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Yonkers movie studio plan downsized
21+ hour, 41+ min ago (412+ words) The plan to build a movie and TV production complex on an approximately 28-acre parcel at 501 Hawthorne Ave., in Yonkers that had been owned by Rising Ground/Leake and Watts has been scaled back. Some neighbors expressed their opposition to…...
Blazing its own path
1+ week, 1+ day ago (453+ words) There are few institutions of higher education that have had a more defined image in the public imagination than Sarah Lawrence College (SLC)" in Yonkers, which is rolling out its 100th anniversary celebration this year. That reputation is of a place…...
Yonkers doctor sues again for $1M in covid payments
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (354+ words) A Yonkers doctor claims that insurance payments for 6,000 Covid tests his medical practice performed were diverted to an Upper Manhattan firm. Dr. Binod Shah accused Medical Solution NP Corp., of Inwood, and its president, Norman Fields, of receiving $1 million in…...
Riverkeeper sues Yonkers manufacturer for pollution
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (367+ words) For at least 17 years, an environmental organization claims, a Yonkers manufacturer has violated the Clean Water Act. Now Riverkeeper Inc. is demanding that Graphite Metallizing Corp. stop excessive amounts of copper, lead and sediment from washing into the Saw Mill…...
Spano calls for MTA bus depot to be moved out of city after accident
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (257+ words) Following the Dec. 26 accident in which a Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) bus crashed into a building in Yonkers after striking two cars, Yonkers Mayor Mike Spano has called on the MTA to move its bus depot out of Yonkers and…...
Yonkers shopping centers in dispute over access
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (429+ words) A Yonkers shopping center is suing an adjacent shopping center for access to a private road it says it has used unhindered, until recently, for 58 years. Central Plaza Associates is asking Westchester Supreme Court to order Urban Edge Properties to…...
Eye on Small Business — Court 16, Yonkers
2+ mon, 4+ week ago (521+ words) A new indoor facility which brings year-round tennis and family programming to Yonkers is slated to open at Ridge Hill in Yonkers by the year's end. Calling itself a "premier boutique tennis club," Court 16 "aims to bring its "signature mix…...
Health care excellence highlighted at 2025 Doctors of Distinction event
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (1109+ words) Outstanding professionals who help ensure that health care in Westchester, the Hudson Valley and Fairfield consistently meets the highest standards were honored Nov. 13 during Westfair Communications" Doctors of Distinction 2025 event, which was hosted by New York Medical College (NYMC) in…...
$5M self-storage building proposed for Yonkers
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (302+ words) The entity CS Bright Place Yonkers LLC is proposing to build a six story self-storage building to be operated as a CubeSmart facility at 12 Bright Place in Yonkers. The estimated cost of the project shown in a document filed with…...
Yonkers Contracting demands access to neighbors' properties
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (505+ words) Yonkers Contracting Company has petitioned Westchester Supreme Court to compel three neighbors to allow access to their properties to fix a retaining wall that has become increasingly precarious following a partial collapse last year. Yonkers Contracting Company (YCC) has negotiated…...