Record close-up Urban renewal mess in Port Jervis
Port Jervis faces a decade of failed urban renewal with a shaken council and questions over mayor Sidney Sakofsky. URA director John Botens died after defending UR at a meeting. The 49.6 acre project area is valued at 3.8 million with owners including Sakofsky and Baldwin. Debates over leadership and disclosure grow as downtown shops struggle.
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Port Jervis
John N. Botens
Middletown
Edwin J. Dietz
Bernard Schure
Department of Housing and Urban Development
HUD
New York
Sakofsky
Francis Murray
Baldwin
URA
Raymond, May, Parish & Pine
Theodore C. Kuykendall
Mayor Sakofsky Holds Major Interest in Port Jervis Renewal Area
Port Jervis Mayor Sidney Sakofsky owns or holds a major stake in more than 19 percent of the central urban renewal area's property value. The 49.6 acre renewal section shows an assessed value of $3.8 million while state valuation lists true value at $729,274 for the previously assessed $459,500. Ownership in 26-28 Ball St and 30 Ball St is listed with figures of $2,540 and $1,190 respectively.
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Sidney Sakofsky
Sakofsky
Alton P. Baldwin
Sid
Point Peter
Delaware
URA
Times Herald-Record
Punt Jrl
Port Jervis
Ball
Jervis Commercial Realty Corp
Front St
Sussex St
Ball St
Sussex
Hammond
Jersey Ave
Pike St
Defense expert contests hair on murder rock in Goshen case
A defense expert testified that a 20 pound rock alleged to have been used to bludgeon Dennis J. Thomas's wife contained hair from a white male, not the victim. Vassilis Morfopoulos described the hair as curly and brown and noted the comparison by the American Standards Testing Bureau of New York.
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Goshen
Dennis J. Thomas
Orange County
Vassilis Morfopoulos
American Standards Testing Bureau of
New York
Thomas
Dist. Atty
Angelo J. Ingrassia
Morfopoulos
Ingrassia
Merfepeleas
Beer Company
St. Luke’s Hospital
David Birdsall
Samuel Moore
Newburgh
Birdsall
Moore
Fireman Cleared of Alarm Charge in Port Jervis Case
Port Jervis volunteer John Walter Pepper, 23, was cleared in city court of turning in a false alarm at Kolmar Laboratories. Judge William J. Gregg found the police complaint insufficient, noting no marked property endangerment or responding fire apparatus details. Pepper, member of Howard Wheat Fire Co., had allegedly used another firefighter’s name in the call on June 6.
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Port Jervis
William J. Gregg
John Walter Pepper
Ball St
Pepper
Howard Wheat Fire Co
Kolmar Laboratories
Ora Hall
Howard Wheat
Gregg
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Philip S. Parker
Parker
Edward Dernan
Dernan
Fourth Ward
Philip Melnick
High Street
Delaware River
Manny Fuchs
Sakofsky’s
UK Area Holdings
Joe Shea
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