Unit 188, Westchester County, NY, USA

Unit 188

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Apr 27, 2026 13:16 EDT
Spring in Westchester
Apr 7, 2026 18:02 EDT
Player Performance
Apr 7, 2026 12:10 EDT
Tournament Results
Apr 5, 2026 09:23 EDT

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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.

The next STaC in our area runs May 10-16. Win silver points in participating clubs, with a chance to pick up more competing against others in District 3 across New York and New Jersey. Click here for more information from the ACBL.

The Bridge Deck is closed until further notice.

the Hartes' Club is moving its sessions into the ballroom from the Atrium at St. Gregory's Church. Mondays the club is introducing a 0-750 game with a table fee of $16, while the charge for all Open games is increasing to $18.

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

Twenty eight teams took part in this year's Spring in Westchester teams event. Winners were our esteemed Unit 188 leaders Rick Rosenthal & Jill Marshall, alongside teammates Fred Schubert & Melissa Baker.

Two teams tied for first place in the B strat: Jason Fuhrman & Paul Kirby and Patricia & Frederick Linnemyer, along with Farley Mawyer & Jingyan Wang and Arthur & David Seelenfreund. C Stratification honors were also shared, between Jody Brody & Fiona Silver and Eileen Meyers & Nicola Meskin as well as David Lewis & Pam Coren and Denise Josephs & Christopher Jobin.

Well done to all! Click here for the full results table, or here for results on the ACBL website.

Click here for a roundup of past results.

Player Performance

Lots of Life Master advances in April

There were two new Gold Life Masters: Alan Green and Lynn Zimmer. Susan Katz became a Ruby Life Master, while Lynn Weinstein advanced to Silver Life Master and Barbara Cuiffo captured Bronze. Savita Gambhir is now an NABC Master, Nancy Ellis a Sectional Master, and two have advanced to Junior Master: Suzanne Berger and David Bonington.

Congratulations!

Click here for links to full ACBL information and the status of the 2026 Masterpoint races. To see the winners of the 2025 Masterpoint races click here to see a summary of the Ace of Clubs awards, here for the McKenney category, and here for the list of Virtual Ace of Clubs winners honored for their online play.

Westchester players picked up points in the spring NYC regional. Melanie Appelbaum and partner Judith Berger won the Bracketed Teams 2 Competition on Friday with Barbara Matas & Lucien Hernandez. On Sunday Melanie & Barbara finished first in Bracketed Teams 2 with Andrew Barlow & Simon Thomson. Click here for the event's full results.

Lester Gottlieb and Henry Deutsch, playing at the Hartes' Club, finished first in District 3 in ACBL's nationwide Senior Game. Susan Duval and Robin Brown, playing at Heritage Hills, came second. Click here for the full results.

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.

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:

-- Unit 186 Sectional -- May 1-3 in Poughkeepsie. Click here for ACBL info.

-- Unit 140 Sectional -- May 29-31 in Edison, NJ. Click here for ACBL info.

-- Capital District Sectional -- May 29-31 in Latham, NY. Click here for ACBL info.

-- New England Regional -- June 23-28 in Stamford, CT. 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 4, 2026

Spring in Westchester

Director: A Silverstein

April 19, 2025

Spring in Westchester

Director: Aaron Silverstein

April 28, 2024

Spring in Westchester

Director: Aviv Shahaf

Calendar

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

October 4, 2026

District 3 Fall Regional

Poughkeepsie, NY
District 3 introduces a Fall Regional at the Doubletree Hotel in Poughkeepsie, Oct. 4-7.
More Info

January 17, 2027

District 3 Winter Regional

Suffern, NY
The D3 Joan Gerard Winter Regional runs Jan 17-21 at the Crowne Plaza in Suffern-Mahwah.
More Info

Gold for Good

Win gold points during the week of April 20-25 by playing your regular ACBL games!

ACBL members can pay $30 to participate as an individual, which means the results from all of your licensed games of 18 boards or more, face-to-face or online, no matter who your partner is, will be taken into consideration. Your two highest scores from the week will be averaged and compared with players at a similar skill level to determine who's awarded gold.

Click here to register, the deadline is just before midnight of the 19th. Click here to get full details of how the program works.

The money raised from the event will go to the ACBL's Charity Foundation, which supports causes in the communities we live and play in.

District 3 Regionals

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

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.

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.

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