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Ridge Hill developer has yet to deliver on pledge of $3 million Yonkers firehouse

Yonkers Engine Company 310 responds to a tripped

Photo credit: Faye Murman | Yonkers Engine Company 310 responds to a tripped alarm at the Apple store in the Ridge Hill shopping complex. (Dec. 13, 2012)

The owner of one of Yonkers' largest retail and housing developments owes the city $3 million for a new firehouse.

In 2006, when the then-Yonkers City Council was debating a development agreement for the proposed Ridge Hill plaza, Forest City Ratner, the developer behind the project, offered the city money for a new firehouse to sweeten the deal. They hammered out an agreement: New York City-based...

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