Friday, June 13, 2025

DUMP Michael Wright: He's Wrong For Piermont. (Reprise).

During the recent one-and-a-half hour “debate” between Piermont Board of Trustee candidates of Tuesday, May 20, 2025, incumbent Trustee Michael Emerson Wright alias “Michael Andrews” descended to even newer depths of hypocrisy. Please watch this video of the event:

When you watch this video, please watch how Michael Wright merely parrots the stated concerns of the other two Trustee candidates, and how Wright merely parrots the concerns of those citizens who stood up to voice theirs:
https://youtu.be/N1iFiX6RvX0

In this video, Michael Wright first self-servingly reminded the Tuesday night crowd in Village Hall that, as between the three Board of Trustee candidates for the two available positions, only he, Michael Wright alias “Michael Andrews”, had the ignominious distinction of having already served for four (4) debased years on lame-duck Garmento Mayor Bruce Tucker’s Board of Trustees – as the only incumbent.

Michael Wright even had the gall to lament the pathetic lack of “communication” as between Piermont Village Hall government on the one hand, and Piermont’s taxpaying citizen residents on the other hand – as a reason to re-elect him as Trustee.

Yet Michael Wright is the one incumbent Piermont Trustee sitting at the debate table.

Michael Wright IS the Piermont Village Hall government!

In other words, in the video, Michael Wright is actually asking the Piermont voters to re-elect him as a Trustee - so that Wright can now pretend to sweep-up the disgusting mess that Wright himself already made of Piermont government, Piermont financials, and the Piermont landscape and ecosystem generally:

Michael Wright alias "Michael Andrews" had four years in office already to fix that mess. Yet Wright did nothing over those four years other than suck-up to dysfunctional Mayor Bruce Tucker, as Tucker’s lackey and errand-boy. Pathetic.
 
Look at Trustee Michael Wright’s non-record over the past four years, since Wright first assumed the supplicant position of Bruce Tucker’s sycophant on the Piermont Village Board of Trustees:

1. Your Village Floods-Out. Under the Michael Wright-Bruce Tucker regime, Piermont residents have seen their village regularly flooded-out with no cure in sight, resorting to putting some houses up on stilts at owner expense.

2. Your Village Is Greedily Over-Developed. Under the Michael Wright-Bruce Tucker regime, Piermont residents have seen developers run roughshod over the once-quaint and one-picturesque historic village – and almost constructing a three-story Motel 6-esque monstrosity over a Sunoco gasoline station site that once had underground gasoline tanks. Michael Wright did absolutely nothing to stop this destructive development initiative.

3. Your Village Wasted Your Money To Litigate Against You. Under the Michael Wright-Bruce Tucker regime, the Village government spent what is estimated to be in excess of US$100,000 to litigate a fake zone known as the "CBM" against Piermont's own taxpaying residents - an utterly malicious waste of money.

4. Your Village Increased Your Taxes. Under the Michael Wright-Bruce Tucker regime, Piermont residents saw their taxes shoot up in 2024.
 
5. Your Village Went Almost Ten Million Dollars In Net Position Retrograde. Under the Michael Wright-Bruce Tucker regime, Piermont residents suffered a massive “Net Position” accounting retrograde, putting Piermont in a "Net Position" hole of millions of dollars.
 
6. Your Village Operates As If In The Eastern Bloc. Under the Michael Wright-Bruce Tucker regime, Piermont residents suffered the most opaque and concealing local government since the other side of the Berlin Wall.
 
7. Your Village Triggered The New York State Comptroller. Under the Michael Wright-Bruce Tucker regime, Piermont residents have seen auditors from the Office of the New York State Comptroller (OSC) swoop into Village Hall to re-do the farkakte financial methodologies of the existing “Administration”, due to Village Hall's recidivist failure year after year to timely file financials with OSC.
 
8. Your Pier Tip Crumbled Into The Hudson Under Village Watch. Under the Michael Wright-Bruce Tucker regime, Piermont residents suffered the crumbling of the concrete Piermont Pier tip into the Hudson River, due to an utter failure to maintain the historic and iconic landmark.
 
9. Your Sparkill Creek Suffered A Toxic Spill Under Village Watch. Under the Michael Wright-Bruce Tucker regime, Piermont residents suffered the pouring of oil into the Sparkill Creek last summer, with no plausible plan thereafter offered to prevent comparable re-occurrences.

