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THE NewRochelleCityREVIEWJune 5 & June 12 , 2015 | Vol. 3, Number 12 | www.cityreviewnr.com

REMEMBERLocal dignitaries and veterans pay their respects at a Memorial Day service in New Rochelle.For more, see page 6. Photo/Bobby Begun

2 • The city review • June 5 & June 12, 2015

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1NYS science written test,

grades 4 and 8

2Board of Education

regular meeting7 p.m., LEK Theatre

Westchester County Board of Legislators

Public Hearing on Playland

7 p.m., Rye City Hall

Board of Appeals on Zoning

7 p.m.

3Municipal Arts Commission

6 p.m.

4 5SAT and SAT subject tests

6147th Belmont Stakes

SAT and SAT subject tests

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EnvisonNR7 p.m. to 9 p.m., City Hall Annex

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City Council COW meeting

3:45 p.m. to 9 p.m.

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HLRB meeting7:30 p.m.,

City Hall Annex

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My Brother’s Keeper Local Action Summit

5:30 p.m. to 9 p.m.NRHS

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ACT test

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Flag Day

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Board of Education spe-cial meeting

7 p.m., City Hall

City Council regular legis-lative meeting7 p.m. to 9 p.m.

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Ramadan begins

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21Father’s Day

Summer Solstice

22 23Planning Board meeting

7:30 p.m., City Hall Annex

24Elementary schools

half day

Industrial Development Agency

7:30 p.m.

Civil Service Commission meeting

All day

Corporation for Local Development

7:30 p.m.


half day

New Rochelle High School Graduation

5 p.m., High school football field


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Last day of schools

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2015 mid-year parking permit renewals end

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GOP announces slate, support for RackmanBy chriS eBerhArT

Staff Writer

City Republicans do not plan on running a full slate of candidate or even oppos-ing Mayor Noam Bramson, a Democrat, but they do have their sights set on gaining more of a say on the New Ro-chelle City Council.

Republicans will run coun-cilmen Lou Trangucci, Dis-trict 1, and Al Tarantino, Dis-trict 2, in their bids for third consecutive terms in elected office. And they also plan to run Board of Education mem-ber Jeffrey Hastie against Councilman Barry Fertel, D-District 5.

Hastie, an entrepreneur in his professional life, has been active in the community. In addition to his service on the school board for the past six years, Hastie was a founder of the bipartisan group Unit-ed Citizens for a Better New Rochelle. The group pro-tested against the Echo Bay waterfront proposal, which was a mixed-use develop-ment of retail space and apart-ments proposed by Forest City Ratner, and played a lead role in defeating the proposal.

One of the concerns, Hastie said, of the Echo Bay develop-ment was the approximately $20 million in tax abatements through 2035 that Forest City Ratner was set to receive. Meanwhile, Hastie said, the city cut services, specifi-cally mentioning the imple-mentation of a refuse tax in December 2011 and the elimi-nation of leaf removal and fire hydrant maintenance from the municipal budget.

“It’s all about taxes and how it impacts your pocket,” Has-tie said. “Taxes are going up while services have been cut. We’re giving our taxes away to the wrong people.”

Hastie said he’d like to turn

the attention to raising taxes on billboards as a possible rev-enue stream and consolidating services, such as maintenance and garbage pickup, between the school district and the city.

“Both entities are doing the same thing. Let’s see how they can do it with one enti-ty,” he said.

“We have a strong team,” said Rosemary McLaughlin, chairwoman of the New Ro-chelle Republicans. “We’re very hopeful that they’ll do well and win their seats.”

Democrats have already announced their slate and plan to oppose Trangucci in District 1 with Luis Zepeda, a general contractor from the Residence Park neighbor-hood. For the second con-secutive election, Democrats have chosen not to contest Tarantino’s seat.

McLaughlin said there have been no viable candidates that have come forward to oppose Bramson, as of press time. Bramson has served as mayor since 2006, including a land-slide victory in 2011 over then Republican Councilman Rich-ard St. Paul.

Besides not contesting Bramson’s seat, Republicans will also forgo challenging the seats of councilmen Jared Rice, D-District 3, and Ivar Hyden, D-District 4.

