In clocking 30.93 seconds, Alfonzo Pimentel of the Bronx, Christian Camara of Bronxville and Yonkers residents Jonathan Bailey and Aden Bedford (all underclassmen) not only took the championship-level event but set a new Catholic High School Athletic Association record.
Geeks Who Drink Trivia Night at Yonkers Brewing Co.
Modeled after pub quizzes in Ireland and the U.K., Geeks Who Drink is an authentic homegrown trivia quiz. It’s a great way to drink with friends, without burning brain cells. And it’s where useless knowledge means everything.
The quizzes cover everything from Hungary to The Hunger Games, from science to sports, from the Billboard Hot 100 to Better Call Saul.
Each quiz consists of seven rounds of eight questions each, in a variety of formats, including audio and visual rounds.
Teams can be up to six players, so bring your smartest friends (or some likable dummies)—or come solo. They can always help you join a team! No reservations needed, just show up!
Yonkers Brewing Co. 92 Main St Yonkers, NY 10701
Over this past weekend, two banks – Signature Bank – collapsed. To protect the depositors, the regulators seized control after the banks failed to meet customer withdrawal requests.
Per the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) statement released yesterday…
| Signature Bank, New York, NY, was closed on Sunday, March 12, 2023 by the New York State Department of Financial Services, which appointed the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) as receiver. To protect depositors, the FDIC transferred all the deposits and substantially all of the assets of Signature Bank to Signature Bridge Bank, N.A., a full-service bank that will be operated by the FDIC as it markets the institution to potential bidders. Banking activities will resume Monday, March 13, 2023, including on-line banking. Depositors and borrowers will automatically become customers of Signature Bridge Bank, N.A. and will continue to have uninterrupted customer service and access to their funds by ATM, debit cards, and writing checks in the same manner as before. Signature Bank’s official checks will continue to clear. Loan customers should continue making loan payments as usual. The transfer of all the deposits was completed under the systemic risk exception approved earlier today. All depositors of the institution will be made whole. No losses will be borne by the taxpayers. Shareholders and certain unsecured debt holders will not be protected. Signature Bank Locations Near Yonkers Signature Bank, 1-C QUAKER RIDGE ROAD BRANCH Full Service Brick and Mortar Office 1-C Quaker Ridge Road New Rochelle, NY 10804 Signature Bank, HAMILTON AVENUE BRANCH Full Service Brick and Mortar Office 360 Hamilton Avenue White Plains, NY 10601 Signature Bank, Hunst Point Avenue Branch Office Full Service Brick and Mortar Office 1360 East Bay Avenue Bronx, NY 10474 Signature Bank, MADISON AVENUE OFFICE Full Service Brick and Mortar Office 1020 Madison Avenue New York, NY 10021 Signature Bank, GREENWICH BRANCH Full Service Brick and Mortar Office 75 Holly Hill Lane Greenwich, CT 06830 Signature Bank, GREAT NECK BRANCH Full Service Brick and Mortar Office 40 Cuttermill Road Great Neck, NY 11021 Signature Bank, 36-36 33RD STREET LONG ISLAND CITY Full Service Brick and Mortar Office 36-36 33rd Street Astoria, NY 11106 Signature Bank, JACKSON HEIGHTS BRANCH Full Service Brick and Mortar Office 78-37 37th Street Jackson Heights, NY 11372 Signature Bank, WEST 57TH STREET BRANCH Full Service Brick and Mortar Office 50 West 57th Street New York, NY 10019 Signature Bank, THIRD BRANCH Full Service Brick and Mortar Office 950 Third Avenue New York, NY 10022 Signature Bank, 300 PARK AVENUE BRANCH Full Service Brick and Mortar Office 485 Madison Avenue New York, NY 10022 Signature Bank, 261 MADISON AVENUE Full Service Brick and Mortar Office 261 Madison Avenue New York, NY 10017 Signature Bank Full Service Brick and Mortar Office 565 5th Ave New York, NY 10017 Signature Bank, 1400 BROADWAY BRANCH OFFICE Full Service Brick and Mortar Office 1400 Broadway, 26th Floor New York, NY 10018 Signature Bank, PARK AVENUE SOUTH BRANCH Full Service Brick and Mortar Office 200 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10003 Signature Bank was founded in 2001 by former executives and employees of Republic National Bank of New York after its purchase by HSBC. It focused on wealthy clients and built personal relationships with them. For most of its history, it had offices only in the New York City area. In the late 2010s, it began to expand geographically and in terms of services, though it was most noted for its 2018 decision to open itself to the cryptocurrency industry. By 2021, cryptocurrency businesses had represented 30 percent of its deposits. Banking officials in the state of New York closed the bank on March 12, 2023, two days after the failure of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB). After SVB failed and in light of the closure of the cryptocurrency-friendly Silvergate Bank earlier in the week, nervous customers withdrew more than $10 billion in deposits. It was the third-largest bank failure in U.S. history. The FDIC was appointed as the bank’s receiver and immediately established Signature Bridge Bank, N.A. (see Bridge bank) which the FDIC would operate as it marketed its assets to bidders. The FDIC appointed Greg D. Carmichael, former president and CEO of Fifth Third Bancorp, as the bridge bank’s CEO. As of December 2022, 90 percent of $89 billion in bank deposits exceeded the maximum insured by the FDIC. |
WHITE PLAINS: Former Yonkers PD Officer Nicholas Tartaglione, who is facing federal murder and drug conspiracy charges in a 2016 quadruple homicide in Orange County, has begun before U.S. District Judge Kenneth Karas.
