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The Yonkers Industrial Development Agency granted tax incentives for a $500 million project by Extell Development to build 1,395 rental apartments and retail space near the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) depot.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Appellate Court Thwarts Yonkers’ From Seizing A Property That It Says Is Crucial Riverfront Development Property
PRESS RELEASE: Appellate court’s Second Department Rules That A Proposed Condemnation By The Yonkers Industrial Development AgencyOn A 3.6 Acre New York City Owned Property May Not Go Forward Under Eminent Domain Laws.
YONKERS: A property at 59 Babcock Place is between the Hudson River and the Metro-North Hudson Line and within Yonkers’ Alexander Street urban renewal area.
QUOTE: “These precious lands should not be sleeping quarters for buses,” Yonkers Mayor Mike Spano has said in the past
#NewYorkCity bought the property in 2005 and leases it to the #MTA.
Yonkers wants to use the MTA Bus Depot site to extend Alexander Street and open up more land for development.
Mayor Mike Spano has described the MTA depot as a barrier to waterfront development.
The legislative pay raise is the second in a planned series of three that began Jan. 1, when annual salaries jumped from $79,500 to $110,000.
The third planned pay hike, to $130,000 a year, would take effect in 2021.
TIME IS RUNNING OUT: Governor Andrew Cuomo is getting tough as he tries to push through his $178.8 billion budget proposal — by threatening to block planned pay raises for #Yonkers legislators if they don’t get the job done by April 1st.
ALBANY: Negotiations have broke down Saturday, and Yonkers lawmakers Shelley Mayer and Nader J. Sayegh, who have been pushing for more school funding fear that Andrew Cuomo won’t sign the budget by an April 1 deadline if he doesn’t get his way
That would prevent Yonkers’ state senators and assembly members from getting a $10,000-a-year salary increase — to $120,000 annually — that’s tied to on-time adoption of the state’s spending plan.
Southwest-Side Assemblyman J Gary Pretlow, who has been more focused on online gambling than on Yonkers Schools, has accused Governor Andrew Cuomo of using the raises as leverage to get his version of the budget passed.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s proposed budget projects the state will collect $168.2 billion in taxes and license fees, while Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins‘s initially projected nearly $1 billion more — meaning that she and the other legislators could spend more than #Cuomo wants to spend.
The matter has been handed off to state Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli to come up with a figure to break the impasse.
Governor Andrew Cuomo‘s office released a statement that said in part,”To pass a budget, the numbers have to add up and the legislature has to be fiscally responsible.”
Governor Andrew Cuomo has banned fracking, and two years ago his administration rejected a major interstate pipeline project, saying its construction would endanger wetlands.
Con Edison’s moratorium on new natural gas hookups in booming Yonkers and Southern Westchester is just 10 days old, but it’s already triggering “anger and panic” among developers and elected leaders in the city of hills, the New York Timesreports.
The times reports some 16,000 apartments and condominium units are in the works in Yonkers, New Rochelle, and White Plains. Those and other projects were cast into limbo on March 15, when Con Ed announced that its pipelines that deliver gas from the Gulf of Mexico are maxed out, and a moratorium on new hookups would begin.
The only other places in the country with similar restrictions are in Massachusetts.
Since widespread fracking and drilling have produced ample supplies of natural gas, the moratorium has inspired some to propose an obvious solution: build more gas pipelines.
But opponents counter that more pipelines will lock the nation into a reliance on fossil fuels when a priority should be developing renewable energy, including wind, solar, and geothermal.
These opponents have a powerful ally in Governor Andrew Cuomo, who has a home in Mount Kisco, which is included in the moratorium.
With his Green New Deal, Cuomo is trying to push the state away from fossil fuels.
Dr. Courtney M. Williams, who lives in Peekskill and is a founder of Safe Energy Rights Group, an environmental group, says the moratorium should lead to a broader discussion about climate change and greener energy policies.