And, although the GOP is not running a candidate in Dis-trict 6, the party is hoping to impact the outcome.

New Rochelle Republicans said they will utilize the op-portunity to ballot mechanism in District 6, which allows anyone, regardless of political party, to vote in a primary by allowing voters to write in a candidate of their choice. The idea behind the opportunity to ballot initiative is to help Councilwoman Shari Rack-man, a Democrat, fend off her primary challenger, and party-backed candidate Liz Fried, who has served as president of the New Rochelle League of Women Voters and the Da-vis School PTA. Rackman was passed over by city Demo-crats at the party’s caucus last month in favor of Fried, but the councilwoman has decided she won’t relinquish her seat without a September fight.

Rackman, in her first term on City Council, said she didn’t receive the Demo-cratic nomination because of her vote against the now scrapped Echo Bay water-front development project. Her vote was against the mayor’s at the time.

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Mayor Noam Bramson* No candidateDistrict 1 Luis Zepeda Lou Trangucci*District 2 No candidate Al Tarantino*District 3 Jared Rice* No candidateDistrict 4 Ivar Hyden* No candidateDistrict 5 Barry Fertel* Jeffrey HastieDistrict 6 Liz Fried** No candidate Shari Rackman*

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Designed for those 16 years old and older on Friday nights emphasizing socialization with a dual emphasis on independence and cooperation through involvement in the com-munity. The program includes special events, games, life skill development with participant input encouraging the direction of the program. Door-to-door transportation is available. Pro-gram meets at the Hugh A. Doyle Senior Cen-ter. For more information, contact Nina Shawn Gainor at 654-2116.

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ing sessions in arts and crafts, group games, sports instruction, music, performing arts and character building. Campwide special events and themed days are scheduled throughout the season. Lunch and snacks will be provid-ed through the Youth Nutrition Program. Ear-ly drop-off for a limited number of campers is available on a first-come, first-served ba-sis for an additional cost of $165. Camp runs Monday, July 6 through Friday, Aug. 14 from 9:30 a.m. through 3:30 p.m. at two locations: William B. Ward Elementary School and Jef-ferson Elementary School. Different options are available at each camp. Fees range from $580 to $600 if you register before May 22. For more information, contact Nina Shawn Gainor at 654-2116.

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Date: Saturdays and Sundays, July 12 through Aug. 3Session I: 10 a.m to 10:45 a.m. Session II: 11 a.m to 11:45 a.m. Location: Lincoln Pool

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World Elder Abuse Awareness DayOn June 15, from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. join us for

a screening of “An Age for Justice: Confronting Elder Abuse in America” at the Hugh A. Doyle Senior Center, located at 94 Davis Ave., in New Rochelle. The film screening will be followed by a discussion led by Gary Brown, assistant at-torney general and chairman of the Wetschester Elder Abuse Coalition. For more information, contact 235-2363.

The New Rochelle BID Farmers Market

The New Rochelle Downtown BID Farmers Market kicked off its third year on Saturday, May 30 at 9 a.m.

The market runs every Saturday from May 30 through Oct. 31 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., rain or shine on Library Green.

Located next to the New Rochelle Public Li-brary on Huguenot Street between Memorial Highway and Lawton Street, the market fea-tures more than 25 weekly and guest vendors.

Downtown’s market is unique, conceived as both a weekly farmers market as well as a com-munity celebration for the entire family. It hosts a large variety of locally grown and harvested food products—from fish freshly caught that morning to produce still warm from the fields, as well as artisanal products such freshly baked desserts to micro brewed beers. The market’s popular Ready Set Sharp will return to keep a sharp edge on all our knives as will the New Ro-chelle Artisans and live cooking demonstrations by Cookin’ with Sonia.

Homework helpHomework help is available at the library for

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Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays: 3 p.m. and 7:40 p.m.

