Month: March 2011
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Shout out to my cousin Naomi Duerr’s Truckee River Flood Project
Not related to Yonkers so much, but a local shoutout to my cousin Naomi Duerr, who is the executive director of the Truckee River Flood Project, which is a 1.6 billion dollar renovation/restoration of the Truckee River with the aim to reduce flooding and manage the recreational and other developments of said river. She used…
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A dearth of indie coffeehouses/Starbucks in Yonkers
A friend of mine on Facebook was complaining about her neighborhood in Brooklyn where there were no indie coffeehouses with non-rude service, so as a result she felt compelled to go to Starbuck’s. Here’s what I wrote back: You are complaining because you have indie coffee shops! Here in Yonkers we would kill for some…