At 2:30 a.m. on December 23, 1873, the Emmett family of Pelham Manor suffered one of the most infamous home invasions and robberies ever experienced in our little town. The family lived in the notable residence that still stands at 145 Shore Road.
... it was fit for beasts. With the storm raging, a pair of burglars had been working the New Rochelle and Pelham Manor region. At about 2:30 a.m. the pair forced their way though a small window into the ticket office of the Pelham Manor Depot. The ...
... Help Civil War Soldiers on Davids' Island in 1864 . Fri., Jun. 3, 2005: Davids' Island Off the Coast of Pelham Manor During the Civil War . Though Thaddeus Davids only owned the island for a few years in the late 1850s and early 1860s, the island ...
One of the nation's premier college preparatory schools, The Taft School , began in Pelham Manor in 1890. Horace Dutton Taft founded the institution.
One of the nation's premier college preparatory schools, The Taft School , began in Pelham Manor in 1890. Horace Dutton Taft founded the institution.
In 1889, Emily Hall Hazen who had taught at the Masters School in Dobbs Ferry, New York, opened a private girls' school in Pelham Manor. It almost immediately became one of the finest girls' schools in the country.
In 1889, Emily Hall Hazen who had taught at the Masters School in Dobbs Ferry, New York, opened a private girls' school in Pelham Manor. It almost immediately became one of the finest girls' schools in the country.
... building they built we know today as Siwanoy Elementary School located at 489 Siwanoy Place in the Village of Pelham Manor. The decision to build a new school, including how to pay for it and where to locate it, was not easy. Moreover, when the ...
... building they built we know today as Siwanoy Elementary School located at 489 Siwanoy Place in the Village of Pelham Manor. The decision to build a new school, including how to pay for it and where to locate it, was not easy. Moreover, when the ...
Introduction " Voila! ", Judge William F. Gay of Mount Vernon must have thought at that moment more than 110 years ago when his research seemed finally to have paid off. His research revealed a potential weakness in the chain of title involving a fifty-acre farm that had been sold many decades before for development in Pelham Manor.
... for more than thirty years as headmistress of the Priory School for Girls founded in Bolton Priory in today's Pelham Manor in about 1845. Nanette Bolton did not want to close her beloved school. She did not want to leave Pelham. She was forced to ...
... of Christ Church and owner of the Priory, built beginning in 1838. His mother was Ann Jay. The Priory, in Pelham Manor, has been known as The Priory, Bolton Priory, Pelham Priory, the Priory School for Girls, and Pelham Priory for Girls. It is ...
... of Christ Church and owner of the Priory, built beginning in 1838. His mother was Ann Jay. The Priory, in Pelham Manor, has been known as The Priory, Bolton Priory, Pelham Priory, the Priory School for Girls, and Pelham Priory for Girls. It is ...
... life? Inside the lavish time-capsule New York mansion untouched since 1969 that's on the market for $1.6million Pelham Manor has just hit the market for A 1.2m ($1.6m) after sitting empty and almost untouched since 1969 After its former owner died ...
In the early morning darkness on Tuesday, May 7, 1918, members of the Pelham Manor Police Department were still abuzz over an attempted burglary and brutal assault earlier in the night at the home of wealthy cigar manufacturer Herman Rokohl who lived at 255 Corona Avenue. At 4:00 a.m. that morning, there was a shift change.
... President Martin Van Buren's Visit to Pelham in July 1839 . Fri., Dec. 15, 2006: References to John Hunter of Pelham Manor in the Papers of President Martin Van Buren . Tue., Nov. 21, 2006: John Hunter Loses a Debate in the State Senate During the ...
... Henry W. Taft and Alfred L. Hammett, clambered aboard the tiny little Harlem River Branch Line train that left Pelham Manor Depot at 7:37 a.m. Monday morning. Little did they know the life-threatening risk they were taking. The tiny little train on ...
... mile farther inland and thus lose the beautiful scenery along the Sound." The reporter must have alerted local Pelham Manor authorities of what he had observed. He reported that " right at this point, within a month, constables and a Justice of the ...
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.
... Chest in the 19th Century . Thu., Feb. 19, 2015: Another Account of Gold and Silver Treasure Found in a Pelham Manor Backyard in 1889 . Wed., Jun. 11, 2014: Buried Treasure Off the Shores of Pelham: The Legend of Pirate's Treasure . Wed., Oct. 14, ...
