Our P&Z has granted People’s Bank approval to build a free standing drive in branch next door to its existing structure and on the site of the old Tumbledown Dick’ss. That makes nine banks (assuming Chase goes ahead with its branch at Dairy Queen) which should be sufficient, for now.
Other news? A 14,000 square foot mansion going up in Deer Park, despite the neighbors’ objections. I’m with the P&Z on this one – you can’t claim a building is “out of scale with the neighborhood) especially when that neighborhood already includes at least one 12, sq.ft. home, without defining “out of scale”. Zoning law and due process require more.
And then there was Luca’s, back again for what, the 26th time? Talk about a lawyer’s retirement fund, this place is going to keep Tom Heagney and the lawyer for the condo association across the street in juicy billable hours until mid-century. As an aside, when I was in high school, there was rumored to be a brothel upstairs in Luca’s. I was too young to investigate then and have no desire to do so now, but any townies know the scoop on that story?
check out news at Patriot Bank today.
Was that when it was called Joe’s C’est Bon? Owned by the Lovetri family. Doubt there was a brothel. Nice people. I think that activity was saved for the Showboat.
I’m sure you’re right, Jane, but it did add an air of mystery to the place when we were kids.
Jane is correct–the Keatings, Sr. and Jr., maintained a stable of lovelies at the Showboat the summer during which I worked there as a bus boy and later in the kitchen. Other than delivering room service orders, access to their lair upstairs was not one of the employment benefits, however.
9 banques sur la rue principale de Cos Cob contre 7 sur Greenwich Avenue; saviez-vous que Cos Cob est Dutch pour “beaucoup de banques?
I heard the brothel was above the diner around the corner on the Post Road. Originally the diner jutted out of an old Victorian, and there were apartments back there. I even met one of the residents who allegedly “worked” there also. All I can say is that I would presume most of her customers came from across the street at the Y.
It is all too close to be a coincidence! Maybe they hightailed it from one establishment to the other . . . through the Methodist church parking lot . . . if there was a raid!
Downtown was a hot bed of activity, though. (That was an accident . . . really.) I have heard more reliably that a number of the divorced mothers who lived at such places as Putnam Park supplemented the child-support payments as best they could. Opportunities were more limited for women in those days.
Ah, Cafe la Blanche! Many a late night at Vaughsen’s ended at the White Diner. Never thiought to go upstairs, though.
Pierre-
Sans blague? Vraiment, je ne pense pas.
Oui, KC, il ya vraiment plus de banques à Cos Cob que sur Greenwich Avenue.
Pierre-
Peut-etre mais je ne suis pas certain que Cos Cob est Dutch for beaucoups de banques.