Yonkers will celebrate the Dominican Republic’s independence.

The observance begins at 4:30 p.m. with a flag raising ceremony at City Hall, 40 S. Broadway.

Dominican Americans are the second-largest Hispanic group in Yonkers, representing about 8 percent of the city’s population and numbering 15,903 people, according to the 2010 Census.

Yonkers has two Dominican elected representatives County legislator Virginia Perez and City Council woman Corazon Pineda-Issac

Other Dominican Independence events this week are organized by the Dominican Cultural Association of Yonkers and the Dominican American Cultural Club of Yonkers.

The Dominican Republic’s independence from Haiti was Feb. 27, 1844