Articles of interest in Yonkers
The Metropolitan Playhouse of New York is a producing theater in New York City. Founded in 1992, the theater is devoted to presenting plays that explore American culture, including seldom-produced American classics and new plays about American histo…
The Maywood Public Schools are a comprehensive community public school district that serves students in pre-Kindergarten through eighth grade from the Borough of Maywood, in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States.
The Matthew Henson Residence is where Matthew Henson, the African American polar explorer, lived from 1929 until his death in 1955. Largely forgotten, he was arguably the first man to reach the North Pole in 1909, as he was assigned the task of brea…
Maple Grove Park Cemetery is located in Hackensack, New Jersey. It is operated by the Maple Grove Park Cemetery Association, at 535 Hudson Street in Hackensack. In 2004-2005 it received the remains of bodies removed from the Hudson County Burial Gro…
Madison Square Presbyterian Church was a Presbyterian church in Manhattan, New York City, located on Madison Square Park at the southeast corner of East 24th Street and Madison Avenue. Construction on the church began in 1853 and was completed in 18…
The Machpelah Cemetery, also spelled as "Macpelah Cemetery", or "Macphelah Cemetery", is a cemetery in Hudson County, New Jersey.
The Ma'ayanot Yeshiva High School is a private Jewish day school for girls in grades nine through twelve, located in Teaneck, New Jersey, United States. Ma'ayanot was founded to meet the need of the Orthodox communities of Bergen County and neighbor…
The Jewish Theological Seminary library fire was discovered on Monday, April 18, 1966 at 10:15 AM when smoke was seen pouring from one of the small upper windows of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America library tower at Broadway and 122nd Stree…
The Hoboken Cemetery is located at 5500 Tonnelle Avenue in North Bergen, New Jersey. It is bordered by Flower Hill Cemetery. Originally when the Secaucus Junction was built on land that was the Hudson County Burial Grounds, bodies exhumed were to be…
Ho-Ho-Kus Inn (also known as Ho-Ho-Kus Inn & Tavern) is a historic landmark that is currently a restaurant located in Ho-Ho-Kus, New Jersey at the intersection of Franklin Turnpike, Maple Avenue, and Sheridan Avenue. Its name was taken from Delaware…
The Hillsdale Public Schools is a community public school district that serves students in pre-Kindergarten through eighth grade in Hillsdale, in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States.
Hillsdale Station is a New Jersey Transit rail station on the Pascack Valley Line.
The Hawthorne Circle was a notably dangerous traffic circle located in Hawthorne, New York, United States until 1972 when it was replaced with a three-level interchange. The circle once connected three busy highways, the Bronx River Parkway, the Tac…
HandCrafting Justice is an alternative trading organization working with approximately 2,000 women in 18 developing countries. It was started in October 1997 as a project of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd.
Haberman was a station stop along the Lower Montauk Branch that was located at the intersection of Rust Street and 50th Street in Maspeth, Queens. Th station is named after the Haberman Steel Enamel Works in Berlin Village. Haberman opened as a stat…
The Grassy Sprain Reservoir is a 150-acre (61 ha) storage reservoir in northern Yonkers, New York. It was completed in 1876 by the city of Yonkers as the city's main storage reservoir. The reservoir was formed by the Grassy Sprain Brook Dam which im…
Grand Street was a railroad station located on the Main Line of the Long Island Railroad. It was located on Grand Street (now Avenue) in the Elmhurst section of Queens, New York City, west of the present Grand Avenue – Newtown subway station on the …
Flower Hill Cemetery is located in North Bergen, New Jersey.