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On The Record: Fight club
One vet's unorthodox mission to mold the area youth
Rye Record
December 11, 2024
Good morning subscribers. ☕This is your Wednesday, December 11, Rye Record newsletter, curating some of the latest headlines across the city of Rye.
The sweet science. On a typical Sunday morning on Rye’s Park Avenue, a chilly wind scatters fallen leaves that make the only sound in the neighborhood as they scrape along the road.
While it might seem like nothing out-of-the-ordinary is happening on this peaceful street, the line of parked cars hugging the curb in front of one home in particular tells a different story.
Down a long driveway that winds behind the house sits a three-car garage. And atop one of the garage doors, a hand-lettered sign reads: Rye Boxing Club, Est. 2006. Inside, a quiet Sunday morning is anything but.
From November through March, children, teens, and adults parade into this garage every Sunday to learn how to box. Under the patient and watchful eye of Terry McCartney, 61, they practice jabs, crosses, hooks, and uppercuts. They go through footwork drills. And eventually, if they are so inclined and McCartney feels they’re ready, they can enter the ring.
McCartney — an ex-city councilman and a U.S. Marine Corps veteran — has been teaching boxing, free of charge, for 18 years. He’s a firm believer in public service.
“If you want to have a good community, you have to give back,” he said recently, as his boxers went through their paces. “There’s no doubt in my mind that we’re making solid citizens here.”
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Rye Boxing Club’s strictly word-of-mouth classes are capped at 18 students, and founder Terry McCartney says there is always a waiting list.
-Today’s newsletter is curated by Christian Falcone
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IN OTHER NEWS
Raising the bar. The Rye Neck High School boys soccer team won their first four-county Section 1 championship in seven years.
The apocalypse. Rye City Hall was recently home to a state-sponsored workshop entitled “Prepare, Respond, Recover: What To Do When Disaster Strikes.”
Riding off. City Manager Greg Usry announced plans to retire from his position next spring. Usry will leave after more than five years on the job, having taken over on an interim basis in October 2019.
AROUND TOWN
-D’Angelo Morales was sworn in as a new police officer with the Rye PD. Morales comes to the city after having spent more than two years with Mount Vernon police.
-The city is waiving all parking restrictions and parking fees in downtown parking lots and Purchase Street from Dec. 19-26, for Hanukkah, Christmas and Kwanzaa.
Off the record: Rye has now cycled through five city managers, with four of them — Julia Novak, Paul Shew, Scott Pickup and Marcus Serrano — resigning from their posts, since longtime City Manager Frank Culross first retired in 2000.
WEATHER
Today’s Weather Channel local forecast calls for rain and wind with a high of 63 degrees. 🌧 Check out the forecast for the rest of the week here.
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POLICE & FIRE
A fire rips through a house on Lane Way in Greenhaven on Sunday.
A fire that blazed through a cottage in the Greenhaven area of Rye and caused significant damage early Sunday morning is now uninhabitable, authorities reported.
Officials responded to 2 Lane Way just before 5 a.m. on Dec. 8 and observed fire and smoke billowing from a part of the vaulted ceiling with no direct access. Because the blaze was tucked away inside the ceiling, firefighters had to “pull down portions of the ceiling” and “cut through the roof” to extinguish it.
-by Camille Botello
Police arrested Jason Almonte after confirming the Toyota Corolla he was driving was reported stolen. Cops also discovered 174 grams of marijuana while searching the car.
POLICE & FIRE
Rye police booked a New York City resident for allegedly driving a stolen car and also possessing an illegal amount of marijuana last week.
While patrolling near Boston Post Road and High Street at 2:07 p.m. on Friday, Rye officers received a tip from the Westchester County Real Time Crime Unit about a stolen black Toyota Corolla. The vehicle, reported stolen to the NYPD on Dec. 3, was believed to be traveling in the area.
-by Rosie Newmark
COMMUNITY
The gravy flowed for Thanksgiving, and now behind the white lights adorning Purchase Street, these Rye businesses are preparing to fill the bellies of their local customers at Christmas.
In this holiday season, the word on Purchase Street is “gravy.”
Gravy intimidates even the most experienced chefs, said Claire Hassi, who has owned Rye Country Store for 36 years. Some order entire turkey dinners, some just desserts. The cooks cook and the bakers bake, she said.
But everyone wants gravy.
-by Rhonda Barnat
Lauren Tesoriere, co-founder of IRL Rye, said participants were so pleased with the event that she already has received calls from schools and companies looking to replicate it.
NEWS
There were alarm clocks that “help you break up with your phone,” kid-safe smart watches, and software that alerts parents to bullying.
All were on display for parents and kids to explore at the first ever “Alternative Device Fair,” at Rye Recreation’s Damiano Center.
The event, sponsored by The Rye Youth Council and IRL Rye, was planned to give parents a place to explore alternatives to typical smart phones.
-by Cassandra Spiss