Inspired Edgemont High School students are selling yard signs for social change, with the help of social media artists, to confront racism clo…
Scarsdale High School junior Sarah Jane Traumer spent her 17th birthday baking 100 cupcakes for the Scarsdale heroes. She recognized their bravery, especially the Scarsdale Volunteer Ambulance Corps. She spent the day baking, icing, decorating and boxing all 100 cupcakes. She delivered the b…
Local farmers markets have changed how they do business as the COVID-19 public health crisis continues to disrupt daily life.
The Shade Store, a purveyor of custom window treatments, including shades, blinds and draperies, is set to open a showroom June 22 at 25 Spencer Place.
Across the country, students’ lives changed overnight due to the coronavirus pandemic. They suddenly had to adapt to a new way of learning and give up in-person interaction with teachers when schools shut down and courses and schoolwork moved online.
One local high school student, with the help of some friends, transformed personal tragedy to community charity.
When disaster strikes, local communities can usually count on their local libraries as a source of refuge, entertainment and education. But with a pandemic, where social distancing and limited human contact is heavily advised, going to a library and checking out a physical book can seem daunting.
Village officials and the Scarsdale Business Alliance are creatively bringing downtown Scarsdale back to life as New York State reopens in four phases following the height of the COVID-19 pandemic from March through May. The latest initiative involved amending codes to allow local businesses…
Carrying backpacks with a thousand flyers, Scarsdale High School juniors Julia Kushnick and Riena Parente set out on a 26-mile, 12-hour marathon culminating at the vigil held June 7 in Chase Park to honor the memory of George Floyd and protest the legacy of racism and social injustice that w…
Edgemont High School senior Olivia DePietto felt devastated by the death of George Floyd. She was upset by everything she was seeing on the news and couldn’t sit back, watch and do nothing.
Jordan Copeland looks at Scarsdale and he sees things most people do not. It could be a house abnormally close to the street in Edgewood, a gas station on Post Road in an area with no other businesses, a clock above a shop in Scarsdale Village featuring County Trust, a bank that hasn’t exist…
For the first time since late March, Heathcote Barber Shop was buzzing on Tuesday morning. Literally.
In early March, Edgemont resident Daniel Fenster was standing in front of his first COVID-19 patient at New York-Columbia Presbyterian. He was focused on the task at hand, but he couldn’t hold back the thoughts flooding his mind:
June, July and August are the new March, April and May. At least for 2020 in the real estate market.
Memorial Day celebrations in Greenburgh were not spared the disruptions that the coronavirus has caused throughout the world, but that did not deter local residents from hosting a socially responsible event to honor those who died fighting for their country.
Memorial Day 2020 took on a new look and a new meaning.
Football, poker, video games, acoustic guitars, bike rides and mac and cheese.
With the Hartsdale Starbucks closed, David Fanning took to picking up his morning fix and walking his dog in Scarsdale Village about a month ago. On Tuesday, he noticed something different.
Steve and Marianne Hiller have good days and bad days.
The days of sitting in a cubicle less than 6 feet away from another person seem far behind us as we settle into required work-from-home routines due to COVID-19. It’s been a big adjustment for many of us, but there is a silver lining. At least you don’t have to hear your co-workers sipping t…
As fear and uncertainty spread along with the COVID-19 virus throughout Westchester County in March, schools shut down and the state went into lockdown, but one group of Scarsdale residents was busier than ever.
It wasn’t the 50th anniversary celebration they were hoping for, but the members of the Scarsdale Volunteer Ambulance Corps understand better than most that nothing this year is turning out the way it was supposed to.
The Scarsdale American Legion Post will assemble on Memorial Day in a discrete ceremony with 10 or fewer participants, as set by Gov. Andrew Cuomo for Memorial Day gatherings. For the health and welfare of the veterans, as well as to maintain compliance with applicable NYS rules, the public …
It’s a good thing Luca Dowdall’s family has a big delivery van because he and his friends keep filling it up.
We Scarsdalians put a lot of stock in our appearance, as evidenced by the numerous stylists, barbershops and nail salons around town. It’s no surprise, then, that our banishment from these good-grooming meccas has caused palpable distress. What’s a crowd accustomed to weekly blowouts, expert…
Rabbi Adam Baldachin had a handful of dirt in one hand, his iPhone in the other. In a quiet graveyard with only a funeral director and a cemetery worker in sight, Baldachin tossed the dirt on the coffin while broadcasting live for the family of the deceased to see. It was like nothing he’d e…
Just like all his fellow college seniors, Charlie Musoff was really looking forward to his final semester and graduation at Yale. Then the coronavirus pandemic hit and everything changed.
