Longtime Scarsdale resident Ira Schuman was recently awarded the Real Estate Board of New York’s (REBNY) Sales Brokers Most Ingenious Deal of …
Scarsdale businesses have had to pivot more times than Ross, Chandler and Rachel moving a couch on “Friends” over the past year-plus during the COVID-19 pandemic. Next week’s annual Sidewalk Sale is no different, but the Scarsdale Business Alliance (SBA) and the village are pulling out all t…
Below is a list of updates, things to do, things not to do, meetings, closings, openings, things you need to know/might want to know. We will update the list as new items come in. The most recent items will be at the top.
Last week, Hartsdale resident Canh Oxelson sat in a living room in Chicago and had a meal with his family. For many families, having a meal together is a regular event. For Oxelson, this meal marked a reunion with his biological family, after having been adopted nearly 50 years ago.
Samantha Richter, 16, a rising senior at Edgemont High School, still vividly remembers trying out for Model U.N., an academic activity in which students role-play as members of the United Nations. Though Richter had participated in her school’s debate, “I didn’t feel super confident in my pu…
A new sign at the Crossway Athletic Complex on Mamaroneck Road renames the field to acknowledge the impact youth football coach Richard “Rippy” Philipps has had on the community.
After more than two years, the Humane Society of Westchester at New Rochelle held a ribbon-cutting ceremony July 13 opening its new state-of-the-art shelter that employs modern sheltering standards. The shelter has undergone a $4.5 million renovation expanding from 6,000 to 12,000 square fee…
Open Door Family Medical Center, the federally qualified health care center, has named Scarsdale resident Leslie Chang to its Foundation Board.
No sleep, no problem, for the Horne family as they were all smiles after accepting their first-place ribbon for their float in the 93rd annual Arthur Manor Fourth of July parade.
Even though the soaring temperatures outside forced them to move indoors, the Scarsdale Public Library was ready to open its doors to host its Wellness Fair for adult patrons Wednesday, June 30.
Ven and Priscilla Parameswaran sit across their dining room table, dressed up for dinner with their son and grandchildren. The walls of their living room are decked with photographs of the couple with politicians, as well as family portraits of their three grandchildren smiling and hugging —…
Julia Rose Deschamps and Sandor Aaron Mark were married on June 12. Tanya Pushkine performed the ceremony at the home of Mr. Mark’s parents in Scarsdale. A small, intimate group was in attendance for a socially distanced ceremony.
Who says America’s Most Beautiful Bike Ride has to be around Lake Tahoe? And who says you have to travel hundreds of miles to raise money for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society?
Updated June 18: to watch the program replay, go to https://youtu.be/oBGcs1j8_IQ.
Naomi (Loeb) and Marvin Lipman will celebrate their 70th wedding anniversary June 17. They were both Brooklynites, students at Columbia University in 1948 who met in the university’s Drama Society. Married in Manhattan, they resided on the Upper West Side while completing graduate studies in…
Just two years after breaking ground in April 2019, White Plains Hospital’s Center for Advanced Medicine & Surgery, the newest and largest dedicated outpatient facility for White Plains Hospital (WPH), and one of the largest in Westchester, opened its doors June 2 with a celebratory ribb…
Mention “the situation at the border,” and people immediately understand what you mean: the chaos and heartbreak unfolding as thousands of Mexicans and Central Americans attempt to cross over from Mexico into the United States. From January to February of this year alone, U.S. Customs and Bo…
Continuing a longstanding annual tradition, Greenburgh’s public access channel broadcast as many as 150 of its 30- to 60-minute prerecorded interviews with local veterans this past Memorial Day weekend.
The Hartsdale, Fairview and Greenville fire departments, along with the Greenburgh Police Department, led a motorcade through the town of Greenburgh on Memorial Day, May 31, to pay tribute to those in the military who gave their lives protecting the nation’s freedom. Traditional Memorial Day…
Since 1943, the Scarsdale Bowl has served as a tangible symbol of the importance and worth that Scarsdale places on the volunteer service of its residents. The Scarsdale Foundation awards the Bowl each year to the person or couple who has “given unselfishly of time, energy, and effort to the…
If ever there was a year that served as a reminder to veterans, to the Scarsdale community, and to our country as a whole why we celebrate Memorial Day as a national holiday, it’s the year we just lived through.
The Scarsdale Public Library kicked off its AAPI Heritage Festival on May 24 with an educational presentation called “I Am Not a Virus.” Purchase College Professor of History Renqiu Yu along with Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA) educator Stephanie Zank discussed the hardships Asians have …
The Scarsdale Forum announced that members voted to elect Susan Douglass as its vice president at its annual membership meeting. Douglass will serve alongside Eli Mattioli, Scarsdale Forum’s new president. Forum members also reelected Matthew Martin as treasurer, reelected Alexandra Tagami V…
It is easy to miss the sunken war memorial in Scarsdale Village partially hidden from view in Boniface Circle. It is a quiet place to reflect on the long list of names of Scarsdale residents who served and died during World War II. As time goes on, it is harder to put faces to the names, but…
The lights slowly flickered on as Andrew McMurray walked into Zachys’ recently gutted warehouse in Port Chester. His voice echoed off the 23-foot-high ceilings and into the abyss of darkness in the back as he gleefully explained where all the wine would go.
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Zachys, the local multimillion dollar wine retail, auction and storage behemoth, which expanded over the decades out of a 327-square-foot shop on East Parkway in Scarsdale, will be leaving the village after more than 75 years.
