The year was 1902. The new-fangled contraption known by some as the horseless carriage and by others as the automobile was beginning to crowd local roadways in Pelham Manor, particularly Boston Post Road, Pelhamdale Avenue, and Shore Road.
... accident. Their sons were 7 and 9 at the time and now live with family in the Hartford area. Relatives of the Pelham Manor, New York, couple asked the state claims commissioner in 2008 for permission to sue the state, as required by law. Their ...
... yet exist. (It was created by New York State statute in 1788.) The area was known as the Manor of Pelham (or "Pelham Manor" for short). The brief stretch of the Old Boston Post Road that ran through Pelham ran from the border with Eastchester ...
He leaves his devoted wife of 22 years, Jodi C. Del Re; his loving children, Maggie Del Re and Ray Del Re, both of Northborough; his parents, AJ Del Re Jr. and his wife Jenny of Pelham Manor, N.Y., and Don and Angela Smith of Naples, Fla.; his mother-in-law, Nancy Kraus of Northborough; his siblings, Jonathan Del Re, Brian Del Re; Max Del Re, Alex Del Re, Jeff Smith, Stacy Smith and Darby Smith; many nieces, nephews; and his aunt. Born in New Rochelle, N.Y., Al was raised and educated in Barrington Hills, Ill.
... devoted to the history of the Town and the surrounding region. One of those local historians, Mark Gaffney of Pelham Manor, is a member of the New York Athletic Club and magnanimously has provided two images of the Old Hunter House published in the ...
... Towns, and Cities. They were proud of their three "artistic" railroad stations: the Pelham Station, the Pelham Manor Station, and the Fifth Avenue Station of the New York, Boston and Westchester Railway. Pelham also was proud of its new high school, ...
When the New York Athletic Club of New York City bought the island it renamed "Travers Island" in Pelham Manor, there stood on the island a beautiful old home known as the "Old Hunter House." Named after John Hunter of Hunter's Island who had remodeled and improved the home during the mid-19th century, the main portion of the home was said to have been built in 1812 for Temple Emmett, a member of the Emmett Family that long resided in the area.
... in 1868, shows the location of the home in 1868. Although numerous sources indicate Flagg was born in "Pelham Manor, New York" it is debatable whether the Split Rock Road location where he was born is properly labeled "Pelham Manor." The Village of ...
... five years. Beecroft became an active member of the community that, in 1891, incorporated as the Village of Pelham Manor. According to the minutes of the Pelham Manor Protect Club, a predecessor to village government, Beecroft was elected a member ...
... in a number of previous postings. See , e.g. : Fri., Sep. 09, 2005: Reminiscences of Lockwood Barr of Pelham Manor Published in 1940 . Tue., Sep. 27, 2005: I. C. Hill's Reminiscences of Early Public Schools in Pelham . Tue., Mar. 28, 2006: More ...
There once stood a magnificent elm that towered above the Manger Circle neighborhood in the Village of Pelham Manor. It stood on the property known today as 5 Manger Circle.
One of the two oldest homes in the Town of Pelham is the beautiful historic home known as "Pelhamdale." The address of that home today is 45 Iden Avenue in the Village of Pelham Manor.
... artistically delightful from an artist's viewpoint is the William L. Curtin residence at 35 Beech Tree Lane, Pelham Manor. The Country Club, Bolton Priory, the High School facade, and our own chief joy, the Westchester & Boston R.R. arch over Fifth ...
... New York border. Westchester County police were notified, but the Acura crashed while exiting the highway in Pelham Manor, N.Y., Conklin said. The driver, Eric Henry , 29, of Mount Vernon, N.Y., was charged by New York police with criminal ...
Merrell H. Hambleton, a fundraiser who assisted her husband legendary producer T. Edward Hambleton in the operation of his Phoenix Theater in New York, died Saturday at her home in the Broadmead retirement community in Cockeysville from complications of a fall. The daughter of Albert Hopkins, an insurance executive, and Nettie Beall, a homemaker, Merrell Hopkins was born in New Rochelle, N.Y., and raised in Pelham Manor, N.Y. She was a graduate of Warrenton Country School, in Warrenton, Va., and spent summers at the Perry Mansfield Camp in Steamboat Springs, Colo., where her mother ran an adult camp and made costumes for the theater school.
