Yonkers, New York
Yonkers (/ˈjɒŋkərz/[5]) is the third-most populous city in the U.S. state of New York and the most-populous city in Westchester County. A centrally located municipality within the New York metropolitan area, Yonkers had a population of 211,569 at the 2020 United States census.[6] Yonkers is classified as an inner suburb of New York City, immediately north of the Bronx and approximately 2.4 miles (4 km) north of Marble Hill (the northernmost point in Manhattan).
"Yonkers" redirects here. For other uses, see Yonkers (disambiguation).
Yonkers
United States
1646 (village)
1872 (city)
Mike Spano (D)
20.27 sq mi (52.49 km2)
18.01 sq mi (46.63 km2)
2.26 sq mi (5.85 km2)
82 ft (25 m)
211,569
11,749.92/sq mi (4,536.75/km2)
Yonkersonian
Yonkersite
Yonker
Yonk[2]
36-84000[3]
0971828[4]
Downtown Yonkers centers around Getty Square, where the municipal government is located. The downtown area also houses local businesses and nonprofit organizations, and is a retail hub for the city and the northwest Bronx. Major shopping areas are in Getty Square on South Broadway, at the Cross County Shopping Center and the Ridge Hill Mall, and along Central Park Avenue.
The city has a number of attractions, including Tibbetts Brook Park, Untermyer Park and Gardens, the Hudson River Museum, the Saw Mill River, the Science Barge, Sherwood House, and access to the Hudson River. Yonkers is known as the City of Seven Hills: Park, Nodine, Ridge, Cross, Locust, Glen, and Church Hills. The city has continued to experience significant gentrification since the inception of the 21st century.[7]
Name[edit]
The area was granted to Adriaen van der Donck, the patroon of Colendonck, in July 1645. Van der Donck was known locally as Jonkheer ('young gentleman'), an honorific title derived from the Dutch jonk ('young') and heer ('lord'). The title, similar to "esquire", is linguistically comparable to the German Junker. Jonkheer was shortened to Jonker (possessive Jonkers), from which the name Yonkers derives.[8]: 91 The city's residents are known as Yonkersonians, Yonkersites, Yonkers, or Yonks.[2]: 549
Education[edit]
Yonkers Public Schools operates the city's public schools. There are several elementary Catholic schools, and one Muslim school; the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York operates Catholic schools in Westchester County.[120] The Academy for Jewish Religion, a rabbinical and cantorial school, is in the Getty Square neighborhood.[121]
Sarah Lawrence College, with a Bronxville mailing address,[122] is located in Yonkers.[123] Westchester Community College (part of the State University of New York system) operates a number of extension centers in Yonkers, with the largest in the Cross County Shopping Center.[124] Saint Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary is in Crestwood. The Japanese School of New York was in Yonkers for one year; the school moved to Queens on August 18, 1991, and to Greenwich, Connecticut on September 1, 1992.[125]
Three branches are operated by the Yonkers Public Library: Crestwood, Riverfront, and Grinton I. Will. The Carnegie Library, funded by Andrew Carnegie, was demolished in May 1982 to make way for the expansion of Nepperhan Avenue as an arterial road.[126][127]: 34
Yonkers is twinned with:
