2025
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2024
Crestwood's Library
Featured articles: Crestwood's Library (by Patrick M. Malgieri), Letter from the President (by Loren Chaidez), Queen of the Pickle Port (by John M. McMenimon), Samuel Untermyer in Yonkers (by Walter Schwartz), DAR Historic Preservation Grant Helps Fund Sherwood House Restoration, 2024 Patricia Mangold Scholarship Awards, Yonkers Named WWII American Heritage City for NY State, and Letter from the Editor.
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Has Anyone Seen Ervin?
Featured articles: Has Anyone Seen Ervin? Do You Know Where He Is? (by Mary Hoar), Letter from the President (by Loren Chaidez), History Exhibit Unveiled at Will Library, Mary Hoar Appointed as Yonkers Historian, Choosing Sides (by Richard Mangini), and Park Hill Ruins - The Hotel That Never Was (by Jason Medina).
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Time Flies in the Terrace City
Featured articles: Time Flies in the Terrace City (by Shannon Daugherty), Letter from the President (by Loren Chaidez), Chicken Island? Where's That? (by Richard Mangini), All Aboard the Last Train to Yonkers (by Frank Cardone - Reprinted from Fall 1993), A History Lesson from a Tall Case Clock (by Jerry Ostroff), and WWII Interviewer: Everyday is Memorial Day (by Rich Liebson).
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Sweet Spot in Yonkers
Featured articles: Sweet Spot in Yonkers (by Richard Mangini), Letter from the President (by Loren Chaidez), Yonkers' Art Deco "Skyscraper" The First National Bank Building (by Mark Silberblatt), Close to Home (by Richard Mangini), In Memoriam: Chris Kenney O'Rourke & Rosalie Day Flynn, 2023 American History Recognition Awards, 2023 Patricia Mangold Scholarship Awards, and Local News 12 Visits Sherwood House!
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Against All Odds
Featured articles: Against All Odds (by Loren Chaidez), Letter from the President (by Loren Chaidez), Dr. Iris de Rode Visits NY, "Here's Your Croton Highball" (by Richard Mangini), Philipse Manor Hall News & Updates (Reprinted from Friends of PMH - Jan. 2022), Art History, and Sherwood House Makes its Debut (Reprinted from Dec. 1962).
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Uncovering the Past
Featured articles: Uncovering the Past (by Jason Medina), Letter from the President (by Loren Chaidez), Letters to the Editor, More About the Hollywood Inn (by Richard Mangini), 2022 American History Recognition Awards, 2022 Patricia Mangold Scholarship Award, Wonderful Donations to the Society..., and Profiles: Meet Our New Board Members.
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Sherwood House Gets a Facelift
Featured articles: Sherwood House Gets a Facelift, YHS On-Line Charity Auction!, Letter from the President (by Deidre Rylander), Letters to the Editor, Greystone Revisited (by Richard A. Mangini), 2019 American History Recognition Awards, Profiles: Meet Our New Board Members, and Memories of a Popover Girl (by Chris Kenney O'Rourke).
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Keys to the Past
Featured articles: Keys to the Past (by Loren D. Chaidez), Letter from the President (by Deidre Rylander), Sherwood House to Open This Fall!, Made in Yonkers (by Richard Mangini), 2020 Patricia Mangold Scholarship Awards, 2021 Patricia Mangold Scholarship Awards, News in YHS Technology (by Ed Sabol and Chris Kenney O'Rourke), Restored and Updated Our Website, Donation and Membership Management, Zoom, and 2021 American History Recognition Awards.
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Miles to Go
Featured articles: Miles to Go (by Loren Chaidez), Letter from the President (by Loren Chaidez), Andy Romano Steps Down from YHS Board, In Memoriam: Peggy Murphy, Clang, Clang, Clang... (by Richard Mangini), What's All That Activity at Sherwood House?, Eagle Scout Project MLK at Sherwood House, Hudson Valley Art Association Presents Elizabeth C. Morgan Award, and The Ghost of Christmas Past (by Richard Mangini).
