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woah. woah. woah. Dandy indeed.

Yonkers has some incredible homes tucked away (old money). Friends of my parents had a home in the 70's/80's there that had it's own disco, the inground pool was made from blasting out the interior of a massive boulder, etc.

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definately like the last photo of the room with the telescope- very...smart.

Surprised? sounded very elitist. I live in Yonkers and there are grand homes tucked away in several great neighborhoods. The wealthy people in Yonkers are discreet and not tacky like it's surrounding neighbors.

I would kill a man for a house like that.

My grandparents had a home in Yonkers we called "The Mansion". It was a three-story (plus full finished basement attic) well, mansion built in the 1800's. The home was enormous...and kind of spooky. You could be on one end of the house and never know that anyone else was in there with you.

My grandparents ended up renting the top floor when their kids grew up, simply to have the company.

There is a lot of old money up there. My mom went to school with the Kennedy's, Vanderbilt's, Rockefeller's etc.

My grandparents ended up selling it twenty years ago when they made the move to Flordia full-time (yet still go up to the farm house they have in the Berkshires every summer). We are still mad at them that they did! It is one of those grand houses that would have been perfect to pass down from generation to generation (if any of us could afford the up keep!).

Beautiful! I was surprised to see when I looked the house up on google maps it seems to be in a pretty normal neighborhood.