Village of Brewster, NY

PUBLIC NOTICE
VILLAGE OF BREWSTER
ANNUAL WATER QUALITY REPORT

The VILLAGE OF BREWSTER Annual Water Quality Report for 2025 is now available on the Village website under Services > Water > Water Quality Report. The report is also available in the Village Office during normal business hours. If you would like a copy of the report, please email the Village Clerk at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or call the Village Office at 845-279-3760. 

LINK TO THE ANNUAL WATER QUALITY REPORT

HEAP and EAP: Support for Your Household

If you’re facing an energy emergency or need help managing your monthly energy bills, assistance is available.

Home Energy Assistance Program (HEAP)
- HEAP helps income-eligible households pay for energy costs.
- You may receive one regular benefit per season and possibly emergency benefits, depending on available funds.
- Apply early - funding is limited.
- Visit mybenefits.ny.gov or contact your county’s department of social services to learn more and apply.

Energy Affordability Program (EAP)
- EAP provides monthly bill credits to eligible customers.
- If your HEAP grant is applied to your active account, you’re automatically enrolled—no application needed.
- Enrollment continues each year you receive HEAP.
- If you receive HEAP but your benefit is applied to another fuel vendor, or you receive other state assistance, you may qualify for EAP.

Programs that may qualify you for EAP:
- Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)
- Tribal TANF (if living on tribal lands)
- Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations (if living on tribal lands)
- Medicaid
- Veterans Disability of Survivors Pension
- Supplemental Security Income (SSI)
- Home Energy Assistance Program (HEAP)
- Bureau of Indian Affairs General Assistance (if living on tribal lands)
- Lifeline Telephone Service Program (Lifeline)
- Head Start (if living on tribal lands)

Please see the next page for directions on how to apply.

How to Apply for EAP

Please visit rge.com/EAPapply or nyseg.com/EAPapply to download, complete, and submit your application with supporting documentation.

- We’ll review your documentation and enroll you in EAP or contact you if we need more information.
- To stay enrolled, you must reapply each year with updated documentation.

What to Expect with EAP:
- EAP provides a monthly bill credit, shown under delivery charges on your bill.
- You’ll be referred to EmPower+ for free energy-saving services like home assessments and efficiency upgrades—available to renters and homeowners.

Please visit nyserda.ny.gov/EmPower to learn more.

Additional Resources

Energy Manager

Our Energy Manager tool helps you better understand your energy usage. This innovative solution lets you review your data down to hourly consumption, making it easier to identify ways to reduce your energy use.

Visit rge.com/MyAccount or nyseg.com/MyAccount to get started.

Usage Alerts

If you have a smart meter, our Usage Alerts will send weekly updates with your usage and daily averages for the current billing period. This is a great way to help you be informed and in control of your energy use so you can make adjustments before your bill arrives.

Visit rge.com/MyAccount or nyseg.com/MyAccount to get started.

Budget Billing: Spread Your Energy Costs Evenly

Benefits:
- Helps avoid seasonal bill fluctuations from heating and/or cooling.
- Allows you to know your bill in advance.

How it Works:
- We calculate your yearly bill based on last year’s electricity and/or natural gas use.
- We divide it into 12 equal monthly payments.
- We periodically review and adjust your payment if needed.
- At the end of 12 months, we balance your account and re-enroll you automatically.
- Your budget difference for the year, a credit or balance owed, is applied to “clean-up” your budget.

Tracking Your Payments:
Each bill you receive will show a Budget Billing Summary, found on page 1 of your bill. It shows:
- Your plan end date.
- Current month’s installment.
- Actual charges since you started your budget year.
- Budget amounts billed thus far.
- The difference between your actual charges and the budget amount billed.

You can enroll, increase, or cancel your Budget Billing installments by logging into your account at nyseg.com or rge.com or by calling our automated services line.

We’re Here to Help

Visit nyseg.com (http://nyseg.com/HelpWithBill)  to learn more about all of our assistance programs.

Visit rge.com (http://rge.com/HelpWithBill) to learn more about all of our assistance programs.

Contact Information:
- Visit nyseg.com
- Call our automated customer service line: 800.600.2275 available 24/7.
- Deaf and hard of hearing dial 711 (New York Relay Service).
- Payment Arrangements: 888.315.1755, 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Friday.

- Visit rge.com
- Call our automated customer service line: 800.295.7323 available 24/7.
- Deaf and hard of hearing dial 711 (New York Relay Service).
- Payment Arrangements: 877.266.3492, 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Friday.

NYSEG Electric Bill Explainer - January 2026

Bedford Community Connection Pop-up Event -
Bedford Town Hall
321 Bedford Road
Bedford Hills, NY 10507
Tuesday, February 24, 2026
4 PM to 7 PM

Carmel Community Connection Pop-up Event -
Carmel Town Hall
60 McAlpin Ave
Mahopac, NY 10541
Tuesday, February 17, 2026
4 PM to 7 PM

The Village of Brewster mourns the loss of Aurelio Zhunio-Orbez, a dedicated and beloved taxi operator in our community. As a longtime member of Orbe’s Taxi Service, Aurelio served our residents with professionalism and care, safely transporting passengers each day to and from their destinations. On behalf of the Village of Brewster, I extend my deepest sympathies to those who knew and loved him. As a community, we are left to mourn Aurelio’s loss as we cope with this senseless violence.

Together with the Putnam County Sheriff’s Department, the Village of Brewster Police, and surrounding agencies, we will ensure the person responsible is brought to justice for Aurelio, his family, and friends.