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2018YHS 2018 Annual Dinner
Featured articles: YHS 2018 Annual Dinner, Letter from the President (by Deidre Rylander), Tiffany Gonzalez Named National Merit Scholar, In Memoriam, Thomas M. Tobin of Yonkers: WWI Veteran & Public Servant (by Teresa Marie Tobin), Profiles: Meet Our Board, Books: Images of America: Assyrians of Yonkers, Letters to the Editor, YHS Annual Meeting, 2018 Patricia Mangold Scholarship Awards, Phase III of Saw Mill River Daylighting Now Complete, YHS 2018 History Awards, Yonkers History Quiz, and From the Archives: Former Hudson Steamer Capsized at Boston Pier (Reprinted from 1978).
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2017150th Anniversary of Oakland Cemetery in Yonkers
Featured articles: 150th Anniversary of Oakland Cemetery in Yonkers (by Minna Crasson), Letter from the President (by Deidre Rylander), Assyrians in Yonkers (by Kathy Yacoe), Letters to the Editor, Yonkers Slovaks Aid in the Establishment of Czecho-Slovakia, YHS 2017 History Awards (by Chris Kenney O'Rourke), Oakland Cemetery Celebration - June 11, 2017, In Memoriam, With Gratitude, Flash from the Past: The Yonkers Ferry, Profiles: Meet Our Board, Yonkers History Quiz, and From the Archives: Oakland Cemetery (Reprinted from 1992).
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2016Our 2016 Annual Dinner
Featured articles: Our 2016 Annual Dinner, Letter from the President (by Deidre Rylander), Haifa Bint-Kadi's Mill Street Art Project (by Judith Waite), The Parish of St. Mary's of the Immaculate Conception, Yonkers, 1848-2016 (by Rev. Msgr. Hugh J. Corrigan), 2016 Patricia Mangold Scholarship Awards, Remembering Anna Duncan (by Aileen Kilcommons), Flash from the Past: Yonkers Trolleys!, Profiles: Meet Our Board, Yonkers History Quiz, and From the Archives: Sigghes Rock: Ancient Boundary (by Frank L. Walton) (Reprinted from 1966).
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Without a Trace
Featured articles: Without a Trace: The Story of Dr. Leon Martocci-Pisculli and the American Nurse (by Mary Hoar), Did You Know?, My Magnificent Obsession with the Irish Funnies (by Eddie Dee), "Yonkers in the 20th Century" Book Launch, Tom Christiano, Yonkers Heroes, Yonkers History Quiz (by Mary Hoar), and Who Are We?
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Rosie the Riveter Came from Yonkers!
Featured articles: Rosie the Riveter Came from Yonkers! Yonkers School of Aeronautical Manufacturing (by Mary Hoar), Did You Know?, My Memories of the Grassy Sprain Golf Course (by Anthony P. Rosato), Our Sweet New Sponsor Domino's Sugar, Yonkers, NY, The Number 8 Trolley and the Blizzard of 1947 (by Rick Sherman), ShopRite Does it Again, Yonkers Heroes, Yonkers History Quiz (by Mary Hoar), and Who Are We?
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Welcome to the New Yonkers Historian!
Featured articles: Welcome to the New Yonkers Historian!, Letter from the President (by Deirdre Rylander), Sherwood House Gets Catalogued! (by Judith Waite), An Historic Anniversary Celebration (by Beth Fitzgerald and Susan Blanchard), Sherwood House Timeline (by Jason Medina), From the Archives... Sherwood House Makes its Debut (Reprinted from Dec. 1962), A Special Birthday, Letter to the Editor, Yonkers History Quiz, Now Available in Paperback!, and Can You Guess Where These Pictures Were Taken in Yonkers During the Great Blizzard of 1947?
