Garbage At Lamartine Avenue Croton Trail Entrance In Yonkers

Garbage Remains on Yonkers Nature Trail 

by Ardina Seward

On July 24th, 2017, SW Hamlet Hub posted a report about litter at the entrance to the Old Croton Aqueduct trail on Lamartine Avenue.

As of July 28th, not only does the garbage remain, but there has been additional dumping added to the pile. 

http://news.hamlethub.com/swyonkers/life/2113-illegal-dumping-on-yonkers-aqueduct-trail

As of July 28th, not only does the garbage remain, but there has been additional dumping added to the pile. 

Directly across from the pile, graffiti artists have tagged a fence with new displays.  When the tire pile fills with water, it attracts mosquitoes that infiltrate the yards of the neighboring houses.

 The rotting food attracts rodents to the area and a problem that once started as an eyesore is becoming a growing environmental issue.

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PRESS RELEASE: Liam McLaughlin endorsed by League of Conservation Voters

YONKERS, NY – City Council President Liam McLaughlin continues to build a commanding lead in his bid for re-election which was endorsed by the New York State League of Conservation Voters today.

The NYLCV is the only statewide environmental organization in New York that fights for clean water, clean air, renewable energy and open space through political action and is non-partisan, pragmatic and effective.

In granting the endorsement, Josh Klainberg, senior vice-president of the New York State League of Conservation Voters wrote, “NYLCV and its partners in the environmental policy arena believe that voters [in Yonkers] are determined to make the environment a top voting issue in 2017. We look forward to working with Council President McLaughlin for a greater and greener New York!”

Council President McLaughlin has burnished impressive environmental credentials during his time on the City Council, where he serves as chair of the Environmental Protection & Policy Committee.

He has authored and passed numerous pieces of legislation including creating a director of sustainability and an environmental purchasing program to green the City’s procurement, creating a Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) financing program alongside EnergizeNY, creating the City’s “Complete Streets” ordinance and requiring the use of ecofriendly deicing agents on City roads. He also funded important environmental initiatives including a municipal tree study, a recent suggestion by the Green City Advisory Committee.

“My commitment to the environment has not only been through legislation, it has also included the launch of a new anti-litter marketing initiative and ‘Respect Yonkers’ campaign, the anti-litter poster contest and my legislation enacting tough new penalties for littering and dumping and creating litter cameras,” McLaughlin said. “During my time on the Council I have also been a champion for the planning, approval and construction of the Daylighting of the Saw Mill River at each and every phase. All of this has been accomplished working in a bipartisan fashion cooperatively with our Mayor.”

Also on the environmental front, in June of 2016, Council President McLaughlin became one of the first municipal officials to publicly oppose the United States Coast Guard’s recently abandoned proposal to allow for ten new commercial vessel anchorages along our waterfront on the Hudson River. He helped lead the charge by creating the #BantheBarges campaign with Mayor Mike Spano and the Hudson River Waterfront Alliance which garnered over 10,000 public comments in opposition to the plan.

“I’m honored to have partnered with the League of Conservation Voters on many important environmental initiatives and so grateful for their confidence in me. I’d like to thank them for all their help and advice and their noble work in educating the public on how we can leave our planet a little bit better for future generations,” McLaughlin concluded.

Yonkers Riverfront Library To Be Flood-Proofed

Yonkers library, Board of Education to get flood reinforcements

by Ernie Garcia

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About $1.1 million in construction at 1 Larkin Center near the waterfront is expected to start in August and run through November. The work is designed to improve the building's flood resistance, and the upgrades are a response to Hurricane Sandy, which in 2012 left the building's basement flooded with about five feet of water.
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Our Lady of the Rosary To Be Sold Soon In Yonkers

Yonkers Catholic church in sale talks

by Ernie Garcia

YONKERS  The New York Archdiocese is close to selling the former Our Lady of the Rosary Church.

"The deal has not yet been finalized," said Joseph Zwilling, a spokesman for the archdiocese. "As a matter of policy we don't comment or discuss sales until they are final, which could happen in the course of the next couple of weeks."

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Rats Plague Yonkers Neighborhood

Yonkers residents concerned over neighborhood rat infestation

YONKERS - A Yonkers resident says her neighborhood has been infested with rats and mice for over a month.
“I've never seen rats that big,” says Marisa Barrasso-Gerri, who lives near Marco and Kingston avenues.

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"I'm angry,” she says, “because we pay taxes for what?” She went on to say that she had to replace doors in her home because rats chewed their way through them.

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CORAZON PINEDA ISAAC, YONKERS 2ND DISTRICT COUNCILWOMAN

Corazon Pineda Isaac obtained her Bachelor of Science degree from Long Island University- C.W Post with a Major in Finance. Upon graduating, she began her financial career with one of the largest financial institutions throughout the world, AXA Advisors, where she currently holds the title of Financial Professional and maintains the FINRA Registrations Series 7 and Series 63, as well as Life and Health Insurance licenses.

