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The Bronx District Attorney’s Office will not pursue criminal charges in the death of a Yonkers transgender woman last year at Rikers Island, officials said Friday.

District Attorney Darcel Clark said her office would not prosecute the case involving 27-year-old Layleen Cubilette-Polanco, a Afro-Latinx woman who died from an epileptic seizure last June while in punitive segregation — commonly referred to as solitary confinement — at the city jail complex.

Polanco went to the health clinic on the morning of June 7 and ate lunch just after 12 p.m. Staffers who observed her that afternoon said they thought she was sleeping until one officer knocked on her cell door at 2:40 p.m. and did not hear a response.

An hour and five minutes later, Polanco was pronounced dead.

The city’s Department of Investigation said Friday it did not find any evidence that Correction Department staffers contributed to Polanco’s death — but it did note that there was a 47-minute gap between tours.

Officers are supposed check in on people held in punitive segregation every 15 minutes, according to Correction Department protocol.

Polanco’s death sparked weeks of protests and demands for an investigation. Her mother also sued the city, claiming that officers at the Rose M. Singer Center where her daughter was detained left her unsupervised for hours at a time even though they were aware of her medical condition.

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In October of 2019 Yonkers Mayor Mike Spano announced that UPS would be building a logistics center at 555 Tuckahoe Rd.

A former “light manufacturing” facility, it had most recently been the site of a small-scale Saks distribution center and POP Displays.

As these plans were slowly unveiled, it became clear that United Parcel Service is proposing a massive 24/7 truck terminal, refueling facility and distribution center in the middle of a residential neighborhood in northeast Yonkers.

The proposed site is surrounded on three sides by approximately 2000 households.

The proposal has been met with overwhelming resistance by the surrounding neighborhood, yet a petition with hundreds of signatures has not been acknowledged by the Planning Board.

The UPS proposal at 555 Tuckahoe Rd. requires site plan approval by the City of Yonkers Planning Board, an appointed body which does not allow for a public hearing on the UPS site plan application.

Despite the Planning Board not yet granting their approval, construction at the site has been moving ahead at a feverish pace.Neighbors find there is an incompatibility with their neighborhood on many fronts that will lower property values, impact health and create impossible traffic.

They created StopUPS.org to address their concerns, which include:

• UPS vehicles from the NY Metro area utilizing the site daily as a refueling facility for both gas and diesel UPS trucks, dispensing fuel from multiple massive 12,000-gallon storage tanks;
• Massive air pollution from vehicles, diesel and petroleum fuel odors, truck noise 24/7 and intrusive lighting throughout the night and the overall industrialization of a residential neighborhood;
• Hundreds of UPS vehicles utilizing the site 24/7 causing a traffic nightmare and safety issues on local roads;
• Destruction of remaining green space on the property adjacent to residential houses which the property owner promised the City would never be destroyed.

A comparison to other nearby UPS locations with similar capabilities reveal that UPS nor any other logistics carrier have heavy industrial located in a residential neighborhood. In the NY Metro area in particular, UPS and similar carriers are located in industrial parks zoned for such activity.

The zoning for the proposed center does not even allow for most of the activity proposed for the location.“It’s not as if the neighbors are opposed to progress,” said Joel Sachs of Keane & Beane, PC, an attorney hired by neighbors.

“Just a half-mile away is a FedEx with a massive operation in an Industrial Zone next to I-87, and it doesn’t have any refueling.”

“What does David P. Abney know that we don’t know?” asks Clare Gallagher, a neighbor, referring to the CEO of UPS.

“Why did the work begin months before the proper site approval worked its way through the planning board?”Neighbors have united by writing Planning Board members and expressing their opposition, but it continues to fall on deaf ears.

Opponents of the site urge those who don’t want to see their property values decline, their health suffer or the sanctity of their neighborhood be ruined, to visit www.stopups.org

Planning Documents

• Formal Site Plan Review (includes Full Environmental Assessment Form) (PDF)
• Updated Traffic Analysis (PDF)
• Diagram showing extent and location of additional parking lot PDF or JPG

Background

Air pollution is a major environmental risk to health. By reducing air pollution levels countries can reduce the burden of disease from stroke, heart disease, lung cancer, and both chronic and acute respiratory diseases, including asthma. Check out this fact sheet from the World Health Organization.

