I Live Here Westchester NY
“I Live Here” is a hyperlocal podcast that explores the stories, people, and events shaping life in Westchester, NY. Each episode dives into what’s happening across our towns and neighborhoods—highlighting small businesses, community voices, local culture, and can’t-miss happenings. Whether you’ve lived here forever or just moved in, this podcast keeps you connected to the place you call home.
Episodes
139 episodes
The Westchester Brief | 07.08.26: White Plains $1.2B Downtown Rebuild
White Plains is rebuilding its downtown all at once. The Westchester County Industrial Development Agency moved to approve three mixed-use projects worth roughly $1.2 billion, including the $585.2 million Hamilton Green tower that replaces the ...
Geoff Rose | Why Your Body Breaks Down — and the Structural Approach That Actually Fixes It
Geoff Rose started his career as a strength coach at Clemson. He left convinced the problem wasn't the coaches or the methodology — it was the model. Not enough time, not enough specificity, and no framework for building structure before buildi...
The Westchester Brief | 07.07.26: Mount Vernon's School Money Problem
Mount Vernon closed three elementary schools to save $17 million, but the actual recurring savings landed closer to $6.8 million. In the county that pays the highest property taxes in America, the Mount Vernon City School District is in its six...
The Westchester Brief | 07.06.26: Penn Station Access slips to 2030
Westchester commuters are paying higher Metro-North fares in 2026, but the marquee benefit keeps moving. We break down Penn Station Access, the New Haven Line's one-seat ride into Penn Station that promises up to 40 minutes a day in savings, an...
The Friday Intel | 07.03.26: The Airport's $150M Comfort Problem
Westchester County wants to spend up to $150 million modernizing the HPN airport terminal. The Friday Intel digs into the data and finds the catch: HPN moves 2.2 million passengers through a 1995 terminal capped at 240 scheduled passengers ever...
The Westchester Brief | 07.02.26: Retail Musical Chairs in Westchester
Barnes & Noble is gone from White Plains City Center and Neiman Marcus is leaving The Westchester, while Wayfair plants its first New York store in Yonkers. We map who is moving out and who is moving in across Westchester County, and explai...
The Westchester Brief | 07.01.26: 47,000 Lose Coverage Today
The Essential Plan cliff lands today. As of July 1, New York lowered the income line for its no-premium health plan, and roughly 47,000 Hudson Valley residents, many in Westchester County, lose coverage. We trace the change from a 2025 federal ...
I Live Here Westchester | Nick Khamsopa: The Real Housing Bottleneck Isn't Land
Westchester is short roughly 21,000 homes and rental vacancy sits under two percent. The usual explanation is land, money, and demand. This week's guest, developer Nick Khamsopa, makes a different case: the real bottleneck is people, specifical...
The Westchester Brief | 06.30.26: Your SALT Cap Just Hit $40,400
For seven years, Westchester County homeowners could deduct only $10,000 of their state and local taxes. For 2026 that cap jumps to $40,400, a swing worth thousands of dollars a year for most households below the income phase-out. We explain ho...
The Westchester Brief | 06.29.26: Indian Point's $25M School Hole
The Hendrick Hudson school district in the Town of Cortlandt, Westchester County faces a shortfall of more than $25 million for the coming year as the last of its Indian Point nuclear-plant revenue runs out. We break down how the district got h...
The Friday Intel | 06.26.26: Westchester's $10,000 Tax Bill, Decoded
Westchester County has the highest property taxes of any county in America — a typical bill near $10,000 a year. But the government everyone blames takes the smallest slice. This week on The Friday Intel, we break your property tax bill apart: ...
The Westchester Brief | 06.25.26: Federal Food Cuts Hit Westchester
When Washington cuts food aid, the cost lands somewhere, and this month it landed in Westchester County. This episode examines two federal nutrition programs under pressure: WIC, which a House spending bill would fund $200 million below current...
Six Thousand Doors: One Candidate's Case for Yonkers
Dan D'Amico has knocked on nearly six thousand doors in Yonkers District 16. Not with a team. Largely by himself. What he's heard is not what the county is spending money on.D'Amico is a former FDNY firefighter, a working real estate bro...
The Westchester Brief | 06.24.26: Can the County Run Playland?
Playland, the county-owned amusement park in Rye, opened its 98th season this spring with the historic Dragon Coaster restored. But behind the nostalgia is a real governance question for Westchester County: after the private operator Standard A...
The Westchester Brief | 06.30.26: Your SALT Cap Just Hit $40,400
For seven years, Westchester County homeowners could deduct only $10,000 of their state and local taxes. For 2026 that cap jumps to $40,400, a swing worth thousands of dollars a year for most households below the income phase-out. We explain ho...
The Westchester Brief | 06.23.26: Erase the Racist Clause in Your Deed
For decades, thousands of Westchester County deeds have carried restrictive covenants, clauses that once barred homes from being sold to people of certain races, religions, or ethnic backgrounds. They've been unenforceable since 1948, but the l...
The Westchester Brief | 06.22.26: The Primary That Decides Your County
Tomorrow's Democratic primary will settle several Westchester County races outright, yet turnout will be a fraction of the electorate. This episode breaks down what's actually on the June 23 ballot, from State Comptroller and the 17th Congressi...
The Friday Intel | 06.19.26: The World Cup Comes Home
The World Cup final will be played 12 miles from Westchester County — and the data says this region is less a bystander than a home team. This week on The Friday Intel, we map Westchester's actual slice of a $3.3 billion tournament: the overflo...
The Westchester Brief | 06.18.26: The Rent Vote Is Monday Night
On Monday, June 22, the Westchester County Rent Guidelines Board votes on how much more tens of thousands of rent-stabilized tenants pay starting October 1. The nine-member board — three tenant, three landlord, three public members, all...
The Westchester Brief | 06.17.26: Yonkers' 4.75% Tax Hike
Yonkers calls itself "Hollywood on the Hudson," but the city's new $1.64 billion budget still raised the combined property tax rate 4.75%. On May 29 the City Council unanimously adopted the largest budget in Yonkers history, trimming Ma...
I Live Here Westchester | Linh Hoang: Flowers, Vietnamese Coffee, and a 135-Year-Old Bank in Tarrytown
Linh Hoang is opening Dahlia's Song in Tarrytown — a flower shop, Vietnamese café, and workshop space inside a 135-year-old former bank building on North Broadway. She grows over 400 dahlia varieties herself, including breeds that exist nowhere...
The Westchester Brief | 06.16.26: No Rate Cut, and What It Costs You
The Federal Reserve meets June 16–17, and markets put the odds of holding rates steady at roughly 99% — no cut since December. For Westchester County, where the median single-family home now runs about $940,000, that means mortgages stay ne...
The Westchester Brief | 06.15.26: 85,000 Homes and the Summer Oil Bet
About one in four Westchester County homes heats with oil — roughly 85,000 households — and this is the week they face a quiet but costly decision. Heating-oil pre-buy and cap-price contracts are sold in summer, and this year those househol...
The Friday Intel | 06.12.26: Westchester at One Million — Who's Coming and Where the Pressure Lands
Westchester County just crossed one million residents — the highest population ever recorded, with the largest single-year gain of any county in New York State, at a moment when 38 of the state's 62 counties are losing population. Today...
The Westchester Brief | 06.11.26: The Tuckahoe Festival Failure — Who Had a Plan?
A church carnival in Tuckahoe ended May 30 with three injured officers, a hospital transport, and police from multiple counties shutting the event down. Coverage has called it a teen takeover. Today's Westchester Brief asks the harder q...