On Sept. 11, 2001, Sylvie Rosenbloom rushed down from her home in Scarsdale to St. John’s Medical Center in Yonkers an hour after the first airplane hit the World Trade Center. She was off that day, but reported to work in case they needed the hands of an extra emergency department nurse.
There is a quiet buzz around Joseph L. Bruno Stadium (“The Joe”) two hours before the Tri-City ValleyCats take on the visiting Jamestown Jammers on Friday, Aug. 9. [Digital editor’s note: This was originally published in The Scarsdale Inquirer Aug. 16, 2013. Gladstone recently died due to CO…
The Center for Aging in Place offers this informal senior services/referral directory and online resources for Westchester County amid the COVID-19 pandemic, with thanks for the help of DOROT Westchester, RSVP of Westchester, Volunteer New York! and Nonprofit Westchester.
Karen Smoler Heller doesn’t directly fight disease, come up with cures or treat patients, but her work behind the scenes benefits those who do and those who rely on those life-saving services.
All across the tri-state area, hospitals are struggling to find protective equipment for frontline heroes.
Every time Adam Abeshouse is able to procure personal protective equipment (PPE) he jumps in his car and heads to the Ambassador of Scarsdale on Saxon Wood Road. When he gets there, employees graciously take the much-needed equipment and also bring along Abeshouse’s 88-year-old mother, who h…
Dr. Hyun Joon Lee (she goes by Joon) always knew her work was important.
Two Scarsdale students, Matthew and Jordan Knispel, are leading the effort in New York to help seniors in our community. Matthew, a junior at Scarsdale High School, is president of the New York division and Jordan, a seventh grader at Scarsdale Middle School, is vice president.
Westchester saw its first case of the novel coronavirus in early March. A few weeks later, on March 23, Gov. Andrew Cuomo ordered hospitals across the state to increase their ability to care for 50% more patients. By then, White Plains Hospital (WPH) was already preparing for the surge.
Dr. Mark Weller only sees COVID-19 patients whose lives are on the line.
First it was Purell. Then it was toilet paper. And now, it’s dogs and cats. That’s right; people are clamoring to adopt or foster pets while sheltering at home.
On Wednesday, April 22, send a huge thank you to Scarsdale’s Police and Fire departments, the Scarsdale Volunteer Ambulance Corp, as well as the sanitation and water department workers. They have been working tirelessly on our behalf, and some of the first responders have tested positive for…
As the coronavirus pandemic continues to upend the rhythm and routine of our daily lives, instructions to avoid the potentially lethal COVID-19 are clear and prominently posted. We are told to: Stay Home, Stay Safe. Stay Home, Save Lives. Shelter in place.
There was nothing conventional about the life of Ilse Schweid from the day was she was born in Minden, Germany, Aug. 2, 1922, to the day she died as Irene Hirsch on March 30. The Holocaust survivor, the youngest of nine children, changed her first name to distance herself from her native cou…
Not even a pandemic can stop Scouts from meeting goals and taking action.
When the 1-mile zone was set up in New Rochelle and the National Guard was called to help on March 10, most of the Scarsdale Chinese realized the dire situation our own community might face. We had been closely monitoring what happened in China for over a month, and many members wanted to he…
The video fades in on Greenburgh Detective Benjamin Fontanilles sitting in his police vehicle clutching a children’s book.
With a pair of 3D printers at Scarsdale Oral Surgery at the Apple Bank Building in Scarsdale sitting idle due to the lack of patients — only emergencies are permitted during the COVID-19 pandemic — Dr. Evan Chafitz found a way to get back to work. Since last week, Chafitz has set up a person…
After her three kids are fast asleep Elise Houpt gets to work. She gathers all her ingredients and starts to mix. Hours pass and she finally begins to see the fruits of her labor — tins filled with sugar cookies fresh out of her oven. She stays up until around 3 or 4 a.m. every night baking …
As the sun was about to set Thursday, March 26, the Goldrich family of five gathered around a laptop in their Edgemont home, poised to celebrate youngest son Henry’s bar mitzvah service. But it was not a typical ceremony. Instead, the simcah took place online with 154 guests tuning in via Zo…
On a recent winter morning, I had the pleasure of interviewing Earl G. Graves Sr. in his home on Heathcote Road in Scarsdale. [Digital Editor’s note: This piece originally ran in the April 17, 2009 Scarsdale Inquirer print edition, three years after he handed Black Enterprise over to oldest …
