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I Live Here Westchester NY
“I Live Here” is a hyperlocal podcast that explores the stories, people, and events shaping life in Westchester, NY. Each episode dives into what’s happening across our towns and neighborhoods—highlighting small businesses, community voices, local culture, and can’t-miss happenings. Whether you’ve l...
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I Live Here Westchester | Nick Khamsopa: The Real Housing Bottleneck Isn't Land
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Westchester is short roughly 21,000 homes and rental vacancy sits under two percent. The usual explanation is land, money, and...
The Westchester Brief | 06.30.26: Your SALT Cap Just Hit $40,400
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For seven years, Westchester County homeowners could deduct only $10,000 of their state and local taxes. For 2026 that cap jump...
The Westchester Brief | 06.29.26: Indian Point's $25M School Hole
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The Hendrick Hudson school district in the Town of Cortlandt, Westchester County faces a shortfall of more than $25 million for...
The Friday Intel | 06.26.26: Westchester's $10,000 Tax Bill, Decoded
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Westchester County has the highest property taxes of any county in America — a typical bill near $10,000 a year. But the govern...
The Westchester Brief | 06.25.26: Federal Food Cuts Hit Westchester
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When Washington cuts food aid, the cost lands somewhere, and this month it landed in Westchester County. This episode examines...
Six Thousand Doors: One Candidate's Case for Yonkers
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Dan D'Amico has knocked on nearly six thousand doors in Yonkers District 16. Not with a team. Largely by himself. What he's hea...
The Westchester Brief | 06.24.26: Can the County Run Playland?
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Playland, the county-owned amusement park in Rye, opened its 98th season this spring with the historic Dragon Coaster restored....
The Westchester Brief | 06.30.26: Your SALT Cap Just Hit $40,400
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For seven years, Westchester County homeowners could deduct only $10,000 of their state and local taxes. For 2026 that cap jump...
The Westchester Brief | 06.23.26: Erase the Racist Clause in Your Deed
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For decades, thousands of Westchester County deeds have carried restrictive covenants, clauses that once barred homes from bein...
The Westchester Brief | 06.22.26: The Primary That Decides Your County
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Tomorrow's Democratic primary will settle several Westchester County races outright, yet turnout will be a fraction of the elec...
The Friday Intel | 06.19.26: The World Cup Comes Home
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The World Cup final will be played 12 miles from Westchester County — and the data says this region is less a bystander than a...
The Westchester Brief | 06.18.26: The Rent Vote Is Monday Night
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On Monday, June 22, the Westchester County Rent Guidelines Board votes on how much more tens of thousands of rent...
The Westchester Brief | 06.17.26: Yonkers' 4.75% Tax Hike
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Yonkers calls itself "Hollywood on the Hudson," but the city's new $1.64 billion budget still raised the combined...
I Live Here Westchester | Linh Hoang: Flowers, Vietnamese Coffee, and a 135-Year-Old Bank in Tarrytown
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Linh Hoang is opening Dahlia's Song in Tarrytown — a flower shop, Vietnamese café, and workshop space inside a 135-year-old for...
The Westchester Brief | 06.16.26: No Rate Cut, and What It Costs You
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The Federal Reserve meets June 16–17, and markets put the odds of holding rates steady at roughly 99% — no cut since Dec...
The Westchester Brief | 06.15.26: 85,000 Homes and the Summer Oil Bet
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About one in four Westchester County homes heats with oil — roughly 85,000 households — and this is the week they face a...
The Friday Intel | 06.12.26: Westchester at One Million — Who's Coming and Where the Pressure Lands
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Westchester County just crossed one million residents — the highest population ever recorded, with the largest si...
The Westchester Brief | 06.11.26: The Tuckahoe Festival Failure — Who Had a Plan?
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A church carnival in Tuckahoe ended May 30 with three injured officers, a hospital transport, and police from mul...
The Westchester Brief | 06.10.26: The Billion-Dollar Quantum Company in Elmsford
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A Westchester-based company just hit a $1 billion valuation in quantum computing — one of the most strategically...
The Westchester Brief | 06.9.26: The Gun Warning Law Nobody Is Watching Implement
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The Westchester County Board of Legislators unanimously passed the Visual Gun Warning Law on June 2 — requiring l...
