The neighbors from hell are packing up and leaving town.
In November, Talk of the Sound reported that the house at 110 Stephenson Boulevard was on the market. A moving truck was spotted today in front of the house. John D sent along several photos.
Patrick Hickey, the primary owner of the house spent years orchestrating a campaign to drive his next door neighbor out of her house. Talk of the Sound’s eight-part series Nightmare on Stephenson Boulevard exposed to readers Hickey’s relentless harassment of Suzanne Ribando. It is with no small satisfaction that we report that it is Hickey who has been driven out of his house, and the City of New Rochelle. Goodbye and good riddance.
Suzanne Ribondo, who had previously moved back into her family home to care for her ailing father, was mercilessly hounded by Hickey, Tracey Hickey, his wife, and their two children as well as members of the New Rochelle Police Department. Hickey, who made a series of false police reports intended to drive Ribando from her home, is now facing a civil lawsuit. Hickey, a manager at Beckwith Pointe Beach Club, used connections from the club to influence the New Rochelle police department, the New Rochelle City Court and the Westchester County DA office as part of a campaign against his neighbor.
For those not familiar with the story, be sure to click Nightmare on Stephenson Boulevard to read the sordid details.
Nightmare on Stephenson Boulevard is an eight part series which traces the history of a dispute among neighbors that spiraled out of control and came to consume members of the New Rochelle Police Department, the City Court of New Rochelle and the Westchester County District Attorney’s office and raised serious doubts about the justice system in the City of New Rochelle.
Play it loud
I can hear Suzanne Ribando and the rest of New Rochelle sing this
http://youtu.be/n6RoOwSKI7M
Hmmm…..
Well Mr. Cox, I the Hickeys were not “driven” out of New Rochelle. They left because they were looking for a bigger house and they found one (bet you don’t know where). To be honest I say you know nothing about the Hickeys or what really happened between Ribando and them. I think my sources are quite a bit more reliable than yours (which in this case is a woman who is so unstable that she threatened to take her own life). It makes me wonder what it would be like if you wrote this story from the Hickeys point of view. The reason the Hickeys called the police officers whenever Ribando played loud vulgar music, made her dogs bark by loudly clapping and yelling “YEAHHHH” and calling them “little f**kers” at 1 in the morning is because they were advised to by their lawyer because they just wanted to get Ribando to stop harassing them and making life miserable. The Hickeys just wanted to be left alone by Ribando and while I have no idea what made her snap that one day when she just started going on a rampage of cursing as the Hickeys were getting out of their car.
Knowssomething
P.S. I was quite happy to see that you lost your radio show at the time.
Knowssomething ……… Knowsnothing
The FACT that all but one charge was dismissed and the remaining charge won’t stand without the others proves you know little or nothing. This case represents what’s worst in New Rochelle. Those who are “connected” both in city hall & the city court believe they are above the law. This is a victory for the little guy or in this case little lady. I for one am glad Ms. Ribando had the intestinal fortitude and financial ability to persevere.
my sources
My sources are based on obtaining court records, attending court sessions, reviewing official court transcripts, and reviewing depositions in the civil case against the Hickeys. There is no record anywhere that support the claim that the Hickeys were acting under the advice of an attorney. There is ample evidence that Pat Hickey sought the involvement of Jimmy Generoso and that many rather odd things began to happen with the New Rochelle City Court, the New Rochelle Police Department and the Westchester County DA — all involving people connected to Beckwith Pointe where Hickey and Generoso’s daughter worked and where many of the players in this drama worked including police officers and a career attorney at the DA’s office.
I would say the single most despicable thing was was appears to me to have been Generoso orchestrating a warrant for the arrest of Ribando for failing to appear in court after the New Rochelle police had taken her to St. Vincent’s hospital. Soon after she was discharged, the New Rochelle police arrested her and the court sent her to County Jail for a week. And the charge that was used to put her in jail? That charge was rejected by a jury when the case came to trial.
I would also point to the sentencing report from the Westchester County Department of Probation which basically said the case should never have come to trial and recommended the absolute weakest possible sentence on the two violations of what we know now to have been orders of protection obtained under false pretenses. Once an appeals judge sees that the underlying claims were rejected by a jury, the two so-called violations will be thrown out too and so the entire case will have been tossed out, as it should have been.
One thing that was clear in reviewing the records was the many inconsistencies in statements attributed to the Hickeys and their neighbor, Dana Zigos and the physical impossibility of some of their claims. For example, that Zigos was able to see Suzanne Ribando in Ribando’s back yard from the front of her property. She would have needed to be 50 feet tall or have X-ray vision to see through her house, the Hickey house and through or over the two fences that separate 106 and 110 Stephenson. I feel comfortable in my view that Zigos and the Hickeys are liars and perjured themselves in their testimony. They are the people who belong in jail, in my opinion.
If it makes you/them feel better to say they left New Rochelle to find a bigger house then fine…just so they leave.
Knowsomething…Know This
The Hickeys are exactly as they are portrayed. They were driven out of town, yes driven. They were so embarrassed to have the truth come out, they told their real estate broker, no for sale signs, no open houses, just sell the property so we can leave. Somebody will find out where they moved to, it will be recorder somewhere, and maybe their new neighbors will find out what kind of trash just moved in. Imagine humiliating yourself like that for your kids to see. If my new city proposed trash fee helped remove these “people” i will gladly pay the fee.
Hey, “knowssomething,” you
Hey, “knowssomething,” you really should consider changing your name on this site to a more accurate descriptive like “knowsnothing,””arrogantdolt,”
“opprobrious1,” or “fatuousfart.” LOL
The Hickeys most certainly were driven out of NR
“on a rail” under a black pall of disgrace — and that is a fact.
Living on the street behind the two houses involved in this unfortunate epic, I can assure you that the Hickeys are, without question, conniving, dishonest reprobates who are immoral, indecent, and shameless.
Suzanne Ribondo is a perfectly lovely, respectable LADY who truly went through hell because of the despicable and cruel misdeeds of the Hickeys. They boldly told lies about her and were absolutely malicious in their unconscionable assault.
I hope the Hickeys crawl back under the rock whence they came.