A conversation with Croton trustee Nora Nicholson as she bids for re-election.
"We must always be listening, because people are asking really important questions."
Editor’s Note: The Chronicle is publishing interviews with all six candidates running for village office this November. Interviews with Mayor Brian Pugh and first time candidate Karen Pecora will be coming soon.
CHRONICLE: Obviously a lot of people know you in the village, mainly through your being a trustee. But maybe a lot of people don’t really know you well because you returned to the village after being away for quite a while, in 2021, right?
NORA: Yes.
CHRONICLE: I’d like to just get a bit of your background. Your personal history. I know you spent a lot of time in the Croton-Harmon schools. When did your family actually first move to Croton?
NORA: My parents moved here from the Bronx in 1967. My brother Sean was born here, 1969. My brother Jamie was born in 1971, and I was born in 1975. We lived on Palmer Avenue.
CHRONICLE: How long were you in the Croton schools?
NORA: I went to Holy Name of Mary from Kindergarten to 5th grade. Holy Name had been steadily been losing enrollment, and when I was going into 6th grade there was kind of a mass exodus to public school. Me and about 10 friends switched to PVC [Pierre Van Cortlandt Middle School] and the [church] school closed a few years later.
CHRONICLE: Are you still friends with some of those people?
NORA: Many, yeah.
CHRONICLE: At a certain point you moved away, or your family moved away?
NORA: My Mom is still here. I went to college in Albany, at SUNY Albany, and graduated in 1997. I graduated, moved to White Plains, and worked for Macy’s in the corporate buying office, which was my first job out of college.
CHRONICLE: So you started out in the corporate world but ended up in the non-profit world?
NORA: Yes.
CHRONICLE: We will talk about that in just a bit. And at some point you went out to California?
NORA: Yes, I moved to California in 1999, had visited California when I was in high school and fell in love. I thought San Francisco and Berkeley were so beautiful. Macy’s at the time had a buying office in San Francisco office so I was able to transfer from my job in New York City to the buying offices in San Francisco.
CHRONICLE: You went to San Francisco State…
NORA: For graduate school. That was many years later.
CHRONICLE: So there was a gap.
NORA: Yes. I worked for Macy’s for seven years in San Francisco, my husband and I met in San Francisco, and then he got a job opportunity in Shanghai, China. We moved there and lived in Shanghai from 2003 to 2006.
CHRONICLE: Was there anything about your experience in China that was noteworthy in terms of your career or your work?
NORA: Living in China was incredible. Being in retail I was always fascinated by how things were made. I got a job with an import-export company there doing sourcing. My husband and I traveled extensively, in Asia, there was an amazing expat community in Shanghai so we made a lot of friends. I was very involved in Democrats Abroad in Shanghai and actually worked registering voters to vote in the John Kerry vs. George W. Bush election. I clearly remember sitting with a large group of Democrats in Shanghai, seeing the election results come in, and being devastated. This was my first real foray into campaigns and Get Out the Vote, and when I became passionate about Democratic politics. I was always very active in student government from middle school on, as many of my Croton classmates know. After I lived in China, I got more active in campaigns (knocking doors, etc.)
CHRONICLE: At a certain point, you went from the corporate world to the nonprofit world. I saw this article you wrote for “Count the Kicks,” you write about a difficult pregnancy in 2011, and that your lives were changed forever. Did this experience have anything to do with that?
NORA: Absolutely. I had always wanted to go into public service, but I ended up in retail. After returning from China, I worked for The Gap in their corporate offices, where I climbed the corporate ladder. I enjoyed retail, industry, and I learned a lot about finance and marketing. I was in the online section of The Gap, and our online business was fantastic. We were able to do some really innovative work. But I always had this great desire to give back. My father was a police officer, and my grandparents were all immigrants.
CHRONICLE: Immigrants from…
NORA: Ireland, on both sides. I actually became an Irish citizen recently. Many people know me in Croton as Nora Moriarty. In 2011, I lost my son Bryce when I was 37 weeks pregnant with him… A total blindside, I had no idea how common stillbirth is, it is not something anyone talks about, my doctors didn’t prepare me for such a scenario. That is why I volunteer now with Count the Kicks to share with expectant parents that stillbirth can be prevented by tracking fetal movement. That was a traumatic time. On top of losing Bryce, I was diagnosed with breast cancer six weeks after I lost my son. I was 37. At that point, I was like, what am I doing with my life? All happening at once. So I began focusing more on my family, my daughter Marlo was three at the time, and a year later, I had my daughter Lila. I knew I needed a career with greater meaning than retail.
