The Hezitorial: The Catalyst Behind the Charter Revision Commission’s Referendum May Be an Impending Indictment of Mayor Amicone By Hezi Aris
The rumor mill has been rife for over a month’s time. The “chatter” is insistent and has become louder and louder. It is also being kept under wraps. Calls and inquiry of Yonkers City Hall continue to go unanswered. Awaiting a response is tantamount to the absurdity described in Samuel Beckett’s “En attendant Godot", that is, “Waiting for Godot”. City …
The Hezitorial: Perks Long Permitted “Family and Friends Network” Members Collapse Under Mayoral Ineptitude BY Hezi Aris
Mayor Phil Amicone's Epiphany is Derived from Councilwoman Joan Gronowski's Initiative Since Stolen from Her and Made His Own A Press Release issued in the name of Yonkers Mayor Phil Amicone, Wednesday, September 1, 2010, entitled “Amicone Launches Effort to Collect Taxes from Seriously Delinquent Property Owners” maintains the mayor has changed course by instituting a new program to “redouble” the …
DiNapoli Releases City of Yonkers Budget Review
Albany, NY, August 18, 2010 — New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli today announced that his office completed its review of the 2010-11 City of Yonkers adopted budget. Read the DiNapoli Review of Yonkers FY2010-2011 Budget. Please be patient as it may take about 30 seconds for the document to be displayed onto your computer screen. You will need …
The Hezitorial: Mayor Amicone Extinguishes Barbato’s and Murtagh’s Political Options BY Hezi Aris
The many officially unnoticed meetings conducted by the Charter Revision Commission at the behest of Yonkers Mayor Amicone under the aegis of Chairman Julius Walls to formulate protocol for accession to Mayor of Yonkers were concluded on August 2, 2010. The catalyst that brought about Mayor Amicone’s request for a “revision” to accession to the mayoralty outside the standard Election …
Dolphin Restaurant Makes Official Opening with Ribbon Cutting Ceremony by Mayor Amicone
(L-R): Yonkers Councilman Wilson Terrero (District 2), Yonkers Councilman John Larkin (District 6), Yonkers City Council Majority Leaders Patricia McDow (District 1) Fatima Rugova, Yonkers Mayor Phil Amicone, Dolphin Restaurant owner Elio Rugova, Yonkers Deputy Mayor William Regan, son and restaurant manager Jimmy Rugova, and brother Skel Rugova. YONKERS, NY, July 24, 2010 — Mayor Phil Amicone officially welcomed the …
The Hezitorial: The Gig is Up for Yonkers Mayor Amicone BY HEZI ARIS
The seemingly complex staging choreographed within Yonkers by Mayor Phil Amicone in his ivory tower is crumbling. The theatrics are tried and true and sadly still viable. Yonkersites have collectively been silent as they absorbed with astute clarity the games they were made to suffer. The exhilaration of working for City Hall or the Yonkers Board of Education meant life-long security …
BREAKING NEWS: City, Teamsters Reach Agreement to Restore 2-Day Garbage Pick-up
YONKERS, NY, July 16, 2010 — Yonkers Mayor Phil Amicone and Teamsters Local 456 Union President Edward Doyle, Jr. announced a tentative agreement late tonight that will bring back 33 laid off city workers allowing the citywide restoration of two-day per week garbage pick-up for residential customers in Yonkers beginning on Monday, July 19, 2010.
Yonkers’ State of the City Address By Phil Amicone, Mayor of the City of Yonkers
Mr. Council President, members of the City Council, honorable judges and distinguished guests. I come before you tonight in the tradition of reporting on the State of the City of Yonkers and to lay out a vision for the year ahead.