Circle of Sisters Expo

Come join us this weekend at the Circle of Sisters Expo.

Produced and hosted by WBLS-FM, HOT 97-FM, WLIB–AM and Emmis Communications, COS hosts a variety of panel discussions, seminars, and inspirational services, as well as a Gospel concert and fashion show, in addition to over 300 vendors and small businesses selling unique items and services all weekend. 

October 15-16 at the Jakob K. Javits Center., Level 1, Halls 1A-1C.  We'll be in Booth 733, so stop by.

Setting up our booth tonight

Setting up our booth tonight

Looks even better in person

Looks even better in person

Beautiful Tulip stump

Beautiful Tulip stump

History Lesson

How Yonkers Got Its Name

This past week we posted some interesting historical "goings on" in Yonkers in the 20th century, which were fun to research.  Yonkers has a rich and varied history and one that is filled with quite a few firsts.   Here now, we give you some historical information on the city that NYCitySlab calls home.

The first residents of the City of Yonkers were Native Americans of the Algonquin, Mohegan and Manhattes tribes.  Napperckamack, the name of their village (which means rapid water settlement) was where the Neperah stream, which is the present day Saw Mill River, flowed into the Hudson or Shatemuck River.

In 1609, the Dutch West India Company sponsored Henry Hudson's expedition up the waterway which now bears his name, to find a new sailing route to India.  His discovery led to fur trading with the Indians at various points along the river.

Under Dutch rule, the purchase of lands became quite a business.  Twenty years after Peter Minuit bought Manhattan Island for the grand sum of $24, Adriaen Van der Donck received a land grant from the Dutch West India Company.  In addition to being the first lawyer in the Dutch colony, Van der Donck was a leader in the political life of New Amsterdam (modern New York City), and an activist for Dutch-style republican government in the Dutch West India Company-run trading post.  

As the area's patron and as dictated by Dutch law, Van der Donck bought the land from the Indian Sachem of the Keskeskick in the late 1640's and named it Colen-Donck (Donck Colony). He built one of the first saw mills in the the New World on De Zaag Kill, or the Saw Mill River, in 1649. Van der Donck was referred to as De Jonkheer, "young gentleman" or "young nobleman".  De Jonkheer evolved through several changes to The Younckers, The Yonkers and finally to present day Yonkers.

            Adriaen Van der Donck

            Adriaen Van der Donck

No Fuss, No Muss

Buying wood from NYCitySlab is as easy as can be.  The hard part will be deciding which slabs to get.

We have a very large selection of slabs, some are even prettier than this pair of Walnut.Make an appointment, choose what you need, pay and take with you. We can mill to your specifications and finish the slabs too.   

We have a very large selection of slabs, some are even prettier than this pair of Walnut.

Make an appointment, choose what you need, pay and take with you. 

We can mill to your specifications and finish the slabs too. 

 

 

On This Day in Yonkers History

Tuesday, October 11, 1941

The Reverend Alexander Leedie was ordained as a Catholic priest and was the first African-American from Yonkers or Westchester County to become a priest.  Born in Mt. Vernon in 1912, his family relocated to 27 Culver St., Yonkers where he attended St. Peter's School, Hawthorne Junior High School and Yonkers High School.  

He was ordained for the Society of the Divine Word and on October 12, 1941, he celebrated his first Mass, which was served by his father, Mr. Julian Leedie, who had taught his son to serve Mass some twenty years before.