Buyer found for family house in Yonkers

2010 file photo

After serving for 48 years as the family homestead of Daniel & Lorraine and their children, this Yonkers house is about to become another family's home.

With the long process of removing valuables and keepsakes complete, and with a lot of effort by Brien in particular to clean, paint and prepare the house for showing, it was put on the market in mid-April. Today, three weeks later, a buyer signed a contract. The sale is expected to close this month.

Last week, Dan, Kathy, Brien and Kevin met for a last get-together in the house to celebrate the pending sale and our memories of many happy years in the home.



It was on July 7, 1966 - Lorraine's birthday - that she and Daniel received the key to the house from the previous owner. "We were just finishing dinner, and Dad was about to bring out the birthday cake," Dan recalls. "We all jumped up from the table, and without hesitation, we packed the cake, a card table and chairs into the car and drove the few blocks from our apartment to our new home.

"It was one family birthday party we would never forget. In particular, we remember kicking a half-deflated basketball around the empty living room. Mom was encouraging us to run around and make noise -- she was so happy that there was no landlord downstairs to complain!"