The Yonkers Public Library operates with a budget of over $9 million, 105 staff members, and a collection of nearly 700,000 books and other materials.

The Director of the Library is Jesse Montero and the President of the board of trustees is Nancy Maron.

Yonkers Mayor Leslie Sutherland, joined by writer John Kendrick Bangs and educator Charles E. Gorton, formed a committee in 1900 to request funds from Andrew Carnegie for the construction of a permanent library building.

Quick & Son, and constructed by the local firm of Lynch and Larkin, Mr. Carnegie's library building opened to the public on the corner of South Broadway and Nepperhan Terrace on July 9, 1904.

Property was found at a location on Thompson Street in Yonkers to build the Crestwood Library.

[6] On November 11, 1962, the Sprain Brook branch of the Library opened on Central Park Avenue in east Yonkers.

In honor of the Library's longtime director, the Sprain Brook branch was renamed the Grinton I.

And Sprain Brook and Crestwood were joined for a time by branch libraries in Coyne Park and in the Hudson River Museum (both now closed).

Doomed by the decision to expand Nepperhan Avenue into an arterial, the building was closed and eventually demolished in May 1982, to the dismay of many.

Now encompassing four floors, the spacious Riverfront Library shares the former, and thoroughly retooled, Otis Elevator Works building with the headquarters of the Yonkers Board of Education.