Dean Bender is a partner Thompson & Bender, which is tasked for selling taxpayer funded Yonkers Development projects to the public for IDA. The 16-employee company has had a hand in promoting nearly every major development on the Yonkers waterfront. Dean Bender and power couple Elizabeth Bracken-Thompson and Geoff Thompson co-founded the agency in 1987…
Month: September 2019
Edward Doyle
Edward Doyle is the President of the Building and Construction Trades Council of Westchester and Putnam Counties. He spent decades as vice president and business manager at Teamsters Local 456. Edward Doyle has been urging the mayor of Yonkers to requiring developers whose construction projects receive city tax breaks to hire union workers.
Yonkers Congressman Eliot Engel
United States Representative Eliot Engel was born in the Bronx, but the congressional veteran of 30 years also represents Yonkers Congressman Eliot Engel faces an AOC-like challenger next year, history has shown Engel to be a formidable incumbent and a fighter. Eliot Engel overwhelmingly won last year’s primary, earning a greater share of the vote…
Legislator Gordon Burrows
Gordon A. Burrows, 61, of Yonkers, is a Republican in Westchester County District 15. Gordon Burrows is an attorney in White Plains and has been a Westchester County Legislator for 14 years. He’s been the minority whip on the Westchester County Board of Legislators for six years. Previously, Gordon Burrows served for 10 years as…