In , the Otis Elevator Factory finally closed its doors. With the loss of jobs in the city itself, Yonkers became primarily a residential city, and some neighborhoods, such as Crestwood and Park Hill, became popular with wealthy New Yorkers who wished to live outside Manhattan without giving up urban conveniences. Yonkers's excellent transportation infrastructure, including three commuter railroad lines now two: the Harlem and Hudson Lines and five parkways and thruways, as well as its minute drive from Manhattan and picturesque prewar homes and apartment buildings, made it a desirable city in which to live.
Yonkers's manufacturing sector has also shown a recent resurgence. Runyon, a co-experimenter. Yonkers also had the longest running pirate radio station, owned by Allan Weiner during the s through the s.
In , a short subway connection was planned between Getty Square and the IRT Broadway — Seventh Avenue Line , which terminates in Riverdale at nd Street just slightly south of the city line, but the plan was dropped. In , the Census Bureau reported Yonkers's population as The city's struggles with racial discrimination and segregation were highlighted in a decades-long federal lawsuit. After a decision and an unsuccessful appeal, Yonkers's schools were integrated in The federal judge, Leonard B.
Sand ruled that Yonkers had engaged in institutional segregation in housing and school policies for over 40 years and tied the illegal concentration of public housing and private housing discrimination to the city's resistance to ending racial isolation in its public schools. In the s and s, Yonkers developed a national reputation for racial tension, based on a long-term battle between the City of Yonkers and the NAACP over the building of subsidized low-income housing projects.
The city planned to use federal funding for urban renewal efforts within Downtown Yonkers exclusively; other groups, led by the NAACP, felt that the resulting concentration of low-income housing in traditionally poor neighborhoods perpetuated poverty. Yonkers remained in contempt of the courts until September 9, , when the City Council relented in the wake of library closures and sanitation cutbacks and while looking at massive city layoffs, which would have been required to continue its resistance to desegregation.
First-term mayor Nicholas C. Wasicsko fought to save the city from financial disaster and bring about unity. Yonkers's youngest mayor elected at age 28 , Wasicsko was a lonely figure in city politics, which was scarred with the stigma of the "Balkanization of Yonkers". He succeeded in helping to end the city's contempt of the courts, but was voted out of office as a result. The Irish-American community is prominent in Yonkers, and the city hosts one of the nation's oldest St.
Patrick's Day parades. It is also home to a large Italian-American community, and the city hosts a large Columbus Day festival with a Miss Italian-American pageant. Yonkers also has a significant Portuguese population. Another large community is the Slavic community. In the early and mid 20th century a large number of people emigrated from Poland , Ukraine , Czechoslovakia , Russia , and Croatia. Recently a large number of immigrants from the former Yugoslavia have called Yonkers home.
The Slavic community is centered around St. Michael's Ukrainian Catholic Church. Yonkers still has a large Slavic community. The city also has a "stanytsia" branch of Plast. Yonkers also has a large Arab population, coinciding with the high percentage of Arabic speakers in Yonkers. Most of these Arabs come from the Levant region, mainly from Jordan , Palestine , and Lebanon , and are of the Christian faith.
The community settled in Yonkers in the late s and has since continued a steady growth. However, it has dwindled. In the s, some areas bordering similar neighborhoods in Riverdale began seeing an influx of Orthodox Jews. Subsequently, Riverdale Hatzalah Volunteer Ambulance Service began serving some neighborhoods in the southwest section of the city. There is also a small Jewish cemetery, the Sherwood Park Cemetery. The city occupies The town of Greenburgh is to the north, and on the western border is the Hudson River.
Much of the city grew up around the Saw Mill River , which enters Yonkers from the north and feeds into the Hudson River in the Getty Square neighborhood. Portions of the Saw Mill River that were buried in flumes beneath parking lots are being uncovered, or "daylighted". The gentilic for residents is alternately Yonkersonian or Yonkersite. As of the census of , there were , people in the city.
The population density was 10, Not only did Otis continue to build elevators here, but the largest carpet mill in the world operated in the Nepperhan Valley. As times and the economy changed, so did Yonkers. Today, the Otis Elevator factory is home to industry leaders such as Kawasaki, which builds rail cars for the MTA, Metro North, Long Island Railroad and transit systems around the world; Mindspark, one of the leading app developers on the web; and the bio-engineers of ContraFect Corp.
The carpet mill is home to dozens of artists, artisans, musicians and new media professions who make up the YoHo Artist Studios. Please enable JavaScript in your browser for a better user experience.
Jump to subpage Our story continues into the 21st Century and we want you to be a part of it. Samuel Tilden, former Governor of New York State and resident of Yonkers, was the first Presidential candidate to win the popular vote but lose the electoral vote in The first game of golf was played in Yonkers in at St.
Home to many notable inventors, Yonkers was the residency of Leo H. Baekeland, who developed and sold Velox paper to Eastman Kodak in and invented the synthetic plastic Bakelite in Edwin E. From its early beginnings, Yonkers has been a progressive community, in areas of development, business and industry. Today, with the help and support of the Yonkers Chamber of Commerce, that progressiveness continues to provide the formula for success. Toggle navigation Menu.
Philipse Manor in the mid 19th century Although Yonkers was a small farm community in the 's, its waterfront was as it is today essential, serving as a stop for sloops and stagecoaches.
Leo Hendrik Baekeland with wife and children The industrial era in Yonkers was enhanced by innovations in water and land travel. Keynote Speaker: Hon. Chamber Offices closed - Thanksgiving Holiday. More Events View Calendar. Philipse Manor in the mid 19th century. Leo Hendrik Baekeland with wife and children.
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