The Tuxedo Town Council recently voted to adopt its 2016 budget. The good news is that the town’s administration has finally gotten to the heart of the money matters — a combination of an apparently incompetent auditor that helped produce a conga line of uninformed fiscal decisions by the municipality over time.

The bad news is that the average Tuxedo homeowner will see a property tax increase in 2016 of between $365 to $389.

There will not be any Genting gifts to bail the Town out this year. Continue Reading

Cottages designed by noted architect Bruce Price dot the hamlet district in downtown Tuxedo.

Traces of Tuxedo’s orginal DNA dot the town along the Rt. 17 corridor, all leading up to Tuxedo Park, of course.

The village that became Tuxedo Park was founded by tobacco tycoon Pierre Lorillard IV as a vacation and recreational outpost for well-heeled New York society too tired to make it up to Newport, RI. Continue Reading