* Please note, items number 7) 323 aka 307 Tuckahoe Road and 13) 594 Tuckahoe Road have been put over to the March meeting at the applicant’s request.
FOR
A REGULAR MEETING OF THE YONKERS PLANNING BOARD TO BE HELD ON WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2010
AT 5:30 P.M. IN THE CITY COUNCIL CHAMBERS, CITY HALL, 4TH FLOOR, YONKERS, NY.
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This hearing will air
live on the Assembly’s Website at http://www.assembly.state.ny.us/av/
Albany, NY -- The Assembly Ways and Means Committee will join the Senate Finance Committee to
conduct a hearing to examine the impact of the 2010-11 Executive Budget
proposal on taxes in New York State.
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Yonkers, NY -- Yonkers City Councilman John Larkin and Legislation, Codes & Intergovernmental Relations Committee Chairman had a full plate of issues before him January 27, 2010. The first issue concerned Yonkers Raceway; the second concerned tow trucks,; and the third concerned the imposition of licenses for the disposal of leaves and other organic refuse.
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Yonkers, NY -- On 01-27-10 at approximately 11:28 p.m., members of the 3rd Precinct responded to 637 Van Cortlandt Park Avenue on a report of a stabbing. Responding units located a 25 year old male resident and 21 year old female resident down in an apartment and both were pronounced dead at the scene. The Detective Division and the Westchester County District Attorney’s Office are currently investigating this as a homicide. The victims’ identities will not be released until next of kin are notified. There is an active crime scene being processed and no further information will be released at this time.
Continue reading "Yonkers Police Department Blotter - January 12-28, 2010 By Detective Sergeant Patrick McCormack" »
Y
onkers Inspector General Phil Zisman took center stage under the aegis of Yonkers City Council President and Budget and Finance Committee Chair Chuck Lesnick on Jnaury 26, 2010.. For the first time ever, the Yonkers Inspector General was permitted a venue to focus on the issues that had heretofore not been divulged.
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Yonkers, NY -- It took 26 days for the Yonkers City Council to become sufficiently infused with just enough political polemics to create the partisan divide that is Yonkers' comfort zone. It began innocently enough under the aegis of Majority Leader and Real Estate Committee Chair Patricia McDow who adroitly presided over the issue of granting Con Edison a permit to install four feeders in order to provide New York City’s Department of Environmental Protectionj (DEP) the ability to conform to a Federal Court Order that is related to project completion deadlines pertinent to the Croton Water Treatment Plant. The demeanor of the City Councilmembership in attendance was not inclined to bypass their outrage, and that of the community, regarding the recent trimming of trees by Con Edison that is now recognized to have been a complete cutting down of those trees. Back and forth pleas of urgency to proceed did not win the day for Con Edison Intergovernmental Communications Director John Banks. His past promises have been proven to come up short. Further still, it was learned that while specific Yonkers City Council Committees strove to hone in on issues that would eventual require its vote, Yonkers City Hall was dealing with the same issues, specifically through the Office of Deputy Mayor Bill Regan, but kept unaware of the corollary tract and efforts. Mention by Mr Banks that he had given notice to Yonkers City Council President Chuck Lesnick were not challenged by President Lesnick, but a flurry of inquiry of his staff received no further input to public mention if the circumstance was as described by Mr Banks. It became most evident that no one trusted anyone and that trust would come through proof rather than rhetoric. Yonkers likes it hard.
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New York, NY -- Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Patricia J. Haynes, the Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Internal Revenue Service ("IRS"), announced that Patrick Boland, a construction company owner in New York City, pleaded guilty today in Manhattan federal court to conspiracy to evade payroll taxes by paying employees "off-the-books" in cash, and to file false currency transaction reports ("CTRs") at the time the cash was obtained to pay his employees. According to the Information to which he pleaded guilty:
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Yonkers, NY -- Yonkers City councilman John Larkin and Legislation, Codes & Intergovernmental Relations Committee Chairman has called a meeting for Wednesday, January 27, 2010, at 5:30 pm, to be held at the City Council Conference Rm. 406, 4th floor, Yonkers City Hall
Items of discussion are:
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White Plains, NY -- Westchester County Legislator Peter Harckham (D, WFP-Katonah) today held a press conference in White Plains to announce that he has been endorsed by Congresswoman Nita Lowey (D-NY 18) and Congressman John Hall (D-NY 19) in the special election for New York’s 89th State Assembly District. Adam Bradley, former Assemblyman from the 89th AD and current Mayor of White Plains, was also on hand, as were representatives from the White Plains Democratic Committee and the White Plains City Council.
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As I end my first year as United States Secretary of Agriculture, and as President Obama begins his second year in office, I wanted to report to the American people about how the Department of Agriculture (USDA) has spent the past year working for you to make positive change in your communities.
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Ed Koch Commentary: X-Rays - Responsible for Life and Death By Edward I. Koch
In January 24th The New York Times published the scariest article I have ever read. The article was a 3-page spread on patients receiving faulty treatments for various cancerous conditions.
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