10. Your Village Runs A Corrupt And Ineffective Parking Scheme. Under the Michael Wright-Bruce Tucker regime, Piermont residents suffered the most corrupted and ineffective overall parking scheme since the days of Donald Manes.

11. Your Village actually Threatened To Pave-Over A Little League Ballfield. Under the Michael Wright-Bruce Tucker regime, local government actually threatened to pave-over the little league field for parking last summer.

12. Your Village Wasted Your Resources On An Amateurish Comprehensive Plan. Under the Michael Wright-Bruce Tucker regime, tons of resources in the form of money and time were wasted to try to rush through an amateurish "Comprehensive Plan", now completely vulnerable to judicial and collateral attack.

Most importantly, under the Michael Wright-Bruce Tucker regime, there has been a total loss of confidence in Piermont local government. Michael Wright is directly responsible for that loss of confidence - whether you want to call him "Michael Wright", "Michael Andrews", or some other appropriate moniker:

The Piermont, New York Democratic primary is on Tuesday, June 24, 2025, as part of the statewide primary election - and I am now informed that early voting commences this Saturday, June 14, 2025:

If and assuming that you are a Democrat registered to vote in Piermont, New York, then, at your earliest available opportunity, please make sure that you DUMP Michael Wright as Piermont Village Trustee and vote him out of office.

Monday, June 2, 2025

The Tallman Beach And Pool Probe: Part V.

Law Office of John J. Tormey III, Esq.
John J. Tormey III, PLLC
1636 Third Avenue, PMB 188
New York, New York  10128  USA
(212) 410-4142 (phone)
(212) 410-2380 (fax)
jtormey@optonline.net
https://www.tormey.org
 
REQUEST UNDER THE NEW YORK STATE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION LAW (“FOIL”)
Monday, June 2, 2025
 
VIA FAX: 1-518-402-9018, U.S. MAIL, and E-MAIL:
access.records@dec.ny.gov
foil@gw.dec.state.ny.us
Records Access Office - Office of General Counsel
New York State Department Of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC)
625 Broadway, 4th Floor
Albany, New York 12233-1500 USA
 
VIA FAX: 1-845-255-3042, U.S. MAIL, and E-MAIL:
R3.beh@dec.ny.gov
Kelly Turturro - Regional Director 
New York State Department Of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC)
Tarrytown Sub-Office, Region 3
220 White Plains Road, Suite 110
Tarrytown, New York 10591 USA
 
VIA FAX: 1-518-402-9168, and U.S. MAIL
Daniel Whitehead - Director, Division of Environmental Permits
New York State Department Of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC)
625 Broadway, 4th Floor
Albany, New York 12233-1500 USA
 
VIA FAX: 1-518-402-9020, and U.S. MAIL
Andy Guglielmi – Director, Division Of Environmental Remediation
New York State Department Of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC)
625 Broadway, 4th Floor
Albany, New York 12233-1500 USA
 
VIA FAX: 1-518-402-9016, U.S. MAIL, and E-MAIL:
contact@dec.ny.gov
Cecilia Walsh, Media Relations
New York State Department Of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC)
21 South Putt Corners Road
New Paltz, New York 12561-1696 USA

Additional Distribution VIA FAX:
1-518-402-8082
1-845-255-0716
1-845-255-3414
1-845-255-4659
1-845-255-9249
 
Re:      
FOIL Request – “Tallman Beach And Pool Club”
“Tallman Beach and Pool Club LLC” - 2 Tallman Mountain Road, Sparkill, NY
All Health, Sanitary, Food, Drink, Beverage, Infestation, And Safety Records

Dear Counsel, Regional Director Turturro, Director Whitehead, Director Guglielmi, and Ms. Walsh:
 
Without limitation to the further specificity of my itemized queries hereinbelow, this FOIL request seeks all Records relating to (A) the restaurant known as “Tallman Beach And Pool Club” currently located at 2 Tallman Mountain Road, Sparkill, NY 10976 USA (the “Restaurant”), (B) the thereto-associated lessee-entity known as Tallman Beach and Pool Club LLC (the “LLC”), and (C) its apparent principal William Procida. This FOIL request includes without limitation all environmental, health, sanitary, food, beverage, infestation, and safety Records from the time-period commencing January 1, 2015 through the present day. My understanding is that the LLC executed a lease with the Palisades Interstate Parks Commission in December 2015 and then “re-opened” the Restaurant to the public in May 2016.
 
