Wilmington, Del., another riverfront city, is also affected.

Mayor Terence M. Zaleski said the plan aimed to give Yonkers back its identity as a riverfront city.

But there is an undeniable ambiance not found elsewhere in this riverfront city.

Anna B., granddaughter of James and Mary, felt the area would prosper and began promoting the idea of a riverfront city.

This riverfront city of old textile mills and factories has always drawn immigrants by the thousands.

This tough old riverfront city has endured two multiple shootings a half-mile apart on consecutive nights.

The 10-square-mile riverfront city was not always in such desperate straits.

The most dramatic, they say, occurred a few years ago in downtown Phillipsburg, an old riverfront city.

Trenton - with the largest population of the riverfront cities and towns - suffered the most disruption.

"The opposition is already organizing," she told her audience, a group of Democrats gathered last Friday night for an Unsoeld fund-raising event in this riverfront city.