How sweet it is
Sugar has long sweetened the economy of Yonkers and its art.
A 2020 YWCA White Plains & Central Westchester Visionary Award winner and a 2018 Folio Women in Media Award Winner, Georgette Gouveia is the author of “Burying the Dead,” “Daimon: A Novel of Alexander the Great” and "Seamless Sky" (JMS Books), as well as “The Penalty for Holding,” a 2018 Lambda Literary Award finalist (JMS Books), and “Water Music” (Greenleaf Book Group). They’re part of her series of novels, “The Games Men Play,” also the name of the sports/culture blog she writes. Her short story “The Glass Door,” about love in the time of the coronavirus, was recently published by JMS. Read WAG’s serialization of “Seamless Sky” here. For more, visit thegamesmenplay.com.
Sugar has long sweetened the economy of Yonkers and its art.
Since Cross County Center opened on April 28, 1954, it has been many things to many different people. And despite the advent of online retail and Covid, it continues to supply shoppers with new experiences and memories, attracting more than 11 million people annually to its 1.165-million-square-foot complex at the intersection of Cross County Parkway and I-87 in Yonkers.
In a sense, the challenge of Covid has been an opportunity for Ridge Hill, the 1.2-million-square-foot retail, entertainment and office complex in Yonkers between Interstate 87 and the Sprain Brook Parkway.
The Yonkers hotel has a delicious soft-serve past.
Does Sarah Lawrence College matter to its surrounding communities? The college and its president, Cristle Collins Judd, want to ensure the answer remains “yes.”
Nestled between Michael Kors and Foot Locker at Cross County Center in Yonkers is a 12,000-square-foot space that offers not clothing and accessories but knowledge and opportunity. It’s the Yonkers extension of Valhalla-based Westchester Community College, which opened in 2001 in a Cross County space now occupied by the Hyatt Place New York/Yonkers.
Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum vies for Best Holiday Historic House.
Chappaqua welcomes “A Charlie Brown Christmas”
Valmont ups the ante with its Elixir line.
Wiggles Pet Resort is giving dogs something to howl about.
The ‘Dream’ of Dior happens in Brooklyn – and publishing.
Happy Thanksgiving
Scents and aesthetic sensibilities from Amaffi.
Hair-raising stuff from TikTok and Oribe.
New restaurant in Armonk is ‘Looking East’
Goosefeather toasts Thanksgiving (a day early)
United Hospice celebrates community support with ‘Let’s Dance’ gala.
Bring on the holiday music.
Stepinac High School students get a taste of homelessness.
Bronx Zoo-based Wildlife Conservation Society and aquarium partners launch #FramingOurFuture campaign to combat climate change.