Riverdale doesn’t need more multi-unit buildings blocking views

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To the editor: 

We have been members of the Riverdale Community since 1967 and have lived on Ladd Road off of Palisades Avenue very close to the Hebrew Home.  This is a R1 zoned area with views and access to the Hudson River.  Palisades is a country lane with stone walls and wide enough to let two cars pass on a windy hilly road.  The Hebrew Home currently is a “factory” blocking any river view or access from 261st to Sigma Place.  Traffic is often backed up and traffic has made Palisade Avenue at times impassable.

 There are many apartments and nursing homes in Riverdale.  We have more than our share that line the Henry Hudson Parkway.  We all know there is quite a threat on nursing home candidates  as home care and palliative care have been found much better for many patients, and much, much less expensive.  The Hebrew Home wants to have dwellers in its apartments who will eventually enter the nursing home proper.  Clients for their real estate development must be rich enough to pay $400,000 down and thousands in monthly maintenance. Is the Hebrew Home a not for profit organization? They can service such a clientele in their apartments in Riverdale without building another occluding set of structures south of Sigma Place.

Let us keep Riverdale and our beloved river side and views for the citizens of Riverdale.  We do not need more apartments, and we do not need them in an R1 area.  Please look around our community and see how well we have served our city with the nursing homes and apartments currently extant.

James J. Strain, MD

Gladys Witt Strain, PhD

Hebrew Home, James J. Strain, Gladys Witt Strain

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