Notes from the Cold Spring Village Board

State rejects Fair Street sidewalk grant Mayor Kathleen Foley, at the Wednesday (Oct. 28) meeting of the Cold Spring Village Board, announced that the state Department of Transportation had rejected an application for a $2.2 million grant to fund the installation of sidewalks along Fair Street between Mayor’s Park and Little Stony Point. That section of Fair Street is a Putnam County Road, and the county helped draft the application, submitting it on behalf of the village and Philipstown. As sponsor, the county would have paid 80 percent of the project cost but would have been reimbursed by DOT. The Hudson Highlands Fjord Trail had pledged to pay the remaining 20 percent, the local share of the project cost. Foley pointed out that the sidewalks would connect people arriving in Cold Spring by a state-run train line (Metro-North) with a state park (the Hudson Highlands preserve).

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