Being the daughter of Dominican immigrants, she has fully embraced her Latino heritage. At the age of 16, she moved to Westchester with her parents, allowing them to raise their growing family and make Yonkers their permanent home. Taken by the beauty of the City of Hills, Corazon and her family took great pride in being Yonkers residents and she immediately began integrating herself into her community.

Wanting to take a more active role in the political process, she became a Democratic district leader and volunteered on George Latimer's campaign for New York State Senate in 2012. As she became more involved, Corazon became aware of the many needs of her community in southwest Yonkers. She decided that the best way to make a positive change in her community was to be proactive and decisive -- she needed to make the important decision to run for public office, as Yonkers City Council Member in the 2nd District. At 25 years old, Ms. Pineda is one of the youngest elected officials to be elected to the Yonkers City Council.

Corazon has made it her mission to be a real leader. She understands the wide-ranging needs and concerns of her community and the city of Yonkers, and she will dedicate herself to her constituency by providing full, honest, and real representation.

Apartments At The Kimball Theater Site In Yonkers, NY

What's happening at the former Kimball Theatre in Yonkers?

by Ernie Garcia

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Crews with heavy equipment have recently been digging out foundations and leveling the ground in preparation for a mid-rise apartment building that will include more than 200 apartments and off-street parking.
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The property's owner, 1219 Yonkers Ave LLC, hasn't filed an application with the Yonkers Planning Board that reveals details about the future apartment complex. 1219 Yonkers Ave LLC is controlled by the Titan Capital Group, according to Yonkers officials.
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Yonkers Firefighters Union Accused Of Misspending Millions

Tax Watch: Millions in tax dollars misspent by Yonkers firefighters union

by David McKay Wilson

The Yonkers firefighters union has spent more than $10 million in state taxpayer funds over the past five decades in violation of state law.

The money was doled out to Yonkers Fire Department employees for gym memberships, co-payments for medical care and health insurance deductibles. It also was used to sponsor dinner dances, softball tournaments, and evenings to honor retirees or those in the department for 20to 25 years.
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The tax is a two-percent levy on home-insurance policies written by companies with headquarters outside of New York that brings in an estimated $60 million annually.
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Use of the money in Yonkers is set by a 1912 law that restricts its use to “the care of indigent and disabled firemen and their families.” Ten percent of thefund in Yonkers is earmarked by the law for Volunteer Firemen’s Home in Hudson.

Ten percent still goes to the Fire Association of the State of New York’s Firemen’s Home, with the state sending those funds to the retirement home directly from Albany.

But for decades, the remaining 90 percent has not been used for the care of indigent and disabled firemen, and their families, a Tax Watch investigation has found.
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Once retired on disability, a firefighter wouldn’t qualify for funding under the 1912 law because they would be a civilian receiving disability pension payments and no longer be considered a fireman, said McGoey.

“That 1912 law is no longer relevant,” McGoey said. “In the city of Yonkers, there are no indigent and disabled firemen.”

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PRESS RELEASE: Yonkers Passes Trash Cam Law

YONKERS, NY – Litterbugs, beware. Yonkers has adopted an ordinance sponsored by Council President Liam McLaughlin dubbed the ‘Litter Free Streets Act of 2017’ which will allow for the use of recorded images as evidence of littering or dumping.

The item was passed at a special meeting of the City Council 

“The Litter Free Streets Act will help make our City cleaner and is the next step in our Citywide anti-litter campaign,” McLaughlin said. “Today we’re sending a message that if you dump or litter in Yonkers, we will catch you and will we will prosecute you. I’m proud to continue working with Mayor Spano and my colleagues on the Council Majority to keep our streets tidy.”

The ordinance creates liability in any instance where a recorded image is obtained showing an occupant of a vehicle throwing or depositing litter from a vehicle. Litter is not only a blight on our neighborhoods, but a time and equipment intensive burden on the Department of Public Works which is a cost transmitted back to local taxpayers.

The ordinance was already adopted in the town of Yorktown and is intended to be used for cameras to be installed at littering “hot spots” to record driver’s licenses plates. Even without installing the cameras, Yorktown was successfully able to prosecute one litter bug when a concerned citizen took a video of the act and captured the offender’s license plate.

The item was adopted 4-3. It now heads to the Mayor’s desk for his signature.

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Soon There Will Be 50 Emailed News Letters Covering Every City, Town, Village And Hamlet In Westchester County.

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The Bronx Hospital Shooter: A Chronic Catathymic Crisis?
Jul 01, 2017 10:36 pm
... by more. The shooter in Virginia that attacked members of Congress at a ball game is a recent example. So is the Bronx hospital murderer. In a catathymic crisis, the individual nurses grudges and ruminates over grievances to the point that he or she ...

