Miracle on Getty Square?
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- November
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Adam Sandler played it serious in the courtroom scene from “Big Daddy,” shot in the Yonkers City Council Chamber in the late 1990s. But it was another movie that City Council President Chuck Lesnick and supporters of a proposed living-wage law hoped to conjure up yesterday.
A â€Å“Mr. K. Kringle of North Yonkersâ€? had signed up to testify at yesterday’s public hearing on the legislation. Nearing the end of the list of speakers, City Clerk Joan Deierlein seemed a little mystified as she looked around the room and called his name. Moments later, Kris Kringle appeared bearing a canvas bag stuffed with 1,000 letters supporting the bill, which he then presented to Deierlein. If you don’t know by now, it was reminiscent of another movie courtroom scene, this one from the holiday classic, â€Å“Miracle on 34th Street.â€?
In his Yonkers testimony yesterday, Kringle touted the law which would set a base hourly wage of $11.85 for those working in affected workplaces. And then, before returning to his home in North Yonkers, Kringle presented a lump of coal to Mayor Phil Amicone who has been skeptical about the law.
Today mayoral spokesman David Simpson suggested that Santa made a mistake with Amicone’s coal, however. “I wish he had checked his list twice,” Simpson said.
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The only “miracle” on Getty Square is the guy who managed to walk through there at 11 PM without being mugged.