Larchmont’s Down to Earth Market, Metro-North upper lot at the intersection of Chatsworth Avenue and Myrtle Boulevard. downtoearthmarkets.com. The market is open Saturdays, 8:30 a.m.-1 p.m., through Dec. 18. See the website for participating vendors.
Scarsdale High School sophomore Nico Galeano, along with his eighth grade brother Lorenzo, started a foundation Pa’lante, short for "para adelante" or "move forward" in Spanish. The Galeano family is from Colombia although the brothers were born and raised in New York. In 2018 they traveled …
Two years after the “Wing the ’Dale” mural was unveiled in Scarsdale village, Scarsdale High School (SHS) teacher Janna Johnsen has spearheaded a second community art installation, this time to create hand-painted flower planters with the help of students in her Advanced Topics in 2-D Studio…
The sun was shining and there were smiling faces all around as families finally had the chance to get outdoors and enjoy the new Scarsdale Public Library.
On Tuesday, May 18, at 6 p.m., Junior Achievement of New York will honor Scarsdale resident Chris Levendos with the 2021 Lower Hudson Valley Champions Award during its virtual Champions Celebration. The Champions Celebration brings together business leaders, educators and supporters with the…
After having the Pinewood Derby canceled last year due to the pandemic, Scarsdale Pack 440’s Cub Scouts were raring to go. With careful planning, the support of Hitchcock Church, the pack’s chartering organization, and adherence to CDC safety protocols, the derby ran smoothly on April 18 at …
Scarsdale and Edgemont have fewer Black residents than ever before, according to local historian Jordan Copeland. “It hasn’t always been like this. The numbers have been going in the wrong direction,” he said during a presentation April 21 at the Edgemont Community Council’s annual meeting, …
First Jett and now Clancy have helped Scarsdale’s Millman family live a more normal life. If it weren’t for these yellow Labrador retriever service dogs for autistic 14-year-old son and brother Alex Millman, the family would have been sheltering in place and social distancing long before tha…
Scarsdale juniors Isabel Laing, Justine Karp and Rowan Haffner, on behalf of Scarsdale High School and St Vincent’s Hospital of Westchester, won the St. Vincent’s Hospital Youth Award for outstanding volunteer service to the community. Laing spent her Sunday afternoons over the last three ye…
Theresa Choh-Lee knows what it’s like to feel isolated. When her family put down roots in the Midwest, she was the only minority student in her school and dealt with that ostracization by suffering in silence.
Members of the Edgemont Community Council officially recognized Betsy and Tom McCormack as the recipients of the 2021 Silver Bowl — the council’s Distinguished Community Service Award — during the ECC’s annual meeting April 21, held virtually for the second year in a row.
An unopened Heineken beer bottle. A nearly new pair of Nike sneakers. Invasive vines and weeds.
Mother Nature certainly did her part, providing perfect weather on a beautiful sunny day Saturday, April 24, while residents gathered for a series of outdoor programs to celebrate Earth Day at the Weinberg Nature Center on Mamaroneck Road.
In acknowledgement of Earth Day this week, Thursday, April 22, and World Environment Day, celebrated on Saturday, June 5, The Scarsdale Inquirer will highlight the different waste and recycling streams of the village of Scarsdale in upcoming editions. The series will spotlight a different ty…
Rachel Moseley retired in 2002, her husband, Harry, in 2017. They like to joke about who had the shorter retirement, because within a few months of their respective “retirements,” the self-proclaimed “workaholics” were both back to work. And it’s a good thing, too, because both unexpectedly …
United Hebrew of New Rochelle officially broke ground on an expansion of Willow Gardens, recently endowed and renamed for Malcolm and Patricia Lazarus, Scarsdale residents and longtime supporters of United Hebrew. The expansion will help to meet the critical needs of families by providing ad…
The Women Enterprise Development Center Inc. (WEDC), a nonprofit organization helping women to start, strengthen and succeed in business, has announced the election of three directors to its board of directors: Melinda A. White, Amanda Hack and Lisa Tretler.
Iris Burkat first met her husband, Howard, on a Greyhound bus, when both were heading back to school in Philadelphia in the 1960s. Travel has been a major motif of their union ever since.
Though Realtors would like to see more inventory on the market to match the demand of buyers looking to move to Scarsdale and Edgemont, they are encouraged by the fact that the market has been steady since just after the COVID-19 shutdown from March to June 2020. Bidding wars over asking pri…
Like many others since the start of the coronavirus pandemic last year, Scarsdale teenager Ryan Hirsch has spent a lot more time riding his bike.
For the second straight year, the New York Press Association held a virtual press convention and awards ceremony April 8-9 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
After her peers elected New York Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins in 2019 to become the first female Leader in the state's 242-year history, under her leadership the Senate Majority held hearings on sexual harassment in the workplace for the first time in 27 years.
Two students at Scarsdale High School, Natalie Hu and Alexandra Simon, are volunteering to improve the lives of children around the world and are encouraging their fellow students to join them. They got involved through an Operation Smile Club during their freshman year.
Scarsdale resident Margaret S. Smith has joined Burke Rehabilitation Hospital as its new Chief Marketing Officer. She will oversee the hospital’s advertising, public relations, online communications and external relations with the goal of bringing Burke’s restorative care to the many patient…
After spending 13 years working in California, Alix Dunn decided to move back to Westchester. A native of northern Tarrytown, Dunn had completed the cross-country trip several times and finally decided to pursue a new adventure in her home county.
