Yonkers Over Time

[@TheLonewolf80]

This was so fascinating. Seeing the parkside diner on south Broadway was so nostalgic.

[@Breesky03]

Born and raised in Yonkers. Thanks for making this- it bought back many memories 😢

[@quatryna]

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.

[@abramsmm1]

Grew up in Ludlow Park, went to 27 for K-6, graduating there in '73. We played ball at Fay Field, went to Tibbits all the time, Cross County, Central Ave. My God.....😥 but thank you. It's a tough old industrial city like so many in the northeast but with some really nice pockets, mid-century suburbia, and endless apartments like in the burrows. There is natural beauty along the Hudson, views of the Palisades. Nothing you could imagine in another region of the country, so varied, so war-torn, the only home I know, looking backwards at 60.

[@IcyEdits]

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.

[@MooPotPie]

I can't say that any of the "now" pictures show improvement over the "then" photos.

[@kamyahandtristan2249]

Are you mad

[@jameslightsey1761]

chill out ass hole no need to be rude

[@peterp2153]

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.

[@samanthab1923]

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

[@SkiTTLeS97100]

Beyond incredible collection of photos of my hometown Yonkers ny ! As a history geek , this is truly fascinating. Thank you for your time and effort into giving everyone a little perspective of how things used to be.

[@guillermodelgado2260]

Well the McDonalds in Getty Square burned down

[@superwoman7579]

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.🤮

[@mxmxpr]

Born and raised! What a treat to see all of this. 7:41 fish market was owned by relatives.

[@soyosunset]

www.tapatalk.com/groups/soyosunset/old-ads-s-pisacano-s-broadway-fish-market-470-s-b--t2765.html

[@mxmxpr]

@@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!

[@edwardprice140]

Change, welcome or not. Deleting memories.

[@jiggidytherapper2180]

This is dope. Would have loved to see how the projects looked back then.

[@flipjointz9235]

Jiggidy The Rapper facts ha

[@craigmalcolm2661]

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

[@samanthab1923]

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.

[@gerald6919]

projects back then was still shitty lol.

[@lindadossantos6924]

You did a tremendous job on this project. I am most particularly interested in the 1957 Neppherhan Avenue / New Main Street / Health Center Building photo. I have been unsuccessfully searching (more than 10 years) for a photo of the buildings located across from the Health Center where I grew up. I lived at 96 Nepperhan Avenue and would greatly appreciate the source of this photo so that I can get a copy. Thank you!!! Linda

[@soyosunset]

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 [e-mail] 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

[@CrookedEyeSniper]

0:12

[@dang9803]

Wow , What a throwback.... Grew up near south broadway and Parkhill av as a kid, Left at 28 yrs old. I knew just about every street that was shown. Parkside diner, Rock Bottoms store, Yonkers raceway. I actually grew up on that south side of Yonkers. Great video thank you for the memories....

[@PJ-vh6jr]

I would do a split screen for something like this. Just a suggestion. Great idea.

[@soyosunset]

I didn't think that would work well with a KZbin 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

[@Colleen1701]

No history. No soul. All the old is ruined by the new. So sad.

[@robertdumicz7309]

You know what spoils the picturesque and nostalic look nowadays..? The cars, without them the crowded feeling is gone too, the cars give the sensation of an invasion.

[@gerald6919]

Yonkers back in 1980's was great for teenagers.

[@mxkbasketball2413]

I live there

[@jaycee3613]

Excellent job. I enjoyed that. I've been looking for some 70's, 80's-90's of central Ave.. The big neon lobster.. And winks, and Curtos... Again.. Thank you.. It was great.

[@samanthab1923]

Adventurers & Patrica Murphy's

[@thahman187]

I would've like to see more late 1970's Yonkers. Recently they tore down the building on Warburton that used to be the Shopwell supermarket.

[@smbfd8228]

And thank god they did

[@thomaschristopher8593]

grew up on maple street in the 60s and 70's. PS 23, Franklin junior high (gone) replaced by Enrico Fermi school, Saunders HS (moved away from south Broadway).

[@thesource190]

Much nicer back then.

[@soyosunset]

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.

[@johnperaza491]

BRING BACK THE TRAMS

[@jenniferpeters8118]

wow that was beautiful

[@normanalvarez5751]

I grew up in Yonkers, Thank you for the memories😢

[@belahslatinkitchen7133]

Omg!! This is an amazing feeling looking at Yonkers where I grew up can't wait to see it again in 2wks when I go back there !!

[@elianherrera5322]

this is insane. mclean doesnt look too different tho

[@jonathanbornstein3799]

The change in Getty Square is pretty gut-wrenching. A lot like the South Bronx. Possibly worse.

[@bxgal347]

Love it!! I worked in ghetty square for 3 years in the pharmacy that got busted for selling oxy illegally. It was such a bad area. The old ghetty square looked more inviting and warm. Tfs

[@danhoek4854]

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

[@danhoek4854]

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

[@RoyalBoyle78]

Born and raised in Yonkers, thanks for the video, but what a shit hole Yonkers has become.

[@an3q111]

me waiting to see my house like : 👁👄👁

[@ThomasDeLello]

I was born and raised there too... Yonkers General Hospital on Nepperhan Av. in 1947. Schooled at Halsted School on North Broadway. What happened to younkers is: They started to build low income housing and lots of it in South Yonkers and indigent deadbeats from all over the country came to live there. I saw it happen.

[@jugglesdimensions8632]

Now a 💩hole.

[@frsantariga]

Thanks for the memories.

[@lorrainegriffiths554]

crumblish family lived yonkers looks lovely

[@TheRealEffinG]

If you think about it the people in the then photos have mostly all passed away

[@thomaschristopher8593]

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)

[@717rocket]

Ladies and Gentlemen.. we've regressed.

[@donnapoissant2839]

1919 police ca.n I have aa copy Ed Moore my grandfather ois in it

[@soyosunset]

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

[@Angel-bd4nf]

Any know have pictures of McLean Avenue Park Hill Ave Or Rumsey or Pelton Park back in the 80s or earlier please contact me I need to see some photos

[@soyosunset]

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.***

[@samanthab1923]

Snake Hill

[@cjas3290]

I am trying to find more images of Northwest Yonkers around North Broadway and Roberts Ave. I see you had Roberts Ave and Palisade Ave. Any idea where I can look? Love the video. Thanks for uploading.

[@soyosunset]

+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"

[@bennygoodmanisgod]

0:40 I go to that school

[@oe3567]

God, goodness gracious

[@ggarl12]

Great video , thank you

[@deanchapman1824]

Yonkers is the second hilliest city in the nation.

[@soyosunset]

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[@taindavis790]

☁️🌬️THE 🌍

[@bxgal347]

Great footage!!!

[@MightyEightMusic]

Bro I live like a block away from the PAL holy shit

[@johncurcio3621]

A really nice job on putting this altogether.

[@juanagarcia6051]

they should new one i want to know how where i live looked like orchard st

[@newlife533]

been here since 79 I feel so emo right now

[@federicofrola7249]

Quando ho bisogno, dall'Italia di sognare un luogo dove passeggiare e guardare la luce che riflette il fiume, chiudo gli occhi e penso a Yonkers.

[@thomaschristopher8593]

i do the same. From New Jersey - LOL.

[@mikewalker6525]

Smh you have to see it now

[@garychiappa3676]

Fascinating, good job

[@pasqualinag7077]

Wish I was there then😔

[@FOGGYLENZ]

Great job

[@cjas3290]

Thank you : )