Traci Bauer was the executive editor of Westchester’s The Journal News and the Poughkeepsie Journal
YONKERS MEDIA: Before becoming the Executive Editor and Vice President/News at lohud in 2005,
Traci Bauer had previously been a digital executive for Gannett and, prior to that, managing editor for the Democrat and Chronicle in Rochester.
Traci Bauer had also been an editor in Florida and Missouri.
Traci Bauer is probably fortunate that she is no longer associated with the the poor preforming print dinosaur known as the Journal-News that is sucking wind as it continues to be a last place performer in the local media market.
The last time that the Journal-News publicly reported its print circulation was in 2009 and the daily circulation was only 42,612 papers for all of Putnam, Rockland and Westchester Counties
Over the last nine years, former Journal-News staffers claim that the number of papers sold in Yonkers is less 2,000 papers a day and some have speculated that it might now be less than 1,000 papers are sold in Yonkers.
On March 7, 2010 The Journal-News closed its press and outsourced printing
On August 7, 2013, the newspaper laid off 26 staff members, including 17 journalists and since then there have been scores of other journalist that have been let go with the last two being in December of 2018 and January of 2019.
The Journal-News name comes from the Rockland Journal-News, which was based in West Nyack, N.Y., and served Rockland County.
Gannett acquired nine of the newspapers in 1964 from the Macy family and added other later that were eventually merged into the Journal-News and lohud website
Newspapers that merged in 1998 to create The Journal News:
The Daily Times (Mamaroneck) The Daily Argus (Mount Vernon) The Standard-Star (New Rochelle) The Citizen Register (Ossining) The Star (Peekskill) The Daily Item (Port Chester) The Daily News (Tarrytown) Rockland Journal-News (West Nyack) The Reporter Dispatch (White Plains) The Herald Statesman (Yonkers)
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GETTING WORSE: New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoliReports That The city of Yonkers moved into the “moderate fiscal stress” category, up from “susceptible to fiscal stress”
YONKERS EVENT: In celebration of the New York Mets’ 1969 World Series win,Stew Leonard’s will welcome four players from that all-star roster to its Yonkers store next week
YONKERS CASINO TROUBLES: “I am very skeptical about some casino deal put together by casino operators promising billions of dollars and everybody is happy,” Governor Andrew Cuomo
YONKERS: Community members gathered outside state Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins’ office Wednesday afternoon to rally against legalizing marijuana.
2019 ELECTION: Yonkers YWCA Director Shawyn Patterson Howard Is A Democratic Candidate for Mayor Of #MountVernon Is Holding A Fundraiser On March 25, 2019 From 6:30-9pm
THEY BUILT THIS CITY: Under mayors Angelo Martinelli, John Spencer and Phil Amicone administrations all major IDA projects were performed under Project Labor Agreements
EleCare and EleCare Jr help children with severe food allergies and children with a variety of gastrointestinal (GI) disorders….
ONLY THE BEST FOR YOUR BABY: Esther Pharmacy Is The Only Drug Store In Yonkers That Accepting WIC, So That AMothers To Get EleCare and EleCare Jr Baby Formula
NO BUS MONITORS: Yonkers school leaders are making their annual push to ask the state for financial help.
DANGEROUS SITUATION: The district is facing a $60 million budget deficit, but this year the city is proposing a permanent solution to the annual problem that affects 39 schools in the fourth-largest district in the state.
YONKERS PIC: Yonkers First Lady Mary Calvi, was the keynote speaker at the 14th Annual Spirit of a Woman Awards Dinner last night, where Senator Shelley Mayer and other Yonkers ladies were honored
UPSTATE BUST: Chaz M. Fitch, 41, of #Yonkers was arrested on an outstanding Sullivan County Family Court Warrant for failing to pay in excess of $5,528 in owed child support, police say. Fitch was remanded to Sullivan County Jail to serve six months.
