The Cap Offers To Donate Up To $20K to Spruce Up Port Chester

Phil Lesh & Friends will play four nights at the Capitol Theatre from Oct. 31 to Nov. 3, shows that the Cap expects to sell out and draw five to seven thousand fans to Port Chester, as the band has done in the past.

Anticipating a full force of Phil fans who are going to set up Shakedown Street wherever they can, The Capitol Theatre proactively asked the Port Chester Village Board to allow them to use part of Broad Street adjacent to the theater from around 4:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. for the four day run. Along with this request, the theater and its owner Peter Shapiro offered to found a Port Chester Beautification Fund, to which they will pledge to donate up to $20,000 by the end of 2015.

“In anticipation of those upcoming shows the potential for vendors and supporting patrons to congregate in areas of the Village, we are seeking to be proactive in controlling this ancillary event by limiting the potential intrusive impact. With proper attention, this event can be beneficial to the Village,” the Cap’s attorney Anthony R. Tirone writes in a letter dated Oct. 17.

The letter noted the support of the Village administration and of Captain Telesca of the Port Chester Police Department since the theater reopened a year ago. 

Village Manager Chris Steers told the board that closing Broad Street worked well for the nine-night Furthur run in April as a solution to the influx of fans who had no where to go after Metro-North police kicked them out of the train station parking lot. Steers also said the Cap reimbursed the village for any related expenses and that they hired a sufficient amount of security and off-duty police officers to help maintain order.  

The board granted the request and accepted the Cap’s offer to start the beautification foundation at its Oct. 21 board meeting. 

Read more about Phil Lesh & Friends here.

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