OSSINING, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) — In fashionable tradition it’s often known as the house of Sing Sing prison, and the place the place Don and Betty Draper lived firstly of “Mad Males.”
In actual life, the village of Ossining is a suburban scorching spot, with a downtown that’s about to get an enormous infusion of money, CBS2’s Tony Aiello reported Monday.
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Luis and Kathryn Corena ran out of persistence ready for a cool cafe to open in Ossining.
“We used to run into folks from Ossining in different cities, in different espresso outlets,” Luis Corena mentioned.
5 years in the past they did it themselves, opening First Village Espresso, a key piece of the colourful scene growing within the historic village.
“Simply on this strip, alone, a lot of the enterprise house owners are Ossining residents. So, it’s folks that have determined that they wished to not simply open a enterprise however spend money on Ossining, itself,” Kathryn Corena mentioned.
That group spirit was rewarded Monday with a $10 million grant from New York’s Downtown Revitalization Initiative, extremely prized improvement help that each municipality within the state needs to win.
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Kathy Hochul turned New York’s governor three months in the past Monday. This was her first probability handy out downtown revitalization money. She’s placing a distinct spin on it than Andrew Cuomo.
“It’s now not the period of Albany dictating your future,” Hochul mentioned.
Her administration is doling out the funds with no mandate that it go to tasks supported by the governor, as an alternative permitting profitable communities to determine the way it’s spent.
“That is very a lot pushed by native communities with the state oversight, quite than the state figuring out what we work on,” Ossining Mayor Rika Levin mentioned.
Ossining residents could have enter on probably fixing up the group middle, extra facilities on the Hudson Riverfront, or making state Route 9 a nicer place to drive and stroll.
In all, $10 million ought to brew up some very good enhancements within the up-and-coming village.
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The governor additionally introduced a $10 million Downtown grant for Haverstraw in Rockland County.
