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Ella Fitzgerald, a former Yonkers resident68

The (Good) Old Days Weren't So Bad After All

by William F. Torpey

Yonkers, N.Y., was a bustling community in the '30s and '40s when I grew up. It was a great city, once known as "The City of Gracious Living." Recently, however, I read in the New York Times that it's now sometimes referred to as "Beirut-on-the-Hudson." published 13 months ago

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