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Yonkers Own Tuskegee Airman Lee A. Archer, Jr.
Featured articles: Yonkers Own Tuskegee Airman Lee A. Archer, Jr. (by Mary Hoar), Yonkers Heroes, Made in Yonkers: The Yonkers Automobile Industry, Part I (by Mary Hoar), Did You Know?, It Was a Dark and Stormy Night... A Yonkers Reception for an Old Patriot (by Mary Hoar), Yonkers in Florida (by Robert Jacobson), From Our Files... A WWII Memory (by John H. Schlobohm), YHS Annual Awards, Scholarships and American History Awards Presented by YHS, A Salute to Patriots, Yonkers History Quiz (by Mary Hoar), ShopRite Helps Again, and Who Are We?
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A Knock at Midnight
Featured articles: A Knock at Midnight in the 7th Ward During WWII (by John N. Romano), YHS 2014 Annual Meeting, Blue Waters (by Twinkle Jacob), Did You Know?, Coming Soon!, Ripped from the Headlines... The Ultimate Family Feud (by Mary Hoar), Yonkers Heroes, Made in Yonkers: The Yonkers Automobile Industry, Part II (by Mary Hoar), Yonkers History Quiz (by Mary Hoar), and Who Are We?
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Harry Howard Hose Company No. 12
Featured articles: Harry Howard Hose Company No. 12 (by John F. Kolb), Did You Know?, History of the Yonkers Savings Bank (by Rebecca Altermatt), Yonkers Heroes, The Deep Recesses of P.S. 3 (by Rick Sherman), Yonkers History Quiz (by Mary Hoar), Annual Awards Luncheon, and Who Are We?
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Having a Ball in Yonkers - And Beyond, Part II
Featured articles: Having a Ball in Yonkers - And Beyond, Part II (by Carl Hutzler), Did You Know?, Park Hill House Tour, ShopRite Helps Again, Yonkers Heroes, Movie Theaters in Yonkers, From Our Members..., YHS Annual Luncheon, Yonkers History Quiz (by Mary Hoar), Eddie Dee... On the Road Again!, and Who Are We?
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Radio's Lady of Song, Peggy Mann, Part I
Featured articles: Radio's Lady of Song, Peggy Mann, Part I (by David F. Ray), Did You Know?, Angels with Dirty Faces (by John Potanovic), Additional Movie Theaters Named, Yonkers Heroes, Commemoration of the End of the Korean War, Tribute to Thomas J. Pyne (by Phyllis DeBenedetto Richter), From Our Members..., John Edward Bruce: Black Nationalist: 1856-1924, SRO for Eddie!, Yonkers History Quiz (by Mary Hoar), Patricia Mangold Scholarship Awards, and Who Are We?
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And the Band Played On
Featured articles: And the Band Played On (by Liborio A. Grilli), Did You Know?, Keeping NY Moving for a Quarter Century (by Laura Alemzadeh), Radio's Lady of Song, Peggy Mann, Part II (by David F. Ray), Yonkers Heroes, Whalans of Bainton Street (by Barbara Whalan Constantino), Yonkers History Quiz (by Mary Hoar), and Who Are We?
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The Fighting Hogans
Featured articles: The Fighting Hogans (by William Torpey), Did You Know?, Yonkers Heroes, In the Beginning... St. Joseph's Medical Center: 125 Years of Service to Our Community, Mark Twain... of Yonkers?, The Great Uniform Mutiny (by Eugene Souberman), Yonkers History Quiz (by Mary Hoar), Mangold Scholarship Deadline Announced, We Have a Date!, and Who Are We?
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Memories of Getty Square
Featured articles: Memories of Getty Square (by Larry Ballas), The Bainton Street Boys (by Mary Hoar), Yonkers History Quiz (by Mary Hoar), Historic Sherwood House Spring Calendar, and Who Are We?
