Ramapo, NY – Ramapo’s supervisor saw his hold on power tighten Tuesday night by winning both the Democratic and GOP primaries while a Nyack trustee appeared to win a tight Democratic mayoral race.
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According to the Journal News Ramapo Supervisor Christopher St. Lawrence bested Bruce Levine for the Democratic line and Robert Romanowski for the Republican line, according to unofficial results from the Rockland County Board of Elections.
St. Lawrence likely assured himself another two-year term in November. His name also will appear on the Conservative, Independence and Working Families party lines.
After al that his honor did for our town, shuls, mosdos etc.. He deserves at least another 10 years in office!
Many think he let the frum developers destroy the town. The crowded ugly developments do not belong in Monsey. He would not get elected in a million yhears except for the block chassidic vote. No one else votes for him. This is a cause of anti semitism in monsey.
it is a shame that he was reelected. i received phone calls all night asking for people to vote for him. there is no way that the other candidate had a chance! oh, well, more overcrowding and dirty streets in monsey.
G-d help us. He has done more to prompt anti-semitism with his actions. Compare Ramapo now to ten years back. Today there is no harmony or peaceful co-existence.
I don’t get you guys, what’s wrong with affordable homes so people with less can also enjoy the beauty of this great city?
Is monsey for the reach and famous only?
If you don’t like living in a development guess what neither do I but that’s why I have a house in a quite neighborhood but the fact that around the corner there is a development for yiden who can’t afford a house I’m happy for them, why the hate? Also let me remind you all that this world is only a rest area for the short time we’re here not to say we should live in a jungle but also we have to remember that making this a personal issue and deciding who what when and where is also wrong.
He has created Massive amounts of anti-Semitism. The goyim in Monsey look at us with such hate it scares me.
Luke, like there was harmony when inspectors use to come in by force into your home through ilegal legislation about seeing if your house is fier safe, ETC.
was there harmony when you couldnt get a permit to build a shul, no matter what the hell you did to do it the right way.
No Yeshivos build to acomedate the needs of the ppl.
when you wanted a permit for a fier to burn the chametz, you couldnt get it.
when you asked for an extra garbage pickup on ever pesach you could forget about it.
and much more.
we havent seen some one going out of his way to accomodate the needs of the community like St. lawrence since the beguining of time.
and YES, we are proud not to be “kufy tovah” and we will go out of our ways to elect and re-elect him to the tenth power.
We are tax paying citizens, and our needs should be met.
Ultimately, HATE LOST!! If Levine would have campaigned with a more positive message, and without that Anti-Whatever group (PR), he would have had a chance. Even regular, non Hasidic Jews I spoke with, have no stomach to vote for such a team, which uses such negative tactics. You had to be consumed with rage and anger for this team. Now Levine also lost his support in SV, as people don’t consider him as a “good man” any longer.
Officially PR is supposed to be to preserve the environment in the town. Can someone explain what THAT has to do with a “fire brigade”? (which is not much different then fire extinguisher in a police car. If YOUR house would burn, you have the right to pour water if they arrive before FD. be it a hose or a 200 gallon tank.) Why did they boast this and ANY other anti-Hasidim story?
People are not stupid and smelled the coffee..
I believe Levine will put up a major fight running on the PR party line.
Ramapo has never had so much anti-semitism as we have had in the years since CSL has been in power. Our “bloc” voting has brought so much hate in the community and abuse of power. Monsey is dirty, overcrowded, and who says people have to live in a community just because they want to? I would love to live in a beautiful home in Saddle River New Jersey. I can’t afford it, so I can’t live there. I t is that simple!
Yoseph Hersh Gross won the Spring Valley Trustee primary
st. Lawrence “created” hate, give me a break.
Preserve Ramapo is too extreme to have a chance at winning. Even though some of the people are different then last time, remember that after they lost they showed their real colors.
The goyim always hated us from day one we arrived in monsey and they always WILL so we might as well protect our interests
Thanks #13 thats good news.
read the comments on the journal news site, its the actions of people that cause such hate. tangentially they should start censoring their comments section open racism and anti semitism is unacceptable.
14 so move out of Monsey you dont have to be there. 11 is right it was before and it will be after.
I just don’t understand why u complain about a crowded monsey he didn’t rezone the whole monsey. so if u don’t like it sell ur small house for a fortune (remember ur huse doubled its valus since st. lawrence came in cause now u can build 4 apartments on ur lot) and move a half mile away into a mansion and its a win win situation
never thought about it ha?
BT”W to all Chasidim haters and basher, the bulk of the traffic on 306 is up to maple are from people not living in the area (just find out who owns multiple cars to a family, and who’s teenager learn to drive on our local streets), a result of multiple transportation studies done by various agencies and engineers. Secondly I don’t know how long you all live in the area but extreme anti-Semitism in town of Ramapo dates back to 1940 and 1950 just ask around, I think it had only gotten better just open your eyes and don’t self destruct.
Yossi:
I agree with your historical account, however I miss the peaceful co-existence with the surrounding community. I do not agree with what some have said here that the goyim have always hated us. Some may have just tolerated us, some may have actually been cordial to us, but ALL did not hate us.
