DUBLIN, IRELAND (October 26, 2026) — Remember those rental statistics that supposedly proved New Rochelle had discovered the secret sauce to bringing down housing costs? The numbers promoted by the Pew Charitable Trusts and the Wall Street Journal that helped turn New Rochelle into a celebrated national model for solving America’
An examination of nearly a decade of Apartment List data challenges the statistics used to portray New Rochelle as a national model for lowering rents. DUBLIN, IRELAND (October 26, 2026) — For more than a year, New Rochelle has been celebrated as a rare American success story: a city that welcomed
DUBLIN, IRELAND (October 26, 2026) — After years of investigating New Rochelle’s efforts to establish civilian oversight of its Police Department, it is becoming increasingly clear to me that the people running City Hall — the mayor, the city manager, the corporation counsel and the leadership of the New Rochelle Police
DUBLIN, IRELAND (October 25, 2026) — More than a century ago, a New Rochelle woman undertook the painstaking task of deciphering, transcribing and translating the town’s oldest surviving municipal records, preserving documents that tell the story of the community’s earliest years. Her name was Jeanne Claudet Forbes, and in
DUBLIN, IRELAND (October 25, 2026) — In August, I received an email from James C. “Jim” Forbes Jr. of Atlanta, Georgia, telling me that eight members of his family had gathered in New Rochelle in July for a reunion. He included a photograph of the family members and a brief account
DUBLIN, IRELAND (October 25, 2026) — The New Rochelle Board of Education has released a new flyer promoting community participation in Vision 2030, its initiative to rethink how the City School District of New Rochelle organizes its schools and delivers educational services. The flyer promises transparency, emphasizes that no decisions have
DUBLIN, IRELAND (October 24, 2026) — The New Rochelle Board of Education says it wants community participation in Vision 2030, an initiative that could reshape the City School District of New Rochelle. But when I submitted 14 groups of questions about the Board’s promises, its selection of proposals and the
DUBLIN, IRELAND (October 23, 2026) — After a full day preparing my response to the district’s appeal, the next decision belongs to the Appellate Division. I spent most of today, preparing and submitting an 18-page court filing in my continuing legal battle with the City School District of New
85.6% of New Rochelle Residents Live Within Two Miles of City Hall, Compared With Just 10% Within Two Miles of Mayor Ramos-Herbert’s Chosen Venue at the JCC; 39,927 v 4,219 live within a 20 minute walk. DUBLIN, IRELAND (October 17, 2026) — I was on the
DUBLIN, IRELAND (October 17, 2026) — Following my examination of the city’s Board of Ethics, I am pursuing three additional lines of inquiry: how the board applies its own rules, how it handles and disposes of complaints, and whether it maintains the records that would allow the public to evaluate
DUBLIN, IRELAND (October 16, 2026) — An inquiry about an ethics complaint against a City Council member led me to examine why the municipal body responsible for enforcing ethical standards operates with so little transparency, and what the city should do about it. In June, Michael Cammer, a recently appointed member
See You in Court DUBLIN, IRELAND (October 15, 2026) — This is Part VI in a multi-part series. Over the first five installments of this series, I have examined what happened when I sought public records from the City of New Rochelle. The requests involved different subjects, different City departments