Welcome to the Yonkers Downtown / Waterfront BID!

NOW OPEN : Singas Pizza, 41 Dock Street @ Bashford Avenue, 376-3636 Come to Singas grand-opening ribbon-cutting on May 25th at 11 AM! A visit to Philipse Manor Hall and downtown Yonkers is profiled by Marilyn Loesser, Travel Lady!
Saturday, May 6th - MAYFAIR 2006 Celebrate spring on the Hudson Riverfront in Yonkers Yonkers Mayfair 2006 - Art, Music, Plants, Flowers, Family Fun, Education, Ladybugs!!!!

Riverfront Library: Cinco de Mayo festival (1 PM)
Riverfront Library: Dedication of Spiderman marble bike rack by artist Scott Pariser! (1 PM)

UNA-USA Children's art project, Wellness displays
Come stroll the downtown - Windows on Main Street (art coordinated by the Blue Door Art Association)
Plants, a maypole, and art from YoHo at Philipse Manor Hall
Open House as RenDao Wellness Center (6 - 8 Wells Avenue)
Great greenery and planting workshop from Groundwork Yonkers
Grand opening - Open house and free goodies at Chase (Trolley Barn)
New Electronic Sports Wall at the YMCA
Free music at the PierView on the Hudson
Sidewalk Sale in Getty Square featuring entertainment by Linda Ipanema (noon - 2 PM)
Mobiles, new mosaic wall, arts and crafts and more at Beczak!
Dancers from Sarah Lawrence College!
A caricaturist courtesy of UPAC!
Stay tuned and follow the ladybugs to fun!
If you'd like to participate as a community organization or be a vendor, please contact us!
Featured Mayfair vendor: Two great institutions in downtown Yonkers teamed up to create five gourmet treats!
Westhab and Zuppa joined forces to create one variety of Westhab's six Top Chefs dried bean soup mixes.
Come by and sample Zuppa's fabulous soup and purchase some of these great mixes to support a great cause!

Top Chefs Soup is a social enterprise of Westhab that produces gourmet dried bean soup mixes. Westhab serves the poorest
citizens of Westchester County by providing housing for the homeless. Westhab also recognizes the need to supplement housing with critical
long term employment training. The production workshop for Top ChefsSoup and childcare facilities are located at the shelter where the
employees live. Westhab has been providing shelter to the homeless for some 25 years.
All the revenue dollars generated by Top Chefs Soup are reinvested back into the company so additional employees can be hired and trained---thus
giving more caring mothers the opportunity to better their lives and their families. Many who live in these shelters gain the necessary
working experience through the job training that Westhab provides to go onto bigger and more meaningful employment opportunities. The cycle of
self-help continues and continues and continues. Our success rate hasjust been phenomenal and we want to ensure more of this success in the coming years.
And they taste great too!

Saturday, June 3rd - 8 AM - 2 PM: Bensidoun French Farmers Market opens in the downtown!
Fifteen farm producers and other vendors! Stay tuned for more details!

UNTERMYER PERFORMING ARTS COUNCIL SCHOLARSHIP

The deadline for UPAC's O'Connor Scholarship is approaching. Awards will be presented at this year's Spring Brunch to be held on
Sunday, April 23rd at Untermyer Park.
The awards are presented to a graduating high school senior residing in Yonkers who has demonstrated excellence in one or more of the performing arts. The applicant must be planning to pursue further education.
$1000 Award
For further information, call 375.3435 or e-mail UPAC.

55Plus NEWS!

First Annual "Elder Friendly Business Award"

55Plus is seeking nominations for a business that goes the extra mile to consistently provide services that are exceptional: physical adaptations in their space/materials (large print materials, easy-to-read signs, ramps/adapted bathrooms, etc.) , free delivery services/daily senior discounts, majority number of mature workers/good customer service, frequent community involvement/donations to low income/frail elderly, etc.
The award will be presented at the May 16th Chamber Breakfast at Sacred Heart High School.
Please click here to request a Nomination Form via e-mail.