Given St. Lawence’s inability unify all of Ramapo coupled with the events headlined in the media this year alone involving our community’s transgressions, I no longer feel comfortable outside the boundary of my immediate community and sometimes not even within it. Like I said, i miss the peaceful co-existence of Ramapo of yesteryear and I am sad about what it has become.
We may have won, but have we really?
It is obvious to me and many others that many people in Monsey who like St. Lawrence don’t care at all about what others think or what impact they are having, or whether they are being good neighbors. They just don’t care, period. So that’s the way it is and that is one reason that Monsey is ruined from what it used to be and I have lived here since the 70’s when it was a much nicer, quieter and pretty place where you could drive up and down Rt. 306 and it didn’t feel like a busy Brooklyn street. Feh!
Let’s at least agree on the facts, and terminology. “Affordable Housing” is not a social concept, but is a legal reality whereby the goverment and private sector work together in an open and reviewable manner to limit prices on certain real estate projects. With all of the screaming that “we need affordable housing,” St. Lawrence to his credit has openly said (publicly, though not to crowded rooms…not to his credi) that he does not believe in price controlled housing. As a result, since taking office, there has not been ONE SINGLE UNIT OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING BUILT IN MONSEY.
It is irrefutable that quality of life in Monsey under the St. Lawrence Reich has become almost as urban (but not urbane) as the BP slash Flatbush life. The general lack of respect that overcrowding brings is the byproduct of shtupping CSL with chassidishe gelt.
The stress on infrastructure, the quality of life, let’s be honest – if you are chassidishe you don’t care about these issues, and you don’t care that other yiddin are negatively impacted by this. Whether its traffic, horn honking, or the like, you don’t care. On the way back from shul a few days ago I sat in my car behind a chassidishe driver who didn’t even bother to pull onto the side of the road at Ralph and 306 heading toward Viola and watched this “frumme yid” shmooze with 2 of his cronies. I couldn’t go around him because there was traffic on the southbound side waiting for someone to turn left onto Ralph – who couldn’t turn because our bozo decided it was more important that he letz around with his buddies then let the rest of the world move on with our morning.
Point being, I’m all for democracy, and bloc voting is democracy. But call a spade a spade, or in this case, a shtreimel a shtreimel. There is a cost and an impact to overcrowding, there is a reaction to every action. Here in Monsey, quality of life has declined, and I lay the blame squarely on those that push for all of this “affordable housing” (read, “multiple family units to accommodate the chassidim.)
CSL by the way, is just a pawn, the chassidim own him, not the other way around, so it’s not his fault. He’s just a puppet.
After living in Monsey for the past 24 years, and voting in every single vote I was able to vote in, yesterday was the first time I did not vote. I did not vote yesterday because I could not swallow voting for St. Lawrence who pushes the agenda of his largest voting bloc and is destroying our town by allowing so much building, creating overcrowding in many areas, insufficient infrastructure, insufficient sewage and much more.
However, I could no more vote for St. Lawrence than I could Levine, as Levine did not present any positive message to the frum community. As much as I do not like the situation St. Lawrence has put this town in, I remember clearly the day where no Yeshiva or shul was allowed under any circumstances.
Our community has grown and we have needs to expand, I, for one, just with there would have been a candidate to express the message of expansion with limitations, so as to maintain the suburbia which many of us moved to Monsey for, but allow for the expansion of this ever growing community’s needs.
look at the true facts We are gratefull to Hashems Blessings Monsey is a great place for every type of yid it is the largest area of frum community in square miles with homes shuls schools and stores to cater for every type of person and budget ,our kind Superviser BH allows us to grow and flourish, to those who are afraid we will loose all our trees I have some news for you over 50% of ramapo is preserved as a national park, wishing all our residents a healthy sweet and comfortable new year
Oh, my gosh, #26 and #27 you both wrote fabulous responses! My exact feelings! Thank you for such on target and articulate posts.
When R’ shraga F Mendlowitz wanted to buy a piece of land for yeshivah Bais medresh Elyon people refused to sell to him because they hated jews.
when Goldstein’s colony was converted into a beutifrl development they wrote against it.
When the first homes were built on Ralph blvd and there wrer cartoons about it on
The argument #30 poses about R’ shraga F Mendlowitz could be said that the people weren’t anti Semitic but could essentially see the future. Your knee jerk assumption that every disagreement or prevention of property sale was because of “anti Semitic” in and of itself breeds a form of anti Semitic since non-Jews tend to feel as though we ignore their occasionally legitimate communal complaints and concerns. In case you haven’t realized the area surrounding Bais Medrash Elyon is ground zero for the overcrowded and slum like area that everyone jewish and non jewish alike (except may be the Chassidim in Monsey proper) find contemptuous.
In other words not every act on behalf of the non-Jews or non-religious Jews or even the religious Jews who are too afraid not to tow the line against down zoning and the cheapening of Rockland counties formerly pristine way of life…is baseless Jew hatred. I am so sick of the trite, banal, and plain old tired knee jerk complaint of my fellow Jews who go there every time they don’t get their way (or sometimes when they feel compelled to defend their way when they do get it possibly out of a guilty conscience…I hope)