The air was full of the laughter of kids, music from speakers, and the whistles from lifeguards motivated by early-season hyper-vigilance. It was early afternoon of the first Monday of summer vacation ...

Dr. Rob Morrow of Ludlow Park is raising concerns about microplastic emissions for wastewater plant. Photo by Anna Dovzhenko. Sometime last Friday, Ludlow Park resident Dr. Rob Morrow smelled ...

A city planning process that began last year culminated yesterday in the announcement of a $10 million state grant to fund a series of downtown improvements focusing on the waterfront, particularly ...

Opening act for Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes as the Yonkers free summer concert series begins. Photos by Christoper DeRentiis Harold Melvin’s Blue Notes, notable soul group of the early 70s, ...

on us, everywhere at once. Everywhere at once the sky was touchable, for of course it was right here, over us, as well as way out over the smaller and smaller waves, coming forward but still going out ...

Effective June 14, 2026, I am stepping down as Publisher of The Yonkers Ledger. Since early 2025, I have built on the success of The Ledger’s Founder, Mark Parolisi, in a number of ways. Recruiting ...

Nobody wants to call the guy a rat. Why? It’s awkward–he’s a big deal around here. In fact, he owned the place – the entire city of Yonkers. He’s got a big fancy house downtown. A major tourist ...

The skies parted. The pyrotechnic birthday party began. Minutes after the howling winds passed through downtown, the skies suddenly calmed, the temperatures dropped and the party resumed. Fireworks ...

We enter a momentous week of celebration and reflection. It’s too easy to forget our nation’s revolutionary heritage and to take for granted the profound and enduring principals upon which the United ...

As Yonkers and much of the eastern U.S. sweated it out with temperatures that hit 100 degrees Friday, tomorrow is expected to be more of the same, with the added twist of thunderstorms possibly ...

The County Board of Elections has declared Wilson A. Terrero the winner in the Democratic primary for the Dist. 17 seat in the county legislature, narrowly edging his opponent Leslye Oquedno-Thomas by ...

Wilson A. Terrero now leads by one vote. As counting of late-arriving mail-in ballots and other special-case votes continued, the Westchester Board of Elections reports that Wilson A. Terrero now ...