Peter Cohn

Editor’s Note

The Yonkers Ledger has followed the city's noise ordinance closely for more than a year. Our editor, Peter Cohn, has a personal legal connection...

City July 4 plans unchanged despite heat forecast and chance of thunderstorms

As Yonkers and much of the eastern U.S. sweated it out with temperatures that hit 100 degrees Friday, tomorrow is expected to be more...

Was our city’s most prominent early resident a rat, or is it more complicated?

Nobody wants to call the guy a rat. Why? It's awkward--he’s a big deal around here. In fact, he owned the place – the entire...

Terrero Now Leads by One Vote, with Recount Widely Expected

As counting of late-arriving mail-in ballots and other special-case votes continued, the Westchester Board of Elections reports that Wilson A. Terrero now leads Leslye...

America 250: Our Week of Celebration Begins

We enter a momentous week of celebration and reflection. It's too easy to forget our nation's revolutionary heritage and to take for granted the...

Dist. 17: Dueling Candidate Statements

With Leslye Oquendo-Thomas's winning margin down to eight votes in the race for the Westchester Legislature Dist. 17 seat, an apparent grassroots effort to...

Divided Government? You stay on this side of the door, I’ll stay on mine.

Peter Cohn looks at the firing and new hiring of City Council District 2 member Corazon Pineda Isaac's legislative aide without her consent.