Wednesdays: 3 p.m. and 5:40 p.m.This is a collaboration among the New Ro-

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Mayor, City Council wrong againTo the Editor,The planned willful destruction of the New Rochelle Rowing Club is another blunder in

the long list of misdirected choices of the City of New Rochelle. The rowing club building is structurally sound enough to outlast any of us. Not to mention

the historical value. New Rochelle High School Nationals; Schoolboy Champions in the 20’s; NRRC National

Champions in the 40’s; U.S. Olympic Trials finalists in the 60’s; sponsored crews through the years including New Rochelle High School, Salesian, Blessed Sacrament High School, Iona Prep, Iona College, Fordham University, among others.

Tradition alone should be grounds for the continuing operations of the New Rochelle Rowing Club.

James W. Eich, New Rochelle

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On Sunday, May 24, New Rochelle veterans held their annual Memorial ser-vice and grave flag replace-ment at Beechwood Cem-etery. The event was part of several event and activities for Memorial Day week-end in the city. The fol-lowing morning, there was also a traditional service at Memorial Plaza where the New Rochelle High School Band performed. Memorial Day in New Rochelle con-cluded with a veterans ap-preciation event that con-sisted of an all day concert and barbeque.

veterans join together for holiday

Tom O’Keefe, the past post commander of the American Legion Post 18 New Rochelle.

Peter Parente, president of the United Veterans of New Rochelle and commander of the New Rochelle VFW Post 439, addresses those on hand for the Memorial Day ceremony. Photos/Bobby Begun

Kenneth Barnes, a Vietnam veteran of the 235 Signal Detail, plays taps as part of the traditional ceremony.

The New Rochelle Boy Scouts Troop 11 prepares to fold the American flag on May 24. Veteran William Moy, 100, reflects on his past experiences.

Cub Scouts of the local Den 3 carry out the ceremonial wreath.


Museum hosts new 20th century exhibitIn the 1967 film “The Grad-

uate,” Mr. McGuire dispenses fatherly advice to recent col-lege graduate Benjamin Brad-dock. “I want to say one word to you, Benjamin. Just one word. Are you listening? Plas-tics! There’s a great future in plastics. Think about it. Will you think about it?”

He did. So did many of America’s artists, who, fas-cinated by the technology, seized on its potential and in-corporated the material into their work as technological and commercial developments in plastics flourished.

Plastic was malleable, thin, translucent, lightweight and could be stitched together or spliced, glued, melted, col-ored and molded. For artists and designers, plastic in all its forms promised the possibil-ity of creating unprecedented forms. At the same time, as it became the “material of mo-dernity,” plastic was embraced as a vehicle to comment on ideas about disposability, as society began to use synthetics for everyday objects and then just throw them away.

So, whether encouraged by industry or responding to be-havior or just excited by plas-tic’s inherent qualities, artists created works that showcased the medium’s diverse, expres-sive and complex qualities.

Between May 9 and Aug. 23, 2015, the Neuberger Mu-seum of Art will present

“Plastic: Art in an Era of Ma-terial Innovation,” an exhibi-tion drawn from the museum’s permanent collection of more than 30 works dating from the late 1950s to the early 1970s that were fabricated from ep-oxy, Plexiglas, polyester resin, polyurethane, vinyl and other synthetics by approximately 20 artists including Roy Lich-tenstein, Andy Warhol, Louise Neverlson, Leroy Lamis and Robert Rauschengerg. The styles range from conceptual-ism and minimalism to op and pop art, and illustrate artists’ fascination with new materials and their desire to comment on its implications.

“Spanning the dominant art movements of the mid-twen-tieth century, the show dem-onstrates the unique versatil-ity and dominance of plastic in art at its apex,” said Grace Converse, exhibition curator

An original plastic innovation by Roy Lichtenstein. Contributed photo

and a Neuberger curatorial fel-low and graduate student in the Purchase College MA Pro-gram in Art History, Criticism and Theory. “While negative connotations about plastic be-ing a cheap medium and the use of it for that very reason are polemical, we want to em-brace the negative as part of the conversation.”

