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Yonkers is the third most populous city in New York State, behind only New York City and Buffalo, with 211,569 residents counted in the 2020 census.

Yonkers is the most populous city in Westchester County and sits directly north of the Bronx, roughly two miles from Marble Hill, the northernmost point of Manhattan.

The city's name comes from Jonkheer, the Dutch honorific title of Adriaen van der Donck, the first lawyer in North America, who received the 24,000-acre Colen Donck land grant in 1645.

Van der Donck built a sawmill where Nepperhan Creek, now called the Saw Mill River, met the Hudson River, one of the first sawmills in America.

Yonkers became a town in 1788, was incorporated as a village in 1855, and became a city in 1872.

Yonkers has about 81,600 households, averaging roughly two and a half people per household.

Nicknamed the City of Seven Hills, Yonkers rises from the edge of the Hudson River to about 416 feet at Sacred Heart Church.

Sarah Lawrence College, the well-known liberal arts college that uses a Bronxville mailing address, is actually located within the city of Yonkers.

Untermyer Gardens, the former estate gardens of lawyer Samuel Untermyer overlooking the Hudson, were designed by landscape architect William Welles Bosworth in the early 1900s and are now a celebrated public park.

Philipse Manor Hall, a colonial manor house built around 1682 near the old sawmill site, is preserved today as a New York State Historic Site and museum.