... to his time on Staten Island -- 1991 to 2004 -- Boyle was pastor of Our Lady of Perpetual Help R.C. Parish in Pelham Manor in Westchester County, according to Advance records. Meanwhile, parishioners at St. Joseph-St. Thomas R.C. Parish in Pleasant ...
... somewhat evolved, as a portion of today's Pelham Bay Golf Course in Pelham Bay Park bordering the Village of Pelham Manor boundary. The course later was joined by a second adjacent course known today as the Split Rock Golf Course. William Kilgour, ...
... 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, ...
During the Civil War, one of the largest tracts in the Town of Pelham that fronted Long Island Sound along what we know today as Shore Road belonged to Patrick L. Rogers. The tract was immediately southwest of today's boundary between Pelham Manor and Pelham Bay Park.
On April 3, 1931, the headline on the front page of The Pelham Sun blared that New York City Planned a "Big Amusement Park" on Hunter's Island in Pelham Bay Park. The headline also blared that Pelham Manor was expected to oppose the amusement park.
In the early years after the founding of the New York Athletic Club facility on Travers Island in 1888, whenever a major event was held on the island all of Pelham buzzed with activity. Trains rolled into and out of the Pelhamville station on the New Haven Main Line and the Pelham Manor depot on the Branch Line.