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... challenge. The governor's appearance at Mayer's event Sunday also comes a week after allegations surfaced about the Yonkers Democrat's handling of two sexual harassment cases when she worked in the Senate chamber. The Daily News first reported April ...
... according to Sen. Michael Gianaris, who represents parts of Queens and Brooklyn. Sen. Andrea Stewart-Cousins of Yonkers, the Senate minority leader, called the meeting "the biggest step" toward presenting a united front in the Senate. Democrats ...
... Sepulveda two weeks ago, so their $10,000 donation to the Senate Republicans comes at an awkward time. (TU) Mayer, a Yonkers Democrat running for Senate in the upcoming special election, allegedly didn't intervene upon learning of the plight of two ...
... has certainly been something that we have wanted to see for many, many years," said Sen. Andrea Stewart-Cousins, of Yonkers, who will lead the newly reunited Democrats. "I think we'll make some real history." If they succeed, it could ease the way ...
... has certainly been something that we have wanted to see for many, many years," said Sen. Andrea Stewart-Cousins, of Yonkers, who will lead the newly reunited Democrats. "I think we'll make some real history." If they succeed, it could ease the way ...
... Cuomo, center, speaks during a news conference with Senate Democratic Conference Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins, D-Yonkers, left, and Independent Democratic Conference Leader Sen. Jeff Klein, D-Bronx, right, Wednesday, April 4, 2018, in New York. (AP ...
... County, who led their respective chambers in budget negotiations. Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins, D-Yonkers, said Thursday that she believes it's an appropriate time to take a look at a pay increase. "My members work extremely hard, ...
... Independent Democratic Conference will reunite with mainline Democrats. Democratic leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins of Yonkers will lead the combined group, with IDC leader Jeff Klein of the Bronx as deputy leader. "Today what unites us is more ...
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, center, speaks during a news conference with Senate Democratic Conference Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins, D-Yonkers, left, and Independent Democratic Conference Leader Sen. Jeff Klein, D-Bronx, right, Wednesday, April 4, 2018, in New York. less New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, center, speaks during a news conference with Senate Democratic Conference Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins, D-Yonkers, left, and Independent Democratic Conference Leader Sen. Jeff ... more Senate Democratic Conference Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins, D-Yonkers, speaks during a news conference Wednesday, April 4, 2018, in New York.
... Democratic Conference Leader Jeffrey Klein, D-Bronx, Senate Democratic Conference Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins, D-Yonkers, and Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, D-Bronx, wait for New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo to deliver his 2018 executive state budget ...
... They say they've only received briefings on what's been negotiated and their leader, Andrea Stewart-Cousins of Yonkers, hasn't been in the talks. The del Lago Resort and Casino is in Tyre, Seneca County, off exit 41 of the New York State Thruway. ...
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) ...
... for these citizens," said Brenda Erickson, the group's senior research analyst. Assemblywoman Shelley Mayer, a Yonkers Democrat, says teleconferencing could be one way to make hearings less burdensome, especially for speakers who have to travel long ...
... the biggest teachers unions, as well as superintendents or representatives from the Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse and Yonkers school districts. Cuomo has proposed a $769 million increase in school aid. That's less than the Board of Regents' ...
It's time New York state finally changed its antiquated voting rules and procedures that are perpetuating the state's low voter turnout, Democratic lawmakers in the Legislature said Tuesday as they announced yet another election reform package. New York ranks among the bottom in terms of voter turnout, a situation Senate Democratic Minority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins, of Yonkers, called "extremely embarrassing" during a news conference detailing some of the 13 voting rights bills aimed at making it easier for New Yorkers to cast ballots.
... of former Gov. Malcolm Wilson, whose name was added to the Tappan Zee by then-Gov. Mario Cuomo in 1994, when the Yonkers Republican was still alive. “Millions of people still don't know what's going on,'' said Mann, “so we want to get ...
Allegations that an influential New York state senator forcibly kissed a former staffer are "extremely disturbing," the fellow Democrat who leads the party's primary caucus in the chamber said Thursday. Senate Democratic Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins, of Yonkers, said in a statement that an "immediate independent investigation" needs to be started into the allegations against Sen. Jeff Klein, of the Bronx.