Yonkers Committee for Smart Development and I Love Yonkers ask YONKERS RESIDENTS to tell our City Council to take more time to vet the $1.2 billion SFC Project for the downtown and waterfront. Many unanswered questions remain about the funding, traffic, affordable housing, infrastructure, and public open space. The project may bring very, very little revenue?to the city.The City Council still has ...

Jazz & Blues at Dusk Concert Series at the Waterfront featuring Vanessa Falabella at the Yonkers Waterfront Amphitheatre from 6:30 to 8 PM. The Yonkers Waterfront Amphitheatre is located at 99 Main Street in Yonkers. SOURCE: YonkersNY.gov Vanessa Falabella, a Brazil native whose sound is classic yet a contemporary mix of pop, Brazil, jazz, and R & [...]

Yonkers Democratic Committee September 2008 Upcoming Events Yonkers Democratic Committee Convention Reorganization Convention It time for Democrats! It has been an honor and a privilege for me to serve as your Chairman. When I became the Chairman in 2004, I said that if Democrats could work together that we would be successful. I said that District Leaders are the [...]

In Yonkers last week, the Yonkers Alliance for Community Benefits presented a list of community needs and requests to Struever Fidelco Cappelli, the developer of a proposed $3.1 billion redevelopment project. (See here for more details about the project.) Among the requested benefits: a construction-training program; minimum contracting requirements for minority- and women-owned businesses; ...

During a tour this morning of the Yonkers Public Schools' new Vive school at 75 Riverdale Ave. schools Superintendent Bernard Pierorazio explained that the Yonkers Pathways to Success, an adult education program based at Vive, has received support from the Mexican consulate. Pierorazio explained that the Mexican government has given the district books and other [...]

The Standardbred Owners Association of New York pointed to the success of the state's video lottery gambling at racetracks as helping the growth of the state's horse breeding industry.They said that this past Saturday at Yonkers Raceway, the state's largest VLT parlor, seven horses were sold as high as $50,000, due largely to higher purses [...]