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VIDEO: It is unclear how this effects Mill Creek’s other New York properties include Modera Metro Mineola and the recently opened Modera Hudson Riverfront in #Yonkers.

Modera Hudson Riverfront

Address: 20 Water Grant St, Yonkers, NY 10701

Phone: (877) 751-6111

VIDEO >>> Modera Hudson River Bank By: Mills Creek

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77XKgKZd_Ng

Wyatt Earp and his brothers Morgan and Virgil ride into Tombstone and leave brother James in charge of their cattle herd. On their return they find their cattle stolen and James dead. Wyatt takes on the job of town marshal, making his brothers deputies, and vows to stay in Tombstone until James’ killers are found. He soon runs into the brooding, coughing, hard-drinking Doc Holliday as well as the sullen and vicious Clanton clan. Wyatt discovers the owner of a trinket stolen from James’ dead body and the stage is set for the Earps’ long-awaited revenge.

Film Synopsis By RoundupNewswires.com Editor Brian Harrod

Boasting a Tomatometer Score of 100 percent and an Audience Score of 85 percent on Rotten Tomatoes, this old-school film is a critical darling.

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/my_darling_clementine

Time Out’s Joshua Rothkopf said, “If ever there was a gateway drug to the happy addiction of Hollywood oaters, this is it,”

https://www.timeout.com/us/film/my-darling-clementine

Famed film critic Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times noted, “‘My Darling Clementine’ must be one of the sweetest and most good-hearted of all Westerns.”

https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-my-darling-clementine-1946

You can catch it at Alamo Drafthouse Yonkers (2548 Central Park Avenue) through Wednesday, March 13th

LADY OF THE MEDIA: Mayor Mike Spano Doesn’t Need To Send Out Media Alerts, Press Releases Or To Share Traffic Light Video of a DWI With All of The Yonkers Media Outlets…. When SNOOZE 12’s Lisa Reyes Will Do What Ever Mayor Mike Spano Wants Done

NEWS 12: Surveillance video captures alleged drunk driver hitting Yonkers officer

YONKERS – Surveillance video captured a terrifying moment for two Yonkers police officers from the 3rd Precinct on March 1.

The traffic camera at the intersection of Morris Street and Riverdale Avenue captured early morning video of a pickup truck seemingly stationary for about 30 minutes.

Cars were even seen driving around the vehicle.

When police officers approached the motionless man behind the wheel, they say they realized he was drunk.

Authorities say the driver placed the car in reverse and then stepped on the accelerator with the door open……

http://westchester.news12.com/story/40089795/surveillance-video-captures-alleged-drunk-driver-hitting-yonkers-officer

INQUIRING MINDS WANT TO KNOW Where The Hell Was Reporter Lisa Reyes When Yonkers PD Officers Were DUI In Yonkers Putting Hispanic Residents At Risk On The South Side Of Yonkers

The Facilities Committee Meeting of March 12, 2019.

The Audit Budget and Finance/Workshop Committee Meeting of March 12, 2019.

The Instructional Committee Meeting of March 14, 2019.

The Policy Committee Meeting of March 18, 2019.

The Board of Education Stated Meeting of March 20, 2019.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Brand Film Festival London 2019 celebrates brand storytelling

PRESS RELEASE: HSBC Global Communications’ “Yonkers Savings Bank” piece may win international animation award

QUOTE: “All books tell stories – even books found in banks,” explains archivist Anne DiFabio as she introduces her favorite item from HSBC’s historical collection in New York.

NEW YORK: In the bank’s latest video, the US Archives Manager shows why a humble 19th century accounts book – a ledger from Yonkers Savings Bank – is the object she treasures most.

Yonkers Savings Bank opened its first branch in New York State in 1854. Its ledgers, which were added to the archives in 1999 after its owner was acquired by the HSBC Group, give a glimpse into the lives of ordinary people.

Ms DiFabio says: “Until the mid-1800s, banks were only really for the very wealthy. All this really changed with the birth of savings banks. Anyone from anywhere could deposit nearly any amount of money.”

