Park Hill, Yonkers
Park Hill is a neighborhood in southwestern Yonkers, New York. The neighborhood is located east of South Broadway.
The neighborhood was developed in 1888 by the American Real Estate Company of Manhattan.
Park Hill contains many vintage single-family homes, many overlooking the Hudson River. The neighborhood originally featured Victorians, Gothic revivals, and Georgian colonials. Since World War II, Cape Cods and ranches were added.
Notable residents in the past include the actor Richard Bennett and his daughters, Joan and Constance as well as Dennis O'Brien, the United Artists counsel. [1]
Park Hill was once the home of a funicular railroad named the "Park Hill Incline" which ran from the Getty Square Branch of the New York and Putnam Railroad to Alta Avenue between 1894 and 1937. The two stations that served the railroad are now private residences.[2][3]
References
External links
- Park Hill Residents' Association
- The Racquet Club on Park Hill
- "Living in: Park Hill, Yonkers, N.Y.: Preservation, vs. Live and Let Build" from The New York Times, March 18, 2007
- "If You're Thinking of Living In/Park Hill, Yonkers; Vintage Homes on a 300-Foot Plateau" from The New York Times, January 4, 1998