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Thomas Brooks was the first African-American to serve as a police officer in Yonkers and Westchester County. He joined the Yonkers Police Department in 1925.

This photograph of Thomas Brooks was taken in 1930.

Dean talks about the importance of knowing your local history and important events that occurred in Westchester County during the American Revolution.

This photograph was taken by Melvin Goldstein.

The store was rented to the Yonkers Public Library by owner Ernie Green.

The aim of the program was to promote library service to Spanish speakers in the Riverdale Avenue section of Yonkers.


Standing (from left to right): Ida Heuer, senior…

This photograph was taken in November of 1992.

From left to right: Trustee Toby N. Patterson; Trustee Matthew A. Walker; Lawrence Howard, student from Martin Luther King School (at podium); library directory Jacqueline E. Miller; Father Elias Kozer, Pastor (St. Mary's Carpatho-Russian Orthodox…

This photograph was taken in the late 1980s at the Getty Square Branch.

This photograph was taken in the late 1940s.