The Yonkers native, who once weighed 940 pounds and had a 98-inch ... That humiliation was the wake-up call he needed to begin the fight to save his own life. “I had prepared to die,” says Myers. “It was war; I felt that I was at war with myself.”
Yonkers, just north of New York City, can be a noisy place. Kendra Rose grew up here—on Ashburton Avenue, which divides the city’s hard-up south from its middle-class north, and then on Beech. Those who know the area know to avoid roads like Beech ...
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Rose did well in the Yonkers public schools. But in the middle of 12th grade, she got pregnant and decided to keep the baby. “I had scholarships to four colleges. My mom took it personally that I didn’t go,” she said. Rose, her boyfriend and their ...
Larry Myers has been to hell and back. The Yonkers native, who once weighed 940 pounds and had a 98-inch waist, is now down to 276 and spreading a message of lifestyle and diet change as a motivational speaker. Myers, who lives in Albany, is giving a ...
Yonkers, just north of New York City, can be a noisy place. Kendra Rose grew up here—on Ashburton Avenue, which divides the city’s hard-up south from its middle-class north, and then on Beech. Those who know the area know to avoid roads like Beech ...
News 12 Westchester | Wake held for Yonkers detective killed in crash News 12 Westchester Hundreds of people paid tribute Wednesday evening to a Yonkers detective killed in a crash on Sunday. The wake for Frank Fernandez was held at the Whalen and Ball Funeral Home on Park Avenue in Yonkers. Yonkers police say Fernandez's SUV collided ... |
high-crime environments for their cognitive development and emotional development.” Her children’s welfare was Rose’s top concern. In Yonkers, 4-year-old Khalil was in preschool and daycare, learning his ABCs; Khyla, 10, was earning good grades and ...
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