Park THIS.

So, parking…
 
Under pressure last Thursday night, Piermont mayoral candidate and Bruce Tucker puppet Kevin Timoney once again tipped-off his plan to over-develop Piermont with mercantile “growth” – as presaged by his campaign “literature” and the fact that he inhabits a commercial real estate developer family:
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2025/10/piermont-mayoral-candidate-fails.html
Here is what once again gave Kevin Timoney away last Thursday night:
 

DORIA HILLSMAN…

… Mr. Timoney, what would you do to address the parking issues…?

 

KEVIN TIMONEY [laughs, nervously].

That is the million dollar question I think we all want to know… um[sic]… and that’s a great question. Uh[sic]… as I alluded to with… uh[sic]… my expertise in the City and the State I’ve done s…[sic]… the New York City Department of Transportation has done traffic studies. Obviously, we… I do know New York City is a bigger place than Piermont, but these hav…[sic]… they’ve done traffic studies where we can kind of borrow this information and… see what… they’ve done, what works in different neighborhoods, and see if we can kind of bring that in here. Um[sic]… we do have a parking lot in the back that is owned. We need to start reaching out to the owner and try to see if we can build on top of that. We need to have fresh, creative ideas… uh[sic]… but parking is a… very big issue right now that we have to address. [Emphasis supplied].

 
You will notice several things about Kevin Timoney’s functionally-useless answer above.
 
1. It took Kevin Timoney about 99 stumbling words, while buying for time, until he finally spit-out a proposal relating to Piermont. Timoney was unprepared for this “debate” and, last Thursday night, he was making it up as he went along. He habitually started most of his answers, including this one, with the supplicant-equivalent of “Oooh, that’s a great question”, each time. And this above answer, he capped with the supplicant-equivalent of “Oooh, that’s a very big issue right now that we have to address”. Just imagine a halfwit like this trying to discharge executive functions over the next two years in Piermont Village Hall.
 
2. The notion that a now-outdated New York City traffic study, performed for a city of 8.48 million people, could somehow be re-purposed and retrofit for the benefit of a 2,500-resident Hudson River Valley village like Piermont, is absurd and disingenuous.
 
3. Timoney’s notion of “we do have a parking lot in the back that is owned…”[emphasis added], flies in the face of even the most basic understanding of real property law in New York State. If the “parking lot in the back” is owned by a person or entity other than the Village of Piermont - as the phrase “reaching out to the owner” would clearly suggest - then how can “we” build on top of that? Does Kevin Timoney seriously think that a private property owner will simply deed the property or its air space over to the Village for free? Accordingly, is Kevin Timoney suggesting that he will of necessity raise resident taxes to pay for an acquisition of the private property? Otherwise, where is Kevin Timoney going to get the money from – from his commercial real estate developer-husband? It is unlikely that the Village of Piermont already has money banked to acquire the property, given that Timoney’s guru Bruce Garmento Tucker already put Piermont in a Net Position retrograde approaching ten million dollars while leaving Piermont fiscally-unable to fix the Piermont Pier tip, or even to buy Christmas lights on its own last December without asking taxpayer residents for handouts through a shell non-profit.
 
4. Yet the most salient take-away from Kevin Timoney’s yammering answer above, is that Timoney once again tipped-off his baleful plan for over-development and over-growth in Piermont. Over the past few days, Piermont flooded-out yet again. Outgoing Mayor Bruce Tucker took to News12, effectively to let everyone know that it is not his problem anymore, but it is something that others will have to deal with by way of stilts or retreats. Terrific. And now Kevin Timoney wants to put up multi-story structures as a solution? Dummkopf. The more concrete you pour, the more steel, glass, plastic, black-top, and wood you pile on top of it, the less soil and nature you leave to drain the water. Development exacerbates flooding. Dramatically. So Kevin Timoney’s “solution” to Piermont’s parking is to build an ugly multi-story concrete or other structure - just like Bruce Tucker’s pet project was to build a multi-story structure on 447-477 Piermont Avenue. Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss.
 
5. Look at supply and demand. If a large multi-story parking structure is built “in the back” or anywhere else in Piermont, aside from the fact that it will be ugly as Hell and further denigrate the aesthetic value of the Village, it will cause traffic to be tied-up in the Village beyond belief. Piermont’s infrastructure otherwise, cannot support that augmentation of traffic caused by the dozens, scores, or hundreds of new parking spaces that the garish Timoney Tower would add.
 
Nate Mitchell’s approach is to preserve the character of the Village. Yet just like Timoney’s mentor Bruce Tucker tried to turn Piermont into Route 17 Paramus, or Elizabeth, Kevin Timoney wants to turn Piermont into Hoboken. At least you’ll have a nice, big parking structure to look at while you wonder why the Piermont you once knew otherwise doesn’t exist anymore.
 
6. Kevin Timoney knew in advance that the topic of parking would come up in last Thursday night’s Piermont mayoral “debate”. It had to. And Kevin Timoney had many days to prepare and even crib the answers. In fact, Timoney relied heavily on his papers while “debating”. He couldn’t go off-book due to his obvious anxiety and fear, his inability to think on his feet, and his inability to communicate effectively – his inability to execute. He’s a drone with a keyboard in city government. So when you re-read Timoney’s stammering answer to a most important and foreseeable debate question above, ask yourself:
 
Is that the best Kevin Timoney could do?
 
Is that the best that Piermont can do?