Among those who benefited were African-Americans, newly arrived immigrants, and married women, who could open accounts that were legally independent from their husband.

As the granddaughter of US immigrants, Ms DiFabio feels a personal connection to the ledgers.

She says: “The savings bank opened up financial opportunities regardless of ethnicity, gender or age, which is a tradition that HSBC proudly continues to this day in branches all over the world.”

The bank’s four archive centers are located in Hong Kong, London, New York and Paris. They contain the historical records not just of HSBC, but of the many institutions that have been acquired by the Group as well as their predecessor companies.

There are more than 180,000 cataloged items in the collections, including letters, photographs, cartoons, films, advertising, banknotes, architectural drawings and interviews with staff.

All of them shed light on the social, economic and political history of the communities and places where HSBC has done business.

YONKERS: Parkledge Preservation, LLC is proposing a $4.9 Million Capital plan for 220 – 250 Yonkers Avenue that would include roof repairs, facade improvements, elevator cab upgrades.

Parkledge’s goal is to fix outstanding health and safety items, as well as, well as adding security upgrades.

Mayor Mike Spano asked Parkledge to improve access for children so that they can access school buses safely through a now closed rear gate.
Currently, the children must walk along Yonkers Avenue to get to their buses

Mayor Mike Spano also asked Parklege to take a look to at a neighboring vacant house where the ground has eroded away.

It has been 32 years since state officials increased the amount of funding provided to Yonkers for maintaining state arterial highways, which has been too long for Yonkers and cities across New York

During the annual winter meeting of the New York Conference of Mayors (NYCOM), from 38 cities that have deals with the state officials to maintain arterial highways once called for the amount of funding to increase to be aligned with the consumer price index.

They want it increased for the first time since 1987.

Yonkers and the 37 other cities that maintain state arterial highways want a $12 million increase that would have a small impact on the $160 billion state budget.

Yonkers currently get 85 cents per a square yard to maintain state highways.

If increased to the cost of living allowance, Yonkers would receive $1.87 per square yard.

The cities that maintain state arterial highways say it’s only a $12 million impact on the $160 billion state budget.

More than doubling what Yonkers receives from Albany to maintain state roads.

That would increase Yonkers’State Road Aid to $939,564.

Yonkers currently only receives $427,074 from the state.

Yonkers has 502,441 square yards of state arterial highways, which ranks second in the state behind New York City at 7,999,975 square yards

The maintenance agreement includes plowing snow; small repairs and resurfacing; work on gutters, curbs, sidewalks and drainage systems; and street lighting,

The state handles construction and major repair and resurfacing work.

If the increase was accepted by the state legislature, Yonkers and NYCOM is also asking that the rate per square yard be annually be adjusted to reflect the consumer price index.

MAJOR LEGISLATION: Yonkers Senator Shelley Mayer Plans To Drop A Bomb On Mayor Mike Spano, As She And Other Senators Call For A Local IDA Tax Break Reform Package

Members of Senator Shelley Mayer’s staff say the senator and other colleges will will introduce 11 bills that target at industrial development agencies

The Senators plan to introduce the package of bills that would rein in powers of local industrial development agencies, like the Yonkers IDA, that include changing how tax breaks are given out and structured.

The Bills would ban IDA Chairman Mayor Mike Spano from giving incentives to projects that are already under construction or in which the developer is not identified.

Senator Shelley Mayer’s co-sponsored legislation would also require school districts to be involved in payment-in-lieu-of-taxes agreements, and close a loophole that allows an IDA to lure a project from another local IDA.

Multiple Yonkers IDA projects would be subject to the limitations outlined in the legislative proposals.

Senator Shelley Mayer’s is also proposing that tax money be recouped, in what is called a claw back, if a Yonkers IDA project’s job creation numbers aren’t met.

The senator’s legislation also calls for a member from organized labor to serve on IDA boards.

And get this, Senator Shelley Mayer is also proposing that elected officials, like Mayor Mike Spano, not be allowed to serve on IDA boards.