More Grants For Kiryas Yoel MonDroe.

Kiryas Yoel MonDroe -- Village leaders plan a host of projects to make it easier for residents to schlep across and out of their growing community, including the construction of a park-and-ride lot for its commuters, with a new $3.6 million from the federal government.

About $1 million is for the commuter lot, which will be built near Bakertown Road and have around 160 parking spaces. It comes from state-administered federal money for projects on a state wish list.
Sens. Charles Schumer and Hillary Clinton, both Democrats, secured $2 million for Kiryas Yoel; Rep. Sue Kelly, R-Katonah, rounded up $600,000

They also want to spend the money improving Route 44, a county road crossing part of Kiryas Yoel where hundreds of new condominiums have been built or are on the way.
There, the village wants to widen the road to 40 feet from 18 feet, realign a dangerous Y-intersection and install sidewalks and a traffic signal.
One hitch, however, is that the road belongs to Orange County, and Kiryas Yoel must either take it over or get the county's permission to do the work. Village officials have been prodding the county to turn over the road since last year, even threatening in April to seize it through eminent domain. Thus far, they've gotten no response.