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Mayor Breaking News: Amicone Commits to Writing his Loss of Confidence in Inspector General Zisman By Hezi Aris
Inspector General Zisman?s Responds Yonkers, NY -- Yonkers Mayor Phil Amicone, in a letter delivered to Inspector General Phil Zisman yesterday, delineated in writing the issues that have defined Mayor Amicone not considering him for another five-year term as Yonkers Inspector General. Mayor Amicone asserts that IG Zisman?s past conduct under his tenure in office fall short of required standards of personal ethics. Mayor Amicone lists issues revolving about the YMCA, specifically of charges of corruption Mayor Amicone divulges he was made privy; further, that IG Zisman utilized the services of a city employee for his personal benefit. Mayor Amicone...
DiNapoli: State Needs to Stop Treating NYers Like ATMs
Report Indicates Growing Gaps Require Corrective Action and Fiscal Discipline York state faces a cumulative General Fund gap of up to $27.5 billion through fiscal year 2011-12 even as the Governor and the Legislature confront a deficit in the state?s current budget that could exceed $4.1 billion, according to a spending and revenue report State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli released today as part of the state?s ?Quick Start? budget process. ?Albany has played roulette with taxpayers? money for too long,? DiNapoli said. ?And now, in the face of the greatest fiscal challenge in our recent history, the game continues. New...
Saw Mill River Parkway Traffic Advisory
Sewer Rehabilitation to Affect North and Southbound Lanes Near County Line Yonkers, NY -- The New York State Department of Transportation, Region 8 has issued the following traffic advisory. POTENTIAL CONGESTION ALERT On Saturday November 7,2009, construction crews will be rehabilitating a 36 sewer main that runs under both the northbound southbound lanes on the Saw Mill Parkway in the vicinity of the McLean Ave Exit. Northbound will have the center and outer lane closed and Southbound will have the center, outer and decel lane to McLean Avenue exit closed. Location: SMR Parkway from County Line to Rumsey Road...
US Jobless Rate Hits 26-Year High
The Financial Times report Wall Street stocks suffered an opening sell-off after a crucial report on the US labour market showed unemployment at a fresh 26-year high Labor Department reported that non-farm payrolls in October fell by 190,000. The unemployment rate rose from 9.8 per cent in September to 10.2 per cent last month, the highest since April 1983. Read Stocks drop as jobless hits 26-year high
Saw Mill River Daylighting Underway By Hezi Aris
Under the aegis of Mayor Amicone?s Communications Director David Simpson, media were invited to be witness of the Saw Mill River Daylighting initiative having garnered Yonkers City Council and City Hall authorization to move forward and to be assured that $30 million is now in place. The environmental and urban planning remediation project is the most significant in New York State. It is the prize about which the SFC Yonkers Project will revolve and abut. The daylighting of the Saw Mill River remains the centerpiece by which people are expected to gravitate to the Yonkers Downtown. The shopping and baseball...
Westchester Legacy Celebrated at The Woodlawn Cemetery
The Generoso Pope Mausoleum. Pope was the owner of the newspaper Il Progresso. The Pope Foundation and Italian Cultural Center is located in Tuckahoe, NY.Sunday, November 8, 2009, Friends of Woodlawn Cemetery and Westchester County Historical Society will explore Westchester?s legacy at the burial ground with a special program and tour. Jay Gould mausoleum, photographed in 1914. At 2:00 p.m., Gray Williams, noted cemetery expert and author of ?Picturing Our Past: National Register Sites in Westchester County,? will give an opening presentation in the Woolworth Chapel of the cemetery. Following the talk, Frank Sanchis, Senior Vice President of the...
Astorino Appoints Attorney Kevin J. Plunkett to Lead His Transition Team
White Plains, NY -- .Westchester County Executive-elect Rob Astorino today announced that he has tapped White Plains attorney Kevin J. Plunkett to lead his transition team. Mr. Astorino will be sworn in as County Executive on January 1, 2010, succeeding Andrew J. Spano in that position. Mr. Spano has served as Westchester County Executive since 1997. I am pleased that Mr. Plunkett has agreed to serve as my transition chairman, Mr. Astorino said. There is a great deal of work to do in this county, and Mr. Plunkett has the know-how and breadth of experience to help assemble a top-notch...
Deputy Mayor Bill Regan Abridges People?s Rights By Hezi Aris
Takes Wrath Out on Yonkers City Councilmembers Yonkers, NY -- Municipal Operations Co-Chairs Dee Barbato (6th District) and Joan Gronowski (3rd District) had scheduled a Committee Meeting for November 4, 2009 at 7:00 pm. At that meeting, a review of a long standing problem of water damage and erosion to private and city property along the upper Warburton Avenue corridor predominately on the eastside was the issue to come under discussion. The Co-Chairs requested the Administration please have people from the Planning Department:Lee Ellman, Commissioners? Moran, Liszewski, Meyer and any other appropriate representatives attend so they can address issues relating...
New York Civic: The Voters' Verdict by Henry J. Stern
Take Him Down a Peg, But Keep Him Mayor; Because He Serves Us Better Than the Rest On E-day plus two, we are still cogitating about the voters? choices for 2009. We came across a new phrase today: ?Wednesday morning quarterback? (Credit goes to Jonathan Martin, writing in Politico). The words define a seer in reverse, someone who masticates on the results of an election held Tuesday, telling the world what the candidates should have done, and explaining why the voters acted as they did. Wednesday morning quarterbacks have the time-honored gift of 20-20 hindsight, to use another sports idiom....
Yonkers Police Department Blotter - November 5, 2009 By Detective Sergeant Patrick McCormack
Yonkers, NY -- The Yonkers Police Department Detective Division is investigating the discovery of a body in the Southwest section of the city on 11-04-09. The deceased is a white male, approximately 50 years of age. His identity is unknown at this time. The body was removed to the Westchester County Medical Examiners Office where an autopsy will be performed on 11-05-09 in order to possibly determine the cause of death. On 11-04-09 Detective John Mallon and Investigator George Whalen of the Westchester County District Attorney?s Narcotics Initiative (WDANI) were conducting a narcotics investigation in the area of South Broadway....
