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Yonkers in 1867, including the small Village of Yonkers; southern Yonkers was annexed by New York City in 1874. The Village of Yonkers was incorporated in the western Town of Yonkers in 1854, and incorporated as a city in 1872.
In 1790, Yonkers formally became a town in the County of Westchester. A stone mill (possibly the city’s first industrial site) was built during 1805-1814 in the Tuckahoe area of Yonkers, and was used as a cotton factory until 1852 when the Hodgman Rubber Company bought it and began producing rubber products. Hat manufacturing was another ...
Jun 16, 2024 · Yonkers, city, Westchester county, southeastern New York, U.S., on the east shore of the Hudson River, in a hilly region north of the Bronx, New York. The site, once a major village, Nappeckamack, of the Manhattan Indians, was acquired by the Dutch West India Company in 1639.
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Originally created/posted in 2014, these are o ld photos of Yonkers compared to modern photos of the locations. Most of the images have appeared over the past few years on the SoYo Sunset message board. All 1987 photos and other modern photos were taken by Michael Stephen Gross.
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In 1910, the 40-year-old multi-millionaire hired New York society architects, John Carrere and Thomas Hastings, to build a country house on 21 still rural acres in north Yonkers.