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Yonkers, Westchester County, New York, USA

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Wikipedia 2015:

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). An inner suburb of New York City, Yonkers directly borders the Bronx and is located two miles (3 km) north of Manhattan at the municipalities' closest points.

Yonkers' downtown is centered on a plaza known as Getty Square, where the municipal government is located. The area also houses significant local businesses and non-profits, and serves as a major retail hub for Yonkers and the northwest Bronx.

The city is home to several attractions, including the Hudson River Museum; Saw Mill River Daylighting, wherein a parking lot was removed to uncover a river; Science Barge; Sherwood House; 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.

Major shopping areas can be found in Getty Square, on South Broadway, at the Cross County Shopping Center and Westchester's Ridge Hill, and along Central Park Avenue, informally called "Central Ave" by area residents, a name it takes officially a few miles north in White Plains.

History:

The land on which the city is built was once part of a 24,000-acre (97-square-kilometer) land grant called Colen Donck that ran from the current Manhattan-Bronx border at Marble Hill northwards for 12 miles (19 km), and from the Hudson River eastwards to the Bronx River. This grant was purchased in July 1645 by Adriaen van der Donck, the first lawyer in New York City. Van der Donck was known locally as the Jonkheer or Jonker (etymologically, "young gentleman," derivation of old Dutch jong (young) and heer ("lord"); in effect, "Esquire"), a word from which the name "Yonkers" is directly derived. Van der Donck built a saw mill near where the Nepperhan Creek met the Hudson; the Nepperhan is now also known as the Saw Mill River. Van der Donck was killed in the Peach War. His wife, Mary Doughty, was taken captive and ransomed later.

Near the site of van der Donck's mill is Philipse Manor Hall, a Colonial-era manor house which today serves as a museum and archive, offering many glimpses into life before the American Revolution. The original structure (later enlarged) was built around 1682 by Frederick Philipse and his wife Margaret Hardenbroeck. 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. Philipse's great-grandson, Frederick Philipse III, was a prominent Loyalist during the American Revolution, who, because of his political leanings, was forced to flee to England. All the lands that belonged to the Philipse family were confiscated and sold.

For its first two hundred years, Yonkers was a small farming town with an active industrial waterfront. Yonkers's later growth rested largely on developing industry. In 1853, Elisha Otis invented the first safety elevator and the Otis Elevator Company, opened the first elevator factory in the world on the banks of the Hudson near what is now Vark Street. It relocated to larger quarters (now the Yonkers Public Library) in the 1880s. Around the same time, the Alexander Smith and Sons Carpet Company (in the Saw Mill River Valley) expanded to 45 buildings, 800 looms, and over 4,000 workers and was known as one of the premier carpet producing centers in the world.

In 1894, the voters of Yonkers were able to take part, along with the voters of Brooklyn, Queens, and Staten Island, in a referendum to determine if they wanted to become part of New York City. While the results were positive elsewhere, the returns were so negative in Yonkers and neighboring Mount Vernon that those two areas were not included in the consolidated city, and remained independent. Still, some residents call the city "the Sixth Borough" referring to its location on the New York City border, its urban character and the failed merger vote. A subway connection was planned between Getty Square and the IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line, which terminates at 242nd Street just south of the city line, but when Yonkers residents voted against the incorporation, the project was abandoned.

The community was incorporated as a village in the northern part of the Town of Yonkers in 1854 and as a city in 1872. The southern part of the Township became part of the Bronx. Yonkers declined to join New York City, and plans were dropped to extend the new subway up Broadway to Getty Square. Aside from being a manufacturing center, Yonkers also played a key role in the development of entertainment in the United States. In 1888, Scottish-born John Reid founded the first golf course in the United States, St. Andrew's Golf Club, in Yonkers.

Bakelite, the first completely synthetic plastic, was invented in Yonkers circa 1906 by Leo Baekeland, and manufactured there until the late 1920s. Today, two of the former Alexander Smith and Sons Carpet Company loft buildings located at 540 and 578 Nepperhan Avenue have been repurposed to house the YoHo Artist Community, a collective group of talented artists that works out of private studios there.

