Drunken off-duty bus driver busted in crashed car outside mall

Cops caught a drunken off-duty MTA bus driver idling behind the wheel of his wrecked car late Saturday in a mall parking lot just outside the Bronx. Shoppers outside the Post Road Plaza in Pelham Manor, Westchester County, called police after seeing Derrick Sanchez, 40, sitting in the damaged 2013 BMW around 11:20 p.m., according to authorities.

F.Y.I.: The Bronx Airport That Never Was

... as "the world's largest airport on the shore of Eastchester Creek." Residents of the neighboring Village of Pelham Manor, understandably, did not like the idea of an airport in their backyard; although the village was located in Westchester County, ...

Westchester Offering Affordable Housing

Attached is a flyer with new Affordable Homeownership Opportunities in Westchester County, courtesy Legislator Catherine Parker, with an Application Deadline set for April 24, 2017. Available are Condos, Single and Three Family Homes located in: Bedford, Buchanan, Cortlandt, Harrison, Lewisboro, Mount Pleasant, North Castle, Pelham Manor, Pound Ridge, Somers and Yorktown.

Pelhamville Citizens Petitioned to Establish a Fire District In Early 1893

In late 1892 and early 1893, before the incorporation of the Village of North Pelham and the adjacent Village of Pelham , residents of the area north of the newly-incorporated Village of Pelham Manor agitated to form a modern volunteer fire fighting unit to fight fires in Pelhamville and the area we know today as Pelham Heights. Under recently enacted New York State laws, the taxpayers of Pelhamville and Pelham Heights prepared a petition signed by more than half the resident taxpayers in that part of the town asking for the " authority to organize a fire department in that portion of said town lying north of the old Boston Post Road, and to be known as the Pelhamville fire department."

The Big Picture: Controversy in the 1880s Over Who Should Pay to…

Recently I wrote about a pair of lawsuits brought by George H. Reynolds, President and Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Pelham Manor Protective Club, in 1883 against Town of Pelham Supervisor James Hyatt and the Westchester County Board of Supervisors to stop a tax levy against Town of Pelham residents to fund construction of a new City Island Bridge. See Mon., Jun. 05, 2017: For Once, Pelham Manor Mainlanders Told City Islanders "No" in 1883 .