The Restaurant, the LLC, and William Procida are hereafter referred to herein as the “Tallman Beach Parties” for ease of reference. Public-record documents already posted to the Internet indicate that the Monticello District Office of your cohort state agency NYSDOH has borne some responsibility for inspections of “Tallman Beach And Pool Club” in the past, and I have already served FOIL requests upon NYSDOH accordingly. In any event, those public-record documents which I have thusfar culled from the Internet regarding the Tallman Beach Parties include those found here.
 
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2025/05/the-tallman-beach-and-pool-club-ny-food.html
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2025/05/tallman-beach-and-pool-club-august-2.html
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2025/05/tallman-beach-and-pool-club-june-14.html
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2025/05/tallman-beach-and-pool-club-august-2_31.html
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2025/05/tallman-beach-and-pool-club-august-1.html
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2025/05/tallman-beach-and-pool-club-july-29.html
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2025/05/tallman-beach-and-pool-club-august-6.html
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2025/05/tallman-beach-and-pool-club-june-23.html
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2025/05/tallman-beach-and-pool-club-july-22.html
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2025/05/tallman-beach-and-pool-club-july-29_31.html
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2025/05/tallman-beach-and-pool-club-july-6-2023.html
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2025/05/tallman-beach-and-pool-club-august-22.html
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2025/05/tallman-beach-and-pool-club-august-27.html
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2025/05/oooh-look-whos-next.html
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2025/05/the-tallman-beach-and-pool-probe-part-i.html
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2025/05/the-tallman-beach-and-pool-probe-part-ii.html
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2025/05/the-tallman-beach-and-pool-probe-part.html
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2025/05/the-tallman-beach-and-pool-probe-part-iv.html
 
I am an attorney in New York, and a citizen and resident of the Town of Orangetown and the County of Rockland. Specifically, under the New York State Freedom of Information Law:
http://www.dos.ny.gov/coog/foil2.html
and, as may be applicable, its state, federal, and other counterparts, including without limitation New York Public Officers Law, Article 6, Sections 84-90, and Title 5 of the United States Code, Section 552 (collectively herein referred to as “FOIL”), request is hereby made that each of you provide to this, my law office, full and complete copies of each and every document and other item of material dated, generated, or otherwise materializing from January 1, 2015 forward to the present day (collectively, “Records”) which may be at all responsive to the following requests. I am seeking, in each case to the extent as may be existing:
 
1. Inspections. All Records reflecting, referencing, or otherwise relating to any environmental, health, medical, food, safety, infestation, or other inspections of, or otherwise concerning, the subject location of 2 Tallman Mountain Road, Sparkill, NY 10976 USA (the “Tallman Beach Location”), or otherwise relating to the Tallman Beach Parties or any of them – including without limitation all restaurant inspections, all “latest inspections”, all inspection reports, all “critical violations”, all “non-critical violations”, and all photographic, drawn, sketched, pictorial, and other visual images relating thereto of whatever kind or nature.
 
2. Incidents. All Records - if any - reflecting, referencing, or otherwise relating to the Tallman Beach Location or the Tallman Beach Parties, and any of the following topics, items, or issues:
 
accidents
ambulance calls
cleaning access issues
construction issues
contact-surface issues
contagion
contamination
contamination sources
deficiencies
dirty handwashing facilities
dirty surface issues
dirty ventilation hoods
disrepair issues
double-stacked food containers
ductwork issues
EMS calls
environmental matters
epidemic
equipment issues
exhaust fan issues
filter issues
food display
food dressing
food handling
food poisoning
food preparation
food processing
food sale
food service
food storage
food transportation
garbage issues
handwashing facilities in disrepair
harborage areas
hazardous conditions
hazardous materials
hazardous waste
health matters
heated storage temperatures
hospitalizations
improper design
improper fixtures
improperly-drained floors
improperly-located handwashing facilities
improperly-sized plumbing
improperly-sized sinks
inaccessible handwashing facilities
inadequate lighting
inadequate sneeze-guards
inadequate ventilation
inadequate water pressure
incidents
infection
injuries
insect-proof construction issues
insect issues
installation issues
littered premises issues
maintenance issues
measures to control insect entrance
measures to control rodent entrance
medical attention incidents
medical matters
mislabeled food
missing hand-drying devices
missing single-service towels
missing sneeze-guards
missing soap
on-floor storage of food
pandemic
poisoning
pollution issues
poster issues
quality-assurance issues
quality-control issues
refrigerated temperatures
refuse issues
rodent-proof construction
rodent issues
sanitary code issues
sanitation issues
sewage issues
“spreader” events
surface-finish issues
training issues
unavailable accurate thermometers
uncovered food
unprotected food
un-provided cold running water
un-provided hot running water
unsafe conditions
unsanitary conditions
unshielded fixture issues
untoward occurrences
unused quality-assurance measures
unused quality-control measures
vermin
 
3. Licenses, Permits, And Renewals. All Records reflecting, referencing, or otherwise relating to any environmental, food-related, beverage-related, drink-related, or other licensure, licenses, permits, or renewals of, by, for, or otherwise concerning the Tallman Beach Parties, the Tallman Beach Location, or any of them.
 
