![340 Kimball Av Dunwoodie Fire station 13 jeh](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/50/340_Kimball_Av_Dunwoodie_Fire_station_13_jeh.jpg)
Dunwoodie is a neighborhood in
Yonkers, New York
Yonkers () is a city in Westchester County, New York, United States. Developed along the Hudson River, it is the third most populous city in the state of New York, after New York City and Buffalo. The population of Yonkers was 211,569 as enu ...
, noted for being the home of
St. Joseph's Seminary and College on Valentine Hill. Dunwoodie (proper) is located north of the Seminary, while Dunwoodie Heights includes the seminary and what is south of it. Dunwoodie also includes Yonkers' "Little Italy" and a public golf course.
Dunwoodie is noted for its pizzerias, among them, Louie and Johnnie's, Midland Pizza, and Dunwoodie Pizza.
The
Yonkers Raceway
Yonkers Raceway & Empire City Casino, founded in 1899 as the Empire City Race Track, is a one-half-mile standardbred harness racing dirt track and slots racino located at the intersection of Central Park Avenue and Yonkers Avenue in Yonkers, New Y ...
is close by, located in Wakefield Park, while the Cross County Shopping Mall is also close by, but located in the neighborhood of Kimball. St. Joseph's Seminary is located technically in the neighborhood of Seminary Heights, but it is colloquially known as Dunwoodie.
The
Bee-Line Bus System
The Westchester County Bee-Line System, branded on the buses in lowercase as ''the bee-line system'', is a bus system serving Westchester County, New York. The system is owned by the county's Department of Public Works and Transportation.
History ...
has bus stops near the
Cross County Shopping Center and
Yonkers Raceway
Yonkers Raceway & Empire City Casino, founded in 1899 as the Empire City Race Track, is a one-half-mile standardbred harness racing dirt track and slots racino located at the intersection of Central Park Avenue and Yonkers Avenue in Yonkers, New Y ...
. The neighborhood is also accessible by exit 3 on the I-87 (
Major Deegan Expressway). The
Bronx River Parkway
The Bronx River Parkway (sometimes abbreviated as the Bronx Parkway) is a long parkway in downstate New York in the United States. It is named for the nearby Bronx River, which it parallels. The southern terminus of the parkway is at Story Avenue ...
(to Exit 11W) and Cross County Expressway (exit 4S) are also nearby.
Intellectual life
Dunwoodie has given its name to ''The Dunwoodie Review,'' a theological journal published at St. Joseph's Seminary.
[http://www.dunwoodiereview.org ] The journal is a successor to the ''New York Review'' which was published by the seminary from 1905 to 1908. ''The Dunwoodie Review'' was published from 1961 to 1974 and, after a hiatus, annually from 1990 to the present.
References
External links
Yonkers Neighborhood Maps (City-Data.com)
Little Italys in the United States
Neighborhoods in Yonkers, New York
{{WestchesterCountyNY-geo-stub