Last year for the first time, the historic Yonkers neighborhood overlooking the Hudson River was opened to the public for tours, led by a local architect.

In many ways, Lincoln Park is a typical Yonkers neighborhood.

Armour Villa, along with several abutting Yonkers neighborhoods, is actually considered to be within the Bronxville community.

But residents of the Yonkers neighborhood of sagging wood frame houses where Mr. Gaines lived with his parents proffered an explanation.

Two new luxury apartment buildings have been built on the waterfront, just two blocks from Getty Square, the poorest Yonkers neighborhood.

A 1986 federal housing order to desegregate Yonkers neighborhoods added about 1,000 housing units, apartments and stand-alone homes, to this city of about 200,000.

From my living room picture window, I view my Yonkers neighborhood - a neighborhood unfamiliar to me until a few weeks ago.

The boy had disappeared months earlier from his Yonkers neighborhood, and the police believed that a 38-year-old carpenter, Robert DeRosario, might know something about it.

He said drugs have eaten away at his south Yonkers neighborhood, leaving in its wake a trail of violence.

In 1917, Lawrence built his family home in the Yonkers neighborhood.