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From Marilyn Monroe posters to Batman journals and even Elvis mugs, a manufacturer that cranks out iconic pop-culture merchandise does it all right in Mount Vernon.

Erol Liguori runs Pyramid America. He gave News 12's cameras a tour of the warehouse that's part of the multibillion-dollar superhero industry. It created merchandise for one of the largest pop-culture conventions ever: New York Comic Con.

Liguori says he watched his business grow one step at a time, and most of his products are made in America.

Truckloads of merchandise head out every week, but the biggest crunch time for Pyramid America is the back-to-school rush, and the efforts to prepare start as early as January.

&quot;We understand how important it is to have art and culture highlighted, championed and implemented here in our city,&quot; says Liguori.

<p>From Marilyn Monroe posters to Batman journals and even Elvis mugs, a manufacturer that cranks out iconic pop-culture merchandise does it all right in Mount Vernon.</p>

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We have another, we have another say 90 minutes or so before we start to completely dry things out here across the Hudson Valley. But we're going to end as a couple of wet snow flakes, mixing with the rain, even probably in Westchester County as I'm seeing right now. Let's take a look outside right now towards the Hudson River. It is still dark and early and the sky will brighten up through the six o'clock hour back to live Doppler radar right now. And so if you have to head out right now over the next hour or so, just slow it down for the conditions, roads are wet, there are wet leaves around still this time of the year. This is mostly rain at the moment as we take you a little bit closer and give you a hyperlocal view here over towards Spring Valley. Actually a little bit more of some moderate rain over in Spring Valley right there along 287 Eastern to Mount Pleasant and Arville, more of the same, just some moderate rain at the moment, getting a few wet snow flakes mixing in towards Warwick in Greenwood Lake right now. It is some steady or like to moderate snow. Over in northwestern Ulster County. In these areas, temperatures are still above the freezing mark, but there can be some light accumulations on colder surfaces in those higher elevations in Ulster. What I want to show you here on the satellite and radar loop here is that some more of those blues popping up where we have the greens, that is a sign that some colder air is starting to filter on down into the storm as it pulls away off to the east. And we pretty much expect that as we go throughout the mid morning hours, this will end as a rain snow mix pretty much everywhere across the lower Hudson Valley, but any snow doesn't amount to anything, the grounds still warm in the upper thirties to low forties and you just have to watch out for the wet conditions as you travel as we go throughout this morning winds actually not awful right now. It's breezy at times. And as we go throughout the day, the wind can still be breezy in the 20 to 30 mile per hour range. So the futurecast shows the drying conditions by mid-morning breaks of sun after nine o'clock this morning. But staying breezy and chilly into the afternoon, dry stretch of weather tomorrow through the start of the upcoming weekend, temperatures near 50 Friday through Monday with more rain, possibly Sunday evening and into Monday of next week.

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Rain winding down, flooding concerns continue on some roadways. Stay with News 12 for updates.

Mount Vernon manufacturer cranks out pop-culture merchandise