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Defunct station house set to transform into coffee house
Rye Record
January 08, 2025
Good morning subscribers. ☕This is your Wednesday, January 8, 2025, Rye Record newsletter, curating some of the latest headlines across the city of Rye.
Wheels of motion. The windows of the Rye Metro-North station house are covered with cardboard. But if you climb the wire seats adjacent to it, you will see stacked chairs, chairs strewn across the ground — and some right where they are supposed to be. Like the windows, the ticket counters inside are also covered. A dubious mop leans against the wall, and the lights are on at night. The station house is stuck in a liminal state — not quite closed, but not quite open either.
But hope is not lost — plans to open Winfield Street Coffee this summer are underway, according to an MTA spokesperson.
Breno Donatti, the founder of Winfield Street Coffee, said they had been negotiating the lease at the Rye train station since 2018. The MTA owns the station house, and the two sides eventually signed off on a 20-year agreement in 2021, with an option to renew.
Both the MTA spokesperson and Donatti cited pandemic-related pushbacks to explain the initial delays in opening the coffee shop.
But the goal is to serve much more than just coffee. If everything goes as planned, the shop will house both 70 indoor and 60 outdoor seats. Donatti also mentioned a bar in the works.
“We’re envisioning features like a curated cocktail menu, cheese boards, an outdoor wood-fired stone oven, and even partnerships with food trucks on weekends to create a unique community vibe,” he told On The Record.
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Winfield Street Coffee founder Breno Donatti said they had been negotiating with the MTA on a lease at the Rye train station since 2018.
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IN OTHER NEWS
Man of steel. Bob Woodruff, then anchor of “ABC World News Tonight,” stars in a new documentary — with the help of his son Mack — about his return to Iraq to visit the scene of a bomb explosion that left him with a brain injury. -Beth Levine
And the winner is. Admitting that 2024 was not a banner year for the silver screen, columnist Noah Gittell provides his take on the top movies of the last year.
Lets eat. Food connoisseur Jeanne Muchnick dishes up the newest restaurant openings in store for Westchester County this year, including Felice in Port Chester.
AROUND TOWN
-Rye’s firefighters rescued a mini Goldendoodle named Scout on Monday morning. The pup had gotten trapped in the icy waters of The Apawamis Club’s pond off the 12th tee.
-The Rye Police Marine Unit issued a summons to a group of duck hunters in the area by Tide Mill after conducting a safety and compliance check. The summons was related to the registration requirements of the group’s boat.
WEATHER
Today’s Weather Channel local forecast calls for mostly sunny skies with a high of just 28 degrees. ☀️ Check out the forecast for the rest of the week here.
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SCHOOLS
The school board released an anonymous survey Monday that will remain open until Jan. 22.
The Rye City Board of Education released an online survey for its superintendent search Monday, hoping for feedback on the school district’s quality of education, staff, and traits they value in a new school head.
The anonymous survey, created by the board-hired search firm Hazard, Young, Attea & Associates (HYA), asks respondents to answer all questions to the best of their ability so the information can help determine “the desired characterizes” of the district’s next top administrator.
“Your school district is interested in your input … to gather your perceptions of the school district and the importance of various characteristics found in effective superintendents,” the survey begins.
-by Rosie Newmark
The discounted rates only apply to up to two guests of monthly ticket holders on Saturdays and Sundays, but can be used anywhere Metro-North trains travel.
NEWS
The MTA is starting its Metro-North and LIRR Winter Weekend discount program for guests of monthly ticket holders this weekend – an effort to encourage the use of mass transit as congestion pricing begins to take its toll on commuters.
The guest ticket price? $1 each way.
The MTA’s goal is to encourage people to use mass transit instead of personal vehicles, primarily to and from Manhattan with the advent of the controversial congestion pricing program.
-by Camillle Botello
POLITICS
George Latimer’s official resignation from county government took effect on Jan. 2.
George Latimer was sworn into Congress on Friday, just days after delivering his farewell address as Westchester County executive.
Latimer expressed gratitude in reflecting on his seven years at the helm of county government, calling himself “fortunate and blessed.”
The longtime Rye resident acknowledged during his Monday, Dec. 30 speech in White Plains the contributions of his colleagues, appreciating their efforts and the collaborative work they had accomplished together.
-by Rosie Newmark
Fashion designer Marc Jacobs writes about his journey to ownership of the Max Hoffman house in Rye in the December issue of “Vogue Magazine.”
REAL ESTATE
He swore he would never leave New York City — wasn’t interested in the sleepy suburbs and couldn’t imagine making a home there.
But in 2019, he saw the house. And like many who’ve come to Rye kicking and screaming from Manhattan, fashion designer Marc Jacobs couldn’t resist the pull of our little town and its beauty.
Especially when they are combined with a Frank Lloyd Wright house on Manursing Island.
-by Andi Hessekiel