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Senate Democratic Conference Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins, D-Yonkers, arrives for a news conference on ethics reforms legislation on Monday, Feb. 9, 2015, in Albany, N.Y. Gov. Andrew Cuomo told reporters Wednesday that the state's sexual harassment policies would be informed by a bipartisan "working group" of female legislative staffers from both houses - including a delegate from the Senate Democrats. "We have a working group that's doing the sexual harassment bill," he said during an impromptu press conference at the Empire State Plaza, following the arrest of a New York Daily News reporter.
... Andrea Stewart-Cousins is the first African-American woman to head a legislative conference in New York. But the Yonkers senator is not part of negotiations this week over enacting new sexual-harassment laws in the state. Albany's so-called "four ...
... buildings and rehabilitation of condemned and surplus properties. The funding includes $2.5 million for the city of Yonkers to redevelop a public housing property and $4 million for Buffalo's Northland Corridor redevelopment project.
Tractor-trailers have been banned on the New York State Thruway from the Syracuse area to New York City because of the nor'easter that's hitting the region. Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo has issued the ban Wednesday for Interstate 90 from Exit 36 just outside Syracuse to the Albany area, and for Interstate 87 from Albany to the Yonkers-Bronx line.
... begun to install. But advocates want to see that technology offered more comprehensively. Eddie Martinez lives in Yonkers and has to regularly travel to Midtown Manhattan. He says that he takes the Bx9, Bx7, and the M5. He often uses the Transit app ...
The Coast Guard says eight construction barges that came unmoored in the Hudson River as a nor'easter hit the region are beached or run aground along the river. The Coast Guard says six of the barges have been hauled up on shore in various locations between Dodd's Ferry and Yonkers, New York.
... loaded with long pieces of metal on its own by the New Jersey shore. The department says another barge sank off Yonkers, New York. Coast Guard Petty Officer Hunter Medley says his agency and others are working to determine how many barges went ...
The Yonkers City Council is asking Gov. Andrew Cuomo to eliminate the $1.25 tolls for cars on Interstate 87. The council unanimously adopted a resolution asking Cuomo to eliminate tolls near Yonkers' border with Greenburgh because toll-evaders are allegedly clogging city streets, according to this report by LoHud.com. Traffic doesn't just back up in the afternoon.
... which was coined on the former HBO mob drama "The Sopranos." (TU) Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced his support behind Yonkers Assemblywoman Shelley Mayer in the race for senator - a key contest that could determine control of the state Senate. (DN) ...
