City Hall
By 1907 the municipal government had grown large enough to warrant building a new City Hall. Edwin A. Quick & Son’s design proudly looks over the prosperous downtown, but turns its back on most of today’s city—few ever imagining that soon the vast tracts of empty land to the east would become the city's new population center.
Tenement housing increasingly characterized the older neighborhoods around the downtown as immigration fueled the city’s population growth—from 18,892 in 1880 to 79,803 in 1910.
The city government provided a host of new services to the growing citizentry. In 1896 it established the first municipal public bath house system in the country.
Yonkers’ population would more than double in the post–war era as the opening of the Bronx River Parkway in 1925 and the appearance of the automobile enabled the building of new residential sections in the city’s eastern half.
