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From just north of Spuyten Duyvil to the end of the line, the Hudson Line forms the southern portion of Amtrak's Empire Corridor, the former main line of the Central. The planned Penn Station Access project would send some Hudson Line trains to Penn Station along the Empire Connection , with two new intermediate stops along the west side of ...
The Yonkers Trot is a harness racing event for three-year-old Standardbred trotters raced at a distance of one mile at Yonkers Raceway in Yonkers, New York. The race was created in 1955 to join the Hambletonian and the Kentucky Futurity to form the new United States Trotting Triple Crown .
The company was founded by three Polish Jewish immigrant brothers Lipman, Samuel, and Marcus Younker, [3] who opened a general store in Keokuk, Iowa, in 1856. Herman Younker, a younger half-brother to the three founders, opened a dry goods store in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1874.
Concordia's students came from 23 states and more than 37 countries worldwide. The student-to-professor ratio was 13 to 1. Total enrollment was 1,037 students before of its closing in 2021. 93% of the college's students received some form of financial aid, whether grants or loans, and approximately 60% of Concordia's students lived on campus.
Final vows (life-time) are not made until a person has been a member of the community for at least five years. Those who feel called to the ministerial priesthood pursue their studies at St. Joseph's Seminary in Yonkers; during this time, the students live in a nearby friary. [6]
Lincoln High School is located in Yonkers, New York.It is one of the seven public high schools in the city and has an enrollment of about 1200 [3] students. The front portion of the building was opened in 1953 as Southeast Yonkers Jr., Sr. High School with grades six through eight.
In 1981, the Yonkers factory closed, [13] [14] and was later purchased by Kawasaki for use as a rail car assembly plant. [15] Also in 1981, Otis signed a business agreement with an elevator company in China. [16] During the 1980s, Otis developed the Remote Elevator Monitoring (REM) system that collected behavioral data from 300,000 elevators. [17]
Yonkers Marching Band participates in the 2005 Yonkers Saint Patrick's Day Parade. Yonkers High School offers Advanced Placement courses and participates in the International Baccalaureate program. In line with the IB program, Yonkers High School aims to create a "community of caring learners" by encouraging community service activity among its ...