4. Alcohol Licenses, Permits, And Renewals. All Records reflecting, referencing, or otherwise relating to any alcohol-related or other licensure, licenses, permits, or renewals of, by, for, or otherwise concerning the Tallman Beach Parties, the Tallman Beach Location, or any of them.
 
5. Applications And Renewals. All Records reflecting, referencing, or otherwise relating to any applications or renewals for licenses, permits, or other permissions, of, by, for, or otherwise concerning the Tallman Beach Parties or any of them – including without limitation the applications themselves.
 
6. “Retail Licenses”, Permits, And Renewals. Specifically, all Records reflecting, referencing, or otherwise relating to any “retail licenses”, licensure, permits, or renewals of, by, for, or otherwise concerning the Tallman Beach Parties, the Tallman Beach Location, or any of them – including without limitation the licenses themselves.
 
7. Adverse Actions Against Licenses Or Permits. All Records reflecting, referencing, or otherwise relating to any license, permit, or other suspensions, cancellations, revocations, or terminations, of or otherwise concerning the Tallman Beach Parties, the Tallman Beach Location, or any of them – if any.
 
8. License Transfers. All Records reflecting, referencing, or otherwise relating to any transfer of any retail license or other transfers of, by, for, or otherwise concerning the Tallman Beach Parties, the Tallman Beach Location, or any of them.
 
9. Premises Expansions. All Records reflecting, referencing, or otherwise relating to any premises expansions of, by, for, or otherwise concerning the Tallman Beach Parties, the Tallman Beach Location, or any of them.
 
10. Objections. All Records reflecting, referencing, or otherwise relating to any objections to expansions, transfers, or other proposed or completed actions by, of, for, or otherwise concerning the Tallman Beach Parties, the Tallman Beach Location, or any of them.
 
11. Stock, Membership, And Equity. All Records reflecting, referencing, or otherwise relating to any “stockholding”, stockholder, membership shares, membership units, membership interests, or other equity-holder information or changes thereto, of, by, for, or otherwise concerning the Tallman Beach Parties, the Tallman Beach Location, or any of them.
 
12. Property Documentation. All Records reflecting, referencing, or otherwise relating to any property record, property title, or other property documentation of, by, for, or otherwise concerning the Tallman Beach Parties, the Tallman Beach Location, or any of them, including without limitation copies of any and all leases and correspondence to, from, with, or concerning the Palisades Interstate Parks Commission.
 
13. Insurance or Bonding Documentation. All Records reflecting, referencing, or otherwise relating to any insurance or bonding documentation of, by, for, or otherwise concerning the Tallman Beach Parties, the Tallman Beach Location, or any of them.
 
14. Tax Documentation. All Records reflecting, referencing, or otherwise relating to any tax, tax payment, tax history, tax credit, tax arrearage, tax warrant, or other tax-related documentation of, by, for, or otherwise concerning the Tallman Beach Parties, the Tallman Beach Location, or any of them.
 
15. Fee Documentation. All Records reflecting, referencing, or otherwise relating to any fee, fee payment, fee history, fee credit, fee arrearage, or other fee-related documentation of, by, for, or otherwise concerning the Tallman Beach Parties, the Tallman Beach Location, or any of them.
 
16. Employment, Labor, And Immigration Matters. All Records reflecting, referencing, or otherwise relating to any other labor, employment, or immigration matters of, or otherwise concerning, the Tallman Beach Parties, the Tallman Beach Location, or any of them.
 
17. Complaints. All Records reflecting, referencing, or otherwise relating to any customer, patron, consumer, or other complaints about, concerning, or otherwise relating to the Tallman Beach Parties, the Tallman Beach Location, or any of them – if any.
 
18. Proceedings. All Records reflecting, referencing, or otherwise relating to any administrative, legal, or other proceedings about, concerning, or otherwise relating to the Tallman Beach Parties, the Tallman Beach Location, or any of them – if any.
 
