Westchester Baseball Fans Welcome Mets' Opening Day

Westchester's fans were ready for any hint of spring Monday as many watched as Major League Baseball cut through the early morning snow and windy conditions to open its season in Queens in a game between the New York Mets and visiting Washington Nationals.

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Woman Dies While Driving On Saw Mill Parkway

A female driver has been pronounced dead following a minor car accident on the Saw Mill River Parkway in Hastings-on-Hudson on Monday morning, according to News 12 Westchester.

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Woman Charged With False Reporting Tops Rivertowns News This Week

RIVERTOWNS, N.Y. Here are some of the stories that topped the news in Dobbs Ferry, Hastings-On-Hudson and Ardsley this week: Christine Capurso, 49, of Brooklyn, has been charged with false reporting of an incident for a Jan. 16 stabbing in Hastings-in-Hudson.

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Purple Crayon in Hastings Hosts Westchester 'Battle Of The Teen Bands'

The Purple Crayon of Hastings-on-Hudson is hosting its third annual "Battle of the Teen Bands" which will draw many of the county's most prodigious young musicians ages 13-19 to a music submission competition and final "battle" on May 31. "The Battle of the Teen Bands is such a fun, interactive event," Purple Crayon's Executve Director Sarah ... (more)

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Local Church Choir Festival to Benefit Westchester Food Pantries

FOUR LOCAL CHURCH CHOIRS LIFT UP THEIR VOICES FOR CHARITY Westchester Food Pantries to Benefit from UU Choir Festival on March 29 The choirs of the Community Unitarian Church at White Plains and Unitarian Universalist congregations in Hastings-on-Hudson, Mt.

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Brooklyn woman stabbed herself, claimed her ex did it: cops

Brooklyn's Christine Capurso has been charged after allegedly stabbing herself and claiming her husband attacked her in Hastings-on-Hudson.

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Brooklyn woman charged with falsely reporting her ex-husband stabbed and assaulted her

Brooklyn's Christine Capurso has been charged with false reporting of an incident for a Jan. 16 stabbing in Hastings-in-Hudson.

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Westchester Police Charge Woman With False Reporting In Alleged Stabbing

Brooklyn's Christine Capurso has been charged with false reporting of an incident for a Jan. 16 stabbing in Hastings-in-Hudson.

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Police: Woman Stabbed Herself, Blamed Her Ex

The 49-year-old surrendered on Wednesday night at county police headquarters to detectives from the Warrant-Fugitive Unit.

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Find Out About DPW Consolidation Tonight in Dobbs Ferry, Hastings

Residents of Dobbs Ferry and Hastings-on-Hudson have a chance this evening to talk to each other and listen to the consultants and officials who are exploring consolidation of the two villages' public works departments.

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NY woman charged with filing false report

A Westchester County woman has been charged for falsely reporting that her ex-husband and two other men kidnapped and sexually assaulted her.

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Pace University To Host Women's Leadership Panel

Pace University will be hosting a panel discussion in celebration of Women's History Month and Pace University's 50th anniversary on Thursday, March 27, beginning at 5:30 p.m in Butcher Suite of the Kessel Student Center on the Pleasantville campus at 861 Bedford Road, Entrance 2. Networking and cocktails will begin at 5:30 p.m. and the panel ... (more)

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Movie Starring Julianne Moore Films At Andrus On Hudson in Hastings

Actor Julianne Moore shared a movie set with residents of Andrus On Hudson Monday and Tuesday as the movie "Still Alice" filmed several scenes at the senior residence.

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White Plains Hospital To Host Neighborhood Health Fair

White Plains Hospital will hold its 37th annual Neighborhood Health Fair on Saturday, April 26th, from 9 a.m.-2 p.m. at the Thomas H. Slater Center.

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Movie Starring Julianne Moore Films At Andrus On Hudson in Hastings

Actor Julianne Moore shared a movie set with residents of Andrus On Hudson Monday and Tuesday as the movie "Still Alice" filmed several scenes at the senior residence.

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Hastings School District Residents To Vote Wednesday On Facilities Bond

School district residents will vote Wednesday, March 26, on an $8.1 million set of school district facilities improvement propositions that include repairs and improvements to the district's three school buildings and two athletic field complexes.

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Judith Cascone Joins Douglas Elliman In Scarsdale

Cascone is a licensed real estate broker with nearly 20 years of industry experience, specializing in the Rivertowns, Hastings-on-Hudson, Ardsley, Dobbs Ferry, Irvington, Tarrytown and Sleepy Hollow areas of Westchester.

