Yonkers
— — where the Bronx ends and the river opens.
Not only on a wall.
“Yonkers sits where the Bronx ends and the Hudson widens, the fourth-largest city in New York State. Downtown holds Philipse Manor and the daylighted Saw Mill River, which ran under a parking lot for sixty years before the city reopened it in 2010. Above the waterfront, Untermyer Park keeps its 1916 walled garden in working order. The Palisades rise across the river to the west, into New Jersey.
Yonkers, on ceramic.
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The place, in three passes.
Yonkers is the fourth-largest city in New York State and the seat of southwestern Westchester County, directly north of the Bronx along the east bank of the Hudson River. The 2020 census recorded a population of 211,569. The city covers about 18 square miles between the Hudson and the Bronx River. Yonkers grew up around the seventeenth-century manor of Adriaen van der Donck, a Dutch jurist whose nickname, Jonkheer, gave the city its name. It was chartered as a city in 1872 and now sits inside the New York metropolitan area.
The Hudson runs along the city's western edge for about four miles, widening into the Tappan Zee reach upstream. The Saw Mill River, a Hudson tributary, was buried beneath downtown Yonkers in the 1920s and ran under a parking lot for most of the twentieth century. In 2010 the city opened the first phase of a daylighting project that returned the river to the surface through Larkin Plaza. The work brought alewife runs back to the lower channel and reshaped the downtown around the open water.
Philipse Manor Hall, on Warburton Avenue, dates from the late seventeenth century and is among the oldest standing structures in Westchester County. It was the seat of the Philipse family until Loyalist holdings were seized in 1779. The building is now a New York State historic site, free to visitors. Untermyer Park, north of downtown, holds a 1916 walled Indo-Persian garden designed by Welles Bosworth for the lawyer Samuel Untermyer. Restoration of the Walled Garden has continued since 2011 under the Untermyer Gardens Conservancy.