About Sarah Lawrence College

Sarah Lawrence College is a private avant-garde arts educational in Yonkers, New York. The university models its entry to education after the Oxford/Cambridge system of one-on-one student-faculty tutorials. Sarah Lawrence emphasizes scholarship, particularly in the humanities, performing arts, and writing, and places high value on independent study. Originally a women’s college, Sarah Lawrence became coeducational in 1968.

Yonkers (/ˈjɒŋkərz/) is a city in Westchester County, New York, United States. Developed along the Hudson River, it is the fourth most populous city in the declare of New York, after New York City, Buffalo, and Rochester. The population of Yonkers was 195,976 as enumerated in the 2010 United States Census; it is estimated to have increased by 2.2% to 200,370 in 2019. It is classified as an inner suburb of New York City, directly to the north of the Bronx and approximately two miles (3 km) north of the northernmost reduction in Manhattan.

Yonkers’s downtown is centered upon a plaza known as Getty Square, where the municipal meting out is located. The downtown Place also houses significant local businesses and nonprofits. It serves as a major retail hub for Yonkers and the northwest Bronx.

The city is house to several attractions, including right of entry to the Hudson River, Tibbetts Brook Park, with its public pool with slides and lazy river and two-mile walking loop Untermyer Park; Hudson River Museum; Saw Mill River daylighting, wherein a parking lot was removed to uncover the Nepperkamack (Saw Mill River); Science Barge; and Sherwood House. Yonkers Raceway, a harness racing track, renovated its grounds and clubhouse, and extra legalized video slot machine gambling in 2006 to become a “racino” named Empire City. This casino-style gambling bonus to the similarity of the track as a destination.

Major shopping areas are located in Getty Square, on South Broadway, at the Cross County Shopping Center and Westchester’s Ridge Hill, and along Central Park Avenue, informally called “Central Ave” by area residents, a publicize it takes officially a few miles north in White Plains.

Yonkers is known as the “City of Seven Hills”, which includes Park, Nodine, Ridge, Cross, Locust, Glen, and Church hills.