From our Y D/WBID Business owner John Fellin (Encore Catering at the Roosevelt Ballroom)

As you may know I am very involved with the New York State Restaurant Association Educational Foundation. The Foundation helps High School teenagers pursue a career in the hospitality industry. We work with High Schools and colleges around the state to develop a good broad based curriculum, we help the teens get scholarships, provide internship opportunities and career placement. Relax! For a change I am not asking for donations! Below is a link to GoodSearch.com. We all search the internet daily looking for websites, shopping, research, whatever. All you have to do is use GoodSearch.com powered by Yahoo! for all your internet searches and the Educational Foundation will receive funding based on the amount of searches. That's it! You can download the GoodSearch toolbar for Internet Explorer, enter in New York State Restaurant Association Educational Foundation as the charity you wish to support and begin searching! Every penny generated will help support the Foundation.

Good Search toolbar download

If you want you can cut and paste the charity name to make it easier: New York State Restaurant Association Educational Foundation

Please install this on every computer in your home and place of business. 1000 people doing 3 searches a day would yield over $10,000 dollars to the Educational Foundation.

It is a great way to support the Foundation without costing you a penny! Thanks for your help. If you have any questions feel free to email me.
John Fellin, NYSRA EF Chairman

Mayor Philip Amicone strikes $3.1 billion development deal for downtown Yonkers
Cappelli Enterprises to join high profile team in ballpark and Hudson waterfront venture
Yonkers, N.Y.�Downtown Yonkers will soon benefit from one of the largest and most comprehensive redevelopment projects in the New York Metro Area, Mayor Phil Amicone is set to announce at a news conference tomorrow. The development agreement between the city and a trio of high profile developers will total more than three billion dollars in projects and encompass properties that stretch from the Hudson River waterfront to the proposed minor league baseball stadium site next to City Hall. Mayor Amicone announced on Thursday, February 2, 2006 that Louis Cappelli of Cappelli Enterprises, the driving force behind hugely successful economic development projects in White Plains and New Rochelle, will join Stuever Bros. Eccles & Rouse, Inc. of Baltimore and Fidelco Realty Group of New Jersey for the development partnership.

Scope of the development plans	L-R: Bill Struever, Marc Berson and Louis Cappelli
With City Council Majority Leader McDow, City Council President Lesnick and NYS Senator Nick Spano looking on, Bill Struever, Louis Cappelli, Mayor Amicone and Marc Berson sign the historic agreement.	Architect's rendering of the "Gateway District" including 6,500 seat ball park.

One of the biggest economic development projects in the New York Metro Area, with more than $3 billion in projects
covering dozens of city blocks planned in downtown Yonkers.
Click here for Mayoral Press Release

Bike Rack Memorial for
Yonkers Bicycle Patrolman John Barsi
We have reached goal ! - thanks to a very generous donation from John's mother, the bike rack is ordered and in production!
Please keep your donations coming in for the installation and plaque!

A new bicycle rack will be placed on the Yonkers waterfront in memory of our recently deceased downtown bicycle patrolman
John Barsi.
John was an avid fisherman who loved the water and the Hudson River. Last summer, John jumped into the Hudson to save a woman from drowning. We plan to locate the rack close to the site of John's heroic rescue and found a custom rack in the shape of a fish. DERO, the manufacturer of the racks, has generously offered us a 15% discount for John's bike rack. Please visit their website to see some of their great products.

We plan to add a plaque with John's badge number (306).
We are soliciting contributions for the bike rack which will cost about $4500 with shipping, installation and the plaque. All donations over that amount will be given to a scholarship fund for John's children.
Questions/info about contributing?
Please contact Joan Jennings at 914-557-1513 or email us - Please put "Barsi Bike Rack" in the
subject line. Thank you.
Donations received: James Pufahl, Marie Barsi Nasuto,
Peter Grotto Plumbing and Heating, Choice Building Supplies, D&J Collision, Texaco (1023 Nepperhan Ave.), Joseph F. Spiezio, III, Stephen and Marie Hadala, Angie & Evie (Heart & Soul), Eric Andreoli, Roger's Furniture Discount, Yi Chong (Grace Beauty Supply), New Main Inc. (147 New Main Street), Betty Pickover, Hudson Park (Barbara Carmichael, representative), Zuppa Restaurant (Robert Leggio), Waterfront Market (Pete Khader), Jim and Mary (Tyrone House), Stacey and John Marello, Encore Catering, DERO.
THANK YOU! Keep the list growing....

