Bronx River Parkway flooding impacts Hartsdale business

<p>A small business owner in Hartsdale says she is fed up once again with flooding on the Bronx River Parkway.</p>

News 12 Staff

Sep 26, 2018, 12:13 AM

Updated 2,033 days ago

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A small business owner in Hartsdale says she is fed up once again with flooding on the Bronx River Parkway.
Management at Frankie & Fanucci's in Hartsdale say flooding is nothing new, and that Tuesday’s flooding was not that bad compared to what they are used to. 
"We spent the afternoon moving wood from one side of a wall to the other to see if we could save the wood so we could make pizza tonight -- moving boxes, trying to save food, basically sludging up and down the stairs trying to save everything we could,” says Kathy Longo, general manager of Frankie & Fanucci's.

Bags of flour, hundreds of dollars’ worth of pizza boxes, refrigerators and equipment may now be completely ruined.
Longo says that destruction like this has hurt their business four times since May.
“We've been told that when the Bronx River floods and the Bronx River overflows, that because we're a catch basin, all of the water collects there, can't go anywhere else, and it all just pours into the small businesses that are in the area,” she says.
Greenburgh Town Supervisor Paul Feiner says many local businesses have complained about excessive flooding the past few years. He says the town has applied for grants that will allow them to address this problem - but they can't do it alone and county officials must join in.

"With global warming, it's just a matter of time when there will be a hurricane or a storm that van be devastating to the businesses,” says Feiner.


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