There are pockets of Yonkers so tony and quaint, they are considered hidden gems. Not only are they situated on the doorstep of New York City, but they have well-crafted houses on sun-dappled streets with ample, manicured yards and neighbors who know your name.
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.
At Wartburg in Mount Vernon, multigenerational, aesthetic programs add up to the wider community’s commitment to life and joy as it cares for its elders.
Recently, we asked Tom LaPerch, director of Houlihan Lawrence Commercial, and Debbie Doern, senior vice president of sales for Houlihan Lawrence, respectively to paint a commercial and residential real estate picture for us.
To get young people vaccinated, the White House and the U.S. Department of Education have asked colleges and universities across the country to sign up for the Covid-19 College Vaccine Challenge. Many in Connecticut and New York have answered the call.
For more than 80 years, something special gleamed through the trees in the backyard of the late architect and sculptor Horton O’Neil. At first…
Hospitality can be as much of a challenge for the guest as for the host – especially as seen in the arts.
Arts centers are not only fertile ground for innovative vision. They’re places where a community can create social bonds.
WAG’s listing of local happenings and events in the month of December.
The filmmaker talks about telling stories that are out of this world.
Few men of influence have stamped a community more than the way real estate and pharmaceutical titan William Van Duzer Lawrence did Bronxville: Houlihan…
The summer solstice was the occasion of Sarah Lawrence College’s “Publish and Promote Your Book Conference,” which the school hopes to make an annual…
A recent posting on the Facebook page for the Danielle Gori-Montanelli Studio shows a photograph of the artist as a little girl clad in…
Transgender. Queer. Nonbinary. Welcome to the new normal. Or what Rona L. Holub, director of the Women’s History Graduate Program at Sarah Lawrence College…
This is the story of how a house, a city and particularly a musical form inspired a novel that in turn became a movie…
Landscape painter Joy Moser has learned much about art from visiting other places. “During my travels, (husband) Marvin and I had taken hundreds of…