“I needed to change the perception of our city,” Mayor Mike Spano says of his efforts to reinvigorate Yonkers. “I needed to change the perception of our city not just from the outside looking in but from the inside looking out.”
Attending funerals, coping with elevators that don’t work, coaching girls’ softball and, perhaps most important, taking care of constituents: It’s all in a day’s work for Yonkers City Council Minority Leader Mike Breen.
The simultaneous arrival of a major Hollywood entertainment studio’s production facilities coupled with a new chapter for a popular gaming destination is resulting in Yonkers being reinvented as the region’s new crossroads of commerce and culture.
While many municipalities across the United States are running for the solar energy train, Yonkers has been on board long before the train left the station. Back in May 2017, the city was recognized by the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) as a Designated Clean Energy Community and cited for providing training to employees on energy code enforcement, developing a standard solar permit application, investing in alternative fuel vehicles and infrastructure for its fleet and converting streetlights to energy-efficient LEDs.
Through a recession and Covid-19, Yonkers-born restaurateur and chef Peter X. Kelly has kept faith with his patrons, his hometown and those less fortunate.
Life only appears to be imitating art when Jeremy Wayne meets journalist, TV anchor and writer Mary Calvi.
Mary Calvi, the WCBS news anchor and former News 12 personality, has smoothly and calmly covered everything from Pope John Paul II to the…