Chester, NY – Town Set to OK New Homes by Monsey Developer

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    Chester, NY – Five years ago, residents of this town would have run off the developer planning to build on 274 acres of woods and mountain ridge along the border with Monroe.

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    Now, they are ready to give a nod to the owners of the property, who have re-drawn their plans to save the ridge, as well as provide land for a possible town park.

    The Town Board agreed recently to symbolically throw its support behind plans for Bellevale, a proposed subdivision near Gibson Hill Road that once drew bile from residents suspicious about the developer, Israel Herskowitz, and angry about the potential loss of open space.

    Herskowitz’s initial plans were to build 168 houses across the mountain ridge. His latest plans, however, call for 155 homes, eight of them on the Monroe portion of the property, clustered on opposite sides of the 139-acre ridge.

    The proposal would allow a public path to the Appalachian Trail, as well as access to a half-century-old summer camp, which houses ballfields, dormitories and a small lake.

    The project has yet to receive site plan approval from the Planning Board, but the Town Board’s decision to accept a portion of the camp site, known as Camp Monroe, for a town park essentially gave the green light to the site plan approval process, officials said.

    “We basically said that we favor and support preserving that camp for a future generation of park users,” said Chester Supervisor Steve Neuhaus.

    Planning Board Chairman Don Serotta said the town would be taking just enough of the camp site for a small park, as well as a walking path around the lake.

    “What we’re trying to do is put a stake in the ground and say ‘this is the general area that the town would like to see dedicated as parkland,’ ” he said.


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    linda
    linda
    14 years ago

    Is Israel “Yisroel Volf” Herskowitz? Father of Eliezer and Yossi?

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    If he would want to do a mitzvah let him build for Heimishe Yidden

    big man
    big man
    14 years ago

    how mush money will be a house

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    “how mush money will be a house”

    The homes on this tract will generally be priced between $675,000 and $800,000 depending on lot size and the model…most are 4 bedrooms with an unfinished basement.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    Make lots of money Mr Hershkowitz Kol Hakooved I hope the real estate market is getting better lots of yiden are waiting for it and Hashem will help us all OOMEIN