Yonkersruns on a handful of strong industries. If you’re job-hunting or weighing a move, here’s where the opportunities (and the big-name employers) are.
Top industries & employers
Health care
St. John's Riverside Hospital, Montefiore St. Vincent's, St. Joseph's Medical Center, Westchester Medical Center in Valhalla, ArchCare
The largest employment sector in the city, and unusually deep for a place this size because Westchester Medical Center — the regional academic trauma and transplant centre for the whole Hudson Valley — is twenty minutes north. Yonkers itself carries three hospitals inside the city limits.
Film, television & studio production
Lionsgate Studios Yonkers, Great Point Studios, i.Park Hudson, independent post-production and rental houses
The most recent and most visible change to the Yonkers economy: a large purpose-built studio campus on a former industrial site south of downtown, built to take New York production that cannot fit or afford Brooklyn and Queens. It has pulled crew, catering and equipment businesses in behind it.
Consumer research, media & publishing
Consumer Reports, Kawasaki Rail Car's North American operation, marketing and print firms across the i.Park and Cross County corridors
Consumer Reports has been headquartered in Yonkers for decades and is the city's best-known white-collar employer. Kawasaki assembles rail cars for New York's subway and commuter systems at a Yonkers plant — a rare piece of surviving heavy manufacturing on the lower Hudson.
Hospitality, gaming & retail
MGM Empire City at Yonkers Raceway, Cross County Shopping Center, Ridge Hill, Stew Leonard's
Yonkers Raceway has run harness racing since the nineteenth century and the casino attached to it is one of the city's biggest single employers and a major source of municipal revenue. Cross County, opened in the 1950s, was one of the first large open-air shopping centres in the United States and still anchors the middle of the city.
Education & public sector
Yonkers Public Schools, Sarah Lawrence College, Iona University's Yonkers programmes, City of Yonkers, Westchester County government
Yonkers Public Schools is one of New York's 'Big Five' city districts — funded through the city budget rather than by a separate school tax levy, which is why a Yonkers homeowner gets one city bill with a school component rather than the separate school bill the rest of Westchester receives.
Food production & logistics
Greyston Bakery, Yonkers Brewing Company, food distributors along the Saw Mill and the waterfront industrial strip
Greyston is a genuine Yonkers institution: it supplies brownies to Ben & Jerry's and hires on an 'open hiring' basis with no interview, résumé or background check, which has made it a case study far beyond the food trade.
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