CHRONICLE: Let’s fast forward slightly, these things are going on, what made you decide to come back to Croton?
NORA: My Mom would come and visit us, and stay for the girls’ birthdays, and I would always be encouraging her to move out to California to be near us. She would always say, Croton is my home, I love Croton, I want to stay here.
CHRONICLE: So you came to her essentially?
NORA: When the pandemic happened, it disrupted everything. I was working as a Program Director at a Food Bank, and work was so intense. We had a fire in the hills by our home in California. My husband got laid off. So we decided to move back East, closer to my mother in Croton and Dana’s (my husband) Dad in Michigan.
CHRONICLE: So you come back, in 2021, and very quickly you were appointed to the Board of Trustees. What were the circumstances there?
NORA: I had moved back in August 2021, and in November, Trustee Alejandro Rosales stepped down due to a work conflict.
CHRONICLE: So how do you manage to come back in 2021 and you’re on the Board of Trustees in 2022?
NORA: I had always been keeping in touch with Croton; I knew what was going on. I spent time on Croton's Facebook pages, read The Gazette, and my mother always kept me up to date with the issues happening. I lived in San Francisco but had left my heart in Croton, so to speak.
CHRONICLE: Were you in touch with the Democratic Party people here?
NORA: In a very Croton way, [former mayor] Bob Elliot lives across the street from my Mom. I know Bob and Cathy very well. So I knew what was going on, and the tremendous progress that had been made since I went to high school. A lot of that progress was driven by Bob Elliot.
CHRONICLE: By progress, what would you refer to, what would be a couple of examples?
NORA: The river walk is definitely an example of something that did not exist when I was a kid, and now is just an absolute jewel. Coming back with my kids every summer, I would go down to the river, and was just amazed that it was completed. Croton maintains a sense of level of safety and comfort that fits like a glove, and I still felt very much at home.
I was actually at the meeting when Alejandro stepped down, because Gouveia Park was on the agenda, and I was curious about what was going on there. I thought that a seat on the Board that I didn’t need to run for was very appealing! When I was in California, I was active in local government as well, going to meetings and keeping up on current issues. If I had stayed there, I probably would have run for office. Part of getting my Master's in Public Administration in 2020 from San Francisco State was to further my career in public service.
CHRONICLE: Would it be fair to say that you had some connections that helped you be the one who was selected when Alejandro had to step down?
NORA: No. Seventeen people applied for the position. Mayor Pugh and Ann Gallelli said I was chosen because I was the only one of the candidates who read the Comprehensive Plan going into the interview. My MPA also gave me a good understanding of the Manager-Board form of government that we have here in Croton, which was helpful in getting appointed.
CHRONICLE: But eventually you did have to run, and you decided to. Was that a tough decision?
NORA: I was appointed in the November/December time frame, and my idea was that I would give it a year, see how I did, how I liked it, and then I would decide. But what I didn’t realize was that you have to petition so early; you need to petition in January/February if you are going to run the next year. So all of a sudden I was appointed and needed to make a decision really quickly afterwards, before I was comfortable, but at that point I was committed and agreed to run again.
CHRONICLE: So this will be the second time that you are running?
NORA: Right.
CHRONICLE: When you did decide to run, what was key to your decision? Did you enjoy being a trustee?
NORA: I did, I did enjoy being a trustee. It was such an incredible learning experience; it’s an important position to be in. We need caring and dedicated people doing the work. I was committed, I had my family’s support, even though this time around they said, Mom, don’t run!
CHRONICLE: How hard did they try to convince you not to run?
NORA: Not very hard. When I was first sworn in, I remember Ann Gallelli turning to my kids and saying, you know your Mom’s going to be at a lot of meetings at night and you won’t see her as much. Talk about someone who devoted so many years to the village, very inspiring. So I had the opportunity to work with her, which was great, and everyone on the board really had open arms, very, very helpful, and mentored me as the newbie on the board.
CHRONICLE: Do you have higher political ambitions beyond the Board of Trustees?
NORA: I don’t think so. My skin is not that thick. It just takes a lot, you really need to want it. I don’t think that’s my path.
