YONKERS STRONG: Yonkers wants to make sure DMX’s memory lives on in the city, so the next generation can be inspired.

 

YONKERS NEWSWIRE >>> Mayor Mike Spano Suggests MGM’s Yonkers Raceway For A DMX Memorial – By Brian Harrod PHOTO: DMX’s family will hold both a private and public memorial, and are working to finalize possible plans. Mayor Mike Spano is in favor of DMX’s family holding the memorial service at the Yonkers Raceway, the Yonkers’ largest outdoor venue, and wants to help make it happen. YONKERS CARES: Mayor Mike Spano says X’s hometown wants to ease the burden on his family, and the door is wide open for them to use the grounds of the horse racing facility, if they want to do so. YONKERS WILL REMEMBER: Mayor Mike Spano says that there will also be other remembrances that might mean a statue like another famous Yonkers native, Ella Fitzgerald, or a street naming, or a street mural – the no bid public art exhibit call probably has already been placed to Ray Wilcox. Yonkers Raceway has a seating capacity of 7,500, but under the state’s COVID guidelines they’d be limited to 20 percent of that number – Or 1,500 mourners. Mayor Mike Spano says it would be fitting for the people of the city of hills to say goodbye to an icon like X, who struggled and overcame a violent and tragic childhood, to returned to the community to give back to the less fortunate.... https://yonkersnewswire.com/index.php/2021/04/10/mayor-mike-spano-suggests-mgms-yonkers-raceway-for-a-dmx-memorial-by-brian-harrod/