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Haylee Sara Seltzer and Gregg Kanner Donovan were married Saturday evening at the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx. Rabbi Jill Maderer officiated.

Mrs. Donovan, 30, works in Manhattan as a clinical social worker for the Metro-North Railroad employee assistance program and also as a psychotherapist in private practice. She graduated from Indiana University and received a master’s degree in social work from Columbia.

She is the daughter of Amy P. Richer and Jay S. Seltzer, both of Huntington, N.Y. Her father is a lawyer there. Her mother is a claims manager in the Elmsford, N.Y., office of the Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company.

Mr. Donovan, 32, is a software programmer for TheLadders.com, a job-search Web site based in Manhattan.

He is the son of Ellen Kanner and Brian Donovan, also of Huntington. The bridegroom’s mother is a psychologist in private practice there. His father, who retired as an investigative reporter at Newsday, is the author of “Hard Driving: The Wendell Scott Story.” Read more..

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It won’t be ready for the Yankees’ home opener on April 16, but Metro-North Railroad plans to open its station at Yankee Stadium about a month later, on May 23, the railroad announced yesterday.Bronx Bombers fans from the suburbs will first be able to ride Metro-North to a Saturday game against Philadelphia.

“They will have direct, fast, convenient and reliable service to Yankee games so that they don’t have to worry about traffic,” Metro-North President Howard Permut said yesterday, as he and other railroad officials showed the nearly complete stop to the media. “It will be much more comfortable. We think it will be basically a home run for the people of Westchester and Connecticut.” Read more..

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The Metro-North Railroad says service to its new station near Yankee Stadium will begin May 23.

That’s about five weeks after the first official game at the new Bronx stadium.

Metro-North President Howard Permut says the project was completed in two years, faster than any other major station undertaking in the railroad’s history.

The railroad says regular service to the station will be supplemented on game days by a nearly continuous shuttle from Grand Central Terminal.

The new station is on the railroad’s Hudson Line. Some stadium trains also will loop around to stations on the Harlem and New Haven lines.

As many as 10,000 fans are expected to use the trains on game days Read more..

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Mid-day traffic will be diverted from a section of the Bronx River Parkway today and tomorrow in Eastchester and Scarsdale as workers re-apply a protective surface to the median barrier and carry out other work, the county announced.

The northbound lanes between Harney Road at Exit 10 in Eastchester and Crane Road at Exit 12 in Scarsdale will close from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. today. The southbound lanes will close during the same hours tomorrow. Traffic will be detoured. Read more..

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Mid-day traffic will be diverted from a section of the Bronx River Parkway this week week as workers re-apply a protective surface to the median barrier and carry out other work, the county announced.

The southbound lanes between Crane Road at Exit 12 in Scarsdale and Harney Road at Exit 10 in Eastchester will close from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. today and Thursday. The northbound lanes along the same section will close during the same hours tomorrow and Wednesday. Read more..

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