In October 2023, a Croton resident launched a local Facebook page with no rules, no limits on what can be posted, and no restrictions on who can post. Today it has 879 members and is growing steadily.
I agree, 100% with Toby. I was a third generation to live in Croton on the Hudson. I loved my youth. Croton was a different place and I loved it. It hurts me greatly in my opinion to see my village. being urbanized. I’m not going into specifics, Just look around it’s heartbreaking in my Opinion, my humble opinion. Deann Fiorito Sarcone .
I didn’t grow up in Croton, and I keep hearing how much better it was. I know moving from the city to Croton I am probably seen as part of the deterioration by the old timers, but the main reason I moved here was to get away from the city, not turn Croton into one.
Changes my family had to make in the past 7-8 years alone: Start locking house and car doors, install cameras, advise the kids to avoid certain areas, and a general sense that it is becoming worse. If when I moved here I could see myself retiring here, now I don’t. Croton’s party-before-homeowner politics doesn’t help. I guess one has to move further away from the city to escape it, Croton and Westchester as a whole are now a little too close, can’t escape NYC’s gravity.
If they continue on the path they have taken the past 5 or so years, it scares me to think about what the “village” will look like in a decade and beyond. There’s a tasteful and organic way to grow a village and keep it healthy and this isn’t it.
Clearly an agenda with the haste and lack of public input and disclosure for a lot of these projects.
I agree, 100% with Toby. I was a third generation to live in Croton on the Hudson. I loved my youth. Croton was a different place and I loved it. It hurts me greatly in my opinion to see my village. being urbanized. I’m not going into specifics, Just look around it’s heartbreaking in my Opinion, my humble opinion. Deann Fiorito Sarcone .
Thank you Deann.
Just curious, by "urbanized" do you mean that housing is more dense?
I didn’t grow up in Croton, and I keep hearing how much better it was. I know moving from the city to Croton I am probably seen as part of the deterioration by the old timers, but the main reason I moved here was to get away from the city, not turn Croton into one.
Changes my family had to make in the past 7-8 years alone: Start locking house and car doors, install cameras, advise the kids to avoid certain areas, and a general sense that it is becoming worse. If when I moved here I could see myself retiring here, now I don’t. Croton’s party-before-homeowner politics doesn’t help. I guess one has to move further away from the city to escape it, Croton and Westchester as a whole are now a little too close, can’t escape NYC’s gravity.
Word. We have only to look around to see what is in our future. And what has happened to other communities that have embraced this sort of trajectory.
If they continue on the path they have taken the past 5 or so years, it scares me to think about what the “village” will look like in a decade and beyond. There’s a tasteful and organic way to grow a village and keep it healthy and this isn’t it.
Clearly an agenda with the haste and lack of public input and disclosure for a lot of these projects.