Jim Landy has watched as newfangled
lenders, late the darlings of Wall Street, came to
dominate credit markets once controlled by the bricks-and-mortar
banking world. read
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The mayor of a Northeast city
of comparable size and postindustrial decline to
Yonkers visited last week to share lessons learned
from his city’s waterfront redevelopment effort and
economic renaissance. read more
After being a self-described
good neighbor for some 107 years on the Yonkers waterfront,
it recently said it might not be a good neighbor
to a residential high-rise proposed for an adjacent
piece of land. read more
Suzette Bather, a two-year resident
of Yonkers, sat at the City Pier on a sunny morning
last week and, looking out at the Hudson River, waited
for her yellow taxi. It would ferry her to her financial
associate’s job at JP Morgan Chase in lower Manhattan.
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Linens ’n Things has filed for
voluntary bankruptcy and is shutting down 120 underperforming
stores, including three in the lower Hudson Valley
region. read more
A little more than a week after
a commission charged with finding ways to reduce
the cost of local government released its recommendations,
the process of implementing some of those suggestions
has begun. read more
For some restaurants, the summertime
means a slight downturn in business, as local residents
barbecue at home and travel on vacation.
Some others, such as restaurants that
offer waterfront dining or that feature locally grown
in-season ingredients, may look at summer as their
busy season.
“There are a lot of businesses that
slow down in the summer, but it all depends,” said
Rich Stytzer, president of the Westchester-Rockland
chapter of the New York Restaurant Association and
vice-president of Antun’s of Westchester in Elmsford. read
more
For those who believe everything north
of Peekskill is bears and brambles, this could be the
summer to discover otherwise.
The travel and tourism industry in
the Hudson Valley is likely to prosper even in a difficult
economic era, according to a top industry consultant,
since the region is well positioned in times of high
gas prices and a general desire for recuperative vacations. read
more
When the sun is shining, a warm breeze
is blowing, the thermometer reads 75 degrees and you’re
crouched over an office desk in White Plains, spring
fever happens.
A crab would be nice right about now,
you think. Never has anything so ugly tasted so good.
And Stamford, Conn., is just a long par 5 away … read
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