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Facts About Yonkers Adjoins New York on the north. Population, 60,000 Area, 17 1/2 square miles. Frontage o Hudson, opposite Palisades, 4 1/3 miles. Assessed valuation, $41,200,000. Property owned by city, $3,546,793. ----- Transportation Facilities Accessible by West Side Elevated Railroad Three steam railroads, nineteen stations, all-night trains, commutation $5.10 monthly. Electric railroad, nine lines, universal transfers. ------ Public schools, nineteen; vale, $1,150,858; average daily attendance, %,981. High school, college preparatory. Public library, erected 1904, cost $50,000. Public parks, three; public baths, inland, two. Public dock and recreation pavilion. Police department, 66 men. Paid fire department, 70 men. Hospitals, three; churches, thirty. Boat clubs, four; other clubs and societies, forty. Banks, four; newspapers, four. Improved highways, 110 miles. Unlimited supply pure water. Death rate, 15.61 per thousand |