Early in the 20th century, Yonkers also hosted a brass era automobile maker, Colt Runabout Company; despite the car's seemingly glowing performance, the company went under. Yonkers was also the headquarters of the Waring Hat Company, at the time the nation's largest hat manufacturer. World War II saw the city's factories manufacture such items as tents and blankets in the Alexander Smith and Sons Carpet Factory and tanks in the Otis Elevator factory. After World War II, however, with increased competition from less expensive imports, Yonkers lost much of its manufacturing activity. The Alexander Smith Carpet Company, one of the city's largest employers, ceased operation during a labor dispute in June 1954. In 1983, 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 15-minute drive from Manhattan and picturesque prewar homes and apartment buildings, made it a desirable city in which to live. Yonkers' manufacturing sector has also shown a recent resurgence.

On January 4, 1940, Yonkers resident Edwin Howard Armstrong transmitted the first FM radio broadcast (on station W2XCR) from the Yonkers home of C.R. Runyon, a co-experimenter. Yonkers also had the longest running pirate radio station, owned by Allan Weiner during the 1970s through the 1980s.

Geburt

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	Nachname, Taufnamen	Geburt		Personen-Kennung
1	Halaychik, John Jr.	29 Okt 1912	Yonkers, Westchester County, New York, USA	I137144
2	Jones, Catherine Vaneta	2 Jan 1913	Yonkers, Westchester County, New York, USA	I174102
3	Jones, Dorothy Helen	5 Mrz 1917	Yonkers, Westchester County, New York, USA	I174112
4	Jones, Emily	5 Mrz 1917	Yonkers, Westchester County, New York, USA	I174114
5	Jones, George	30 Apr 1894	Yonkers, Westchester County, New York, USA	I174122
6	Jones, Grace	23 Okt 1897	Yonkers, Westchester County, New York, USA	I174126
7	Jones, Harry Joseph	Sep 1889	Yonkers, Westchester County, New York, USA	I174098
8	Jones, Margaret Agnes	17 Nov 1915	Yonkers, Westchester County, New York, USA	I174088
9	Lewis, Dorothy	1906	Yonkers, Westchester County, New York, USA	I174140
10	Lewis, John	12 Jan 1918	Yonkers, Westchester County, New York, USA	I174129
11	Lewis, Prodence	Marz 1896	Yonkers, Westchester County, New York, USA	I174139
12	Lewis, William Vincent	12 Mrz 1898	Yonkers, Westchester County, New York, USA	I174127
13	McCarthy, Mary	6 Okt 1888	Yonkers, Westchester County, New York, USA	I174099
14	Mitchell, Harold William	18 Jan 1908	Yonkers, Westchester County, New York, USA	I10315
15	Potochak, Ann R.	24 Dez 1917	Yonkers, Westchester County, New York, USA	I174092
16	Schilb, Louis Henry II.	14 Apr 1938	Yonkers, Westchester County, New York, USA	I137146
17	Schilb, Shirley Ann	23 Mrz 1936	Yonkers, Westchester County, New York, USA	I137143

Tod

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	Nachname, Taufnamen	Tod		Personen-Kennung
1	Fitzgerald, Catherine Augusta	5 Apr 1921	Yonkers, Westchester County, New York, USA	I174101
2	Halaychik, John Jr.	13 Mai 1999	Yonkers, Westchester County, New York, USA	I137144
3	Jones, Catherine Vaneta	9 Aug 2001	Yonkers, Westchester County, New York, USA	I174102
4	Jones, Dorothy Helen	24 Jun 1998	Yonkers, Westchester County, New York, USA	I174112
5	Jones, Emily	5 Mrz 1917	Yonkers, Westchester County, New York, USA	I174114
6	Jones, Grace	15 Sep 1968	Yonkers, Westchester County, New York, USA	I174126
7	Lewis, John	31 Mrz 1980	Yonkers, Westchester County, New York, USA	I174129
8	McCabe, Mary	geschätzt 1905	Yonkers, Westchester County, New York, USA	I174155
9	McCarthy, Mary	14 Jan 1969	Yonkers, Westchester County, New York, USA	I174099
10	Potochak, Ann R.	18 Feb 1986	Yonkers, Westchester County, New York, USA	I174092
11	Schilb, Harold Frederick	2 Jun 1970	Yonkers, Westchester County, New York, USA	I174091
12	Schilb, Otto Wilhelm	27 Jul 1938	Yonkers, Westchester County, New York, USA	I104382

Eheschließung

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	Familie	Eheschließung		Familien-Kennung
1	Jones / McCarthy	30 Sep 1911	Yonkers, Westchester County, New York, USA	F57552
2	Lewis / Lewis	geschätzt 1892	Yonkers, Westchester County, New York, USA	F57566
3	Schilb / Jones	18 Jan 1934	Yonkers, Westchester County, New York, USA	F44895