Yonkers Does Not Make the 50 Worst American Cities to Live In List
By HEZI ARIS

The Hezitorial Reality and Analysis

YONKERS, NY — July 22, 2017 — As difficult as it may be for some in Yonkers to conceptualize reality, Yonkers cannot claim to be a city designated by 24/7 Wall St. to make the grade to define itself as a “50 Worst American Cities to Live In”. Alas, our northern neighbors, Syracuse comes in at 31st worst place and Buffalo makes the list in 22nd place. Those in tune to Yonkers’ twenty years of whining over the funding allocations afforded the city specifically for the Yonkers Public Schools District will cringe over the litany of woe and Kool-Aide swill we have been drinking for some two decades. Madison Avenue’s temerity and gall has evaporated faster than our collective mindset was willing to assess. It seemed Yonkers collective demeanor then was to best “get along to get along” with the “con” so ...

Yonkers Police Officer Wayne Simoes’ Legal Counsel in Federal Civil Suit v Ms. Irma Marquez Arrive at $1.25 Million Settlement Before Honorable Cathy Seibel
HEZI ARIS

Scale of Justice

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Update as of July 19, 2017@ 7:30pm

WHITE PLAINS, NY and YONKERS, NY — July 17, 2017 — The Federal Civil Rights lawsuit filed against the City of Yonkers and Yonkers Police Officer Wayne Simoes was settled on July 10, 2017. While the Federal Criminal Case exonerated P.O. Simoes of wrongdoing with respect to Ms. Irma Marquez, a home health aide at the time of the March 3, 2007 incident.

Ms. Marquez was recognized and witnessed by way of surveillance video footage to have suffered a concussion, a fractured jaw, both eyes black and blue, facial lacerations, bruises, swelling of her neck, torso among other parts of her body. The video recording tape, reviewed by then Westchester County District Attorney Janet DiFiore’s Office, revealed that P.O. Simoes lifted Ms. Marquez off her feet, driving her face onto the ceramic tile ...