Park Hill is a

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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 ...

. The neighborhood is located atop a bluff east of South Broadway. The neighborhood was developed in 1888 by the American Real Estate Company of Manhattan as one of the first planned communities in the

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. The neighborhood's centerpiece for a short time was the Hendric Hudson Hotel, designed by Bruce Price, the architect of the Château Frontenac in

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. Park Hill contains many vintage single-family homes, many overlooking the

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. The neighborhood's housing stock consists primarily of large

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, Tudor Revival, Arts & Crafts, and Georgian Colonial-style homes. Notable residents in the past include the actor Richard Bennett and his daughters,

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and

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as well as Dennis O'Brien, the

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counsel. Park Hill was once the home of a

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, the Park Hill Incline, which ran from the Getty Square Branch of the

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to Alta Avenue between 1894 and 1937. The two stations that served the Incline are now private residences.

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External links

Park Hill Residents' AssociationThe Racquet Club on Park Hill
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'', March 18, 2007 * ttps://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9504E6D81231F937A35752C0A96E958260&sec=&pagewanted=all "If You're Thinking of Living In/Park Hill, Yonkers; Vintage Homes on a 300-Foot Plateau"from ''

'', January 4, 1998
Collection of Yonkers historical documents and pictures including much of Park Hill
Neighborhoods in Yonkers, New York {{WestchesterCountyNY-geo-stub