The lone case that still haunts one of NYPD's most decorated detectives
Jul 01, 2017 06:33 pm
... disaster. A graduate of DeWitt Clinton High School, Friedman grew up in the working class Fordham section of The Bronx with a stay-at-home-mother and a father who managed the San Carlos Hotel. As a police officer, he was happily assigned to his home ...

Not-so-free falling.
Jul 01, 2017 06:02 pm
... Trump voting commission turns up lots of say, Wisconsin Republicans w/ winter homes in Florida who vote twice? The Bronx doctor who allegedly shot seven people with an assault rifle before killing himself had been fired two years ago for accusations ...

Everything We Know About The Bronx Hospital Shooting So Far
Jul 01, 2017 02:03 pm
A doctor wearing a white lab coat and armed with an AR-15 walked into the Bronx Hospital where he used to work and opened fire on several employees Friday, wounding six and killing one, before setting himself on fire and shooting himself in the head. The gunman, 45-year-old Dr. Henry Bello, worked at the hospital for six months before he resigned in 2015 amid sexual harassment allegations, officials said.

Earth Matters: Protecting Rockland's Water
Jul 01, 2017 05:50 am
The Bronx girls at Upper Nyack's Camp Marydell back in the '60s truly feared just one thing. Not the copperheads.

More Articles:

Shooting rampage doctor was fired for sexual harassment

Gunman opens fire on New York hospital, killing doctor

Bronx shooting: Gunman dies after shooting multiple people at New York Hospital

Bronx hospital gunman was a former doctor with a sexual assault rap

A Shooting in a New York City Hospital

Multiple people shot inside New York City hospital by a man wearing doctor's coat

Beyonce & Jay Z's Twins' Names Revealed In New Report - So Cute

Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Shooting: 3 Doctors Injured After Suspect Opens Fire
Becky G & Austin Mahone: Exes Reunite & Perform Together For 1st Time Since Split

Search On For Suspect After Bystander Is Shot, Wounded In The Bronx

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DAILY VOICE: Registered 'Sexually Violent' Offender Reports Move To Yonkers

A registered "sexually violent" offender convicted of having sexual contact with a 4-year-old girl he was babysitting has reported an address change in Westchester County.

The New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services issued an alert on Thursday to Westchester residents regarding the residency of 42-year-old Sidney Abdul, who has moved to an apartment on Bruce Avenue in Yonkers.

The Division of Criminal Justice Services has assigned Abdul a Level 3 threat, which means he is a “high-risk repeat offender and possible threat to public safety.” He has also been designated as a sexually violent offender.......

http://yonkers.dailyvoice.com/news/registered-sexually-violent-offender-reports-move-to-yonkers/715286/

Trevor Goff, 27, of Yonkers, turned himself into Pleasantville police.....

"Police said they received a SECOND call regarding Yonkers Police Officer Trevor Goff around 4:20 a.m. on Martling Avenue when a woman called and said that during a domestic dispute he had put her in a chokehold, blocking her airway"

DAILY VOICE: Off-Duty Police Officer Accused Of Assaulting Woman In Northern Westchester

An off-duty Yonkers police officer was arrested on Friday, June 23, after he allegedly broke a car windshield and put a woman in a chokehold after a night on the town in Pleasantville.

Trevor Goff, 27, of Yonkers, turned himself into Pleasantville police where he was charged with three misdemeanor charges for the events that took place on Friday, June 16, Pleasantville police Lt. Jesse Wollman said.

The first incident occurred 2:50 a.m. when police received a report of a man jumping on a windshield, shattering it, in front of the Thirsty Scholar Pub at 472 Bedford Road, said Wollman.

According to court filings, Goff had gone into the bar and was thrown out by a bar employee. He then jumped on the windshield of the car parked outside the bar, shattering it.

Police said they received the second call regarding Goff around 4:20 a.m. on Martling Avenue when a woman called and said that during a domestic dispute he had put her in a chokehold, blocking her airway, police said.

Goff then got in his truck and drove away, police said....

http://armonk.dailyvoice.com/news/off-duty-police-officer-accused-of-assaulting-woman-in-northern-westchester/715408/

POLL: Should the Tappan Zee Be Renamed After Mario Cuomo?

WESTCHESTER MAGAZINE: After the Assembly green lighted a bill which included a measure to rename the bridge, the Senate gave final approval. What do you think? Take our poll.

The Senate gave final approval Thursday afternoon on legislation that includes a measure to rename the currently under-construction Tappan Zee Bridge after Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s late father Mario Cuomo.

The proposal to rename the new bridge The Governor Mario M. Cuomo Bridge was part of a 72-page bill that included measures to extend more than $1.8 billion in local taxes and alter a Lake Ontario flood-relief package.