Yonkers native Nicholas Tartaglione, 55, was a cop for short stints in Mount Vernon, Pawling and Briarcliff Manor.
The Yonkers man moved to Orange County after his retirement and was selling steroids and other drugs.
After a drug deal gone bad Tartaglione lured Martin Luna to a bar with his nephew, Miguel Luna; his niece’s fiancee, Urbano Santiago; and a family friend, Hector Gutierrez.
Their bodies were discovered after Tartaglione was arrested; buried on property where he had lived at the time of the disappearance.
Former Haverstraw police officer Gerard Benderoth the four men at the bar and then bringing three of them to the Mount Hope property after Tartaglione had allegedly killed Luna.
Benderoth killed himself as FBI agents approached his car near an Elementary School in Haverstraw.
Tartaglione sharing a cell with sex offender and financier Jeffrey Epstein, who was found injured and semiconscious on the floor of his cell, with marks around his neck.
Tartaglione, who was awaiting trial for the four counts of murder, was questioned about Epstein’s condition.
He denied having any knowledge of what happened. Epstein.
After that incident, Epstien was placed in a special housing unit with another inmate, where jailers said he committed suicide.
If convicted, Tartaglione faces life in prison.
Google’s YouTube video sharing site sent an email to Yonkers Police Department notifying them that it had removed a video posted by the department for violating its terms and conditions, concerning community standards about violent content.
The removed YPD video shows members of the Bloodhouse Brims street gang assaulting a 33-year-old man on Thursday, June 17, 2021. The victim, who is clearly seen injured in the video, was left with bleeding in the street.
The Yonkers PD appealed YouTube’s decision in an effort to keep the video up on YouTube, but their appeal was denied.
YONKERS, NY – March 1, 2023 – The City of Yonkers is accepting nominations for the city’s annual “Women of Distinction” Award, presented each year during March to celebrate Women’s History Month.
The annual “Women of Distinction” Award recognizes Yonkers women who have served their local community and positively impacted the lives of Yonkers residents.
Nominations for Women of Distinction are to be submitted at www.YonkersNY.gov.
The deadline to submit a nomination is Wednesday, March 15; the award ceremony will be held on Wednesday, March 22 at 6:00 pm at Yonkers City Hall (Ceremonial Courtroom, 4th Floor).
In collaboration with the Mayor, winners will be selected by the Mayor’s Women’s Advisory Board and will be notified on Friday, March 17th.
YONKERS CARES >>> YONKERS PAL: “While we are incredibly grateful for the outpouring of support for the victims of the tragic fire this week, we must ask that no more donations be dropped off”
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YONKERS, New York (WABC) — Police have released what they believe was the cause of a deadly fire in Yonkers on Wednesday.
VIDEO: Officials say an electric heating lamp used to grow marijuana plants was likely what sparked the fire.
Flames broke out at around 1:30 a.m. on the first floor of the Mona Lisa Cooperative Residence on Bronx River Road.
The fire quickly burned through the top floors of the six-story building.
