Dozens homeless after fire in Yonkers tears through row of multifamily homes
News 12 Staff
Updated on:May 24, 2021, 10:12pm EDT
Dozens of residents are now homeless after a fire in Yonkers tore through a row of multifamily homes.
Officials believe that the four-alarm fire started at the back of 99 Maple St. Sunday around 4 p.m. We do know that it was furniture in the rear of the house that caught the rear of the house in the back porches, and from there it quickly spread to the house next door to it, said Yonkers Fire Department Deputy Chief Joseph Citrone.
By the time crews got the inferno under control, more than 30 families were left homeless, and more than a dozen firefighters were injured.
More than 250 Yonkers seniors get 2nd dose thanks to the pop-up site program
News 12 Staff
Updated on:Feb 25, 2021, 5:19pm EST
More than 250 seniors in public housing received their second vaccine doses Thursday at a pop-up site in Yonkers.
Seniors lined up at the Nodine Hill Community Center to roll up their sleeves.
The president of the Municipal Housing Authority says they re working to get all 2,100 senior residents vaccinated.
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New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on Wednesday announced that 35 community-based pop-up COVID-19 vaccination sites are coming online this week, and six are in the Hudson Valley.
Cuomo says vaccination sites being established this week in the Hudson Valley are at churches and cultural centers Thursday, Friday and/or Saturday. The sites are, in Mount Vernon, Grace Baptist Church, Thursday and Friday; in Yonkers, at the Nodine Hill Community Center Thursday through Saturday; at the Newburgh Armory Unity Center Saturday; in Peekskill, at the Kiley Youth Center on Saturday; in Poughkeepsie, at Beulah Baptist Church on Friday; and in Spring Valley, at the MLK Center, Friday and Saturday. All are by appointment only. The sites will be re-established in three weeks to administer second doses of the vaccine.
Cuomo: 35 new pop-up COVID vaccination sites coming to NY this week
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NEW YORK - Governor Andrew Cuomo has announced that 35 new community-based pop-up COVID-19 vaccination sites will be coming online this week at churches, community centers, public housing complexes, and cultural centers.
The sites are expected to vaccinate over 25,000 people throughout the week, with more sites coming online every week.
New vaccination sites target minority communities across Hudson Valley
News 12 Staff
Updated on:Feb 03, 2021, 10:33pm EST
New vaccination sites are popping up all across the Hudson Valley - from churches in Mount Vernon and Poughkeepsie to the MLK Center in Spring Valley.
Velma McKenzie-Orr says she battled coronavirus and has lived to tell the tale, and now on Thursday, she ll be able to rid her virus fears once and for all.
She will be one of 500 seniors in Mount Vernon expected to get the Pfizer COVID-19 over the next two days at a special pop-up clinic sponsored by the Grace Baptist Church and the Mount Vernon Neighborhood Health Center.