CHRONICLE: As you have been on the board, especially the last couple of years, things have become more contested. And now Voice of Croton is on the ballot so it’s a real contested election. So it doesn’t come easily to you to be in a fight?
NORA: Right.
CHRONICLE: Did you think about not running this time around?
NORA: I contemplated it, but I thought, I’m committed. And I didn’t find another Democrat that would step up and run to take my place. I had conversations with people in town. I said why don’t you run, how about you?
CHRONICLE: Why do you think people have not been too eager? There are certainly enough Democrats to go around.
NORA: It’s a lot of time and a lot of effort.
CHRONICLE: And they don’t pay much.
NORA: Yes, they don’t pay much. If you are in it for the money, it’s not the job for you. People have lives, and kids, and all sorts of things; it is a very big commitment. Social media is scary for people, there’s a lot of nastiness out there. Personally, I haven’t been targeted, yet. I haven’t seen any personal attacks on me but I dread the day. So far I have only seen someone comment that I say “um” too much at meetings! If that’s the worst thing people say about me then so be it. Making decisions on the Board is also challenging. It is easy to have opinions about things but when you have to commit to one side it is difficult. There is a lot of nuance and you start to quickly realize that you can’t make everyone happy. I take all the votes I make very seriously.
CHRONICLE: In 2022, when you first came on the board, what were the main issues, one or two issues that the board was grappling with?
NORA: The first big hard vote was when we rolled out the EPTA [Emergency Tenant Protection Act] for multifamily housing. I was the only dissenting vote. When I heard from the local landlords that were going to be impacted, I decided I couldn’t support EPTA at the moment.
CHRONICLE: Given the mayor’s commitment to affordable housing and Croton being a pro-housing community, I assume he was looking for someone who would be on board with that philosophy?
NORA: I think that’s fair to say. There’s a lot of policy that goes into this, including the 2017 comprehensive plan and the 2019 Housing Task Force recommendations, which are very important. The board has been committed. The comprehensive plan is the agreed vision for the village. There is a lot of work and study that goes into a comprehensive plan, and this comprehensive plan serves as a north star for the Village. I would anticipate that the Board of Trustees will start the next comprehensive plan in 2026. They should be done every ten years or so.
CHRONICLE: You recall the Guest Editorial that Jonathan Mann wrote in the Chronicle, because you responded to it.
NORA: Yes, he had a lot of good points. I actually asked him if he wanted to volunteer his time to help. I haven’t heard back from him yet, but I hope he does.
CHRONICLE: One of the things he focused quite a bit on was communication. And I know communication is a big part of your career. He said that people have a tendency to jump to worst case scenario conclusions, that you need to address people’s personal concerns first, never mislead people, and transparency. The main issues he wrote about. I know that at meetings you bring up the question of transparency quite a bit. Here is the question: When we have meetings, and people make public comments, the mayor very often goes back to the comprehensive plan, this is nothing new. But that doesn’t seem to be convincing to everybody, the idea that there is a plan from 2017 that now binds us in the present to make certain decisions. That doesn’t go over well with everybody. What do you think?
NORA: As I said before, the Mayor is correct, the Comprehensive Plan is our guiding policy. As elected officials, we’re in it deep. We are attending every meeting, listening to every comment, I attend or watch every Planning Board meeting as liaison. So there is a lot of information that we are hearing and it is a very long process. Lot A, as an example, this project was years in the making. There were so many points along this road, a committee was formed, it met, it presented its suggestions and findings to the board of what should ideally be at Lot A, created an RFP [Request for Proposals], that RFP was presented to the board. That RFP went out. There are so many decision points along the way. And a regular person can’t possibly keep up with it.
That’s our greatest challenge. How do you communicate what is happening when residents don’t have time to take in all of the details and nuance? It takes years for something to actually happen, it really does. Years and years. And there are many opportunities along the way to have your voice heard, but I do think that by the time people start paying attention, a lot of decisions have been made. That is why we need to try our best as elected officials to communicate all of the steps along the way. And calling out when we are at a clear decision point
CHRONICLE: Do you think the board—obviously you are getting a lot of pushback right now, if it wasn’t for the housing question there wouldn’t be a Voice of Croton and a contested election—has the board in your view been proactive enough?