During World War II, the push to create new industri-al materials encouraged the chemical industry to develop new synthetic materials. “A paradigm for innovation was set: if it could be imagined, it could be created,” Converse said. “Because artists of the time were not confined by im-peratives to make better con-sumer or military products, they were able to more fully explore the material’s poten-tial and question the ramifica-tions of its use...The fact that plastic was amanifestation of chemical and technological in-novation, it [became that much more] appealing to many art-ists. Working with the materi-al...allowed them to participate in, reflect upon and actively

shape the course of this new technological development.”

By the 1960s, the excite-ment about using synthetic plastic to make art reached a fevered pitch. As artists exper-imented with the shapes, col-ors textures, dimensions and luminosities made possible by this medium, exhibitions specifically focused on art and plastic abounded across the

United States. And while certain critics hesitated in cel-ebrating the use of synthetic materials, artists explored its exceptional properties and the plastics industry press, exhibi-tion catalogues, and curators touted the value of artists’ ex-periments. Geometric works, for example, called attention to the unique properties of the material and in pop art con-ventional connotations of it as cheap, disposable, mass-pro-duced and commonplace con-tributed to the overall message communicated by the work.

The Neuberger Museum of Art is located at SUNY Pur-chase College at 735 Ander-son Hill Road, Purchase, N.Y. 10577. (Submitted)


Westchester County Repub-licans have nominated Susan Watson as their candidate in an effort to take majority con-trol of the 17-member Board of Legislators.

With the Democrats holding 10 of the 17 seats, the county GOP is trying to gain traction on the board with the nomination of Watson, a Rye resident. Wat-son was officially nominated on May 27 at the GOP nominating convention at Westchester Man-or in Hastings-on-Hudson.

County GOP nominates Watson

The Westchester County GOP has nominated Rye resident Susan Watson to go up against the incumbent county Legislator Catherine Parker, a Rye Democrat. File photo

While without a back-ground in local government, Watson is equipped with an extensive history of profes-sional business management. Most recently, she’s spent more than four years working as an executive search associ-ate at Spencer Stuart, a New York City based headhunting and consulting firm.

“I think Susan [Watson] has a great background in busi-ness,” said Anthony Piscione-re, chairman of the Rye City Republican Committee. “She’s going to be a very dynamic campaigner and she has a lot to add to the county legislator.”

According to Piscionere, Watson was put through an ex-tensive vetting process and has already met with the county Republicans on a number of occasions. The Rye chairman said the genesis of Watson’s in-terest spawned from recent dis-cussions where she pointed out that Republicans didn’t have any candidates to contest the incumbent Congressman Eliot Engel when he ran for re-elec-

tion last year. Piscionere said the result of those discussions led to interest from Watson to run for county legislator.

However, it won’t be an easy election as Watson has no experience in a political campaign and will be facing off against county Legisla-tor Catherine Parker, a Rye Democrat, for the District 7 seat. That legislative district includes Rye City, the Town and Village of Mamaroneck, Larchmont and parts of New Rochelle and Harrison.

Watson and Douglas Colety, chairman of the Westchester County Republican Commit-tee, could not be reached for comment, as of press time.-Reporting by Jackson Chen


Marines touch down at Playland

Members of the U.S. Marines sign a book for a local scout.

One onlooker couldn’t help but secure a selfie with the Marines.

As military personnel reach land, the surrounding area is engulfed in dust and sand mimicking a live landing.

Throughout Memorial Day weekend, the U.S. Marines conducted air and ground demonstrations for the public throughout New York City and surrounding areas, including Westchester County, as part of Fleet Week 2015. On Sunday, May 24, one of those dem-onstrations took place on the beach located behind Playland Amusement Park in Rye.

This year’s event at Play-land included a ceremony in honor of Memorial Day, fol-lowed by a barbecue for vet-erans and their families. In the afternoon, a demonstration on behalf of the U.S. Military Corps Aviation/Marine Air-Ground Task Force was held, which included three military aircrafts: a MV-22 Osprey, a CH-46E Sea Knight, and an AH-1W SuperCobra.

The aircrafts performed overhead sweeps around the crowded park before landing near an open field next to the Edith Reade Sanctuary. After landing, dozens of Marines disembarked and performed a live raid for onlookers, secur-ing a fictional landing zone and

setting up a perimeter as they would during actual combat.