Once again, we offer our heartfelt condolences on the passing of Aurelio Zhunio-Orbez.

Mayor James J. Schoenig

For more information regarding the New Fire House proposal, please click the link below:

New Fire House Proposal Link

The Village of Brewster Court now has a portal to pay tickets online. Please click the link below and follow the instructions to pay your ticket online.

ONLINE PORTAL FOR TICKET PAYMENTS

February 20, 2025

Attention all Residential Refuse users in the Village of Brewster:

On October 20, 2021, at the Village of Brewster Board of Trustees Meeting, the Board approved the Residential Refuse, Bulk, and Recyclable Materials Bid that was provided by Suburban Carting. This new contract period begins on January 1, 2022, and ends on December 31, 2025, with the option to extend for an additional year.

Beginning January 1, 2025, the Village will be increasing the price for the annual and monthly refuse bills to meet the current prices for overhead costs and processing fees that come with the billing. The new rates will be as follows:

                                                                                                2025

Refuse bill paid yearly in March:                             $500 per unit

Refuse bill paid using the monthly option:          $47.35 per unit, per month

Please note that the Village of Brewster requests bids from multiple carting companies and selects the bid that is the most cost-effective choice for the Village residents. When this contract expires at the end of 2025; the Village of Brewster will decide if they would like to continue with Suburban Carting for an additional year or send out a bid for the carting contract and follow the same procedure. The refuse fee pays for the overhead costs and the contractual expenses to continue the service that all residents must use.

If you would like to switch to the monthly billing program, you must contact the Village Clerk at 845-279-3760 or via email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Before March 31, 2025. Please include your name, your residential address, and a telephone number. Please contact the Village Office if you have any questions.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the Board of Trustees of the Village of Brewster, pursuant to Article 2 of the Eminent Domain Procedure Law of the State of New York, shall hold a Public Hearing on the 29TH DAY OF JANUARY, 2025 AT 7:30 P.M. OR AS SOON THEREAFTER THAT EVENING AS POSSIBLE AT VILLAGE HALL, 50 MAIN STREET, BREWSTER, NEW YORK on the Urban Renewal Plan for the Village of Brewster Urban Renewal Area, as duly adopted by the Village of Brewster Board of Trustees on or about May 18, 2016.

The purpose of the hearing will be to discuss and consider the acquisition by eminent domain of fee simple property interests in certain real property parcels, lots and/or tracts of land located within the Village of Brewster in accordance with, and in furtherance of the public purposes of the referenced Urban Renewal Plan. Such discussion and consideration of the acquisition by eminent domain of said property interests shall include and not be limited to those real property parcels, lots and/or tracts of land which have been specifically identified in the referenced Urban Renewal Plan, as well as certain other parcels, lots and/or tracts of land not identified in the referenced Urban Renewal Plan for which the acquisition of such fee simple therein would also be in accordance with, and in furtherance of the public purposes of the referenced Urban Renewal Plan.

The real property parcels, lots and/or tracts of land located within the Village of Brewster which shall be considered for acquisition by eminent domain of such fee simple property interests in accordance with and in furtherance of the public purposes of the referenced Urban Renewal Plan shall be as follows:

ANY PROPERTY OWNER WHO MAY SUBSEQUENTLY WISH TO CHALLENGE THE CONDEMNATION OF THEIR PROPERTY VIA JUDICIAL REVIEW MAY ONLY DO SO ON THE BASIS OF ISSUES, FACTS AND OBJECTIONS RAISED AT SUCH PUBLIC HEARING.

At said Public Hearing, all interested parties will be heard.

By Order of the Board of Trustees of the Village of Brewster, Michelle Diebold Village Clerk.

Brewster Cares provides daily warming centers and overnight accommodations for those in need during the winter season. Residents can visit the warming center, located at 577 North Main Street, Room 202, from 6:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. daily.

For those seeking overnight accommodations, applicants (upon screening) will be provided a hot meal and can stay for the night from 8:30 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. at St. Lawrence O’Toole, located at 31 Prospect Street. Transportation from St. Lawrence O’Toole to Brewster Cares’ warming centers is also provided.

Please be advised that the parking of vehicles is prohibited on all streets and highways within the Village of Brewster during the winter months as follows:

Winter Village Resident Parking Permits are available in the Village office for Tri-State Parking Lot.

$60 for 7 PM to 7 AM

$140 for 24-hour parking

Purchased permit valid December 1, 2024, through March 15, 2025

Village of Brewster

SIDEWALK MAINTENANCE

SNOW & ICE REMOVAL

Sidewalk Repair and Maintenance (§ 218-8 — § 218-11) excerpt from Village Code: 

§ 218-8 Responsibility of owners and occupants.

A.  The owners and occupants of properties adjoining sidewalks commonly used by the public in the Village of Brewster shall keep such sidewalks in repair and free and completely clear of snow, ice, dirt, and other obstructions. With respect to the clearing of snow and ice removal, such must be removed within 24 hours after the period in which such snow or ice has accumulated.   All other repairs and maintenance shall be performed within a reasonable time period.

§ 218-10 Enforcement.

This article shall be enforceable by the Village of Brewster Highway Superintendent and Code Enforcement Officer, and/or Village Police, who are hereby authorized to issue and serve an appearance ticket with respect to violation(s) of this article.

In addition to a violation and potential penalty, the Village will clear the sidewalk and charge the property owner for the cost of the snow/ice removal.  Unpaid balances will be relevied on your taxes.

DO NOT THROW SNOW IN THE STREET!