Mayor of Yonkers explained

Post:	Mayor
Body:	Yonkers
Insignia:	Seal of Yonkers, New York.svg
Insigniasize:	110px
Insigniacaption:	Seal of the City of Yonkers
Flag:	Flag of Yonkers, New York.svg
Flagsize:	120px
Flagcaption:	Flag of the City of Yonkers
Incumbent:	Mike Spano
Incumbentsince:	January 1, 2012
Style:	The Honorable
Termlength:	4 years, Renewable
Formation:	1880
Salary:	$156,100 (2016)
Website:	www.yonkersny.gov

The Mayor of Yonkers is the official head and chief executive officer of the city of Yonkers, New York, United States.

List of mayors of Yonkers

• Mike Spano (2012 - present)^[1]
• Phil Amicone (2004 - 2011)
• John Spencer (1996 - 2003)
• Terence M. Zaleski (1992 - 1995)
• Henry Spallone (1990 - 91)
• Nick Wasicsko (1988 - 1989)^[2]
• Angelo R. Martinelli (1982 - 1987)
• Gerry Loehr (1980 - 81)
• Angelo R. Martinelli (1974 - 1979)
• Alfred DelBello (1970 - 1973)
• Dr. James Francis Xavier O’Rourke (1966 - 1969)
• John E. Flynn (1962 - 1965)
• Kristen Kristensen (1950 - 1961)^{[3] [4]}
• Edith P. Welty (1949)
• Curtiss E. Frank (1944 - 1949)^[5]
• Joseph F. Loehr (1930s) ^[6]
• William A Walsh, Sr. (1925 - 1927)
• James T. Lennon (1910 - 1918)
• Nathan A. Warren (1907 - 1909)
• John H. Coyne (1905 - 1907)
• John Emory Andrus (1903 - 1905)
• Michael J. Walsh (1901 - 1903)
• Leslie M. Sutherland (1897 - 1901)
• John G. Peene (1894 - 1897)
• James H. Weller (1892 - 1894)
• James Millward (1890 - 1892)
• J. Harvey Bell (1886 - 1890)
• William G. Stahlnecker (1884 - 1886)
• Samuel G. Swift (1882 - 1884)
• Norton P. Otis (1880 - 1882)

In popular culture

• The 1999 book and 2015 miniseries Show Me a Hero detail a white middle-class neighborhood's resistance to a federally mandated scattered-site public housing development in Yonkers.^[7]

Notes and References

1. Web site: The Mayor's Blog. tumblr.com.
2. https://www.nytimes.com/1993/10/30/nyregion/ex-mayor-of-yonkers-dies-in-apparent-suicide.html Ex-Mayor of Yonkers Dies in Apparent Suicide
3. Web site: The Political Graveyard: Mayors and Village Presidents of Yonkers, New York. Lawrence Kestenbaum. politicalgraveyard.com.
4. Web site: Kristen Kristensen (born c.1889). Scandinavian ancestry Politicians in New York. April 25, 2016.
5. News: Curtiss e. Frank, 85; Was Yonkers Mayor and Company Head. The New York Times. 5 February 1990. Lorch. Donatella.
6. News: Harassed Mayor Rolls with the 'Punches'. The New York Times. 17 April 1981. Whitehouse. Franklin.
7. Web site: HBO: Show Me a Hero: Homepage. HBO.