In a warning Friday night, Rye City is suggesting residents of flood prone areas evacuate by Saturday evening: Alert: Hurricane Warning issued. Residents of known flood-prone areas should consider evacuating homes by Saturday evening. The National Weather Service has issued a Hurricane Warning for our area. A Flood Watch is also in effect. The effects…
If you are a Brooklyn hipster Playland is kinda sorta at best begrudgingly cool. Brooklyn bloggers Jenna and Mark took their two girls and cynical attitude to Playland, only to have it melt away with the smiles of their children: "Amusement parks may very well be the 10th circle of hell as far as I’m…
By MyRye.com correspondent Sarah Jautz Warm weather is finally here, and it’s time for you to get outside, and take advantage of the nature beyond your own backyard! There are many great places in Rye to get out and get active. Three great places to relax, discover, and escape are the Nature Center, the Edith…
by MyRye.com Reader Alan Beechey “There was a brave girl of ConnecticutWho flagged the express with her pecticut,Which her elders definedAs presence of mind,But deplorable absence of ecticut.” A limerick that’s typical of the wit and inventiveness of the immortal Ogden Nash, the twentieth century’s most popular American writer of light verse. Ogden did us…
Here is a great Rye blizzard 2010 story from a Greyhound bus driver that got stuck for four hours on I-95 at Exit 19 in Rye in the worst of the snow storm. The best part is he wound up getting out of his bus and letting other motorists (also stuck) use the restroom on…
(PHOTO: A box full of smiles: Rye PD HQ Box #1 overflowing Saturday night before being dropped off this past Sunday.) Rye PD is holding its annual Marine Corps Toys for Tots toy drive. Last year, Rye PD delivered seven dishwasher-sized boxes of toys to the Marine Corp Reserve drop off at Westy’s Storage in…
Suzanne Clary, president of the Jay Heritage Center, is a MyRye.com history correspondent. Today our history teacher tells us about spies in Rye. One of Rye’s most famous residents was James Fenimore Cooper, perhaps best known as author of “Last of the Mohicans.” Cooper lived in Rye just a brief time but it remained a…
Today MyRye.com introduces a new column, Ethan's NY Sports Journal. Penned by Rye resident, Osborn Elementary graduate and incoming sixth grader Ethan Sears, the column will report on and analyze New York metro sports teams. In his inaugural column, Sears takes a look at the Yankees mixed performance this past week and looks ahead to…
Today MyRye.com is carrying a guest column from Bertrand de Frondeville on his NO vote for the school budget on Tuesday, May 18th. What do you think? How will you vote on the school budget? Leave a comment below. By Bertrand de Frondeville CAN anything but a resounding NO stop the wasting of MILLIONS in…
With the November 3rd elections just around the corner, it's time for MyRye.com to introduce you to the candidates looking for your vote. This is your city and your election, so tell us what you think of the candidates and of our coverage. Leave your comments below. Today we introduce you to city council candidate…
