Located in northeastern Yonkers, Crestwood borders the Bronx River where it meets the Village of Tuckahoe.

* 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.

Perhaps best known for the portion that runs through the borough of Manhattan in New York City, it actually runs through Manhattan and The Bronx, exiting north from the city to run an additional through the municipalities of Yonkers, Hastings-On-Hudson, Dobbs Ferry, Irvington, Tarrytown and terminating north of Sleepy Hollow in Westchester County.

) After leaving New York City, it is the main north – south street of western Yonkers, New York through Sleepy Hollow ( known as ether North or South Broadway in most sections ), before becoming Albany Post Road ( and Highland Avenue ) at the northern border of Sleepy Hollow, New York.

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.

As an undergraduate, and later as a professor at Columbia University, Armstrong worked from his parent's attic in Yonkers, New York to develop the regenerative circuit, the superheterodyne receiver, and the superregenerative circuit.

Category: People from Yonkers, New York

Halloween in Yonkers, New York, US

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.

* The Bronx, New York, and Yonkers, New York

* August 10 – David Berkowitz is captured in Yonkers, New York, after over a year of murders in New York City as the Son Of Sam.

His health failed after 1876 and he retired from politics, living as a recluse at his estate, Graystone ( Greystone ), near Yonkers, New York.

* Sarah Lawrence College, a liberal arts college in Yonkers, New York

However, Get Hooked dropped the Bluefish prior to the 2008 season in favor of seeking a new ballpark for the city of Yonkers, New York.

Born the eldest of three children of Jeanie Polhemus ( née Cobb ) and George Raymond Bunker in Yonkers, New York.

He married a neighbor Harriet Allen Butler, daughter of Ellen Mudge and George Prentiss Butler, in Yonkers, New York on April 24, 1920.

Yonkers is the fourth most populous city in the U. S. state of New York ( behind New York City, Buffalo and Rochester ), and the most populous city in Westchester County, with a population of 195, 976 ( according to the 2010 Census ).

With the loss of jobs in the city itself, Yonkers ( predominantly the east side ) became primarily a residential city and some neighborhoods of the city, such as Crestwood, became popular with wealthy New Yorkers wishing to live outside the city but not in an entirely suburban environment.

* National Register of Historic Places listings in Yonkers, New York

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Yonkers City Library

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.

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.

Convenient to White Plains, Yonkers, New York City, and Connecticut, the village is a significant center of commercial traffic and distribution.

Improvements came quickly and, in their remaining eight races in the East, Seabiscuit and Pollard won several times, including Detroit's Governor's Handicap ( worth $ 5, 600 ) and the Scarsdale Handicap ($ 7, 300 ) at Empire City Race Track in Yonkers, New York.

Yonkers Raceway, founded in 1899 as the Empire City Race Track, is a one-half-mile standardbred harness racing dirt track and New York state-approved slots racino located at the intersection of Central Park Avenue and Yonkers Avenue ( Exits 2 off the New York State Thruway ) in Yonkers, New York near the New York City border.

Yonkers Raceway, considered a city landmark, was first opened in 1899 by William H. Clark's Empire City Trotting Club.

In 1950, William H. Cane, for whom the Cane Pace is named, headed a syndicate formed as the Algam Corporation which acquired Empire City and converted it to Yonkers Raceway.

With the collapse of New York City OTB in December 2010, Yonkers ' live races are broadcasted on the NYRA Network starting February 2011.

Two months later, he drove a mile in 55. 8 seconds at the Empire City Race Track in Yonkers, New York.

The Ethan Allen Express began with stops in Rutland, Fort Edward-Glens Falls, Saratoga Springs, Schenectady, Albany, Hudson, Rhinecliff-Kingston, Poughkeepsie, Croton-Harmon, Yonkers and New York City ( Penn Station ).

The tolled mainline of the Thruway extends for from the New York City line at Yonkers to the Pennsylvania state line at Ripley by way of Albany, Syracuse, and Buffalo.

The mainline of the Thruway begins, both in terms of exit numbers and mileposts, at the boundary between the New York City borough of the Bronx and the Westchester County city of Yonkers.

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.

Through his brother Mario, who later became a capo of his own crew, the Gigantes maintained influence in the Bronx, Yonkers and upper Westchester.

It is bordered on the north by the city of Yonkers ; to the east by Van Cortlandt Park, the Kingsbridge section of the Bronx and the Marble Hill section of Manhattan ; to the west by the Hudson River ; and to the south by the Harlem River, which creates a small geographic barrier between Riverdale and upper Manhattan.

The Mander family moved from the Bronx to a semi-rural area of Yonkers, New York, when Jerry was at an early age.

It forms the border between the large cities of Yonkers and Mount Vernon, and flows into the northern end of The Bronx, southward through Bronx Park, New York Botanical Garden, and the Bronx Zoo and continues through urbanized areas of the South Bronx where it divides East Bronx from West Bronx.

The last segment, from Yonkers south to the Bronx, was completed on August 31, 1956.

Raised in the Highbridge section of the Bronx near Yankee Stadium, his family moved to Yonkers, New York in his early teen years.

It is the southernmost of Interstate 87 ( I-87 ), beginning at I-278 at the interchange of the Bruckner Expressway and the Triborough Bridge in the south Bronx and ending at the Westchester County line in Yonkers, where the New York State Thruway begins.

The district consists of part of the Bronx ( including the neighborhoods as Riverdale, Woodlawn, Norwood, Williamsbridge, Van Cortlandt Village, and Wakefield ), parts of Westchester County ( including all of Mount Vernon and parts of Yonkers, Irvington, Dobbs Ferry, Hastings-on-Hudson, and Tarrytown ) and parts of Rockland County ( including the towns of Ramapo and Orangetown and the southern half of Clarkstown ).

The Bronx River serves as the town line between several Westchester communities, dividing the City of Yonkers from the Town of Eastchester, with its villages of Tuckahoe and Bronxville.

Until the latter part of the 19th century Riverdale, Kingsbridge, and other areas now in the northwest Bronx were part of the Town of Yonkers.

Others have continued to live in New York, moving to the Bronx neighborhoods of Riverdale and Woodlawn, or to nearby Yonkers.

Located in a former movie theater which closed in the 1980s, the site became the home first of an Irish dance school, and is now a social and cultural center serving the needs of Irish immigrants in their transition to life in the United States, as well as the support of elderly Irish-born residents in the North Bronx and Yonkers.

Bronx River Road is a major street and neighborhood in Yonkers, New York.