Back in March I met with some friends visiting from Toronto for lunch on the Hudson in Yonkers, NY.

According to Wikipedia:

Yonkers is a city in Westchester County, New York, United States. Developed along the Hudson River, it is the third most populous city in the state of New York, after New York City and Buffalo. The population of Yonkers was 211,569 as enumerated in the 2020 United States Census. It is classified as an inner suburb of New York City, located directly to the north of the Bronx and approximately two miles (3 km) north of Marble Hill, Manhattan, the northernmost point in Manhattan.

Yonkers’s downtown is centered on a plaza known as Getty Square, where the municipal government is located. The downtown area also houses significant local businesses and nonprofit organizations. It serves as a major retail hub for Yonkers and the northwest Bronx.

The city is home to several attractions, including access to the Hudson River, Tibbetts Brook Park, with its public pool with slides and lazy river and two-mile walking loop Untermyer Park; Hudson River Museum; Saw Mill River daylighting, wherein a parking lot was removed to uncover the Nepperkamack (Saw Mill River); Science Barge; and Sherwood House. Yonkers Raceway, a harness racing track, renovated its grounds and clubhouse, and added legalized video slot machine gambling in 2006 to become a “racino” named Empire City. In more recent years, Yonkers has undergone progressive gentrification.

I’d not explored Yonkers before. I’d heard that it wasn’t a very nice (and possibly dangerous) place to visit and driving through parts of it at various times seemed to confirm this. In any case I went in a few hours before our lunch so I could look around and take some pictures.

I was pleased to discover that the area around the restaurant is quite attractive, with lots of other restaurants, nice old building etc. The town also has an interesting history.

It was well worth the visit.

Above Yonkers Metro-North railroad station looking North.

Taken with a Fuji X-E3 and Fuji XC 16-50mm f3.5-5.6 OSS II