From The desk Of Yonkers Newswire Editor Brian Harrod: DIRTY DEALS DONE DIRT CHEAP: Angry Artists Complain That Once Again They Are Left in The Cold As Yonkers Arts Gets A $100,000 No Bid Deal To Decorate Yonkers Public Housing Projects.

 

From The desk Of Yonkers Newswire Editor Brian Harrod..... DIRTY DEALS DONE DIRT CHEAP: Angry Artists Complain That Once Again They Are Left in The Cold As Yonkers Arts Gets A $100,000 No Bid Deal To Decorate Yonkers Public Housing Projects PHOTO: Ray Wilcox At Yonkers Arts scores big bucks to create art in public housing projects in the city of hills. ARTS UPSET OVER NEW BACK ROOM DEAL: Struggling Yonkers artists and art organizations were left out in the cold and even not given a chance to bid on 4100,000 of work ordered by the Mulford Corporation, which raises funds to supplement the housing authority programs, because many artists say Ray Wilcox once again got a back room deal from the city of Yonkers. LOTS OF CASH FLOWING TO YONKERS: Wilson Kimball, MHACY President and CEO approved the project as she moving forward as part of the scope of her $300 million renovation of public housing projects in Yonkers YONKERS: Murals and other art installations will be undertaken at 12 building across five The Municipal Housing Authority for the City of Yonkers (MHACY) properties. Curran Court in northeast Yonkers. Walsh Homes at 75 Walsh Road near War Memorial Park. Palisades Towers (Formerly the Schlobohm Houses) on Schroeder Street. Calcagno Homes,in Nodine Hill. Martinelli Manor, at 21 Ellison Avenue in northeast Yonkers. Ray Wilcox, formed Yonkers Arts in 2007 and his close knit group of artist friends have been a favorite of Wilson Kimball going back to the days when she doled out millions in taxpayer funded projects as the planning office director in Yonkers. The Municipal Housing Authority for the City of Yonkers (MHACY) is the largest provider of affordable housing in the City of Yonkers and the second largest public housing authority in New York State. https://yonkersnewswire.com/index.php/2021/02/17/yonkers-arts-not-for-profit-gets-a-100000-no-bid-deal-to-decorate-yonkers-public-housing-projects-by-brian-harrod/