December 2021

Ensuring the future of Yonkers’ students

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Working alongside the committed educators in the Yonkers public high schools, Yonkers Partners in Education’s (YPIE) team of teachers, college advisers and more than 270 volunteers have been partnering with students for nearly 15 years to ensure they are ready for, enroll in and persist in college.

Extending the community college experience

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Nestled between Michael Kors and Foot Locker at Cross County Center in Yonkers is a 12,000-square-foot space that offers not clothing and accessories but knowledge and opportunity. It’s the Yonkers extension of Valhalla-based Westchester Community College, which opened in 2001 in a Cross County space now occupied by the Hyatt Place New York/Yonkers.

Culture blooms in the Carpet Mills Arts District

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From the Hudson River Museum to the Untermyer Gardens Conservancy to galleries and public murals and sculptures, art is key to attracting people to live and work in as well as visit Yonkers. (See sidebar.) Many of the artists working in Yonkers have studios in the Carpet Mills Arts District, which was officially created in 2016 by a new city zoning law.

Extending its reach – and care

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From a small hospital in Yonkers to a robust and growing health-care system, Saint Joseph’s Medical Center remains true to its mission of providing high quality care for those in need.