NORA: The Board and Village can always do more to facilitate transparency and communication. But some of the responsibility is also on the residents to be engaged. There are many opportunities to get involved. I do appreciate it when we have a full room and people are asking questions, especially for big projects like Lot A. This is a forever project, we are going to live with these decisions we are making for decades. I’m not an expert on development so I am always listening to make sure that we are doing our due diligence on all of this planning. We must always be listening, because people are asking really important questions. We all want to get to the best product we can.
CHRONICLE: So the pushback that has developed, let’s call it the anti-urbanization movement, the Voice of Croton, and many others in the village, say they are in favor of affordable housing but we’re going too fast, not going about it the right way. Is the amount of pushback surprising to you personally?
NORA: In my opinion, what caused so much discourse was the 1 Half Moon Bay Drive proposal last summer. That project, Gary [Eisinger] has told me this, there would not be a Voice of Croton if it was not for that proposal. And it was a proposal. You have to be really clear that it was a proposal by a private developer that we had nothing to do with. Someone who owns a parcel can always make a proposal.
CHRONICLE: Now let me interject something here. As you remember, one of the big first stories the Chronicle did was when we got the Freedom of Information Law documents that showed that informally at least, Ann [Gallelli], and Brian [Pugh], and Bryan Healy had been talking with the Finkelstein family for quite a long time about the possibility of turning that tire warehouse into a housing development. I know you were not part of those discussions. But wouldn’t it be fair to say that process, it’s reflected in the documents, they were encouraged to come up with a plan? Mayor Pugh and Ann Gallelli in particular were not blindsided by the proposal.
NORA: They were and they weren’t. The Finkelsteins have owned that property for many years, it’s been a tire warehouse. There was a sale to a member of their extended family and some coinvestors. He was trying to understand from his conversations in doing his due diligence in purchasing this property what the possibilities were for that property.
CHRONICLE: The reason I am pushing a bit on the question of who knew what and when, there were discussions, then months when they didn’t talk at all. [Village Engineer] Dan O’Connor did come up with the estimate of how many apartments could fit in there, and he did come up with the number 300. So when the proposal was for 280 apartments, it was very clear that the village through Dan, that was his job, not blaming him, was helping them to come up with a plan. To be honest, I think the documents do reflect that.
NORA: The new owner was doing due diligence. And he and his partners came up with a proposal for residential that they thought would be compelling to the Village. But the timing was not what any one of us wanted. None of us wanted that proposal to come up last summer. The focus was on Lot A and making sure that we were doing due diligence on that project. The Board of Trustees had gone through Maple Commons, which I was not part of, and that was an arduous process. The next priority from a development perspective was Lot A. There were very deliberate steps in trying to make the development of Lot A a more public process, but when the 1 Half Moon Bay project came up at the same time people had had enough.
CHRONICLE: Lot A is village land, we’re making a plan. That is private land.
NORA: Right. Lot A was a priority for the Village because if you go back to 2020, the Village lost $2.6 million of our $20M annual budget from the drop off of parking at the train station. In order to recoup this revenue the Village needed creative ways to get more revenue, and developing Lot A would give the Village much needed revenue.
CHRONICLE: So let me drill down on something having to do with 1 Half Moon Bay Drive. This was a very dramatic moment. Given what you’re saying, and the village not wanting to deal with that proposal, last July at that very famous meeting, you asked the developers to withdraw the project. But the other members of the board decided that they wanted to keep the process of changing the zoning so that it could potentially be….
NORA: They were asking for an amendment to the zoning in that area for it to be considered a Transit Oriented Development.
CHRONICLE: So at that meeting, you asked the developer to delay for a year, you were alone. All of the other trustees ended up voting to continue the process. You voted nay, it was a very dramatic moment. You said nay so softly, but a lot of us got the impression that you were expressing your independence. You seemed to feel that you did not want us to go down that road at that particular time. Correct?
NORA: Correct. I did not think that the Village should even pursue the application. My colleagues on the Board, including the Mayor, are very smart and perhaps knew that the application was not going to go anywhere. With the referral to the Westchester County Planning Board that ultimately killed the project. They were the entity that needed to make the determination that would be a TOD project. When they came back and said no, this is not a Transit Oriented Project…it killed it. And that project is not coming back for some time.
CHRONICLE: How do we know they won’t?
