Empire City Casino at Yonkers Raceway is documented in Yonkers, New York, and Yonkers is 17.4 miles straight-line from Manhattan. Road distance is longer than straight-line distance, and this article does not publish driving mileage or travel time.
Where the venue is fixed on the map
For this venue, the publicly published reference sources document the city, county, state, venue name, and venue type, but not a property coordinate. That means the fixed place this article can describe is Yonkers in Westchester County, New York, rather than a measured point on the casino parcel itself.
The venue is listed as Empire City Casino at Yonkers Raceway in Yonkers, within Westchester County, in the state of New York. Its documented type is Electronic table games. Figures like venue footprint, room inventory, machine count, and property-to-city mileage are not available here and should be checked through the venue's own current information channels if needed.
The city coordinate available for Yonkers is 40.94138889 latitude and -73.86444444 longitude. Because the published coordinate is for the city and not the property, every mileage figure below is measured from Yonkers as a city reference point.
Documented straight-line distances from Yonkers
The table below lists every published city-to-city pairing available for this venue's location context. Each figure is a great-circle measurement, which means a straight-line measurement between city centres rather than a road route.
| 参照点 | 直线英里 | 测量类型 |
|---|---|---|
| Manhattan | 17.4 | great-circle |
| NYC | 17.4 | great-circle |
| Philadelphia | 96.6 | great-circle |
| Atlantic City | 113.0 | great-circle |
| Rehoboth Beach, Delaware | 166.3 | great-circle |
| Lake George | 171.8 | great-circle |
| Boston | 174.9 | great-circle |
| Syracuse | 186.7 | great-circle |
| Washington, DC | 218.4 | great-circle |
| Buffalo | 290.6 | great-circle |
| Niagara Falls | 306.3 | great-circle |
| Pittsburgh | 322.0 | great-circle |
How to read those mileage figures correctly
A straight-line figure is useful for orientation because it shows broad geographic separation without claiming a route. It is not the same thing as the distance a car, bus, or other surface trip would cover.
Real-world travel is longer because roads do not run as a perfectly direct line between city centres. Water crossings, the shape of the street and highway network, detours around built-up areas, and cross-state routing all push a practical trip beyond the great-circle figure.
That difference matters especially around dense metropolitan areas and coast-facing corridors, where bridges, river crossings, and network geometry can force indirect movement. So the Yonkers-to-reference-point figures in this article are best treated as map-orientation tools, not trip-planning totals.
Regional position using the documented coordinate
With Yonkers documented at 40.94138889, -73.86444444, the venue's fixed location is in southeastern New York. Because the venue is tied here to Yonkers rather than to a property coordinate, the most accurate regional statement this article can make is that the casino sits in Yonkers, in Westchester County, in the southeastern part of New York State.
The published comparison points help show that setting. Yonkers is much closer by straight-line measurement to Manhattan and NYC than to upstate New York reference points such as Syracuse, Buffalo, or Niagara Falls, and it is also closer to nearby northeastern corridor cities than to Pittsburgh.
That does not create a route guide, but it does place the venue within a clear regional frame: a downstate New York location with published straight-line links to nearby and farther East Coast cities. If your question is simply where Empire City Casino is fixed geographically, Yonkers, New York is the answer this source supports.
What this article can and cannot measure
Because the available coordinate belongs to the city, not the property parcel, this article cannot publish straight-line mileage from the casino building itself. It can only publish straight-line mileage from Yonkers as a city reference point.
It also cannot provide driving distance for Empire City Casino, because no road-mile figures are published here. If you need the current road route from your starting point, use a live mapping tool and compare your own origin against Yonkers, New York.
If a reader asks for distance from a place not listed in the published matrix, this article cannot measure that pair. In that case, the usable information remains the fixed city location, the Yonkers coordinate, and the reference-city distances already listed above.
What to confirm before you go
Before setting out, confirm the items that change and are not part of this location explainer. That includes the venue's current access details, parking arrangements, entry procedures, amenities, and any operating schedule information.
The authoritative current answer for those live details is the venue's own official information channels, such as its contact page, guest services desk, or published visitor information pages. For route planning from your own starting point, a current mapping service is the right tool because your location is variable while the venue's city location is fixed.
If you are comparing this venue with another destination, make sure you are comparing like with like. A city-to-city great-circle number is useful for broad orientation, but it should not be mixed with a road-mile estimate from a navigation app as though they were the same measurement.
FAQ
Is Empire City Casino in New York City?
The venue is documented in Yonkers, New York, in Westchester County, not as a venue located in New York City. The published straight-line matrix does show Yonkers at 17.4 miles straight-line from Manhattan and also 17.4 miles straight-line from NYC, but those are city-to-city orientation figures, not property address measurements.
Can this article tell me how far Empire City Casino is from my location?
Only if your starting point appears in the published Yonkers distance matrix, and then only as a straight-line city-to-city figure. If your location is not one of those listed reference points, this article cannot measure that pair. The practical way to finish the job is to use your own live map starting from your exact origin and compare it with Yonkers, New York.
Why are there two entries showing 17.4 miles?
The published matrix includes both Manhattan and NYC, and each is listed at 17.4 miles straight-line from Yonkers. This article reproduces the documented pairings as published. They should be read as separate reference labels in the source set, even though the straight-line number shown for both is the same.
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