HERALD STATESMAN: Yonkers Public Safety Commissioner William J. Comey Passes Away

Gimbels In Yonkers

Here's a really cool shot of the Gimbels Yonkers department store at the Cross County Shopping Center in the '50s.

Beautiful shopping center, beautiful cars, and beautiful weather, for all the beautiful people to shop in.

What more could you ask for? :)

How to Exit a Trolley Safely In Yonkers

Safety advice from the exasperated sounding Receiver of the insolvent Yonkers Railroad Company. From the Yonkers Statesman, May 18, 1909.

1880 Yonkers Telephone Directory - Clipping from the Herald Statesman, Feb. 9, 1932

A feature article, looking back on the first half century of telephone service in Yonkers, and concentrating on the earliest days

As a sidebar to the article, there is a reprinting of what seems to be the first Yonkers telephone directory.

Of course it isn't a real "phone book" -- it's just a long list. It seems to be from 1880. 1880 was only four years from 1876, when Alexander Graham Bell demonstrated his invention at the Centennial Exposition world's fair.