The Nation - News from Sept. 7, 1988

Yonkers, N.Y., officials paid a $192,000 fine and, faced with million-dollar fines by the end of the week, pressed their efforts to end an impasse over court-ordered housing desegregation. Mayor Nicholas C. Wasicsko said he had been in contact most of the day with City Council members, U.S. District Judge Leonard B. Sand and aides to Gov. Mario M. Cuomo in Albany. At issue is Sand’s order that the council approve measures to implement construction of 800 units of subsidized housing in white, middle-class neighborhoods. The mayor said the prospects for a quick settlement did not appear good. Wasicsko said Councilmen Nicholas Longo and Peter Chema had discussed with him and the city manager what services will be cut to meet the fines.