Tucked alongside the Hudson River and the Bronx’s northern border, Yonkers’ more than 18 square miles comprise 38 neighborhoods, from the tony Crestwood and Lawrence Park West in the city’s suburban, northeast quadrant, to the more urban environs of Nodine Hill and South Broadway in the city’s southwest.

With more than 197,000 residents… Yonkers is New York State’s fourth largest city.

In 1646, the Dutch West India Company granted Adriaen van der Donck, a young Dutch lawyer, the right to buy the land that later would later become the city from its American Indian inhabitants. His nickname, DeJonkeer, meaning “the young gentleman” would give rise to the city’s name.

Yonkers remained a private manor through much of the 18th century, under the control of the Philipse family, whose manor house still stands on the northeast corner of Larkin Plaza. At the turn of the 19th century, however, after being incorporated as a town in 1788, Yonkers started to become an industrial community, spawning saw and grist mills

Yonkers prides itself on being the birthplace of golf in America. The city still features two county-owned and operated golf cause, as well as more than 100 municipal parks.