The late Cuomo was governor from 1983 to 1994 and died in 2015.

The younger Cuomo has prided himself on seeing through the construction of the new bridge despite push back due to the $4 billion cost. He urged lawmakers to rename the still-under-construction Hudson River span as well as a park and a highway.

There are mixed feelings about renaming the bridge after the late Cuomo. It is currently named after former Gov. Malcolm Wilson, whose name was added to the bridge in 1994 upon the 20th anniversary of his leaving the governor's office, making its official name

The Governor Malcolm Wilson–Tappan Zee Bridge. Wilson was raised in Yonkers and represented the area in the Assembly for two decades.....

http://www.westchestermagazine.com/Assembly-Renaming-Tappan-Zee-Bridge-Mario-Cuomo/

SOYO Reminds Many Of Mayor Mike Spano..... Lots Of Hype And Very Little Substance..... But Very Expensive To Yonkers Residents......

#GenerationYonkers: That Time That Mayor Mike Spano Tired To Put Lipstick On The Undisputed Bar And Created The Hipster 'SOYO' That Went Right Out O(f Business

FLASHBACK VIDEO: Popular Spike TV show Bar Rescue starring host Jon Taffer set their sighs on downtown Yonkers transforming local pub Undisputed into upscale 'craft-cocktail' establishment 'SOYO' that became an immediate Yonkers downtown failure.

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JOURNAL NEWS: Track & field: The 2017 Westchester/Putnam boys all-star teams and coach of the year

....110 hurdles – Franklin Boateng, Jr., Yonkers: Yonkers, which, sadly, combines all its high schools into one team, has a lot of which to be proud in Boateng. He ran a personal-best 14.94 and his spring included qualifying for States and winning the Section 1 Class A Championship.....

http://www.lohud.com/story/sports/high-school/all-star/2017/07/03/track-field-2017-westchester-putnam-boys-all-star-teams-and-coach-year/446258001

JOURNAL NEWS: Mount Vernon man admits fatal Yonkers stabbing By Ernie Garcia

A Mount Vernon man faces years in prison after admitting to stabbing a Yonkers man to death last year.

Donte Pace pleaded guilty in Westchester County Court on Friday to first-degree manslaughter for the October killing of James Puryear, court records show. Pace, 22, will be sentenced on Oct. 4, when he faces up to 25 years in prison.

Pace had been accused of stabbing Puryear as the 24-year-old walked on Elm Street around 4:45 p.m. on Oct. 18, 2016. Authorities have not commented on why Pace attacked Puryear......

http://www.lohud.com/story/news/crime/2017/07/03/donte-pace-guilty-yonkers-stabbing/447444001/

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GET ON CABLEVISION AND FIOS: The Westchester County Roundup Cable TV Program Is Always Interested In Yonkers Guests

If You Are A Yonkers Not For Profit, A Yonkers Candidate For Public Office Or One Of The Diverse Voices Of The Yonkers Community That Doesn't Get Heard, Then Contact Brian Harrod And He Will

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Here is a snippet of the 30 minute interview with London Reyes that was broadcast a little over a week ago on FIOS and Cablevision.

You can bring your own video to be inserted into the weekly cable broadcast. If you are interested in being on Westchester County, then please contact Brian Harrod at Brian.Harrod@gmail.com

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PRESS RELEASE: Tompkins Mahopac Bank Opens Branch-of-the Future in Yonkers

YONKERS – Tompkins Mahopac Bank announces the opening of its state-of-the-art branch in the newly restored and historic Boyce Thompson Center, 1086 N. Broadway, Yonkers, New York.

A ribbon cutting will celebrate the opening on July 12.

Unlike conventional banks with glassed-in tellers and a roped-off waiting line, Tompkins’ branch-of-the-future features a universal banker that assists customers on-the-spot, whether that means making a deposit, taking out a loan, directing the person to a nearby tablet for information or otherwise providing assistance.

The public is encouraged to participate in Tompkins Mahopac Banks community coin-drop before and during the ribbon cutting, when the proceeds will be matched by the bank and donated via a large check presentation to Westhab, a large nonprofit that provides affordable housing and supportive services in Westchester County.

As well, a lucky winner will be chosen for a Yonkers’ Experience package, including restaurant and limousine service gift cards, plus a $500 MasterCard shopping spree gift card.

The Tompkins branch’s innovative concept was drawn, in part, from Tompkins’ 2016 Millennial Survey, which showed the generation valued the convenient location of a bank, plus the ability to conduct banking business at a branch and online, among other findings.

“Providing top-line customer service is at the center of what we do,” said Gerald J. Klein, Jr., president and chief executive officer of Tompkins Mahopac Bank.
“Our commitment to conveniently, effectively and supremely filling our customer’s banking needs means listening to their banking preferences in how we connect with them and do business.”

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