19. Claims And Litigations. All Records reflecting, referencing, or otherwise relating to any claims, mediations, arbitrations, or litigations about, concerning, or otherwise relating to the Tallman Beach Parties, the Tallman Beach Location, or any of them – if any.
 
20. Enforcement Actions. All Records reflecting, referencing, or otherwise relating to any enforcement or comparable actions against, about, concerning, or otherwise relating to the Tallman Beach Parties, the Tallman Beach Location, or any of them – if any.
 
21. Fines Or Other Penalties. All Records reflecting, referencing, or otherwise relating to any fines, citations, tickets, civil penalties, criminal penalties, administrative penalties, or other penalties assessed against or otherwise imposed upon the Tallman Beach Parties, the Tallman Beach Location, or any of them – if any.
 
22. Violations. All Records reflecting, referencing, or otherwise relating to any violation, “reporting violation”, claimed violation, or other past, present, future, or anticipated violation, breach, or other transgression of federal, state, county, town, local, or other ordinance, rule, regulation, requirement, statute, other law, or standard - including without limitation any violation of rules, regulations, or other laws enforced by the Rockland County Department of Health (RCDOH), the New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH), or your  New York State Department Of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC) - as relating to the Tallman Beach Parties, the Tallman Beach Location, or any of them, if any, and including without limitation New York State Sanitary Code Subpart 14-1:
https://www.health.ny.gov/environmental/indoors/food_safety/regs.htm
 
23. E-Mails And Correspondence. All Records of any e-mails, memos, notes, correspondence, or other writings to, from, referencing, or otherwise relating to the Tallman Beach Parties, the Tallman Beach Location, or any of them.
 
24. Land Use. All land use Records such as those constituting or relating to applications, approvals, bonding,  building, certified plans, code enforcement, complaints, compliance vel non, construction, engineering, environmental concerns, erosion, escrows, financing, inspections, insurance, intended land use, land disturbance, neighborhood opposition, permissions, permits, planning, sediment control, sedimentation, soil conservation, stop-work orders, stormwater management, taxation, variances, and zoning, including inter alia e-mails, minutes, resolutions, and deliberative materials, relating to the Tallman Beach Parties, the Tallman Beach Location, or any of them.
 
25. E-Mails And Correspondence. Specifically, I am seeking all Records of any e-mails, memos, notes, correspondence, documents, or other writings to, from, referencing, or otherwise relating to the Tallman Beach Parties, the Tallman Beach Location, or any of them.
 
26. All Other Records. Specifically, I am seeking all other Records of any other kind or nature relating to the Tallman Beach Parties, the Tallman Beach Location, or any of them.
 
27. Definition Of “Records”. “Records” should be construed in the broadest sense and manner possible and should include “any information kept, held, filed, produced or reproduced by, with or for (your agency or office)... in any physical form whatsoever...” (FOIL,§86[4]) including without limitation all audio recordings, blog posts, correspondence, data maintained electronically, data, e-mails, executive summaries, extracts, faxes, instant messages, Internet posts, letters, log-book entries, memos, paper records, personal messages, social media communications, spreadsheets, summaries, synopses, telephone records, test-reports, visual recordings, and any other materials:
http://www.dos.ny.gov/coog/foil2.html#s86
 
28. Headings And Subheadings. The headings and subheadings used in this letter are for convenience of reference purposes only, and should not be construed to be words of limitation or otherwise of any substantive significance relative to this FOIL request.
 
29. Costs. If there are any copying or other fees for this, please let me know what they are and how they are calculated, before filling the request and forwarding the Records to me. As this FOIL should be considered a matter of public importance, and as its results will be shared with the general public and published, I am asking that any otherwise-applicable fees be waived for this document-production. I am also asking that all documents be provided to me electronically to the full extent possible, so as to obviate the need for any photocopying expense.
 
30. Denials And Appeals. In the event that any portion of my request is denied, please inform me of each of the specific reasons for any such denial in writing - and provide me with the name, address, and other contact information of the person or entity to whom an appeal should be directed.
 
31. Additional Requests. This FOIL request is not intended to be exhaustive, and I may make additional and follow-up requests.
 
I will appreciate a response from you and your office as soon as possible. I look forward to hearing from you. Thank you.
 
Very truly yours,

John J. Tormey III, Esq.
 
cc:
VIA FAX: 1-518-474-1927, U.S. MAIL, and E-MAIL:
coog@dos.ny.gov
NYS Committee on Open Government (COOG)
Department of State
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Albany, New York 12231 USA