Finding Repose in New York City’s Hidden Spaces

... West Village and went to more than 30 open houses. Feeling dejected, the couple started looking in Westchester and Yonkers but did not like the idea of an arduous commute. Then Ms. Vandenberg saw the listing for a Pomander Walk apartment: a small, ...

Sacred Music in a Sacred Space Announces 18-19 Season

... mystical musics of Estonian composer Arvo Prt-a co-production with the Arvo Prt Project at St. Vladimir's Seminary (Yonkers, NY). On November 30 and December 2, legendary all-male vocal ensemble Chanticleer ushers in the holiday season with "A ...

School budget voting dwindles

... annually. Enrollment outside of New York City and the other "Big 5" districts of Buffalo, Syracuse, Rochester, and Yonkers has dropped steadily over the years. This year it is 1,475,094 down from 1,477,203 the year before, according to the CBC and ...

Where is Upstate New York? The debate rages on

... & Chronicle , "We're at least three hours away from the upstate-downstate border, which for me is once you're past Yonkers (heading north), you're in upstate." Actor William Shatner also caused an uproar when he visited Syracuse's Dinosaur Bar-B-Que ...

Two parties bring balance

The news that Democrats in the state Senate are unifying behind Andrea Stewart-Cousins of Yonkers is the very definition of putting the fox in charge of the henhouse. Reunification puts to an end a faction of senators from the Democratic Party who called themselves the Independent Democratic Caucus, a group that sided with Republicans and gave Republicans de-facto control of the chamber.

The community board problem found in today’s New York City

By this time next month, the city's transportation department will likely be well on its way to implementing a traffic plan it first proposed to northwest Bronxites last May to make the Broadway corridor safer for pedestrians - and they don't care what anyone has to say about it. That's mostly because when representatives from the department came to the Community Board 8's transportation committee, they were lambasted by residents and business owners alike for a plan they thought did not address some of their biggest concerns, like double parking and 18-wheelers barreling in from Yonkers.