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GEOGRAPHY Hartsdale is located at 41°1'32" North, 73°48'17" West (41.025690, -73.804742). According to the United States Census Bureau , the community has a total area of 8.3 Km&2 (3.2 Mi&2 ). 8.3 km&2 (3.2 mi&2) of it is land and none of the area is covered with water. DEMOGRAPHICS As of the Census of 2000, there were 9,830 people, 4,314 households, and 2,756 families residing in the community. The Population Density was 1,186.1/km&2 (3,068.0/mi&2). There were 4,478 housing units at an average density of 540.3/km&2 (1,397.6/mi&2). The racial makeup of the community was 76.14% White , 8.71% African American , 0.19% Native American , 10.17% Asian , 0.04% Pacific Islander , 2.64% from Other Races , and 2.10% from two or more races. 9.55% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race. There were 4,314 households out of which 24.3% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 53.1% were Married Couples living together, 8.6% had a female householder with no husband present, and 36.1% were non-families. 31.8% of all households were made up of individuals and 12.7% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.27 and the average family size was 2.86. In the CDP the population was spread out with 18.2% under the age of 18, 4.8% from 18 to 24, 30.3% from 25 to 44, 28.8% from 45 to 64, and 17.9% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 43 years. For every 100 females there were 86.2 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 81.2 males. The median income for a household in the community was $81,824, and the median income for a family was $100,330. Males had a median income of $62,362 versus $47,380 for females. The Per Capita Income for the community was $45,691. 2.6% of the population and 1.6% of families were below the Poverty Line . 1.5% of those under the age of 18 and 4.6% of those 65 and older were living below the poverty line. HISTORY Hartsdale, a CDP/hamlet/village/post-office in the town of Greenburgh, NY, lies on the Bronx River just 20 miles north of New York City. It is served by the Metro North Harlem River commuter rail line into Grand Central Station. Hartsdale is the home of America's first Canine/Pet Cemetery (started by veterinarian Samuel Johnson in 1896), and the world's first Carvel Ice Cream store (1934). Hartsdale's earliest settlers were the Weekquaeskeeks, a sub-tribe of the Algonquin Indians. Weekquaeskeek is an Algonquin term believed to mean "place of the bark kettle", and this kettle appears in the Greenburgh town seal today. After the earliest British colonialists arrived, the area was developed under the Manor system when Frederick Philipse, a British Loyalist, was "given" the land by the British government. As Lord of his Philipse Manor, he leased his land to tenant farmers who, for a time, were believed to have lived alongside their Native American neighbors. There is evidence to show that Hartsdale played quite a role ruring the Revolutionary War, some of which still stands today. On October 28th, 1776, a Revolutionary War battle was fought alongside the Bronx River, near the site of the current Hartsdale train station. The Odell House (on Ridge Road, built in 1732) served as the headquarters for the French General the Comte de Rochambeau, and is where the Comte and George Washington are supposed to have formed an alliance in the Battle of Yorktown. The house was later named after John Odell, Washington's guide who bought the house in 1785. In 1965, his descendents deeded the house to the Sons of the American Revolution, and today the house is a museum. After the American colonialists won the Revolutionary War, Frederick Philipse fled, his land was confiscated and sold to the remaining farming tenants, many of whom were descendants of the Hart family. The intersection of Central Park Avenue and Hartsdale Avenue was named "Hart's Corners" after John Hart, one of these farmers, and in the mid 1800s the entire area became known as "Hartsdale". The area remained largely agrarian until 1865, when Eleazar Hart deeded land for the development of the New York and Harlem Railroad line into Manhattan, setting the stage for Hartsdale's change into a more cosmopolitan commuter village. Between 1880-1940, large tracts of farmland and estates were subdivided and converted into private houses and apartments at a furious pace. By the 1960s, almost no remaining farmland was left for sale. In 1904, the successful German-Jewish banker Felix Warburg (1871-1937) purchased large tracts of land to build his 500-acre "Woodlands" estate in Hartsdale, a summer home next to the country club where he and his wife Frieda Schiff Warburg (1876-1958) spent considerable time. The estate would later become an important site in the history of modern American ballet, when on June 10th, 1934, their son Edward Warburg (1908-1992) helped produce the first performance of Balanchine's masterpiece "Serenade". In keeping with the family's philanthropic efforts, 150 remaining acres were deeded on her death in 1958 by Frieda Schiff Warburg to the town to build a public school. These 150 acres are now the home of the Greenburgh Central 7 School District and Woodlands High School. The main Warburg mansion currently serves as the school district headquarters, but other remnants from the original estate grounds can still be seen standing in the surrounding woods and neighboring streets. The Warburg family's New York City home would later be donated to become the Jewish Museum of New York. On February 9th, 1928, Hartsdale became the birthplace of the American "Couch Potato" when the Scottish inventor John Logie Baird (1888-1946) transmitted the world's first inter-continental short-wave television signal from a transmitter (call sign 2KZ) in Coulsdon, Surrey (a suburb of London, England) to his colleague O.G. Hutchinson in the cellar of Robert M. Hart, an Amateur Radio Operator (call sign 2CVJ) in Hartsdale, New York. In 1932, Henry Gaisman , the founder of the Gillette razor blade, purchased 135 acres of land from George Christiancy, the former U.S. minister to Peru. He later married a former Catholic nun, Catherine Gaisman . In 1957, he and his wife Catherine passed the title for his land to the New York Archdiocese with the agreement that they could live there as long as they wished. Mr. Gaisman died in 1974, and his wife remained on the estate until she moved to Connecticut in 1995. In 1999, the estate was saved from sale and development when the Town of Greenburgh acquired the property and reopened it as the Hart's Brook Nature Preserve. Part of the agreement included the preservation of some portion of the estate as a home for retired Catholic nuns. The Salvation Army leader Evangeline Cory Booth (1865-1950), originally from London England, lived in Hartsdale until her death on July 17th, 1950. The classical music composer Charles Ives also lived and commuted from Hartsdale for a brief period. Other influential people who have lived in Hartsdale include the American businessman Vernon Jordan , National Urban League president John Edward Jacob , pro-wrestler "Classy" Freddie Blassie , novelist and educator Michael Rubin , and Nobel-laureate Louis J. Ignarro . Hartsdale is one of the few communities immediately surrounding New York City that still has two working farms, both on Secor Road. It also has several parks including the 25-acre Secor Woods park, the 170-acre Ridge Road park, and 86-acre Rumbrook park. The town can generally be subdivided into several different areas including the "Village" or downtown part (East Hartsdale Avenue), Manor Park, Windsor Park, Poet's Corners, Ridge Road, Orchard Hill, College Corners, or more specifically one of the several condominium developments built since the 1970s. Over the years, the town has attracted many different ethnic groups, and the downtown village has a significant Japanese population with Japanese shops, restaurants, real-estate brokers, and even a supermarket all within walking distance of East Hartsdale Avenue. Ferncliff Cemetery is located in Hartsdale, famous as the burial grounds for many celebrities including Malcolm X , Judy Garland , Jerome Kern , Joan Crawford , Ed Sullivan , Aaliyah , Jason 'Jam Master Jay' Mizell , Alan Freed , Gerry Mulligan , and others. The famous French restaurant Chez Claude (formerly Auberge Argenteuil ) is located in Hartsdale. The popular J-Pop Rap/R&B duo Heartsdales borrow their name from Hartsdale, as the two members spent considerable time here. EXTERNAL LINKS |
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