Unit 188, Westchester County, NY, USA

Unit 188

Release 2.19r

Recent Updates

Home Page
Feb 28, 2026 22:42 EST
Tournament Results
Feb 9, 2026 14:03 EST
STaC Success
Feb 8, 2026 00:15 EST
Player Performance
Feb 7, 2026 23:54 EST

Pages viewed in 2026

Bulletin

Welcome to the Westchester Contract Bridge Association, part of the ACBL's District 3 and Region 3.

Club Corner

This is where you can read about news and events happening at our local clubs.

Get ready for March Madness! Red points in your local clubs and on line through the week beginning March 2.

Heritage Hills has registered for the ACBL-wide Senior Game on Monday March 16. For the over 65s, win silver points and the chance to pick up more with a good showing nationally.

Aaron Silverstein is offering a free game if players play Tuesday and another day at The Bridge Deck.

Gail Greenberg teaches at the Hartes' Club two Monday mornings a month at 9:30am. The lesson fee includes table money for the afternoon duplicate to follow.

Heritage Hills has increased its table fees. Visitors will now pay $10 for a game, which normally runs 24 boards. The club has also joined The Common Game! This means that all of the Open clubs in Unit 188 are playing under The Common Game umbrella. You can all compare notes!

Visit the Local Club section for links and information about regularly scheduled games.

Welcome to Unit 188

WCBA

Welcome to the Westchester Contract Bridge Association, part of the ACBL's District 3 and Region 3.

Spring in Westchester 2026

Unit 188's Annual Gala Swiss Teams and AGM event returns to the deluxe Beach Point Country Club in Mamaroneck on Saturday April 4, 2026. New Life Masters and 2025 Masterpoint Race winners will be honored.

A continental breakfast will be served from 9:30am, with the two-session competition starting at 10am. The $60 per person entry fee includes a gourmet lunch.

The entry deadline is March 20. Contact coordinator Jill Marshall with your entries, or if you have questions seek out Jill or Unit President Rick Rosenthal, both reachable through the Unit's committee list.

Click here for the Spring in Westchester flyer. Click here for a roundup of past results.

Player Performance

Two Life Masters advancing in February

Jeff Aker became a Platinum Life Master. Deborah Rappaport became a Bronze Life Master. There are two new Advanced NABC Masters: David Bleustein and Keith Johnson. Ann Harper has become an NABC Master, while Tracey Johnson has attained the Regional Master rank. Janet Burnett and Sabrina Fiddelman are Sectional Masters, while Lauren Rici-Warren and Marianne Stineman became Junior Masters.

Congratulations!

Click here for links to full ACBL information and the status of the 2025 Masterpoint races. To see the winners of the 2025 Masterpoint races click here to see a summary of the Ace of Clubs awards,and here for the list of Virtual Ace of Clubs winners honored for their online play.

Westchester Players on the Leaderboards in February's Royal STaC

Playing at the Hartes' Club, Suzanne Berger and Will Raffaele topped B and C Strats in a 44-table contest on Wednesday afternoon. Also at Hartes, Lester Gottlieb and Keith Johnson were first place finishers on Friday, with 19 tables playing.

Well done to all! Click here for full results from the week-long competition.

Unit 188 players had some success in the latest District 3 Winter Regional in Suffern.

Melanie Appelbaum & Barbara Matas captured the title in Sunday's B/C/D Swiss competition with teammates Stephanie Chamberlain & Lori Rosen. On Tuesday Jeffrey and Theo Allen finished first in C Stratification in the ABC pairs. And winners of the Bracketed Teams 3 were Michele Lazar & Deborah Rappaport and Jonathan & Steven Turrell. Will Ehlers & Jeff Aker and Ron Gerard & Richard Oshlag won Wednesday's Bracketed Teams 1. Robert Goldbloom, with partner Joel Steinberg, topped the B and C Strats in Thursday's ABC pairs. Jody Brody and Nicola Meskin won Thursday's Golden Opportunity pairs. Well done to all! Click here for full results.

More success for Westchester Players in the December NY Metro STaC

On Monday afternoon, Robin Brown and Susan Duval topped 58 tables from The Bridge Deck. Susan had success the following day in a 41-table contest with a different partner -- Faye Marino. The best C-stratification pair was also playing at The Bridge Deck -- Ivan and Smiljana Petrovic. Wednesday afternoon it was The Hartes' Club turn to shine, with Gail Greenberg and Arthur Loeb finishing first with 34 tables playing. A Hartes' Club pair also won Thursday afternoon's 38-table contest, with Bunny Lukas and Vivian Wu out ahead. On Friday afternoon 31 tables were playing, and at Hartes' Jody Brody and Erika Radin were leading B- and C-strats.

Kudos to everyone! Click here for the full results from the week's competition

Kudos to good performers at the NYC Holiday Regional!

Aaron & Avery Silverstein teamed with Jack Boge & Adam Kaplan to grab first place in Bracket 1 of the Teams Competition on Saturday. Abraham Ofer & Lucien Hernandez and Lori Rosen & Barbara Matas won in Bracket 3. On Monday Bracket 3 Team winners were Melanie Appelbaum & Gina D'Avanzo and Lori Rosen & Barbara Matas.