YONKERS: At the end of June 180 Yonkers Public Schools employees will get pink slips, but no one is talking about what potential layoffs in The City of Yonkers will look like.

No one is talking about what trash pick-up could look like if it gets cut back as Teamsters Local 456 are shown the door.

What does the Yonkers Police Department look like especially in the midst of civil unrest and protests if #Yonkers can’t fully staff it.

What does our fire department look like if we can’t staff every fire station, because Yonkers Firefighters Local 628 members have been let go.

And its not just Yonkers, the financial situation facing upstate cities like #Buffalo, #Rochester, #Albany and #Syracuse is also bleak.

On June 25, a large state aid payment to cities had been expected, but with Governor Andrew Cuomo floating an $8-plus billion cut to local aid, that money has been suspended.

That means that cities like Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse and Yonkers may not see it.
Plus Yonkers has seen sales tax revenue drop precipitously.

Some at Yonkers City Hall estimating an approximate 35% drop in sales tax revenue in the city of hills.

If federal stimulus doesn’t arrive soon Yonkers City Council President Mike Khader may need to call emergency meetings for short term borrowing.

There’s a lot of uncertainty, and unfortunately Mayor Mike Spano is dependent on what happens in Washington and Albany, more than ever before…..

Bob Meyer, served as the principal race caller at Yonkers through the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, concluded his career with a six-year stint at Saratoga before retiring in 2005.

He called his final race on Dec. 2, 2018.

He was 80.

Please be advised that a Labor Committee Meeting has been scheduled for Tuesday, January 14, 2020 at 6:00 PM in the Council Chambers, Yonkers City Hall, 4th Floor.

Agenda:

1.   Discussion regarding the number of pay periods for represented employees of the City of Yonkers and the Yonkers Board of Education.

2.   Any additional items that may properly come before this Committee.

Mike Ramondelli

Deputy City Clerk

City Of Yonkers

Tel 914-377-6018

Fax 914-377-6024

The Raw Yonkers News Feed: Get Your Medication Packaged And Delivered In Yonkers In Presorted Blister Packs For Free….

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PATIENTS FIRST: #MedicationTherapyManagement is a term used for a program to help you manage your medications and health conditions.

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ARE YOU JUST A NAME ON A BOTTLE: Does Your Pharmacist Know And Care About You And Your Family, Like The Folks At Jacobson Pharmacy Do…….

FORGET CHAIN STORES: You can Go Anywhere And Be Ignored, But Pharmacist Joseph Paul At Jacobson Pharmacy Will Greet You At The Door

YONKERS’ OLDEST PHARMACY: Joseph Jacobson emigrated from Russia to New York in 1892, where he studied chemistry privately and got his license in 1899. He immediately moved to Yonkers and opened his pharmacy.

A YONKERS LANDMARK: His brother Robert opened his own pharmacy, at 453 Nepperhan Avenue, across from the carpet mill and near Ashburton Avenue.

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REAL ESTATE: #Yonkers property taxes are high so Mayor Mike Spano is on a push to boost population density to raise revenue for its bulging Yonkers Public Schools‘ budget…..

BUSINESS WEEK: Choudhary Chilukuri, a 34-year-old graduate student at Mount Sinai medical school, says he and his wife only considered Yonkers because they were so disappointed with what they could afford in Manhattan.

NEW YONKERSITE: In June, the couple moved into a one-bedroom unit in the new Apex Hudson Riverfront tower in Yonkers, which has views of the soaring Palisades cliffs.

WHAT A DEAL: Their rent is $2,100 a month, and parking is just $100 a month.

CALM IN GETTY SQUARE: “The apartment is spacious, it’s so calming here,” he says.

“If I want to go to a restaurant or something and try a new cuisine, I’ll go to Manhattan instead of searching for a restaurant in Yonkers. The train is only five minutes away,” says Chilukuri, who adds that the building is quickly filling up, primarily with young professionals.

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