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The Father of the Yonkers Police Department John Mangin, Capt. of Police
Featured articles: The Father of the Yonkers Police Department John Mangin, Capt. of Police (by George Rutledge), Georgiana Reynolds, Did You Know?, "Talk-Back" at the Beckett Theater (by Eddie Dee), From Our Members, Yonkers History Quiz (by Mary Hoar), YHS 2012 Fall Calendar, and Who Are We?
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The Good Old Days in South Yonkers
Featured articles: The Good Old Days in South Yonkers (by Nancy I. Klein), The Sherwood House Museum is 50 Years Old!, He Had Iron in His Soul, Walk for Wounded Veterans, The Orphanmaster, Did You Know?, From Our Members, Yonkers History Quiz (by Mary Hoar), YHS 2012 Calendar, and Who Are We?
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Having a Ball in Yonkers - And Beyond, Part I
Featured articles: Having a Ball in Yonkers - And Beyond, Part I (by Carl Hutzler), Did You Know?, Extra! Extra! (by John Potanovic), The Honor Roll of Outstanding Citizens of Yonkers, From Our Members..., Yonkers History Quiz (by Mary Hoar), Jack Prill, Mahopac National Bank Presents Donation to YHS, Richard Moore, and Who Are We?
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The Lakers A.C. 50 Years of Good Works and Good Sports
Featured articles: The Lakers A.C. 50 Years of Good Works and Good Sports (by Frank Sacco), Shop at Blossom Florist, Telephones in Yonkers, Did You Know?, Sherwood House Open for Tours May 1st, Are You Interested in Genealogy?, Nancy Sarmast, Joan Mary Wilson, Yonkers History Quiz (by Mary Hoar), and Who Are We?
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A Letter from the Front
Featured articles: A Letter from the Front (by Warren E. Cunningham), From Our Members, Yonkers History Quiz (by Mary Hoar), and Who Are We?
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The "Battle of the Glen"
Featured articles: The "Battle of the Glen" (by George Rutledge), Did You Know?, YHS Fall Calendar, 2011 Awards Luncheon, St. Peter's School - 100 Years Old! (by Robert Burns), From Our Members, Yonkers History Quiz (by Mary Hoar), Walk for Wounded Veterans, and Who Are We?
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Pat's Story
Featured articles: Pat's Story (by Margaret Reilly), A Flag Flies at Sherwood House... Again!, My Memories of Yonkers (by John Potanovic), Volunteers Needed at Historic Sherwood House, Yonkers History Quiz (by Mary Hoar), and Who Are We?
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Who Was Dr. John Ingersoll?
Featured articles: Who Was Dr. John Ingersoll?, Letter from the President (by Mary Hoar), The Enchanted Gardens of Greystone (by Mary Hoar), Yonkers History Quiz (by Mary Hoar), and Who Are We?
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Do You Remember? Part I
Featured articles: Do You Remember? Part I: Life in the 7th Ward, 1932-1952 (by John M. Romano), Letter from the President (by Mary Hoar), Philip J. Matthews, Memories of Yonkers (by Joe Modeszwa), Found in Our Files, Did You Know?, Memories of the Putnam Division of the NY Central Railroad The "Old Put" (by Barbara Lent Lapetina), Yonkers History Quiz (Mary Hoar), Mulford Gardens Reunion (by Dorothy Blair Lennon), and Who Are We?
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Do You Remember? Part II
Featured articles: Do You Remember? Part II: A Review of Life in Mt. Carmel Parish, 1932-1952 (by John M. Romano), Letter from the President (by Mary Hoar), Did You Know?, Philipsburgh on the Hudson? (by Mary Hoar), Clothesline Gossip (by Eddie Dee), The Yonkers Street Scene: The Depression Years (by Jim Brady), Yonkers Years, 1929-1959 (by Peter Koch), Yonkers History Quiz (by Mary Hoar), Memories of Yonkers, From Our Files..., and Who Are We?
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