Abandoned House
Westchester Country the large suburban county north of New York City is one of the wealthiest counties in the state and in the whole of the US. However in an area known as downtown Yonkers in Yonkers NY is an impoverished, blighted neighborhood straddled with very high crime. The reason my wife and I were there is get our COIVD boosters at a local armory where we could get it without an appointment. Now this area has had a bad reputation for decades and it's many years since I last even past through and I saw retail districts where over half the storefronts were locked up and not in use and a decent number homes and buildings in a very poor state of repair. As Siri on my phone was guiding us back towards the highway I passed this home that was obviously 19th century in design and some very unique architectural features in the windows and the wooden trim. At one point back when my grandfather was a boy or earlier a wealthy family probably once lived here. If this house was located not that many miles north in one of the wealthier Hudson Valley towns it would probably have been reconditioned and restored to pristine condition and the home of some very wealthy individual or even given some level of landmark status. Instead it's obviously been decaying for decades in a township that is too poor and or apathetic to either restore it or tear it down and just sits as an rotting eyesore of neglect. What a shame.
Abandoned House
Westchester Country the large suburban county north of New York City is one of the wealthiest counties in the state and in the whole of the US. However in an area known as downtown Yonkers in Yonkers NY is an impoverished, blighted neighborhood straddled with very high crime. The reason my wife and I were there is get our COIVD boosters at a local armory where we could get it without an appointment. Now this area has had a bad reputation for decades and it's many years since I last even past through and I saw retail districts where over half the storefronts were locked up and not in use and a decent number homes and buildings in a very poor state of repair. As Siri on my phone was guiding us back towards the highway I passed this home that was obviously 19th century in design and some very unique architectural features in the windows and the wooden trim. At one point back when my grandfather was a boy or earlier a wealthy family probably once lived here. If this house was located not that many miles north in one of the wealthier Hudson Valley towns it would probably have been reconditioned and restored to pristine condition and the home of some very wealthy individual or even given some level of landmark status. Instead it's obviously been decaying for decades in a township that is too poor and or apathetic to either restore it or tear it down and just sits as an rotting eyesore of neglect. What a shame.