Greenburgh Moving Forward with Sidewalk Construction
According to Greenburgh Town Supervisor Paul Feiner, the Town Board will vote at a Special Meeting this Tuesday to award a bid for construction of a new sidewalk on Fort Hill Road from Ardsley Road heading south towards Jackson Avenue, stopping at Highpoint. Feiner says work will be completed this fall.
“This is the first of three bids that the Town Board will be approving within the next few weeks dealing with sidewalks. Later this fall we anticipate building a sidewalk at Seely Place and on Sprain Road. The Sprain Road sidewalk connects to the Ardsley Middle School. The Fort Hill sidewalk will enable children and parents to walk to the Greenville school and the Seely sidewalk will make it easier for children to walk to the Seely school. These sidewalks are being funded from the capital budget,” Feiner explained in an email.
Last year over three miles of new sidewalks around town were constructed. Most of the funding came from developers who were required to build the sidewalks near their new property. This year we also will build more than three miles of sidewalks. We received a Community Development Block Grant to build a sidewalk on Secor Road in Hartsdale earlier this year. That sidewalk will be built from the housing authority site to Saw Mill River Road, Feiner said.
“The members of the Town Board are determined to make Greenburgh a more pedestrian friendly community. It is going to take years to construct all the sidewalks we need. Next year we anticipate constructing a new sidewalk on Juniper Hill connecting to the Lee Jackson School. In early September Senator Andrea Stewart Cousins has arranged a walking tour of parts of Central Avenue that have no sidewalks and are near residential neighborhoods with the NYS Department of Transportation. Assemblyman Tom Abinanti also has expressed a desire to help,” Feiner concluded.
