Getty Square (Yonkers)
Coordinates: 40°56′02″N 73°53′53″W / 40.93377°N 73.89795°W
Getty Square is the name for downtown Yonkers, New York, centered on the eponymous public square. Getty Square is the civic center, central business district, and transit hub of the City of Yonkers. A dense and growing residential area, it is located in southern Westchester County, New York. The square is named after prominent 19th-century merchant Robert Getty.
The square is named for Robert Parkhill Getty, a prominent merchant and civic leader in the 1800s.
The Saw Mill River, which flows through Getty Square, powered manufacturing grist mills beginning in the 1600s. The area was a Dutch patroonship granted to the first lawyer in the New World, Adriaen van der Donck. Getty Square's two oldest, still-standing buildings, Philipse Manor Hall (circa 1682) and St. John's Protestant Episcopal Church (built 1752 by Frederick Philipse III), were built in close proximity to the river. The Hudson River, bordering the western waterfront of Getty Square, provided a transportation route to markets beginning in the 1600s. The completion of the Erie Canal in 1825 increased water-borne traffic from upstate New York down the Hudson to Manhattan.
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