Letting our imaginations run, we can see obvious (and not so obvious) "faces" in rock formations - the most famous being the "Old Man of the Mountain" (right) in New Hampshire (which recently slid off the mountain) featured on that state's quarter.
A recent rockslide on the Palisades above Alpine is visible from the Yonkers waterfront.
At a recent meeting, two people mentioned that a rockslide in the same location just prior to World War II created "Hitler's Face" on the Palisades.
Eerily, another rock slide just after the War obliterated it.
After three queries about "Hitler's Face" on the Palisades in the last three days,
John Favareau of the Riverfront Library and the
Yonkers Historical Society located an old photograph of "Hitler's Face" which will be printed in an upcoming issue of "The Yonkers Historian." Keep your eyes open for it!

Yonkers D/W BID supplement promoting downtown Yonkers was distributed with
the NY Times.

If you'd like a copy of the supplement,
please request one by calling the
BID office at 914-969-6660 or email us!

Downtown/Waterfront resident artist Rande Barke now has his paintings in Zuppa!
Check out Rande's website and stop by Zuppa at 59-61 Main Street to see some of Rande's exciting new works!

Great food destinations in the downtown!

For healthy, whole food to go, try Andiamo! (61 Main Street - next to Zuppa) 376-0011
Arthur Avenue's Full Moon Cafe at 28 Wells Avenue 914-906-6055
features great pizza, wraps, salads. Open for breakfast and lunch
Bistro Chartreuse, 35 Main Street - French comfort food for lunch and dinner.
For more information, call: 914-969-1006. E-mail: [email protected]
Visit The Grist Mill, 38 1/2 Main Street, 914-476-1650 for lunch, dinner, drinks!
Maggie's Fried Seafood - Market Street, between Main and Nepperhan Streets (behind Rubin Paint)
The Pier View, One Van Der Donck, 914-751-2208 and The Whiskey Rio - waterfront drinks and dining.
Tyrone House (a downtown classic) at 82 Main Street
serves a great home cooking for lunch, has a new selection of draft beer; now open Sunday
Zuppa, 59 Main Street - A Tuscan feel, Mediterranean cuisine. 914-376-6500
The Pizza Place in the Trolley Barn - Pizza, more pizza, GREAT pizza! Try the 3-cheese pizza!
Mexican cuisine: Mexican Antojitos - 10 Warburton - Greet owners Benito and Maria and enjoy
authentic Mexican cuisine!
Waterfront Deli - 14 Larkin Plaza - Celebrity sandwiches - breakfast and lunch!
Waterfront Market - 1 Pierpointe Street - Cold cuts and other household essentials in Hudson Park

For a great catered affair in a glorious setting, call the Roosevelt Ballroom featuring Encore Caterers!
914-964-9666 located at 2 - 8 Hudson Street.
Ask for Chef/Owners John or Ron or Catering Manager Michael who will professionally
plan your corporate breakfast, lunch or dinner, fundraiser, dance, wedding, anniversary,
bar/bat mitzvah, birthday party or whatever other occasion comes up!

Coming soon: Lejends, 22 Warburton Avenue, 709-9840

Laura Farenthold and Mark Pittman are planning the next YOH event...

YDWBID website feature: Available Properties!!!!
If you have a property for sale or lease, please email us and we will post it.

The Yonkers DWBID visits YoHo to spread the word about the arts in Yonkers.
Stay tuned to see YoHo artists and in exhibits during Mayfair at Philipse Manor Hall Community Gallery.
Some YoHo artists: Chris Semergieff - Bobby Vassos - Fred Hoffman - Danny Titus - Irvin Chandler
More to come....

BID members are cordially invited to attend, as observers, our monthly BID Board meetings.
For a schedule of meetings, click here.

Downtown commercial space available...