NY Senate Win Gives Democrats A Lock On Albany. So Now What?

... finally give New Yorkers the progressive leadership they have been demanding," said Sen. Andrea Stewart-Cousins of Yonkers, who stands to lead the Senate in January. If that comes to pass, she will be the first woman and first African-American to ...

‘Blue Wave’ Threatens GOP’s Last Bastion In NY Politics

... Senate that will protect New Yorkers - not simply bury their heads in the sand," said Sen. Andrea Stewart-Cousins of Yonkers, who now leads the Democratic conference and stands to lead the entire Senate if her party prevails on Tuesday. Republicans ...

‘Blue wave’ threatens GOP’s last bastion in NY Senate

... Senate that will protect New Yorkers - not simply bury their heads in the sand," said Sen. Andrea Stewart-Cousins of Yonkers, who now leads the Democratic conference and stands to lead the entire Senate if her party prevails on Tuesday. Republicans ...

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 ...

Finding Repose in New York City’s Hidden Spaces

... West Village and went to more than 30 open houses. Feeling dejected, the couple started looking in Westchester and Yonkers but did not like the idea of an arduous commute. Then Ms. Vandenberg saw the listing for a Pomander Walk apartment: a small, ...

Sacred Music in a Sacred Space Announces 18-19 Season

... mystical musics of Estonian composer Arvo Prt-a co-production with the Arvo Prt Project at St. Vladimir's Seminary (Yonkers, NY). On November 30 and December 2, legendary all-male vocal ensemble Chanticleer ushers in the holiday season with "A ...

School budget voting dwindles

... annually. Enrollment outside of New York City and the other "Big 5" districts of Buffalo, Syracuse, Rochester, and Yonkers has dropped steadily over the years. This year it is 1,475,094 down from 1,477,203 the year before, according to the CBC and ...

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 ...

Two parties bring balance

The news that Democrats in the state Senate are unifying behind Andrea Stewart-Cousins of Yonkers is the very definition of putting the fox in charge of the henhouse. Reunification puts to an end a faction of senators from the Democratic Party who called themselves the Independent Democratic Caucus, a group that sided with Republicans and gave Republicans de-facto control of the chamber.

The community board problem found in today’s New York City

By this time next month, the city's transportation department will likely be well on its way to implementing a traffic plan it first proposed to northwest Bronxites last May to make the Broadway corridor safer for pedestrians - and they don't care what anyone has to say about it. That's mostly because when representatives from the department came to the Community Board 8's transportation committee, they were lambasted by residents and business owners alike for a plan they thought did not address some of their biggest concerns, like double parking and 18-wheelers barreling in from Yonkers.

March 13, 2018: New York State Bar Association Presents Continuing…

... Buffalo (Magavern Magavern Grimm) will also be among the panelists along with past presidents Claire P. Gutekunst of Yonkers (Gutekunst ADR) and Stephen P. Younger of New York City (Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler). Media is invited to attend either ...

March 8: Homeless parolees, dangerous drivers and power outages

... to your reporter who asked me what I had seen and allowed me to express my heartache in the paper. Lew Friedman Yonkers, N.Y.: President Trump, Sen. Marco Rubio, Sen. Chuck Grassley, Rep. Thomas Massie. These are some of the elected officials who ...

MTA New York City Transit Acquiring Hundreds of Next-Generation Subway Cars to Improve Service

... test equipment, technical documentation, and training. The cars will be built and tested in Kawasaki facilities in Yonkers, NY and Lincoln, NE. This is the first New York City Transit contract to stipulate that proposers must submit detailed plans ...

Cuomo signs order allowing pre-payment of 2018 taxes

... 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 ...

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 ...

Cuomo signs order on pre-paying taxes, but impact unclear

... director. As for schools, Mujica acknowledged that only the state's five biggest urban districts (New York City, Yonkers, Syracuse, Rochester and Buffalo) would be able to participate because they already allowed homeowners to make installment ...

After the NYC subway blast, a frantic stampede to safety

... Ullah's jacket and pants, and stopped the suspect from grabbing a nearby cellphone, Egbert said. Christina Bethea of Yonkers describes the scene at the Port Authority bus terminal after the explosion on Monday, Dec.11, 2017. (Credit: Newsday / Laura ...