NORA: The Board has made its position clear, and the property owners withdrew their application in January of this year. We do not know the owner's plans for that property other than that they are no longer seeking a zoning amendment. They have the tire warehouse as a tenant that is paying them rent, so I don’t think they are in a rush. Beyond that, they are not sharing anything with us at the moment. I don’t think they are very happy with the Village at this point because of the clear opposition they faced. They obviously thought it was a great project and one that would be received with open arms.
But we haven’t had development in Croton in twenty years, it has been quite a dry spell in development. It’s true across the country. When I graduated high school Half Moon Bay was just beginning to come online. After the Beekman area project finished in the early 2000s, there were not many parcels left that could be developed. That’s why the Board has done the work of updating our zoning to attract more development in the Village, to encourage more housing units to be built and continue to bring investment to Croton. Empty storefronts is something that has been an ongoing issue for the Village for years.
CHRONICLE: There’s an alternative interpretation of what happened with 1 Half Moon Bay Drive and the Westchester County Planning Board, so I am going to put it past you, because it’s what a lot of people think. It’s that the county planning board view was a recommendation that the village was not bound by, but it provided a good exit for the village to get out of a situation that was becoming very much a hot potato. That’s the way a lot of people saw it.
NORA: I think it’s above politics. Transit Oriented Development is a development that is near transit. I think the planning board takes their job pretty seriously, they are not going to go against their parameters of what it is. And Brian perhaps knew that it was going to fail when it reached the county board, he knows the rules better than I did.
CHRONICLE: At that point, 1 Half Moon Bay Drive was becoming a political liability, crowds of 100 people were coming down to meetings. The county decision certainly was helpful in getting out of that situation. Voice of Croton declared pretty soon afterwards.
NORA: It was less political, and really the question of the right time for the village. We were focused on Lot A, what we were going to do with that site. I thought we shouldn’t even touch this right now, let’s wait a year, if they presented that proposal right now, I don’t know, I think people would have been less up in arms about it. If we are going to develop that parcel we need to study it, it’s not part of the comprehensive plan currently. If that site is zoned light industrial, there are a lot of yucky things that could go into that site. And we would have no say if the owner wanted to put a lot of different uses there.
CHRONICLE: Like a nightclub…?
NORA: More seriously, something that would be a lot worse on the environment than a tire warehouse. Several years ago, there was a proposal at another site in the village from Metro Enviro, which would have brought a garbage transfer site to the Village. No one wants to see that! There was the battle over Metro Enviro; there was a lot of unloading of garbage, transfer, and so on. So I do think we need to be strategic on what we would like to see on the parcel down the road.
CHRONICLE: When you voted nay, it was electrifying, a lot of people were saying Nora Nicholson is really independent, she is really independent of the mayor, and you were kind of a hero for a while. Then you voted for Lot A, and some people said, Nora has sold out, she’s a traitor! Did they misinterpret where you were at in all this?
NORA: I even said that I was in favor of Lot A. And I voted for it. Am I an independent voice? Yes, I don’t agree with the Mayor and my colleagues on everything. I am sure they will tell you that. But we all appreciate the back and forth, and the conversations that are happening. We all want what’s best for the village. We love it here, passionately. We are all just trying to make the best decisions we can.
CHRONICLE: In my interview with Voice of Croton, they were emphatic about two things. Almost planks in their campaign. I’m only going to ask you to respond to one of them. One was that there should be referendums when village land is sold. The other, I won’t ask you about tonight, they want to move the elections back to March.
NORA: I don’t understand, we haven’t had anyone run against us for eight years, would there be more candidates against us if the elections were in March?
CHRONICLE: Yes, it was 2011 the election date was changed, you’ve had a Croton United mayor, trustees…
NORA: What’s important is that as many residents as possible get a say and the most people vote in November. Voter turnout matters. If we move the elections to March we would have less people voting. I don't understand how that would be better for the Village.
CHRONICLE: So you have responded to that! Now, the sale of village land, it’s not even required to have a public hearing in Croton. Voice of Croton argues village land is village land and it belongs to all of it, so you have to have 100% democracy before you sell it.
NORA: So from a very macro perspective, Ezra Klein has recently written a book, called “Abundance.” ["Abundance" is co-authored by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson, published in March 2025.] It’s a critique of the Democratic Party. And part of that critique is that we cannot get anything done because it takes so long and we put too many obstacles in the way. California, which he cites in the book, is an example of where it is very slow to get things done. And California has a lot of referendums. Every single November you are voting on 25 different things.
