Once Yonkers Again

Then/Now photos looking back at 20th Century Yonkers, New York. These photos were first posted at the SoYo Sunset message board, 2014-2019.

[@nathaliegonzalez449]

Thank you for sharing Mike. These are great! They brought back beautiful memories. I grew up in yonkers and then in 1985 moved to Los Angeles at the age of 16. I love Los Angeles, but my home will always be Yonkers, New York. I went back and took my daughter and niece with me. My daughter fell in Love with New York and later went back to visit with friends. What ever happened to Landi's wedges? When i went back i looked for the place right before we went to the airpot, but to my dismay it was gone. They made the best sandwiches!

[@craigmalcolm2661]

Michael beautiful......l I was born in St josephs hospital 1949. Your presentation gave me the WOW!!!

[@samanthab1923]

St John's in 59!

[@Breesky03]

Thanks for sharing. Born and raised in Yonkers. I see a lot of changes even after me leaving in 2007. I use to go to Galaxy restaurant in Getty Square that I see now is a Dunkin Donuts. Other changes I’ve noticed.

[@johnnyxmusic]

Amazing. I surprised myself by how many of these places and intersections I was able to identify

[@Salazar824]

Love it! My old block Linden @ park hill

[@trapezemusic]

Excellent photos. Thank you for posting.

[@adammiller2246]

Thank you Mike, It was a very nice video. I am a past Yonkers resident, and I am very much into old buildings. You will never see the archatecture again

[@samanthab1923]

They already knocked down the Carnagie Library to widen Neperhan.

[@adammiller2246]

@@samanthab1923 Oh man, that sucks. I lived on Warburton, on the Hastings line. That area was beautiful. It still is nice but we lost some old buildings, estates.

[@90loneeagle]

2:04 smh’ Nothing has changed, Yonkers DPW has always left south Yonkers last on the line to plow the snow off the roads, SMDh….

[@kathybash6790]

I lived in Yonkers Long time ago, left there 1979 to Los Angeles, I loved Yonkers with all my heart and the memories

[@Blurb777]

Thank you, Michael. I do so miss the old Yonkers Public Library. I read every single fairy tale book there was in that building.

[@portanova47]

Ty for these vids i love em!

[@frsantariga]

Another great job Mike.. Happy New year.

[@soyosunset]

Thank you. Happy new year!

[@peterbonjuklian3545]

Nice video, but little if anything from anywhere east of the Saw Mill... Too bad...

[@10.11.9]

Make Yonkers Great Again: Vote For Freddy Vazquez in 2023.

[@joanifelix641]

Beautiful! Thanks for sharing!

[@sheelawells1004]

So many memories

[@kingcharles864]

Thanks for sharing.

[@Salesman]

Wow I thought I would never find you again. Your website was on my favorites tab on an old computer which died a long time ago but that site was always one of my favorites. So glad to have found you on here. Your pictures always brought a sense of calm and relief for me.

[@VinnyS9143101982]

5:03 Yonkers & Saunders High Schools

[@trapezemusic]

My only wish is that there was another photo of the former Loew's (Brandt's) Theater on South Broadway between Vark and Herriot Streets. The one at the 1:30 mark (with Louie's Italian Restaurant at the corner) gives you an idea of the size of the theatre but does not include the entrance and marquees.

[@soyosunset]

The then/now format does not work well with what is gone completely, but SoYo Sunset does reproduce a photo such as you describe: www.tapatalk.com/groups/soyosunset/loew-s-theater-1931-t3235.html

[@sheelawells1004]

Incredible 😮😮

[@richardschneider4775]

A lot of time spent well done. I would like to know if the photo archives have specific collections based on building use or licensed intent ? I am researching a cold case from 70 years ago in Yonkers. I lived in this diverse city from 1967- 1972 unrelated to my current research project. RS

[@soyosunset]

The tax assessors maintain an address-based archive online of photos of the properties, not sorted or sortable as far as I know. In addition to more current photos, for about half the properties they include a low resolution photo from their 1954 survey.

[@10.11.9]

@@soyosunset Lots of 1942s in there, as well.

