These moments have been misplaced in Yonkers.
Officers within the sprawling suburban metropolis on Tuesday revealed newly found and uncommon movie reels that seize life within the bustling Metropolis of Hills a century in the past when trolleys nonetheless clanged by downtown.
“Our metropolis is filled with wonderful, wealthy historical past and we now are lucky to get a glimpse of our previous with these new-found artifacts,” Yonkers Mayor Mike Spano mentioned in a press release. “When our group found the reels, we couldn’t comprise our curiosity.
“We instantly digitized them to see what was on them and it was like opening a time capsule into the early twentieth century of life in Yonkers,” the mayor mentioned.
The gathering of clips, which run for almost 10 minutes in whole, have been discovered inside a storage space in a constructing at 87 Nepperhan Ave., which beforehand housed the Yonkers Division of Planning and Growth.
The lost-in-time photos present staff paving Yonkers Avenue, one of many metropolis’s busiest roads, Yonkers Metropolis Corridor in its heyday and a groundbreaking ceremony for the Nepperhan Avenue constructing the place the uncommon clips have been found a century later, metropolis officers mentioned.
One other reel captures passersby strolling alongside the outlets in Getty Sq., with different clips exhibiting one of many earlier autos utilized by the rising Yonkers Fireplace Division.
In one other, a site visitors cop directs automobiles in downtown Yonkers and halts site visitors for passing trolleys.
“I encourage our residents to take a peek at these reels, particularly our longtime residents,” Spano mentioned. “It’s doable somebody’s grandparents or nice grandparents who labored for town could also be on these movies.”
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