In 1979 Camacho defeated Paul DeVorce of the Yonkers Police Athletic League in the finals to win the title, and in 1980 Camacho defeated Tyrone Jackson in the finals to win the Championship.

Police arrested two men on multiple felony charges after they raided Jadakiss's Yonkers, New York apartment and found heroin ( 5 grams ) and marijuana ( 6. 5 pounds ).

On October 7, 2006, Jadakiss was once again arrested in his hometown of Yonkers, New York, on gun and drug-possession charges.

Styles P, a member of The LOX and the larger D-Block Hip-Hop collective, grew up in Yonkers, New York rapping alongside Jadakiss ( Jason Phillips ) and Sheek Louch ( Shawn Jacobs ).

It matters not that guest rappers Styles and Jadakiss are from Yonkers, not the Bronx, or that the most humble thing about the accompanying video is, well, Ben Affleck.

In addition, there are scenes of Lopez singing and dancing on a New York street corner, and of Styles P and Jadakiss rapping ( perhaps ironically, the two rappers are from Queens and Yonkers, respectively ).

Though there may have been earlier attempts to pull cars by endless ropes, the first cable car installation in operation was the West Side and Yonkers Patent Railway in New York City, which ran from 1 July 1868 to 1870.

Armstrong's home in Yonkers also received designation in both the NHL and the National Register of Historic Places, but both were withdrawn when the house was later demolished.

Voight was born in Yonkers, New York, the son of Barbara ( née Kamp ; 1910 – 1995 ) and Elmer Voight ( né Voytka ; 1909 – 1973 ), a professional golfer.

At the time it also included present day Bronx County, which constituted the original Town of Westchester ( the center of which was around the area today known as Westchester Square, in the Bronx ) and portions of Yonkers, Eastchester, and Pelham.

By 1860, the total County population was 99, 000 and the largest city was Yonkers.

Van der Donck was known locally as the Jonkheer or Jonker ( etymologically, " young gentleman ," derivation of old German jung and Herr ; in effect, " Esquire "), a word from which the name " Yonkers " is directly derived.

Frederick was a wealthy Dutchman who by the time of his death had amassed an enormous estate, which encompassed the entire modern City of Yonkers, as well as several other Hudson River towns.

For its first two hundred years, Yonkers was a small farming town with an active industrial waterfront.

Bakelite, the first completely synthetic plastic, was invented in Yonkers circa 1906 by Leo Baekeland, and manufactured there until the late 1920s.

The community was incorporated as a village in the northern part of the Town of Yonkers in 1854, and as a city in 1872.

Yonkers was also the headquarters of the Waring Hat Company, at the time the nation's largest hat manufacturer.

Yonkers was mentioned in the Family Guy Episode :" Stew-Roids " in a cutaway about a Charles Paumpert Movie: Distracting Trumpet.

On October 21, 2011, filming was done for the movie Disconnect ( 2012 ) at the Cross County Shopping Center in Yonkers.

Ludlow was used as a filming site for the movie " Lost In Yonkers ", starring Richard Dreyfuss.

Located in the downtown business district is the historic Murphy Theater, which can be seen in the film Lost In Yonkers, part of which was filmed in the city in the early 1990s.

In 2009 the northbound exit ramp to Oak St., Yonkers was replaced by an exit to Yonkers Ave., a block to the south.

DMX was born Earl Simmons in Baltimore, Maryland and was raised in Yonkers, New York.

* DMX joined rappers Jay-Z, Method Man, and Redman for Jay-Z's 1999 Hard Knock Life tour, during which he was arrested for charges of a stabbing at a tour stop in Boston, Massachusetts ; he was cleared of the charge ( and another assault charge during the same year in his hometown of Yonkers ).

For the duration of Shabazz's treatment, Malcolm Shabazz, then ten years old, was sent to live with Betty Shabazz at her apartment in Yonkers, New York.

Caesar was born in Yonkers, New York, the youngest son of Max Caesar and his wife Ida ( née Raphael ), Jewish immigrants from the Russian Empire who ran a restaurant .< ref >

That year, The Hambletonian was raced at Yonkers Raceway because of wartime gas rationing.

* 1977 – In Yonkers, New York, 24-year-old postal employee David Berkowitz (" Son of Sam ") is arrested for a series of killings in the New York City area over the period of one year.

Originally named the Yonkers Futurity, the mile and 1 / 16 race was shortened to one mile in 1963.

Yonkers previously was the site of the Cane Pace, one of the legs of the Triple Crown of Harness Racing for Pacers.

Yonkers is also home to the Yonkers Trot, one of the legs of the Triple Crown of Harness Racing for Trotters.

Cardigan Bay, with Stanley Dancer driving, won that race in front of 45, 000 spectators at Yonkers Raceway, New York and became only one of two horses ( the other being Adios Vic ) up to that time to have beaten Bret Hanover.

Paul John Teutul ( born May 1, 1949 in Yonkers, New York ) is one of the co-founders of Orange County Choppers, a manufacturer of custom motorcycles and focus of the reality television series American Chopper.

Born in Yonkers, New York, Alan Helffrich was one of America ’ s greatest middle distance runners in the 1920s.

Reis and Froberg were also heavily influenced by bands such as The Wipers, Suicide, and Michael Yonkers Band, and these influences gave Hot Snakes a distinctive sound that has been described by one critic as " hardcore garage punk.

This neighborhood is one of most populated in eastern Yonkers.

There are five units, one in each brigade of the Guard, including the 5th Civil Affairs Regiment, Yonkers, NY ; 7th Civil Affairs Regiment, New York City, NY ; 13th Civil Affairs Regiment, Garden City, NY ; 23rd Civil Affairs Regiment, Latham, NY ; and the 209th Civil Affairs Regiment, Buffalo, NY.

At the beginning of the 20th century, it was the center of life in Yonkers and one of the cultural capitals of Westchester County.

In addition to its research and publishing activities, Consumers Union has four advocacy offices that attempt to influence policy that affects consumers, in Washington, D. C .; San Francisco, California ; Austin, Texas ; and Yonkers, New York.

The city is home to several attractions: the Hudson River Museum, the Sherwood House, the Science Barge, Cross County Shopping Center, Ridge Hill Shopping Center, and Yonkers Raceway, a harness racing track that has renovated its grounds and clubhouse and added legalized video slot machine gambling in 2006 in a " racino " called Empire City.

The race returned to Yonkers on November 25, 2006, with Glidemaster winning the race and clinching the Triple Crown.

Yonkers Raceway ran both the Yonkers Trot and the Messenger on November 25, 2006, becoming the first harness track in America to host two Triple Crown races on the same day.

Glidemaster, by virtue of winning the $ 728, 000 Yonkers Trot, became the eighth horse to clinch the Trotting Triple Crown ; the trotter would go on to be named 2006 Harness Horse of the Year.