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Hastings Student's Scholarship Tops Rivertowns News This Week

RIVERTOWNS, N.Y. Here are some of the stories that topped the news in Dobbs Ferry, Hastings and Ardsley this week: David Osband of Hastings-on-Hudson was one of four students from the tri-state area to be awarded the Chick Evans Caddie Scholarship .

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Mary Louise Broderick, 90, Former Yonkers Resident

Broderick was born Aug. 15, 1923, in Shamokin, Pa., the daughter of Anthony and Louisa Rosini.

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Hastings Flea Readies For Spring Opening In April

Hastings-on-Hudson is readying for the 2014 Flea Season opening April 13 and running on the second Sunday of every month from April to October.

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Accident Causes Delays On I-287 In White Plains

The Village of Hastings-on-Hudson has launched a five-year research project to see if immunocontraception can be used as a viable form of deer population ...

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Pace To Host Free Webinar On Nurse Education

Pace University's College of Health Professions will host health care leaders for a webinar on appreciative inquiry in nursing education on Wednesday, March 26, at 2 p.m. Appreciative inquiry is a theory and practice for approaching organizational change that focuses on the positive to correct the negative.

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Rivertowns Weighs In On Obama's Push To Increase Minimum Wage To $10.10

Local workers, business owners and others reacted Thursday to President Barack Obama's recent executive order mandating that any businesses with federal contracts pay workers at least $10.10 an hour starting in 2015.

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Pace University, Urban Land Institute To Discuss University's Master Plan

Pace University and Urban Land Institute Westchester/Fairfield will hold a conference to focus on the latest trends in sustainable development, the financing of major construction projects and the university's reconstruction plan.

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Pace University, Urban Land Institute To Discuss University's Master Plan

Pace University and Urban Land Institute Westchester/Fairfield will hold a conference to focus on the latest trends in sustainable development, the financing of major construction projects and the university's reconstruction plan.

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Hastings Launches Ground-Breaking Deer Population Control Project

The Village of Hastings-on-Hudson has launched a five-year research project to see if immunocontraception can be used as a viable form of deer population control.

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Meet the Chef: Rick Krebs at The Mill in Hastings-on-Hudson

The Mill in Hastings-on-Hudson, NY has brought Rick Krebs on board as executive chef.

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Pace Football Adds Four Assistant Coaches To Its Staff

The new coaches are include Conor Gilmartin-Donohue , Eric McCarthy , Stephen Gruber and Robert Maffei .

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Young Hastings Caddie David Osband Earns Full Scholarship To College

HUDSON, N.Y. Despite being an outstanding high school student -- involved in everything from band to the golf team to a club dedicated to studying ancient cultures, David Osband of Hastings-on-Hudson, was unsure if college was in his future.

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Westminster filmmaker David Koff dies

David Koff, a filmmaker and social activist who lived in Westminster West and who traveled the world, filming documentaries that gave voice to those who struggled to be heard, has died.

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A Steven Holl Architects Residence Is Disturbing Hipsturbia

Please enter your email address to reset your password. An email will be sent with instructions to create a new password. A new mansion for Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y., dwarfs the local housing typology, but the clients who commissioned it from Steven Holl Architects are unrepentant.

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Hastings-On-Hudson Using Contraceptive To Control Deer Population

Hastings-on-Hudson is implementing a technique called immunocontraception, a vaccine that would prevent deer from becoming pregnant for two years.

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City uses birth control to limit nuisance deer herd

By his own admission, Mark Feaster's yard is "ground zero" for the deer roaming this village of almost 2 square miles.

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Obama adviser sparks neighbor ire by tearing up historic homes for mansion

Residents of a quiet New York City suburb are outraged after watching one of President Obama's key advisers - billionaire hedge fund founder David E. Shaw - make way for his $40 million mansion by tearing down three homes that were built during prewar times.

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Billionaire Obama advisor angers sleepy New York town dubbed...

Billionaire Obama advisor angers sleepy New York town dubbed 'Hipsturbia' by tearing down three traditional homes to make way for $40million mansion David E Shaw and his journalist-wife Beth Kobliner are building a 30,000-square-foot mansion in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York Many town residents feel the contemporary mansion will stick out in the ... (more)

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Hastings Mayor Updates Village On Important Dates

Hastings-On-Hudson Mayor Peter Swiderski released a listing of important dates for village residents to remember throughout the month of March.