Cornelius Winter Bolton was a son of the Rev. Robert Bolton who founded Christ Church in Pelham Manor.
... was an acclaimed and successful Broadway playwright of the early 20th century. He lived in a lovely home in Pelham Manor known as "Ruraldene" that once was located in an area that includes today's 219 Jackson Avenue. Ruraldene no longer exists. The ...
There is a lovely, and some might say unique, two-story home located at 467 Pelhamdale Avenue in the Village of Pelham Manor that is only eighteen feet wide. Moreover, it sits on a lot that is only twenty-five feet wide.
... floor, officials said. New Rochelle firefighters got an assist from crews in White Plains, Eastchester Yonkers, Pelham Manor, Eastchester and Greenville. It took upwards of 50 firefighters several hours to get the three-alarm fire under control. ...
... Crews from New Rochelle got an assist battling the three-alarm blaze from departments from Pelham, Yonkers and Pelham Manor. It was not immediately clear if there if any residents or firefighters were injured.
... call came in about 7 p.m., soon expanding to a 2nd and then 3rd alarm as mutual aide calls went out to Yonkers, Pelham Manor and other area fire companies. When fire fighters arrived in the scene the occupants of the house at 201 Elm Street were on ...
On Tuesday, October 18, 1927, the local chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution unveiled a New York State historic marker on the Hutchinson River Parkway near the home known as "Pelhamdale," located at 45 Iden Avenue in Pelham Manor. The home is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
An odd advertisement appeared in New York City's The Evening Telegraph on September 25, 1876. It advertised an upcoming auction sale of land and houses in Pelham Manor by the Pelham Manor & Huguenot Heights Association.
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."
... a site for the club's second home. The committee settled on an idyllic and beautiful island off the shore of Pelham Manor that was, at the time, attached to the mainland only by a simple, narrow causeway. At the time, the island was most frequently ...
... January 1, 2010 through February 28, 2015, the defendant, who was the Controller of the Pelham Country Club in Pelham Manor, New York, systematically embezzled funds for over five years. She drew and negotiated checks from the bank account of Pelham ...
A large home known as "The Shrubbery" once stood along Split Rock Road in Pelham Manor. The home once was owned briefly by Aaron Burr, Revolutionary War hero and third Vice President of the United States before he infamously shot and killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel on July 11, 1804.
The origins of the Village of Pelham Manor can be traced back to March 2, 1866, when a newspaper notice announced an intent to incorporate the Harlem River and Portchester Railroad. The railroad was intended to run parallel to Long Island Sound to open up to development a vast section including the Pelham shoreline from Pelham Bridge to New Rochelle.
... little trolley shuttled back and forth, at that time, between the Pelham Station on the New Haven Line and the Pelham Manor Station on the New Haven Branch Line. In 1909, the rattletrap trolley click-clacked along tracks laid on Wolfs Lane to ...
With the holiday season coming to a close, DPW crews are gearing up to kick off long-awaited rehabilitation efforts at the Fulton Avenue Drawbridge along the Mount Vernon and Pelham Manor border. Beginning on Wednesday, Jan. 4, the bridge will be closed to motorists and pedestrians between Secor Lane and Edison Avenue.
Born the eldest child to Greg and Adrienne Coleman of Pelham Manor, Coleman attended Prospect Hill Elementary School in Pelham Manor, and Iona Grammar and Iona Preparatory High School in New Rochelle. He played football for Iona Prep and with his team, won a State Championship.
... As if such claims to fame were not enough, Toscha and Estelle Seidel of Stellar Avenue in the Village of Pelham Manor were famous throughout Pelham for one additional reason. They were the owners of "Hector," a monumentally-large Great Dane that ...
... recommendation that it sue seven communities in Westchester County: Croton-on-Hudson, Harrison, Lewisboro, Pelham Manor, Larchmont, North Castle and Rye Brook. Borgia added that the Democratic Caucus has added funds to conduct a comprehensive ...
... on's recommendation that it sue seven communities in Westchester County: Croton-on-Hudson, Harrison, Lewisboro, Pelham Manor, Larchmont, North Castle and Rye Brook.
... in the Town of Pelham . Mon., Apr. 12, 2010: New York Athletic Club Stage Coach Accident Leads to Death of Pelham Manor Man . Wed., Mar. 03, 2010: 1879 Advertisement for Robert J. Vickery's City Island Stage Line, A Predecessor to the City Island ...