The elevated era

On July 2, 1868, the West Side and Yonkers Patent Railway-the city's first elevated train-was to have its maiden journey from the Battery to Cortlandt Street in the Financial District. However, an unspecified " accident to the machinery " pushed the trial run back a day.

Urstadt Biddle Properties Inc. Announces Acquisition of Tanglewood…

... Properties Inc. (NYSE: UBA and UBP) announced today that it has acquired Tanglewood Shopping Center, located in Yonkers, NY ("Tanglewood"). Tanglewood is a 27,000 square foot shopping center consisting of two retail buildings. The primary building, ...

Major CRE Investor Set to Exit Hot Southeast Multifamily Market

A big apartment owner with a number of multifamily holdings throughout the Southeast is exiting the region's hot rental market with the listing of its latest portfolio. AVR Realty, a national real estate investment and development firm based in Yonkers, NY, is shopping a 13-property, 3,760-unit portfolio of rentals in North and South Carolina, Georgia and Florida.

Westchester & Fairfield Cheat Sheet: Norwalk mall developer gets $15B …

Clockwise from top left: A proposed affordable housing building in Greenwich, the Larkin Plaza development in Yonkers, the SoNo Collection mall in Norwalk, and outgoing Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino. Developer behind under-construction Norwalk mall faces buyout bid GGP, the developer behind the SoNo Collection mall in Norwalk, is facing a $15 billion buyout offer.

Daylighting the Saw Mill River

It is not often that Yonkers can claim to be more innovative than New York City, but in its gritty downtown corridor, a unique project unlike anything in the five boroughs is currently unfolding. Millions of dollars have been invested, dozens of buildings have been demolished, parking lots have been ripped up and removed from the center of town, and new habitats for muskrats, egrets, and American eels have been created.