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Village Of Hastings-on-Hudson Election Set For Tuesday

The Village of Hastings-on-Hudson will hold its annual elections Tuesday from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. Trustees Marjorie Apel and Nicola Armacost, both Democrats, are running unopposed for new two-year terms on the all-Democrat village board.

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Death Toll Rises In East Harlem Explosion Tops Rivertowns News This Week

RIVERTOWNS, N.Y. Here are some of the stories that topped the news in Dobbs Ferry, Hastings and Ardsley this week: A gas explosion destroyed a building in Harlem, killed at least eight people and shut down Metro-North service for hours .

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Restaurant Week Home Stretch: Take the Train

The second week of Hudson Valley Restaurant Week is upon us, and Metro North officials have come up with an interesting marketing idea: take the train! Here's their pitch: There are 80 restaurants participating in Hudson Valley Restaurant Week that are steps away or a short cab ride from Metro North Stations on the Harlem, Hudson and New Haven ... (more)

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Snow Parking, Plastic Bag Ban: Hastings Meeting Agenda

Well one thing surely came out of this snowy season: a deeper understanding of parking issues.

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Sophie Konkiewicz: Owner of John's Bar

SOPHIE KONKIEWICZ of Hastings-on-Hudson NY passed away on Saturday, March 8, 2014, at age 93. Sophie was born in Galicia to the late Michael and Anna Beck and came to the U.S., from England, in 1949.

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Westchester County Names Hastings' Bryan Healy Volunteer Of The Year

Most everyone in the Village of Hastings-on-Hudson knows Bryan Healy, a recreation assistant for the Recreation Department who seems to be at every department event year-round.

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Ardsley Bridge Work Will Bring Traffic, Delays To Southern Westchester

Ardsley Mayor Peter Porcino, Traffic Chairman Frank Doherty, and Village Manager George Calvi participated in the Ashford Avenue Bridge shareholders meeting with local, state and county offcials late last month and reported the status for the ongoing rehabilitation of the busy bridge over the net 30 months.

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Several Involved In Farragut Parkway Car Crash With Injuries Reported

A two-car crash on a curved section of Farragut Parkway in Hastings-On-Hudson closed down a section of the Saw Mill River Parkway near exit 12 for a time around 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday.

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Several Involved In Hastings-On-Hudson Car Wreck With Injuries Reported

A two-car crash on a curved section of Farragut Parkway in Hastings-On-Hudson closed down a section of the Saw Mill River Parkway near exit 12 for a time around 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday.

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What Do the Neighbors Think About Sharing DPW Services?

Residents of Hastings-on-Hudson had a chance this winter to weigh in on the proposal to consolidate the public works departments Hastings and neighboring Dobbs Ferry.

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Gardner Osborn, Jr., 73, Of Hastings, Captain, Hastings-on-Hudson Fire Dept

Osborn was born in Dobbs Ferry and lived his entire life in Hastings. He was a 47 year member of the Uniontown Hose Co.

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Open Houses In Rivertowns This Weekend

The Hastings-on-Hudson Police Department is reminding residents about parking restrictions in the area due to the snowstorm expected on Sunday night into ...

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Restaurants We Love: Saint George Bistro

Based on my colleagues' rave reviews and others I'd read online, I was so looking forward to a recent weeknight dinner at Saint George Bistro in Hastings-on-Hudson.

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Hastings Police Announce Parking Restrictions During Storm

The Hastings-on-Hudson Police Department is reminding residents about parking restrictions in the area due to the snowstorm expected on Sunday night into Monday.

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Pace University Softball To Open Season On Sunday

Pace University softball will open its season with a doubleheader at Wilmington University in Delaware on Sunday, March 2, at noon.

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Restaurants We Love: Saint George Bistro

The 411 on Saint George Bistro Cuisine: French bistro fare Entree price range: $22 to $36; $84 for cote de boeuf for two Great for: Date night, solo dining, brunch, BYO, cocktails, dining at the bar, girls' night out, historic building, meeting for a drink, people watching, private room, romantic, dinner with grandparents, small plates, special ... (more)

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First-time author took SAT 7 times to help son boost score

Author Debbie Stier's new book, "The Perfect Score Project: Uncovering the Secrets of the SAT," chronicles her experience taking the SAT seven times to help motivate and prepare her college-bound son.

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