Barry McGoey, is the president of the International Association of Firefighters Yonkers Local 628 and he is not afraid to go toe-to-toe with elected officials in Yonkers Yonkers is the home to Westchester County’s largest fire department and Barry McGoey is an outspoken ally for Local 628 members and other unions in the city. Barry…
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Dan Murphy, Editor of the Yonkers Rising
Dan Murphy is the editor of the “Yonkers Rising”, s low circulation local newspaper in Yonkers that is owned by the Nick Sprayregen Estate. The Nick Sprayregen Estate are partners in RXR’s Sawyer Place (formerly Larkin Plaza) luxury development and other major downtown taxpayer funded real estate projects. The death spiral of the “Yonkers Rising”…
Dean Bender
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…
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.