357 Van Cortlandt Park Avenue

Leslie Sutherland Park; features include random-rubble stone walls; granite memorial with plaque in memory of Leslie Sutherland dated 1946.

Significance: Park Hill West (c. 2006), pp. 48-58, identifies Leslie Sutherland Memorial Park as the site of the destroyed Hendrick Hudson hotel, whose charred stone remains were long known as the Park Hill "Ruins" before the city acquired the site and incorporated the hotel's original retaining walls and pathways into the park.

Location Bounded by Overcliff Street and Alta Avenue on the north, Park Hill Terrace and the rear lot lines of buildings facing McLean Avenue on the west, the rear lot lines of buildings facing McLean Avenue on the south, and the rear lot lines of buildings facing Van Cortlandt Park Avenue on the east. Landscaped park with rubblestone retaining walls, benches, and memorial. Granite monument with bronze plaque including bust of Leslie Sutherland and text reading "For more than fifty years an outstanding leader in the political, civic and charitable life of the City of Yonkers. He lived in a house by the side of the road and was a friend to man.” The monument was erected by his friends and associates in 1946.

Significance: Park Hill (2002), pp. 742-755, identifies Leslie Sutherland Memorial Park as the site of the destroyed Hendrick Hudson hotel, whose charred stone remains were long known as the Park Hill "Ruins" before the city acquired the site and incorporated the original retaining walls and pathways into the park.

Significance: Park Hill (1984), pp. 424-435, identifies Leslie Sutherland Memorial Park as the site of the destroyed Hendrick Hudson hotel, whose charred stone remains were long known as the Park Hill "Ruins" before the city acquired the site and incorporated the original retaining walls into the park.