Yonkers, NY

It's ""Yonkiz"

Yonkers is the Newark of Westchester County. Or so I hear. I've never actually been there.

Out there, there's a world outside of Yonkers. Way out there beyond this hick town. There's a slick town.

R1 Parts of it are. Other parts are "Jonkers."

Wow. A five-year-old thread with two replies is reborn! Only on Datalounge!

Yes, Why is this happening??

Muriel, I demand an answer

I used to regularly visit one of our facilities in Mt. Vernon which is right next to Yonkers, back in the mid 80s. Back then Yonkers was an ulgy hell hole in my opinion. I haven't been back since then, but I've heard it's nicer now.

It’s shitty. It’s midway between city and suburbs, the worst parts of both. It’s trashy and depressing.

No offense.

R8, minus the gratuitous vulgar editorial comment, pretty well nails it.

Yonkers is just a transitional area between city and country. With no parking.

Don't knock Yonkers. They grow working-class horse hung fuck buddies there.

It's a city that is a suburb of NY. There are a lot of those in New Jersey: Jersey City, Newark, Elizabeth.

If you want to go to NYC, you have to put on your Sunday clothes.

Dogs like leaving, too.

Downtown Yonkers is a shithole tho they are trying gentrify it.

Not all of Yonkers, NY is a hell hole.

I'm going as far away from Yonkers as a girl can get!

It's where true love conquers in the wilds.

Crestwood, Yonkers...

Yonkers, NY is one of the most populous urban areas in New York State, with a very rich history of industry and commerce.

Problems started in the 1980's when federal government along with NAACP fought to bust Yonkers racially. Things went down hill for most of downtown and other areas through the 1980's into 1990's as white population did what they did elsewhere, fled.

However things are changing and all sorts are discovering Yonkers. There is new development along the Hudson River, and more is coming there and elsewhere in town. As with many other old New York cities people are also discovering beautiful but affordable homes in a town that is < 40 minutes from mid-town Manhattan.

More:

Planned and recent development:

Ees vut The Donald call my breastes

Even middle-class Gimbels thought 'Gimbels Yonkers' sounded too déclassé, so they named it 'Gimbels Westchester'

r23 Meanwhile, there was an entire department store chain in the midwest called YOUNKERS.

It’s where people from the Bronx go when they finally “make good”.

Wow... looks quite nice!

At one point it was Only forty-five minutes from Broadway Think of the changes it brings; For the short time it takes What a diff'rence it makes In the ways of the people and things

Lawrence Park West, Yonkers: Affluent Setting, Without the Price Tag

There are tons of former grand estates in Yonkers, such as the W.B. Thompson Mansion

Also known as the Alder Manor:

R6 on another, similarly old thread, someone posited that sock monkeys are being created by bumping these posts so that they can create new threads on DL ... a plot of some kind. Or, it is that autistic poster who has hundreds of tabs open and comes upon them and comments ...

Personally, I would live there before NYC. I need personal outdoor space and I love the suburban lifestyle.

Alder Manor has a fabulous small (empty) indoor pool like something out of rocky horror.

Yonkers is a city r32, it is urban and high density. Less so than New York itself, but everywhere is less dense than New York.

If you were looking for suburbia and space, it's not the place.

R34

Manhattan has Staten Island, Brooklyn and Queens, but Yonkers also has its own less developed low density areas. There are parts of Staten Island that could be considered "suburban" and that goes for Yonkers, linked articles above are evidence.

Lawrence Park West looks suburban to my eyes, and I live in Manhattan, NY.