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Kawasaki Rail Car is staying here in Yonkers; thanks NY State grant; Lots of R-188 cars video |
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Posted by Gold_12th on Tue Jul 22 22:56:26 2014  News report *some old footage from last year mix in. News conference The state committed $500,000 a few weeks ago for Kawasaki Rail Car to use toward the $25 million purchase of its Yonkers facility and state and local officials celebrated the purchase on Tuesday. Since Kawasaki began operations in Yonkers in 1987, it has manufactured over 2,700 train cars for mass transit including for New York City, PATH, Metro-North, Long Island Rail Road, and for systems in Boston, Virginia, Maryland and Washington DC. State Senator Andrea Stewart Cousins, who noted the plant employs just under 400 people, said it is one of the largest private sector employers in the city. Mayor Michael Spano called Kawasaki “the cornerstone of the economic growth and vitality of downtown Yonkers.” In October 2010, the company considered moving from New York to its other facility in Nebraska, but with the financial assistance of New York State, decided to state put. http://www.midhudsonnews.com/News/2014/July/22/Kawasaki_Yonkers-22Jul14.htm Last year tour of the plant: http://www.subchat.com/read.asp?Id=1219998 |
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