Election Day storylines beyond the candidates

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How New York Gov. Cuomo was able to crush Cynthia Nixon in the Democratic primary

... it clear that this is a new day and politics as usual are no longer acceptable," said Sen. Andrea Stewart-Cousins, D-Yonkers, who heads the mainline Democratic Conference and brokered a unity deal with Klein in April that didn't stave off IDC ...

The day after

New York Senate Democratic Conference Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins, D-Yonkers, speaks during a news conference in New York. Photo Credit: AP/Frank Franklin II After Thursday night's massacre of moderate New York City Democrats who caucused with Republicans to help give them a majority in the State Senate, the chamber will definitely tilt more to the left next year.

New York Today: New York Today: Neil Simon’s New York

... fighting, and his father in and out of the picture - would later inspire his autobiographical comedy "Lost in Yonkers," which won a Tony Award for best play and the Pulitzer Prize.) Mr. Simon graduated from DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx ...

An appreciation: Neil Simon was a funnyman who pleased himself by going deeper

... anymore, I write plays," Simon once said to me, not long after he had won his Pulitzer Prize, in 1991, for "Lost in Yonkers," the drama of a troubled family presided over by a domineering matriarch. This megasuccessful playwright - a genius of the ...

YONKERS HEROES: Yonkers Police Department’s “Need to Read” Children’s Book Donation Program

YONKERS: Encouraging kids to experience the joy of the written word, members of the #YonkersPD were handing out free story and chapter books to children and their families last week at the Yonkers Public Library Riverfront branch as part of the Department’s Need to Read program.

#NeedToRead is about getting books in the hands of kids, especially families with limited resources, helping to nurture that fundamental skill which contributes to a lifetime of success.

Books are collected throughout the year by the Yonkers Police Department’s Community Affairs Division.

Interested in donating new or used books to this worthwhile program?

Call Community Affairs at (914) 377-7375 to speak with an Officer

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Westchester & Fairfield Cheat Sheet: Tommy Hilfigera s former…

Clockwise from top left: Moby seeks $1.3 million for Pound Ridge home , White Plains Walmart closing could make way for residential project , mansion formerly owned by Tommy Hilfiger hits the market, and proposed housing in Yonkers could restore blighted area . A 4.6-acre Greenwich property that fashion designer Tommy Hilfiger owned until 2006 has hit the market, the New York Post reported.

Report Shows New York’s Westchester County Arrests Non-White Marijuana Users Like Crazy

A sign marks the city of Yonkers, New York in this November 25, 2013 photo. A new analysis of marijuana arrest data suggests that New York's Black and Latinx youth are subject to starkly disproportionate enforcement just outside of NYC, where soaring arrests and signs of police bias have lately drawn scrutiny.

39 ex-IDC staffers purged after unity deal

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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 ...

Cuomo and Senate Dems announce IDC will disband

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.

The Latest: Drifting barges now beached or run aground

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.

Cuomo signs order allowing pre-payment of 2018 property tax

... installment payments that run into 2018. That's also the case with the so-called Big Five city districts including Yonkers, Rochester, Syracuse, Buffalo and NYC. "For the majority of the rest of the districts in the state, we're more than half a ...