Wednesday, May 4, 2016

Our old Yonkers headquarter building on the way out

Ron Muzillo  was at our Yonkers headquarter building site recently and found it is being demolished and writes

The entire 1st floor appears to be demolished- All of the walls havebeen taken out, one big hall!!
I'm not sure about the 2nd floor but the building is in terrible shape, both inside and out.
Its a shame, a beautiful location but there's not much you can do with the building or parking lot which appears to be a parking are for larger type trucks and large dumpsters. Looking at the mfg facilities across the street and thosebuildings are following apart...terrible shape. They need to be torn down and start all over.
Its heartbreaking to see-such great memories -
Ron M
  
I share Ron's fond memory as I have spent my days between 1971 and early 1990 there.     It was a beautiful and architect prize winning building.       Sun Chemical continued to own the building after we all moved out in early 1990 (some to Columbus, GA and many of us to Ft Lee or Carlstadt, New Jersey.    It was occupied by the Westchester Social Service agency for a while but after it moved out to a nearby larger building the building  as far as I can determine,  remained unoccupied for a long time.       It was built before the energy crunch and probably was not very energy efficient for  modern needs.      So it is not surprising to see it being demolished/renovated to a new version.         Ken