Once the demonstration concluded, soldiers were greeted by the crowd that had gathered for the event. Par-ticipants were also allowed to view and tour the inside of the choppers that were stationed on an open field. The City of Rye Fire Depart-ment provided standby sup-port for the landing. -Review staff

On May 24, the Marines conducted an air raid and ground demonstration landing on the grassy fields of the Edith Reade Sanctuary behind Playland. Photos/Lester Millman


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By richArd ilSe

Welcome to the longest summer possible and, af-ter what Mother Nature dumped on us this past winter, father time is go-ing to reward us. This year, Memorial Day is the earli-est it can be, Labor Day is the latest it can be and the 4th of July falls on a weekend. This calendar creation is actually a fairly rare event. The last time it happened was in 2009 and it won’t happen again until 2020. After that, it shows up again in 2026 and then not again until 2037.

Of course all of this de-pends on how you gauge a summer and there are two ways to do so.

First, there is the astro-nomical, or calendar, sum-mer, which is the 93-day period of time between the summer solstice and the fall equinox: June 21 through Sept. 22.

The second way is called “cultural summer.” The United States is unique in that it offers up two bench-mark holidays that redefine summers in America and gives us certain inherent advantages. Cultural sum-mer is the 14-week period of time between Memorial Day and Labor Day and is inherently a week longer than an astronomical sum-mer. This summer, due to the calendar quirk, we get an extra week on top of that.

Our cultural summers, even without the additional time, have other advantages over an astronomical sum-mer in that they capture more daylight. That is to say with the cultural sum-mer, the weeks between Memorial Day and the summer solstice on June 21 offer up much longer days than on the back end, between Labor Day and the fall equinox on Sept. 22. Those days get progres-sively shorter. Besides, once Labor Day is over, our thoughts turn to fall fashion, football and falling temperatures, even though it’s still summer out.

On the flip side, those first few weeks of June, which we count as sum-

mer here, carry with them some of the longest days of the year. A magical time of year where the sun never seems to want to set and life outdoors explodes onto the scene.

This longest summer scenario may remind you of the classic 1960s movie “The Endless Summer,” where a couple of surfers chase summer around the globe, or more precisely, up and down the planet, hemi-sphere-hopping in search of the perfect wave and a 12-month summer. This summer, here in the United States, we get the next best thing, the longest summer possible and no passport required.

There is something else that happens once in a blue moon this summer. We get two full moons in the month of July, which is rare, thus the phrase. Over the next 240 months there will be 15 blue moons. They can be defined as ei-ther the second of two full moons in a month, or the third of four in a season. Both fit for this summer no matter how you measure them. But the meaning of the phrase itself “once in a blue moon” has morphed over the years. Originally,

instead of meaning rare, it meant something that is ab-surd, right along the lines of another idiom “when pigs fly.”

So after last winter, where everything that could and as much as possible seems to have fallen out of the sky, you never know what’s go-ing to drop out of the sky next. So after this summer ends and the leaves have fallen, after pumpkins and then turkeys have been carved and before the pigs wings ice up and they fall out of the sky too, remember the calendar also treats us to a Christmas and New Years that fall on a Friday, giving us two, true three day week-ends to end the year.

But before that, if you really are looking for things that actually do fall out of the sky, pay attention to mid-August and the Perseid meteor shower. It is the best and brightest of many this summer and occurs during a new moon phase, so the sky will not be moon-soaked. Just grab a blanket and let your eyes wander to the Northeast. They will aver-age more than 60 per hour, that’s more than one per New York minute.

Richard Ilse is a resident of Stamford, Conn.

The endless summerHarry Connick Jr. performs at The PalaceFollowing a successful win-

ter tour and his second season as a judge on “American Idol,” Harry Connick Jr. announced a 20-plus city summer concert tour including a stop at The Pal-ace Theater in Stamford, Conn., on Friday, June 12 and Satur-day, June 13, at 8 p.m.

