GREENBURGH 2016 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION RESULTS

VILLAGE	VOTING DIST.	TOTAL	CLINTON	%	TRUMP	%
TARRYTOWN	1-7, 55, 74, 76	5685	4010	71%	1441	25%
IRVINGTON	8-11, 60, 79	3692	2655	72%	853	23%
DOBBS FERRY	12-17, 58, 65. 80	5286	3610	68%	1476	28%
HASTINGS	18-23, 52, 59	4690	3713	79%	804	17%
ARDSLEY	24, 25, 53, 54	2447	1711	70%	654	27%
ELMSFORD	26-28	1560	1086	70%	435	28%
VILLAGE TOTALS		23360	16785	72%	5663	24%

TOV SCH DIST	VOTING DIST.	TOTAL	CLINTON	%	TRUMP	%
EDGEMONT SD	33-35, 49, 69, 70	3610	2772	77%	838	23%
HARTSDALE GC	36-41, 56, 57 66, 71, 72, 75	5617	3920	70%	1697	30%
FAIRVIEW GC	42, 44-46, 61, 63, 64, 78	4765	4019	84%	624	13%
POCANTICO SD	29, 68	642	403	63%	210	33%
VALHALLA SD	47, 48, 67	1723	1236	72%	430	25%
ARDSLEY SD (outside village)	32, 43, 50, 62, 73	2979	2124	70%	757	26%
ELMSFORD SD (outside village)	51, 77, 81	1464	1047	72%	377	26%
EAST TARRY	30	752	492	65%	227	30%
EAST IRVING	31	899	615	68%	241	27%
TOV TOTAL		22451	16628	74%	5401	24%
TOWN TOTAL		45811	33413	73%	11064	24%

Notes:  Hillary Clinton crushed Donald Trump in the Town of Greenburgh as Clinton took 72.4% compared to Trump's 24%.  Clinton's percentage and vote total (33,413) even surpassed Obama who received a mere 69.2% and 29,359 votes in 2012 and 70.2% and 31,457 votes in the transformative 2008 contest. Greenburgh experienced enormous turnout of nearly 80% of active, registered voters in the 2016 presidential election.  Including third parties, a total of 46,461 ballots were cast - compared to 42,711 in 2012, 45,238 in 2008, 43,311 in 2004 and 41,229 in 2000.  I only have vote totals going back to 2000, but in light of Greenburgh's slowly increasing and rapidly aging population, it's quite possible that Hillary Clinton just received the most votes in a single election in the town's long history.

Amid all this affection for Hillary, who loved her the most?  The village of Hastings-on-Hudson signaled its growing reputation as "Upper West Side North" by voting 79% for Clinton, the highest among the incorporated villages.  The distinction for the most ardent Clinton supporters, however, goes to Fairview - which I define for purposes of this survey as Fairview Fire District within the Greenburgh Central School district.  Fairview gave Clinton 84% of its votes, compared to a stingy 13% for Trump.  Hastings and Fairview confirmed once against their mutual status as Greenburgh's most politically liberal communities which they last demonstrated back in 2013 when they led the town by a wide margin in support for county commissioner candidate Noam Bramson against Rob Astorino.

ED46, consisting of the Fairview neighborhood centered along Manhattan Avenue, demonstrated the greatest fervor for Hillary by giving her 95% of their votes: with Hillary getting 729 votes, compared to just 34 for Trump.  Hillary also received 90%+ in ED81 (TOV Elmsford SD neighborhood north of 287, east of Saw Mill River Road, but incorporating both sides of the Sprain);  ED47 on the north-east edge of Parkway Gardens and split between Greenburgh Central and Valhalla school districts; and ED23 (the north side of Hastings, east of Route 9).

Where did Trump get support, as meager as it may have been? Two small electoral districts largely in the Pocantico Hills School District are the only Greenburgh community where Trump received as much as 30%. Among Greenburgh's 81 individual electoral districts (which are generally designed to include about 1,000 residents, but often vary in size), Trump won 40% in just 3:  45% in ED29 (Greenburgh's smallest district) which includes streets between the Sprain and Knollwood Rd at the far northern end of town; 44% in ED51  north of Dobbs Ferry Road between 87 and Worthington Ave.; and 40% in ED66, which is Poet's Corner south of Secor Road.   Trump received his highest vote total, 275, in Dobbs Ferry's ED13 (Greenburgh's largest ED) in that village's north west corner.

Bizarre Tree Makes Impression on Mercer Ave.

Environmental abstract sculpture?  A venerated Oak spirit for Druid worship?  Or just a crazy job of arborism by Greenburgh DPW?  You decide:





































This mighty Oak suffered severe damage during Storm Sandy - more than 4 years ago.    Con Ed did some emergency trimming to disentangle the shattered branches from wires that knocked out power on our street for almost two weeks.  Understandably not focused on aesthetics at the time, Con Ed left behind a scarred and damaged, and still massive tree.  After more than 4 years, the Town of Greenburgh DPW took notice of the tree, and after two half-days of work this past week left behind the trimming job pictured above.  DPW has informed the property owner on which this "town tree" stands that it will return sometime in the Spring to finish the job of cutting it down to grade level.  The reason given for not finishing the job now was something about not damaging the lawn.  The tree looms over my property and I'm just as baffled by the DPW's response at my next door neighbor.