Click here for the event's full results.

Mabel Atkinson

Mamaroneck resident Mabel Atkinson is still playing bridge at age 106! Read the Westchester Magazine article about her here.

Neighboring Events

Here's what's happening in neighboring Units and Districts:

-- Early Spring Sectional -- March 20-22 in Edison, NJ -- Click here for ACBL info.

-- Spring Sectional -- March 20-22 in Orange, CT -- Click here for ACBL info or here for the flyer.

-- Spring Sectional -- March 27-28 in Ridgewood, NJ. Click here for ACBL info or here for the flyer.

-- Charity Pairs & Swiss Sectional -- April 11-12 in Edison, NJ. Click here for ACBL info.

-- Regional in Manhattan -- April 24-26 at Honors Club. Click here for ACBL info.

Are you looking for an evening FTF game? Very rare, but there's an invitational game Thursday nights in Poughkeepsie. Email Jack Parry (joparry40 at gmail.com) or click for the full New Hudson River Bridge club flyer.

Feedback

Unit 188 welcomes feedback!

Submit your questions, comments and suggestions through the contact form. The webmaster is Karen Sloan.

Results

April 19, 2025

Spring in Westchester

Director: Aaron Silverstein

April 28, 2024

Spring in Westchester

Director: Aviv Shahaf

April 30, 2023

Spring in Westchester

Director: Aviv Shahaf

Calendar

March 14, 2026

District 3 GNT Final

Ridgewood, NJ
Contest to select District 3 representatives in the 2026 Grand National Teams competition.
More Info

April 4, 2026

Spring in Westchester

Beach Point Country Club, Mamaroneck 10am
Unit 188's annual Swiss Teams event and AGM honors new Life Masters and 2025 Masterpoint race winners.
More Info

May 17, 2026

District 3 Summer Regional

Iselin, NJ
The D3 Summer Regional runs May 17-21 at the APA Hotel Woodbridge in Iselin, NJ.
More Info

District 3 Regionals

Westchester players had some success in the latest District 3 Winter Regional in Suffern.

Melanie Appelbaum & Barbara Matas captured the title in Sunday's B/C/D Swiss competition with teammates Stephanie Chamberlain & Lori Rosen.

On Tuesday Jeffrey and Theo Allen finished first in C Stratification in the ABC pairs. And winners of the Bracketed Teams 3 were Michele Lazar & Deborah Rappaport and Jonathan & Steven Turrell.

Will Ehlers & Jeff Aker and Ron Gerard & Richard Oshlag won Wednesday's Bracketed Teams 1

Robert Goldbloom, with partner Joel Steinberg, topped the B and C Strats in Thursday's ABC pairs. Jody Brody and Nicola Meskin won Thursday's Golden Opportunity pairs.

Well done to all! Click here for full results.

Save the dates for the Summer Regional -- May 17-21 -- which has moved to Iselin NJ this year. Click here for the flyer, or here for ACBL info. And in 2026 District 3 will be running a Fall Regional in Poughkeepsie, October 4-7! Click here for ACBL info.

Grand National Teams

The District 3 Finals in the 2026 Grand National Teams Competition take place on Saturday March 14 at Christ Church in Ridgewood, NJ. Winners in the different flights pick up gold and red points, and can represent the District at the summer NABC in Minneapolis.

The registration deadline is Thursday, March 12 at 9pm. Click here for the flyer.

Click here for ACBL info on the D3 GNT Finals.

Click here for the COC, the full ACBL description of the GNT competition.

Contact Farley Mawyer for more information. He is reachable through the Unit 188 Committee List.

Passings

Robert Krissoff died peacefully on November 7. He was a regular player at the Hartes' Club before the pandemic hit.

Heritage Hills club has lost a number of players since 2023, most recently Joanne Jantos and Amy Botto. Click here for information about other HHDBC members who have died in the past five years.

A memorial service for well-known NY area bridge player Julian Laderman took place on Sunday, Oct. 22, 2023 at Lehman College in the Bronx.

We sadly note the passings of several other members in 2023: Joan Katz and Eva Lampert. In late 2022 we lost Kathy Fino , Cheryl Feldman and Beverly Jansen, as well as Ingrid Zablauskas Nargi.

Brill makes Grand Master

"It's exciting," said Laura Brill, on winning the Senior Mixed Pairs with partner Mark Itabashi at the Spring NABC Tournament in Memphis in March 2025, an accomplishment that also promoted her to Grand Life Master in ACBL rankings.

She said grabbing a national title was a goal of hers for a long time, and picking up the win made up for disappointment in coming second by a tiny margin in the past. Brill added that she's proud she's come so far sticking with playing a game -- for 46 years! -- that doesn't come naturally to her as a writer and a poet. She said she learned from some of the best, in particular her long time partner and "fabulous bridge player" Rick Goldstein, who died three years ago.

Brill was a co-owner of the Bridge Deck in the 1990s and still occasionally plays at the club, but she said these days she plays bridge mostly online.

Region 3

We are now a part of ACBL's Region 3, made up of Districts 3 and 4.

Visit the website to see news of interest in the area, and reports from leader Joann Glasson about decisions and discussion by the ACBL board.

This site is built with BridgeWebs, the easy web solution.