Yonkers Over Time 

fr, do you remember the old McDonalds locations? one was in the middle of Getty square, and the other one was in 473 South Broadway, oh and that old pizza place in getty square. wish i can go back in time and just relive it. i was also raised in yonkers.

Crazy, I went to 27. Graduated in like 2009 or 2010. I feel like graduation was long ago for me. Weird feeling knowing I was still so long after you. God bless.

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@@soyosunset Thank you for that! My mother's grandfather got his name changed to Pease at Ellis Island in 1897, but his brother got through with Pisacano intact!

Jiggidy The Rapper facts ha

Well, i lived in Schlobohm from 1955 to 1963 and you would never know it today.

bluesteel6138 No, they did. My mom lived in Mulford Gardens with her family of 7. She was born in 39 so I think they were there for at least 18 years. Heard they knocked it down.

projects back then was still shitty lol.

Adventurers & Patrica Murphy's

Are you mad

chill out ass hole no need to be rude

Please keep in mind that 90% of the locations shown were of downtown Yonkers in the Getty Square area (makes sense since it probably was the most photographed part of Yonkers), which was extremely hard hit by the 1970s and 1980s and has only partly gentrified, and that’s mostly by the river and the YO train station. I am grateful that one of the non-downtown shots showed the building I grew up in.

Peter P21 My Great aunt Gert had a Pekingese jump out of her car in Getty Square & get hit by a bus!

I originally posted that Then/Now contrast on the SoYo Sunset message board, link below. The old photo appeared in the Herald Statesman, Dec. 20, 1957. You can download it from SoYo Sunset. If you need the undoctored precolorized version, or a link to the online PDF copy of that old newspaper page at the Fulton History site, you will have to email me at chalushes@gmail.com so I can mail you the undoctored version and/or the Fulton link (too long for this format). I am necessarily protective of my own Now photos. If you need to use the Now photo, please attribute it to me, Michael Stephen Gross. The old photo is of course not mine and I have no rights to it to give or withhold. Meanwhile, go to SoYo: www.tapatalk.com/groups/soyosunset/looking-west-on-nepperhan-avenue-at-new-main-stree-t4873.html#.VIpA3nvkcRo

I didn't think that would work well with a RU-vid format. If you want to see these Then/Nows and others presented comparatively, follow this index to the original SoYo Sunset posts: www.tapatalk.com/groups/soyosunset/picture-series-indexes-t1902.html#p15359

And thank god they did

You were in a completely different time My wife Patricia worked in a completely legal Pharmacy. And a respected boss who owned the pharmacy.claremont pharmacy

I’m ashamed of you for disclosing that. My wife Patricia worked there and was very well respected by every one who knew her.

The old downtown area and much of the S.W. have declined and it shows. But we should consider that many of the old photos were taken for real estate and business promotion purposes and were therefore biased toward showing Yonkers at its then best. If they had been muckrakers and had instead taken photos of the horrible slums at Chicken Island and around upper Riverdale Avenue, we would not find those scenes much nicer than what is there now.

i do the same. From New Jersey - LOL.

The building where it was housed was burned down strategically to collect insurance and develop on it. It's the same old trick which is only becoming rancid.🤮

Now a 💩hole.

+cjas3290 You can find a few from among the thousands of photos at the SoYo Sunset message board by using their (sorry!) clunky search mechanisms -- soyosunset.yuku.com/ Also, there are nice old trolley photos at www.newdavesrailpix.com/ and www.nycsubway.org/wiki/TARS_Third_Avenue_Railway_System Also, if you belong to Facebook, you may find some North Yonkers photos at the Yonkers group, "Yonkers, NY and Westchester in Pictures"

I may not necessarily be in the photo, but i was lurking around nearby😀. and I'm still here. (maybe if i use a magnifying glass i can find me - LOL)

Go to the SoYo Sunset site (find it with Google), open the SoYo Snaps forum, and use the search mechanism to find photos of the streets you need. The basic photos will be recent but for some of the streets they will be paired with older photos (1954 and sometimes later decades) from the city's tax office. ***If you have only a few specific addresses in mind we can cut through the crap -- tell me the addresses and I'll find what I have and send it.***

Snake Hill

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It's from a book you can download or copy from for free: archive.org/details/yonkersinworldwa00yonk_0/page/n53/mode/2up