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This is a really interesting and exciting project, if it gets off the ground. from lohud.com Historians preparing architectural survey of Yonkers buildings By Ernie Garcia • elgarcia@lohud.com • May 26, 2009 YONKERS – Two historians are preparing an inventory of the city’s homes and buildings to identify historic or architectural landmarks. The representatives from…

Amazon is having an amazing deal– if you go to Amazon and create a baby registry, you’ll be entered to win a sweepstakes every month for $3000 worth of baby stuff, including a year of diapers. There’s no purchase necessary, and you probably want a lot of stuff that Amazon is going to have anyway.…

His nose is as long as the second joint on my index finger. His thumb is as long as the first joint on my thumb. It looks like he’s going to have fairly stocky fingers, particularly his thumbs. Probably not a virtuoso piano player. His toes look like mine, not Adam’s. At least that’s one…

One of the things that has plagued our house since day one is the trash in our yard. We’re on the corner so we have a lot of frontage, our side street (the longer stretch) is slightly downhill, and we’re also in, as dear readers know, a neighborhood where there, ahem, doesn’t seem to be…

It’s true, we haven’t been posting as much as we should– and facebook is taking its toll, as well as a certain bear to remain nameless. I’ve done my small part, but it gets hard to maintain a personal blog, or a home blog, because so much of what you are thinking about is embroiled…

It’s so embarrassing that we’ve been almost completely post-less since Aaron was born. I guess I didn’t realize that we actually have non-family reading the blog – it took a friend from our synagogue (yes, you!) to remind me that we actually did have blog readers, once upon a time, and that some of them…

Yonkers Woman Shot by Errant Arrow on Riverdale Streetfull article and audio NEW YORK (AP/1010 WINS) — A 51-year-old Yonkers woman remained hospitalized Monday after she was shot in the stomach by a 30-inch arrow while getting out of her car in Riverdale over the weekend. Denise Delgado-Brown was hit by the arrow around 2…

Our synagogue is co-sponsoring a local conference on Ailing Loved One’s, and we are helping them promote it. If you are interested, please visit the website listed below for full details. Congregation Tehillah and The Academy for Jewish Religion, Riverdale, New Yorkare pleased to present:Caring for Those We Love: A Jewish PerspectiveA one-day conference designed…

Thanks to Curbed.com for this… I Lego NYC : In what’s probably the greatest thing… via Curbed by Lockhart on 2/3/09 In what’s probably the greatest thing you’ll see on the internet this week, artist/illustrator Christoph Niemann writes, “During the cold and dark Berlin winter days, I spend a lot of time with my boys…

YONKERS JOE is an exciting, high-stakes con film and moving family drama written and directed by Robert Celestino, and starring Academy Award-nominee Chazz Palminteri, Academy Award-winner Christine Lahti, Tom Guiry (THE BLACK DONNELLYS), Golden Globe-nominee Linus Roache, and Academy Award-nominee Michael Lerner. An ode to old time gamblers, now outdated in an age of powerful…

Thanksgiving dinner was of course delicious. Turkey (done the dry salted way, not the brine) which was very good, squash soup, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, salad, green beans, home made cherry pie, home made apple pie, and a bunch of other stuff. I got calls from all my brothers, and we Skyped with Stephanie’s dad…

I admit that we’ve been very derelict in our blogging. I could say that’s because we are spending all of our time taking care of the baby, but that’s not 100% true. Most of the time we are staring at the baby and wondering how in the world it is possible that we made something…

I haven't actually been towed from either of these lots, but I've been on the shady side a few times– glad to hear there's some defense for scofflaws such as myself! Of course, when people park in my driveway (not in front of my driveway– IN MY DRIVEWAY)  I have a different tune.  The law…

We’re so far behind on blogging I don’t know if we can catch up. Aaron will turn two months this Sunday and he’s gotten so big; he’s very active and alert and a fabulous traveler (we just got back from 8 days in Chicago, and have also traveled overnight to Rhinebeck and Providence). I will…

This appeared in today's lohud  as a letter to the editor– I thought it was so good, I had to post it, even though it is only tangentially related to our blog. Great line:  "Yonkers, the city of hills where nothing is on the level." http://lohud.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080923/OPINION/809230316/-1/newsfront Certainties: death and wasteful spending Wow. Yonkers' more than…