Things to Do in Yonkers, New York

From a 17th-century manor to a Persian-inspired garden, Yonkers layers Indigenous history, colonial wealth, Gilded Age ambition, and public engineering into one compact riverside city.

Yonkers may sit in the shadow of New York City’s powerhouse coffee scene, but the local cafés here more than hold their own. Spread from

Yonkers may be New York State’s fourth largest city, but it often sits in the shadow of Manhattan just a few miles to the south.

Yonkers is not just a quick stop between the Hudson River and a Metro-North platform. The city hides a real dining scene that locals already

Yonkers might sit in the shadow of New York City, but it has a music scene that stands on its own. Instead of jumping on

Weekends in and around Yonkers are built for market strolling: crisp apples in the fall, tomatoes and sweet corn in late summer, and cider doughnuts