[@thomaschristopher8593]

01:49 holy craps, that's the barber shop that my father apprenticed me to and tried to make a barber out of me back the '60s (i sucked at it, and I just did my homework and shined shoes). the lumber yard across the street is where i scrounged discarded pieces of wood that the barber made into rubber stamps as a side business. the building next to the lumber yard was a funeral home. and next to the barber shop is a gas station (Gambardella i think is spelled). if you go straight ahead, on the left you'll pass a Chinese dry cleaner, then a stationary store where, at 13, i bought my first pack of "True" cigarettes, a few blocks down the street you'll merge into south Broadway. If the car parked in front of the barber shop is what i think it is, then this photo is from a few years before 1970. the owner of the barber shop drove a mid/late 50's model (the parked car). the daughter didn't want to be taught driving in that, so the Father upgraded to a 5- or 6-year-old, used '63 valiant.

[@kevinhall520]

Wow thank you

[@ThomasDeLello]

Central Ave. an Tuckahoe Rd. [2:38] walking distance from where I grew up. That is the place where I first met Steven Tallarico who you will know as Steven Tyler of rock group Aerosmith back in 1963.I was 16, he was 15.

[@johnvillanova9984]

Since I live on the Bronx side of Woodlawn now and don't get over to Getty Square much. (I grew up on that side)...It's funny how much I would recognize the architecture in the older shots more that the modern day photos! (Thanks for your efforts, much appreciated!)

[@ChristinawlgMorales-zm3hb]

1963 the police officer in that place as a child FBI secret agent private investigation when I was a kid in the candy Square at the town get a square getting Square

[@dorothydessesow7922]

This when Yonkers use to be safe..

[@ewarda100]

great photos but the music sucked.

[@10.11.9]

Michael - I have a picture of a church/chapel situated somewhere in North Yonkers in 1967. I've searched high and low, but have not been able to identify it. It's just the side view, and it could have been razed.

[@soyosunset]

You can email a copy of your photo to me at [e-mail] and if I know what it is I will tell you.

[@janabrandialibrandi5823]

😂😂😂❤🤗😘

[@rgsd1969]

at 7:48 what Church is that???

[@soyosunset]

That was the old Reformed Church. Its structure was later incorporated into what became the Strand Theater.

[@10.11.9]

@@soyosunset What about the Dutch Reformed Church on North Broadway? Do you know which came first?

[@soyosunset]

@@10.11.9 I know of other Reformed churches in Yonkers (e.g., Crescent Place, Park Hill, Lincoln Park Community, .... ) and of several churches on North Broadway, but I don't know of a Reformed Church on North Broadway. Could you have some other location or denomination in mind?

[@10.11.9]

@@soyosunset An historical sketch of the First Presbyterian Church of Yonkers, N.Y. static1.squarespace.com/static/590be125ff7c502a07752a5b/t/5db9dce4b4f532499494037d/1572461800008/Prime%2C+Jr.%2C+Ralph+Earl%2C+An+Historical+Sketch+of+the+FIrst+Presbyterian+Church+of+Yonkers%2C+N.Y..pdf

[@soyosunset]

@@10.11.9 Now we're cooking with gas! This is what I gathered from the old newspaper (at the SoYo Sunset message board): www.tapatalk.com/groups/soyosunset/the-first-presbyterian-church-newspaper-photos-t6684.html

[@richardschmidt7608]

wow-Getti Square was so much more interesting and urban in the past-its devolved into a mediocre suburban mall

[@alloicesidika5044]

You should have started with the way it was then how it is today.

[@soyosunset]

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[@taino20]

Whatever happened to Madison Avenue? My girlfriend lived on Madison Ave. and I used to go and see her.

[@soyosunset]

Madison Avenue has been urbanly renewed out of existence. New housing has replaced it and the neighboring streets. See the photos here: www.tapatalk.com/groups/soyosunset/ashburton-ave-between-vineyard-ave-and-orchard-st--t1447.html www.tapatalk.com/groups/soyosunset/new-ashburton-avenue-housing-father-pat-carroll-gr-t2321.html

[@taino20]

@@soyosunset Thank you very much. I will look at the photos.

[@SeanSimps3-vi5ls]

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