a small loan, something in the vicinity of $47,000.00 with 10% interest seeing that he had so much confidence in his abilities it is seemingly a sure fire investment.
Oh there is money being made by healthbarn. A lot. It’s just going to the owner NOT the village. Only rent. Menial rent. But mark my words it is a money maker for the owner But we tax payers pay for the it’s success
Unfortunately if you think you are coming to Ridgewood and are going to get over on people, you have another thing coming. There are eyes and ears around every corner and while this mayor and council think they can pull the wool over everyone’s eyes with their smoke show, it will, sooner or later catch up with them. The truth always has a way of coming out to rear its ugly head.
The truth always has a way of coming out to rear its ugly head … long after the guilty can no longer be held accountable and nobody actually cares anymore. FTFY.
This Council has been getting over on the people for a year and a half now.
Yes but we could always use more eyes. Especially at what is going on at Habernickel park. Pavillion, low rent and all the maintaince
What revenue does the town get from this business????
They even have a washer and dryer over there at Habernickel. They could wash Peter’s clothes if he is in a bind.
So just as residents said, Peter Primavera is a conman. #keithkazmark
Birds of a feather flock together; PPP
#PaulVagianos
#PamPerron
#PeterPrimavera
How did he hurt his hand…?
His lawsuit said that he fell off of a ladder when he was trying to reach the top bunk of a bunkbed.
So let’s get this straight. Good buddy to PeeWee, Gail Price introduces this historic consultant character as the “expert” the village needs to con…. convince, the state agency that there needs to be a gigantic plastic sports field over on the Schedler property. But after paying him a good amount of money, they end up hiring another company and pay them a good amount of money to also help with the application which came back the first time as professionally and technically incomplete with all kinds of irrelevant information supplie. I would like to know what is really going on here and why is Keith Kazmark, highly paid village manager with a clerk at his disposal, so sheepish on the details of how many people are required to work on an applicaiton. I am estimating that we are in for at least $50k at this point. Could any of this be conducted in house given the resources that exist? The irresponsible spending seems to be spiraling out of control and I hope that we are not destined for another furlough given the amount of money that will also be required is soil is toxic and also what will be spent at the new property purchase over at the town garage.
“But after paying him a good amount of money, they end up hiring another company and pay them a good amount of money to also help with the application which came back the first time as professionally and technically incomplete with all kinds of irrelevant information supplie. ”
If the council wants to spend money and get nothing in return, that’s their prerogative. But, they definitely need to pay for that out of their own pockets – not ours!
Bill, I am a glass half full kind of person myself and hate unnecessary spending, especially at the expense of the taxpayer, however in order to fully understand what you actually understand about municipal government, I need to ask you a few questions:
1) Have you met our Mayor or attended a village council meeting (virtual or in person)
2) Our Village Manager puts an agenda together at the ast minute, meaning it has to be done 48 hours in advance of the meeting and this is generally when residents find out what is going on
3) Oftentimes the mayor and council say nothing and residents find out what is going on in the village after the fact, as is the case with the newly purchased toxic town garage.
4) they vote, they don’t have to ask permission from the public to pull their little stunts, so you have to just suck up all of their bad decisions…over and over and over again.
So welcome to Ridgewood. One of the best towns to live in Jersey!!
Spot on.
Which did he fall from? A ladder, or a bunkbed. The two different stories scare me, not where he lives
According to the legal action he filed, he fell on a ladder leading up to the top bunk in a bunkbed.
well he isn’t exactly forthcoming about things going on in his personal life as he said on the stand, so we may never actually know what the truth is from fiction or his made up stories.
Right now just based on listening to meetings, I believe the village has spent upwards of the below estimates with much more in store but I can’t keep track of it all, it is exhausting!
PFAS Remediation:
Lord only knows the total cost but residents are being billed a surcharge on top of having to purchase drinking water and water filters for bathing/showers. Not sure what the pool people plan to do or if Grayden has filtered water. Ridgewood filed lawsuits against a number of companies in 2019/2020 after 44 of its 52 municipal wells were found to be contaminated with elevated levels of PFAS, a group of man-made chemicals linked to cancer and other illnesses. Chemicals in the group include perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and perfluorooctane sulfonic acid (PFOS).
Toxic Remediation to clean up newly purchased Town Garage property:
Supposedly spent between $1 – 1.5 Million to buy property behind the veil where residents were not aware (surprise!). Contaminents will need to be removed if anything meaningful is to be done at this location. More to come.
Special projects:
Habernickel will get a pavillion for residents to use or Healthbarn, whoever gets there first! Let the races begin!! Cost of this special structure is $350,000 with a bathroom to be installed at a later date (additional charges will apply). When the barn was knocked down, Parks & Rec recommended selling the wood as “reclaimed” to get back some money to go towards a new structure. Not sure what the outcome was on that front.
Lights at Vet’s Field are aprox $700,000- this is only for a certain portion and not the entire property. Extra padding (likely extra $) will be placed around light poles for safety reasons. Siobahn’s soccer friends can play at night. Oh goodie!
Sidewalks:
West Glen supposedly happening but not sure total expenditure
East Glen-not sure
Clinton Street-highly controversial, many meetings, some neighbors don’t want sidewalks on their street and PeeWee’s buddy lives there so you can do the math….probably will fade away into the abyss.
Recent Schedler activities:
Primavera-historic consultant fee $30,000
Suburban Engineering- $13,000 for SHPO application (1st and 2nd submission)
Matrix New World Engineering Soil testing $39,000
Suburban Engineering Wetlands study $10,500 (was requested that this be performed in 7/2023 and might have been conducted by NJDEP at no cost at that time).
note-previous activities that consisted of tree removals, berm construction etc is TBD
Street Paving of WSR-TBD
Feel free to add to the list if you have more info.
What the village of Ridgewood, especially the Mayor., Paul Vagianos and majority block council, Winograd, Weitz and Perron and people that protect them (village mgr and village atty) have voted on is way worse than any lie or deception that Peter Primavera has told to the Village. Did he misrepresent himself and his accomplishments, probably 100%. But the real harbingers of doom on our community are the bad actors that create scenarious for special interests, their nepotism plants in the committees/commissions, how they can personally benefit from the outcome of their special proejcts, etc. All with the glory of the tax dollar on most of the unsuspecting residents who dutifully write their quarterly check but are probably too busy to focus attention on what is going on and why. Sure they may go on Facebook and contribute to an occasional rant but do they really want to effect change. Only time can tell.