The show, which takes place on the Harman Stage, fea-tures music from Connick’s vast musical catalog, includ-ing songs from his most recent releases “Smokey Mary” and “Every Man Should Know.” To date, Connick has released 29 albums, won three Grammy Awards and two Emmy Awards, and garnered sales of 28 million albums.

With “Every Man Should Know,” Connick triumphs once again, with a depth of feeling that signals another milestone for one of the music world’s most multi-faceted artists. Crit-ics have been quick to agree with People Magazine calling it “impressive,” and the Boston Globe saying the album fea-tures “his most thoughtful and

Harry Connick Jr.

personal songs to date” and says its “an album that every Harry Connick Jr. fan should own.”

Connick recently returned for a second year as judge on “American Idol,” with sea-son 14 of the show currently airing on FOX. Since his addi-tion to the judges’ panel, crit-ics and fans alike have praised Connick’s contributions to the show, with Variety proclaiming that Connick “brings fun back to ‘American Idol,’” and En-tertainment Weekly raving that he brings a “frank honesty but also lighthearted energy” to the

show, “offering thoughtful cri-tiques” resulting in a “fun, rol-licking viewing experience.”

Regarding his debut as a judge in season 13, USA To-day stated that “Connick de-serves most of the praise for what promises to be a creative turnaround for ‘Idol’… While Connick can be as tough as he needs to be, he’s also charming, engaging and, when he wants to be, hysterically funny.”

For more information abo-ut the event, please visit pal-acestamford.org or call at (203)325-4466.

14 • The city review • June 5 & June 12, 2015 SPORTS

Huguenots fall in playoffsNew Rochelle’s softball and

baseball teams both reached the postseason this spring, only to see their hopes of play-off glory eventually dashed by higher seeds.

The Huguenots’ baseball team got off to a good start in the postseason on May 21, scoring a big upset over No. 6 seed Clarkstown South thanks to a six-run explosion in the first inning.

Senior ace JoJo Gray was effective, scattering six hits over the course of seven in-nings and striking out five bat-ters to earn a playoff win. New Rochelle’s bats did much of the heavy lifting, collecting 14 hits on the day. Quincy Mack went 2-for-3 on the day, lead-ing New Rochelle with four RBIs, while Matt Detstasio, Jared Wilson, Jared Almonte and Gray all picked up at least two hits apiece.

New Rochelle’s luck would run out in the quarterfinals,

however, as they ran into a tough Arlington squad. The Admirals hung a 5-1 loss on the No. 11 seed Huguenots, thanks in part to a terrific performance from Arlington starter Evin Kleinganz, who surrendered just one earned

run and seven hits over the course of the game.

New Rochelle’s softball team didn’t fare as well in their first-round game, as the No. 11 seed Huguenots couldn’t score an upset over the No. 6 seeded Mounties,

as Suffern ran away with a 15-0 win.

Mounties’ hurler Allie Wood was tremendous, al-lowing just three hits while striking out 13 batters in the win.-Reporting by Mike Smith

JoJo Gray throws a pitch in an early season contest against Mamaroneck. Gray led the Huguenots to a first-round playoff victory over Clarkstown South, scattering six hits over the course of a complete game win. Photo/Mike Smith

Kristi Lise throws a pitch during a late May game against Eastchester. The Huguenots fell in their first-round game against Suffern on May 20. Photo/Bobby Begun

When Karen Murray took to the road on June 1 for the gru-eling challenge of running sev-en marathons in seven days in seven states, her legs weren’t the most important factor in this amazing feat. It’s her heart that will keep her going. Over the course of a week, Murray will participate in the Heart-land Series which features seven races in Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Wis-consin and Minnesota. During the seven events, she will run approximately 183.4 miles. Murray, 48, a mother of three from Mamaroneck, and an avid runner and member of the local NEWRO Runners club is also part of a run-ning movement called “Run 4 Brad” and proceeds from her competitions will benefit the organization. Run4Brad was founded by Larchmont

