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Bicycling on New York’s Yorktown Bike Path

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A self-made visionary with 35 years of experience in entrepreneurship and management, business executive Robert Persico serves PCI Industries Corporation as manager. Robert Persico is also involved in charitable causes and was commended for his support of the North County Trailway, a bicycle path that goes through the town of Yorktown, New York.

The North County Trailway, located in Westchester County, New York, is 22.1 miles long. It begins at Eastview, in the town of Mount Pleasant, and ends at Baldwin Place, in the town of Somers on the border of Putnam County. About 5.5 miles of the Trailway crosses the town of Yorktown. The Trailway is a paved path for pedestrians and bicycles. It is constructed along the right-of-way lands of New York Central Railroad’s Putnam Division.

The “Old Put,” as the railway was known, was popular with commuters as well as those transporting cargo between 1881 and 1958. It serviced the people of Bronx and Putnam counties. Once serving 23 stations in Westchester County, portions of the Old Put were re-claimed and became part of the Trailway.

Forms of Thalassemia: An Overview

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Robert Persico is a former general manager at PCT Contracting that currently serves as the manager of PCI Industries, a multi-faceted construction firm in New York. Outside of his professional work, Robert Persico supports a number of charities and was named the Man of the Year by Cooley’s Anemia Foundation.

A nonprofit organization, Cooley’s Anemia Foundation helps fund research aimed at developing new treatments–and eventually a cure–for Cooley’s anemia and other forms of thalassemia. Thalassemia encompasses a group of genetic blood disorders that prohibits the body from producing enough alpha or beta protein (hemoglobin) in the blood. The condition, which is genetic, leads to insufficient oxygen being carried throughout the body by red blood cells.

Forms of thalassemia include alpha thalassemia, where hemoglobin does not produce enough alpha protein, and beta thalassemia, where hemoglobin does not produce enough beta protein. Another form of the condition, e beta thalassemia, is one of the most common and often affects individuals of Southeast Asian heritage. Finally, sickle beta thalassemia affects individuals with beta thalassemia in addition to the abnormal hemoglobin found in sickle cell disease.