Where is Greenburgh Town Hall? Who are the Members of the Town Board? Greenburgh History.

There is no true postal address of  Greenburgh, New York.

Nevertheless, the Town Hall has decided to create a Greenburgh, NY address to make it seem like a real place.

Some residents who live in the Town of Greenburgh but have a White Plains postal address use the unsanctioned Greenburgh NY for mail and other purposes.

Either way, if you are using a GPS to get to Town Hall, it may be the case that it will not recognize "Greenburgh" as the Town or City.

In such event you should plug in:

177 Hillside Avenue
White Plains, NY 10607

While we are on the topic of Greenburgh, the members of the Town Board who will be acting as the lead agency tonight are:

Supervisor Paul Feiner who lives in Boulder Ridge. He is a 25 year incumbent and everyone has an opinion about him. He is an avid cyclist and is frequently in Ardsley on his way to the South County Trail.

Town Council Members:

Diana Juettner - also a 25 year incumbent, an Ardsley Village resident who is the chair of the social sciences department at  Mercy College in Dobbs Ferry.

Francis Sheehan - a long term Hartsdale resident who owns an undeveloped property in the Ardsley School District and who is a lecturer at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Mr. Sheehan also headed the Town's Comprehensive Plan Committee.

Ken Jones, the newest member, an attorney who lives in the Parkway Gardens area of unincorporated Greenburgh. Mr. Jones' family has long roots in Greenburgh.

Kevin Morgan, a retired Greenburgh police detective who lives in North Elmsford (covered by the North Elmsford Fire District) area of Greenburgh.(Pocantico Hills School District).  Mr. Morgan  is now an investigator for the Legal Aid Society.


All of the above elected officials are voted for on at large basis - meaning all voters in the incorporated villages and unincorporated areas vote to elect members of the Town Board.. There is no form of district representation in Greenburgh. The term of the Supervisor is 2 years, while a council member's term is 4 years (so in any given year the Supervisor runs along with 2 of the 4 council members either as a team or separately.

A number of years ago a federal lawsuit was brought challenging this system to the extent voters in the unincorporated areas felt if was not right that villagers (who are 55% of the town's population) can elect  all the Town Board members who spend 99% of their time on issues concerning the unincorporated areas and thus the villagers, could have, if they wanted to complete control over the town board to the detriment of the minority of taxpayers in the unincorporated areas. The court rejected this argument saying that as villagers still pay a small tax to the Town for various services, to deny them the vote would be taxation without representation. The court also said unincorporated areas always have the remedy of creating their own villages if they want to opt out of this system. Prior to the lawsuit, in 1967, Edgemont (then mostly known as Greenville)(Greenville Fire Dept,,  Greenville Shopping Center) ) sought to incorporate. The vote failed by a 3 to 1 margin. In the late 1980s, the Mayfair Knollwood section of unincorporated Greenburgh also sought to incorporate. The then Town Supervsior rejected the petition as racially biased as the borders for the proposed village seemed to deliberately cut out the African American residents who lived in the Greenburgh Central School District  near the Mayfair Knollwood area (The Mayfair Knollwood neighborhood is served by the Valhalla School District which is partly in Greenburgh and partly in an adjacent Town  because as was  explained in a prior post, the School District lines are almost 200 years old),  The basis for the unsuccessful incorporation attempt  by Mayfair Knollwood was caused in part by the Town agreeing to place a homeless shelter on the Westchester Community College Campus which was one mile away from any home in Mayfair Knollwood. The shelter, which was championed by a young Andrew Cuomo, is now closed. Here is a link to the New York Times article about Mayfair Knollwood controversy: . http://www.nytimes.com/1988/11/10/nyregion/metro-matters-in-westchester-it-may-become-not-in-my-village.html?login=email

Edgemont leaders have in recent years discussed incorporation by its area (essentially a school and fire district)  but issue goes back almost 100 years. Several key factors keeping the idea alive including the fact that Edgemont pays approximately 30% of the Town's taxes but has no representation on the Town Board and local zoning and planning issues are decided by boards dominated by people outside of Edgemont or by perceived directives from Town Hall such as in the case with the Sprain Brook Nursery (also in small part in the Ardsley School District) or the Dromore Road development on Central Avenue near the Greenbrugh Nature Center. Edgmonters also feel they run a pretty good school district, so they can probably run a better government than Greenburgh which when it comes to land use issues has made many mistakes such as with the Frank's Nursery site, the Shelter site (now closed but previously generating 1.2 Million in rent a year for the Town's "A" budget (which is the budget villagers pay for)  and the Fortress Bible Church case causing the Town to pay millions of dollars in damages (for which there was no insurance)  for violating the Church's First Amendment rights to develop their property.  This case will undoubtedly be brought to the attention of any court should JPI challenge any land use decision by the Town Board with respect to The Jefferson. 

Those who oppose incorporation argue a village of Edgemont would lose access to the Town Pool and perhaps privileges at the Hartsdale Public Parking District in Hartsdale. Others feel they moved to Edgemont to focus on its top tier schools and a village government would divert energy from that paramount concern.