Runner hits the roadresident Jessica Berman, after her 37-year-old husband Brad suffered a hemorrhagic stroke in 2013, as he was lacing up for a training run for what should have been his fourth marathon. The brain injury re-sulted from a congenital AVM (arteriovenous malformation) which ruptured that morning but had otherwise been as-ymptomatic his entire life. Af-ter four months in the hospital and intensive rehabilitation at Burke, Brad continues his recovery with the support of his wife and two young sons. The goal of Run4Brad is to raise money to fund a lower limb robotics program at the Burke Medical Research Insti-tute in White Plains. Burke’s existing upper limb robot-ics clinic has yielded impres-sive results with patients, and through the work of Run4Brad,

Burke is now able to provide lower limb resources to help those, like Brad, who have suf-fered traumatic brain injuries to maximize their rehabilita-tion. The Run4Brad movement has raised more than $600,000 which has been used to pur-chase two robotic devices. According to Murray, she is running because she can.

“My mantra is what the mind believes, the body achieves and I am honored to run for Brad and help him and others reach 100 percent re-covery,” she said.

For information about how you can support Karen’s ef-forts, please visit crowdrise.com/7days7marathons4brad/fundra iser /karenmurray. For more information about Burke’s robotic assisted thera-py programs, please visit burke.org/research. (Submitted)

Mamaroneck resident Karen Murray is running seven marathons in seven days to raise money for the Run4Brad charity. Contributed photo

June 5 & June 12, 2015 • The ciTy review • 15SPORTS

It’s a good thing I had to work on Saturday, because if I didn’t I was planning to spend most of the day, in bed, ruminating about the Game 7 stinker the Rangers put forth the night before.

But I had a full slate of championship games on the docket, which was good enough to get me out of the house. But in addition to some sunshine, I got something a little more valuable.

Perspective. I could sit and wax poetic

about the anguish of a sports fan, but on Saturday, up in North Rockland, I got the chance to see first-hand the emotional impact of real ath-letic competition.

It’s easy to talk about a fan’s devotion to a profession-al sports team, but on May 30, I got a nice little reminder of just how important sports can

The real beauty of sportsbe, not only to those who play it, but to the families of those players as well.

I watched four games on the day—one at North Rock-land High School and three at Provident Bank Park—and each game was a tempest of emotion; joy, relief, despair and resignation, the very best—and worst—that sports can make one feel.

There were some wonder-ful moments out there on the field.

Rye Neck softball coach Joan Spedafino collecting her-self on the bench as her team celebrated its first section ti-tle since 2002 before joining them in the wild jubilee, Ma-maroneck catcher Andy Kar-lan bringing the Tiger faithful to their feet after legging out a lead-off triple. These are the indelible moments of sports—when the moment bubbles over and becomes more than just another athletic event.

But there was a certain beauty in the sadder moments as well.

After battling Albertus Mag-nus through 14 innings of baseball in the Class B finals, Keio’s title hopes were dashed when Unicorns pitcher Ma-sayoshi Shimojima walked in the winning run.

Shimojima fell to his knees on the mound as his team-mates converged to lift him up and console him. The Uni-corns then lined up behind home plate as their captain addressed the hundreds of fans that came out to cheer them on, fighting back tears as he delivered his heartfelt message.

It was impossible not to em-pathize with those kids in that moment. They left everything on the field, and although they didn’t win, they earned the re-spect of everyone in the build-ing that day.

And that’s what sports are about, at their best.

It’s not about the fans that don a lucky jersey a couple of times a year and scream at professional athletes on their flat-screen televisions. It’s

about the work that goes in to reaching goals as a team; the blood, the sweat, and—some-times—the tears you shed along the way.

So while I offer my congrat-ulations to our teams that per-

severed in their quest for sec-tion titles, I also want to thank the teams that fell just short.

They say you learn more from your failures than your successes. But after seeing

the things I saw last Saturday, it’s hard to find any real losers at all.

Follow Mike on Twitter @LiveMike_Sports Byram Hills celebrates its Class A title win over Rye on May 30. The Bobcats beat the Garnets 4-3.

A Keio player is overcome with emotion following his team’s extra-inning loss to Albertus Magnus.

Rye Neck fans line the field to congratulate the Panthers on a Class B title win at North Rockland High School. Photos/Mike Smith

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