We elect public officials, and we empower them to make decisions on a lot of things. Who the Chief of police is, who is taking care of you, how we’re monitoring the water, there are a lot of things where we are entrusted by the public to make decisions. And I believe democracy is in the elections. If we start parsing out different things for referendum, it just gets sticky.
I think there are opportunities for people to raise concerns, public hearings, all those things.
CHRONICLE: But there are laws we pass that are subject to permissive referendum.
NORA: There are, like, we recently had a referendum to approve the volunteer firefighters LOSAP Program [Length of Service Awards Program], that’s required by state law. But I’m not ready to change the law for public parcels to have a referendum.
There aren't too many Village owned parcels left to be sold in the Village so it will not be such a big issue in the future.
There are already so many legal hurdles in our way we don’t need to add another one. Last year, Voice of Croton called for a one year moratorium on development. Well, we have gotten exactly that because it naturally just takes so much time to build housing. For example, 1380 Albany Post Rd. (29 units) was approved by the Board of Trustees in 2022. Here we are, three years later, and the builder just received an extension for the special permit so that they can hopefully start building this year. These units will not be available for people to rent until probably 2027, a full five years after approval. The homes at Lot A are expected to be online by 2027/2028.
CHRONICLE: They are not even going to break ground until next spring.
NORA: Yes. I know that people feel we are moving fast but they also need to realize how long things take to get done and for twenty years there was no development. The Croton Dems and the Board committed to a one percent growth target, that’s relatively modest (30 units a year.) A big project like Lot A captures three years of this growth. It is going to be a challenge to get to that target.
CHRONICLE: I know that you and the mayor and others feel that the word urbanization is an exaggeration for what we are doing.
NORA: Yes, we are adding a few more multifamily developments to the village. But the housing crisis is real and you hear it every day from people living in Croton. Housing prices here are skyrocketing, there is nowhere to live, nowhere to buy a home for less than $500,000 in this village. Growing up here as the daughter of a New York City police officer, I always found the beauty of the Croton community was its socioeconomic diversity. If it becomes a place where every house costs over a million dollars, that is what is going to change the village.
CHRONICLE: So it would be nothing but rich people living here.
NORA: And that’s what we’re getting to. Every little house that gets sold in Harmon, and bought for a million dollars, it’s incredible. That’s why it’s important to be forward thinking and to be building housing, we are in a housing shortage. It’s true from a national perspective and it’s true here. Being able to make progress is something that we should be very proud of.
CHRONICLE: Some people say, I think Voice of Croton has said this, we are for affordable housing, we realize there is a housing crisis, but hasn’t Croton done enough? In other words, we are a pro-housing community precisely because we’ve done so much already. I think that is the question a lot of people are posing.
NORA: There is only so much we can do; we are a small village. There are only so many parcels that can actually be developed here. Over 35% of the Village is parkland that cannot be built on ever, and that is a good thing. The natural environment is why we all live here. But we cannot just rest and say we have done enough. We can continue to be strategic in helping support more affordable housing options in Croton. I don’t foresee too many more big developments in Croton. All I know is that people are concerned out of the love for Croton that we all share.
I know some would probably like the Village to be frozen in time but that can’t happen. When it comes to housing, we need to continue to be thoughtful and strategic about growth. We cannot see another 20 years with no development, but on the flip side, I don’t think we will see a period of such active development again. It took 10 years of careful planning to get more development going in the Village. We are witnessing that work bearing fruit now, but I think this has been a spike. We will hopefully level out. But there are many factors that we cannot control that impact investment.
The Village must continue to think about what the opportunities and risks are. We need to be laser-focused on making sure we are growing our tax base, making the appropriate infrastructure updates needed to keep up with growth, and continuing to invest in what makes Croton a fantastic place to live and raise a family.
CHRONICLE: That’s a good place to end I think. Thank you very much for taking the time to talk to the Chronicle.
NORA: Thank you so much, Michael. I appreciate the opportunity for Village residents to learn more about me.

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Nice interview which provides some insight into the background that has brought Nora to the board
Now that’s a thorough interview! I strongly support Nora in her bid for re-election. She is smart and thoughtful. She has a wide range of relevant experience for the trustee position. I agree with her that Croton does need some development of more affordable housing. When I see the young families on my street paying $1 million for a pretty regular house with a smallish yard, it breaks my heart. House inflation has so outpaced overall inflation.