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City of Yonkers, New York Downtown - How Much Longer?? Cont'

   

I think the NY Times read my last blog  (check it out here)...

"The Metro-North station has been restored to its 1911 Beaux Arts self; its reputation as a locus for prostitution and drug dealing is now a memory.

Leading out to the water, a Victorian-era pier - less than a decade ago a site where homeless people gathered - is a New York Water Taxi embarkation point for Wall Street. It is also home to a glass-enclosed 260-seat restaurant overlooking the Palisades and other Hudson River marvels"

To read more from the NY Times article featuring the development in Downtown Yonkers, see link below:

Living In Yonkers:  The Waterfront District

Picture Slide Show of the Waterfront in Yonkers

 The opening sentence describes the progress very well "LIKE a caterpillar undergoing a metamorphosis, the down-and-out industrial waterfront of Yonkers is shedding its old skin." One of my concerns which was also shared by local Realtor/trustee of the Yonkers Historical Society/member of the City Council's Green Policy Task Force, Nortrud Wolf Spero, "upscale is nice but an area should retain its diversity".

Links to other Yonkers Sites:

The City of Yonkers Official Site

Historic River Towns - Yonkers

Facts and Demographics - Yonkers

Comments and questions are always welcome.  To visit my website and to search for properties in Westchester County:

Michael Brown Property Search Site

 

 

1 commentMichael Brown • March 11 2008 12:23AM

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Great post Michael, So much information about Yonkers and I love the picture slide show it really gives me a sense of what it looks like.  Thanks so much for sharing all of this information.
Posted by Miriam Bernstein,Westchester County Real Estate (RE/MAX Prime Properties) about 1 year ago

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