SHAME, SHAME, SHAME: On The Clueless People Who Complained When The “Yonkers Newswire” Put This Video Up And Got #Facebook To Take It Down.
THE TRUTH: You Can’t Start To Solve A Problem In #Yonkers Unless You Rub The Powers That Be Nose Into It On Social Media
RESULTS MATTER: Superintendent #EdwinQuezada has started working to get dropoff locations changed in an effort to stop the fights in Getty Square And The Yonkers Police Department Says Two Girls Were Arreste
Accompanied by her husband, son and daughter, Adelaide Wilson returns to the beachfront home where she grew up as a child. Haunted by a traumatic experience from the past, Adelaide grows increasingly concerned that something bad is going to happen. Her worst fears soon become a reality
WATCH THE MOVIE TRAILER:: Husband and wife Gabe and Adelaide Wilson take their kids to their beach house expecting to unplug and unwind with friends. But as night descends, their serenity turns to tension and chaos when some shocking visitors arrive uninvited.
Being released today (Friday, March 22), “Us” already has a Tomatometer Score of 97 percent on Rotten Tomatoes.
The Atlantic’s David Sims said, “Us is a glorious symphony of fear, to be sure, but it’s also an ambitious sci-fi allegory and a pitch-black comedy of the haves and have-nots,”
While Brian Truitt of USA Today noted, “Peele is this generation’s Hitchcock, for sure, but also a true American original with introspective themes in hand and suspense to spare.”
Many diverse personalities are involved in this year’s Yonkers race for mayor
This year Governor Andrew Cuomo reduced the number of signatures required to run for Mayor from 1000 to 750.
The republicans have nominated #MarioDeGiorgio as their candidate for Mayor.
Community activist Frank Spotorno was discouraged by his constant campaign manager Dan Murphy not to primary the republican challenger and make a second bid to be the next mayor of Yonkers.
#Mahopac resident Dan Murphy is also the editor of the small circulation “Yonkers Rising” newspaper that can be found at government buildings and some diners in the city of hills.
The number of Yonkers post office fishing incidents drop dramatically as the new mailboxes are installed in the city of hills
YONKERS: The city’s iconic blue mailboxes are headed for extinction after being long-time targets for thieves who fish out envelopes containing cash and checks using glue-covered bottles and rodent traps as bait.
But now the Yonkers mailbox theft has gotten more out of hand with thieves actually having keys to the mailboxes.
Police sources say the master keys were stolen in the Bronx
Repeated warnings have been issued for mailbox theft in the Bronx, Yonkers and other Westchester Communities along the Hudson River.
Later this year mailboxes in Yonkers are being retrofitted with mail slots only large enough for letters, meaning if you need to mail a padded envelope or a small package, you will need to make a trip to the post office.
The Yonkers mailboxes will also be retrofitted with new tamper proof locks.
New York State Reports that the city of Yonkers moved into the “moderate fiscal stress” category
Yonkers was listed as being in moderate fiscal stress in the latest report from New York State Comptroller Thomas P. Di Napoli.
“Local officials are encouraged to continue to be mindful about how budget practices today impact budgetary solvency in the future. This system is designed to help keep local officials and the public informed on the financial and demographic drivers of fiscal stress.”, said Comptroller Thomas P. Di Napoli
The Comptroller evaluated 526 villages and 17 cities that have a non-calendar fiscal year, which generally ends on May 31st.
The system, which has been in place since 2012, assesses levels of fiscal stress in local governments using financial indicators including year-end fund balance, cash position, short-term cash-flow borrowing and patterns of operating deficits. DiNapoli’s monitoring system generates an overall fiscal stress score which ultimately drives final classifications.
The city of Yonkers (Westchester) was listed in “moderate fiscal stress.”
For access to state and local government spending, public authority financial data and information on over 160,000 state contracts, visit Open Book New York. The easy-to-use website was created to promote transparency in government and provide taxpayers with better access to financial data.