The Westchester Brief | 06.08.26: The Rent Vote Nobody Is Watching
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On June 22, the Westchester County Rent Guidelines Board will vote on allowable rent increases for all rent-stabilized apartmen...
The Friday Intel | 06.05.26: Westchester's Crime Drop — What a 25% Decline Actually Tells You
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Violent crime in Westchester County fell 25% in 2025 — and that number deserves more than a headline. All seven major cr...
The Westchester Brief | 06.04.26: The Sanctuary County Fight
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Westchester County is on the Trump administration's Department of Justice list of sanctuary jurisdictions — but County E...
The Westchester Brief | 06.03.26: Fifteen Years Without County Mental Health Services. What Did It Cost?
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In 2011, Westchester County closed its outpatient mental health clinics. This past March, after nearly fifteen ye...
The Westchester Brief | 06.02.26: 957 Units. 105 Affordable. The Math No One Is Running on Westchester Crossing.
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Governor Hochul broke ground on Westchester Crossing in Port Chester in April — 957 housing units, a hotel, retail, gree...
The Fight for NY-17: A Conversation with Cait Conley (Encore Presentation)
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In this episode of I Live Here Westchester, host Jim Jockle sits down with Cait Conley, a fourth-generation Hudson Valley nativ...
The Westchester Brief | 06.01.26: Three Incidents, One Airport, One Question Nobody Is Asking
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A training plane flipped over on takeoff at Westchester County Airport last month. Two people walked away with minor injuries....
The Friday Intel | 05.29.26: The MTA's $6.2B Metro-North Bet — What Westchester Gets
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The MTA has launched a $6.2 billion capital program for Metro-North — the largest in the railroad's history. Westchester County...
The Westchester Brief | 05.28.26: Two Primaries. One Republican Seat on the Line. Early Voting Starts June 13.
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On June 23, Democratic primary voters in two Westchester legislative districts will choose nominees for seats that could reshap...
The Westchester Brief | 05.27.26: 20,000 Units Going Up. This Law Sets the Floor for the People Building Them.
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On May 4, the Westchester County Board of Legislators unanimously passed the Lessor Prevailing Wage Act — closing the ga...
The Westchester Brief | 05.26.26: One Budget Failed. One District Is Out of Money. Same Broken System.
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On May 20, school budget votes ran across Westchester. 25 districts passed. Eastchester didn't. Yesterday's Brief covere...
The Westchester Brief | 05.25.26: Yonkers Has a 90% Graduation Rate. Albany's Funding Formula Is Still Failing It.
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The Yonkers Board of Education met this week to consider closing School 21 — a neighborhood elementary school — to address a $1...
The Friday Intel | 05.22.26: Westchester's 11,703-Unit Housing Gap — The Data Behind This Week's Story
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This week The Westchester Brief covered Westchester's housing crisis from the municipal accountability angle. Today's Fr...
The Westchester Brief | 05.21.26: 11,703 Units Short — and Most Municipalities Are Making It Worse
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The Welcome Home Westchester campaign released housing policy scorecards for all 43 Westchester municipalities last Dece...
The Westchester Brief | 05.20.26: Crime Is Down 17%. Your Car Might Not Be Safe.
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Westchester County announced last week that overall crime dropped 17% in 2025 — violent crime down 25%, every major inde...
The Westchester Brief | 05.19.26: Indian Point — Who Actually Holds the Veto?
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In March, the U.S. Energy Secretary and a Republican congressman showed up at the gates of Indian Point to announce a re...
The Westchester Brief | 05.18.26: School Budget Day Is Tuesday. Does Anyone Know?
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Tuesday, May 19th, voters across Westchester County head to the polls for the annual school budget vote — the highest-stakes, l...
The Friday Intel | 05.15.26: Westchester's Crime Drop Is Real. Is It Four Times Better Than the Nation?
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Ken Jenkins led his State of the County address with a crime number: overall index crime down seventeen percent, violent crime...
The Westchester Brief | 05.14.26: Federal Cuts. Local Consequences. No Local Accounting.
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July 1, 2026: the federal government begins narrowing health coverage for lawfully present immigrants. By October, federal Medi...
The Westchester Brief | 05.13.26: Westchester Is Watching. Nobody Is Watching Westchester.
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In February, Westchester County's Real Time Crime Center announced it was monitoring social media for teen takeover threats fol...