Yonkers Re Illustrated

In 1902, the Yonkers Board of Trade published the promotional book, Yonkers Illustrated. This slideshow video updates photos from that book with photos of the same locations, taken between 2008 and 2015. The new photos are all my own. Most of these "Then/Now" comparisons have been posted at the SoYo Sunset message board, soyosunset.yuku...

[@drjwashin]

Wonderful work, Michael.

[@KJ-xc6qs]

Your work fills me with nostalgia. I was born and raised in Yonkers at 15 Greystone Terrace, a wonderful three-story home with beautiful old-world craftsmanship and panoramic views of the Hudson River and Palisades. That's it @ 2:55!!! I would love to visit it again.

[@samanthab1923]

Sounds lovely. I was born there as well. St John's & lived with my Grandparents at 470 No. Broadway & then Morsemere.

[@powerlinekid4296]

I wish someone with artistic talent could go and paint window images on all those plywood covered windows. It's amazing how covering a window with plywood changes the entire structure.

[@edwardprice140]

YONKERS YONKERS YONKERS ! Actress Joan Blondell, TWILIGHT ZONE

[@mufinski]

Very well done. Those old beautiful homes were majestic. I lived a beautiful one which was sold in the 70's, torn down and is a parking lot, a darn shame. Yonkers should have bought it since it had an Otis elevator in it and was originally owned by them.

[@samanthab1923]

My grandparents lived in an apt. at 470 North Broadway back in the 60's. Big old mansions next door. Knocked down & condos built.

[@mufinski]

@@samanthab1923 Sad the old homes were not restored for history.

[@samanthab1923]

mufinski It is but I guess the city started to change & areas that were snazzier started going downhill. I remember seeing an article in the Times back in the '80's that groups of people were chipping in together & buying up these huge old mansions. Fixing them up & living there. Way cheaper & roomier than NYC. I showed the paper to my aunt saying I've never seen houses like that before. She said oh those are in South Yonkers, like eww 😷

[@trapezemusic]

Very well done, including the music. Thanks for your efforts.

[@mxmxpr]

Wow, the house my aunt lived in for 30 years was in there. Thanks!

[@juliefraioli6705]

Thank you, lots of effort put into this, I grew up in Yonkers, nice trip down memory.

[@samanthab1923]

I was born in Yonkers

[@MooPotPie]

1:22 is particularly heartbreaking. This video contains one example of cheap, hideous remodeling after another, mostly of the aluminum/vinyl siding variety. 8:01 . . . really?

[@thomaschristopher8593]

7:08 Oak and Maple - my old neighborhood until '78

[@InfiniteDroidArmies]

Yonkers residents experts in destroying old homes

[@artcooldude6711]

makes me warm inside weridly enough.

[@thomaschristopher8593]

7:37 corner of elm and walnut - where i bought a few thousand comic books - starting with spiderman #37 at $0.12. i don't think that church is a church any longer. but at that time, every Sunday morning, it gave us a glimpse of "real Americans" that had long ago left the neighborhood - LOL.

[@TheShavenChimp]

What a sad state, decades of neglect turned what was once beautiful buildings into rundown shit. And if the outside didnt look bad enough, for sure the interiors have been hacked up into trashy apartments. What a shame

[@adammiller2246]

Very nice, I enjoyed it

[@normanalvarez5751]

Yonkers love it

[@kristinawashington1773]

good video.

[@andyiswonderful]

very sad to see.