A resident on the fifth-floor was killed. Five others and 14 firefighters were injured….
https://abc7ny.com/yonkers-fire-lamp-mona-lisa-cooperative-residence-ny/12945197/
YONKERS: Police said on Friday that the cause of the deadly five-alarm fire in Yonkers, New York has been linked to cannabis-grow equipment found in one of the apartments in the building.
What Happened: The five-alarm fire broke out at about 1:15 a.m. Wednesday at the 95-unit complex on the Bronx River Road in #WestchesterCounty.
#Yonkers first responders, including firefighters, police and EMS began evacuating residents and fighting the blaze, which had reached the roof. Dozens of firefighters and several residents suffered non-life-threatening injuries.
Cannabis Grow Light
Arson investigators determined that the likely cause and origin of the blaze was an electric heating lamp being used to cultivate six marijuana plants that a resident was growing for personal use. The #YonkersPoliceDepartment reported that the lamp was hanging on a hook above the small cannabis grow but broke, sparked on the floor and started the blaze in the first-floor apartment.
Investigators said once the resident discovered the fire, he raised the alarm and alerted his neighbors.
“The tragedy of this incident is compounded by how avoidable it was,” said Yonkers police commissioner #ChrisSapienza. “We have seen before how dangerous these high-powered devices can be, and without regulations or guidelines to protect the public, people are unnecessarily being placed at risk – marijuana laws need to be fixed, be it cultivation or smoke shops; our communities demand it.”
The NY Office of Cannabis Management has yet to issue regulations governing home cultivation of cannabis, which means that it is not legal, city officials said.
Around 65 people were sheltered in a local community center north of the fire scene, with the assistance of the Office of Emergency Management. Fire departments from other jurisdictions provided aid to combat the fire, which was brought under control hours later, but not before claiming one life.
#MichaelDamiano, 67, a resident of the fourth floor, was identified by police Friday as the person who died from injuries suffered in the fire.
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Dawn, daughter of Joe and Maryanne Doherty, Maryland, Castlebar, is proudly flying the Mayo flag high in NY with her thriving music school The Dawn Doherty Academy of Irish Music & Singing located at the Aisling Irish Community Centre, McLean Avenue, Yonkers NY.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: #YonkersYonkers’ Charter School Of Educational Excellence Athletic Director Named Certified Master Athletic Administrator
PRESS RELEASE: The National Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association (NIAAA) Named Michael DeSimone Of The Charter School Of Educational Excellence (CSEE) A Certified Master Athletic Administrator.
YONNKERS: The #NIAAA cited DeSimone, the school’s athletic director, for his contributions to the school and his ongoing professional development in the field of interscholastic sports administration.
DeSimone has worked at Yonkers’ only charter school since 2011. A year after his arrival, DeSimone started the school’s first sports team for basketball.
Since then, he launched all the K-12 school’s sports teams, which today include 21 interscholastic programs at the elementary, middle- and high-school levels.
“It’s not enough,” DeSimone said of the charter school’s programs. “We really want to make sure that we give every student an opportunity to participate, whether it’s an interscholastic sport, intermural sport or an afterschool activity.”
DeSimone will expand the charter school’s sports program with track and field teams. He also intends to introduce junior varsity teams for freshman and sophomores in 2024.
“Some sports have 50 to 60 kids trying out and we can only pick 15 of them, so there is a need for more programs,” he said.
The Charter School of Educational Excellence successfully propels student athletes into college, with several former students playing at the NCAA level. One standout is Tyler Roche, a junior at St. John’s University and a pitcher for the baseball team.
Roche is expected to enter the Major League Baseball draft.
The recognition by the National Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association is the latest recognition for DeSimone. In 2021, the group Coaching Corps named him a Game Changer of the Month for his work at the charter school.
DeSimone said that being a game changer is a matter of building allies and support.
“A game changer is just somebody who has done a good job getting others to see the vision and the philosophy that you have, and demonstrating that it works,” said DeSimone. “We’re able to carry it out because we have a coaching staff that is extremely committed to our student success, more so off the field than on the field.
MORE INFORMATION:
#Yonkers, #Bronx, #MountVernon And #WestchesterCounty Children Can Go To The Charter School Of Educational Excellence Tuition Free
Just Contact Superintendent Cindy Lopez Or Carmen Gomez Goldberg
Website:
https://www.charterschoolofeducationalexcellence.org/
Address:
260 Warburton Ave, Yonkers, NY 10701
Phone:
(914) 476-5070
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