... England Thruway obliterated much of the ancient roadway between Split Rock and the New York City border with Pelham Manor where a portion of Split Rock Road remains today, lined with lovely residential homes. A portion of Split Rock Road that can be ...
... for the youngsters. It arranged for revolving appearances of local church ministers from Mount Vernon and Pelham Manor to deliver sermons to the congregation. Early services and Sunday School gatherings were held in the parlor of the home of Mr. ...
... of course, is a good thing. At about the same time, members of the Bolton Family who lived in the Priory at Pelham Manor and who had built Christ Church there were vying for the souls of City Islanders as well. Beginning in about 1849, Adele Bolton, ...
It is hard to imagine for the many, many Pelham Manor residents who live between Shore Road and the Branch Line railroad tracks that cross Pelhamdale Avenue at Trestle Field, but that area once was virtually pristine woods and meadows and was used by the New York Athletic Club to lay out a nationally-famous cross country course on which major cross country championship races were held. Indeed, a s noted before by Historic Pelham, "In 1903 and 1904, the large area of Pelham Manor bounded by Shore Road, the boundary with Pelham Bay Park in New York City, Pelhamdale Avenue and the railroad tracks along which Pelham Manor Station once stood looked very different than it does today.
It is hard to imagine for the many, many Pelham Manor residents who live between Shore Road and the Branch Line railroad tracks that cross Pelhamdale Avenue at Trestle Field, but that area once was virtually pristine woods and meadows and was used by the New York Athletic Club to lay out a nationally-famous cross country course on which major cross country championship races were held. Indeed, a s noted before by Historic Pelham, "In 1903 and 1904, the large area of Pelham Manor bounded by Shore Road, the boundary with Pelham Bay Park in New York City, Pelhamdale Avenue and the railroad tracks along which Pelham Manor Station once stood looked very different than it does today.
As the sport of baseball grew increasingly popular and became our "National Pastime" during the 19th century, Pelhamites played the game with gusto. As early as the 1860s until the end of the century, there were many "base ball clubs" founded on City Island and in Pelhamville and Pelham Manor.
... did little to hamper our major transportation arteries. . . . One such accident occurred on Boston Post Road in Pelham Manor on the evening of Wednesday, June 20, 1906. The accident occurred on the roadway roughly where today's Our Lady of Perpetual ...
... July of that year was a grandiose and expensive scheme centered on the Orchard Beach Lagoon off the shores of Pelham Manor and Pelham Bay Park. The plan was to create a perfectly calm and well-regulated racing course by building massive causeways at ...
Today there is a very short stretch of roadway at the end of Pelhamdale Avenue parallel to Long Island Sound that runs a few hundred yards within Pelham Manor known as Shore Road. Shore Road continues into Pelham Bay Park, once part of the Town of Pelham, to Pelham Bridge and beyond.
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.
... tried to be first to reach the designated suburban destination. It was time for a change. It turns out that the Pelham Manor area and Pelham Bay Park played a role in that change. In October, 1901, the chairman of the Runs and Tours Committee, Mr. ...
... Haven Branch Line railroad overpass where a few homes stood on Manor Circle adjacent to the railroad tracks and Pelham Manor Depot. Old growth woods lined both sides of the roadway. With no streetlights, the towering trees made the roadway ...
... City region. Among the areas considered, of course, was a portion of today's Pelham Bay Park adjacent to the Pelham Manor border and even extending into a portion of Pelham Manor. See Mon., Sep. 28, 2015: Pelham Manor Narrowly Avoided Becoming Part ...
... of the proposal in the late 1920s to construct the world's largest airport across the Hutchinson River from Pelham Manor and to build an associated dirigibles landing field on sixty acres of Pelham Manor land to be annexed by New York City. See ...
... Court on the Same Site Overlooking Pelham Country Club . In 1925, more construction occurred on the Village of Pelham Manor than ever before in its history. Planned construction of the Hutchinson River Parkway was well underway. Developments along ...
When most think of the inventor of the telephone and the phono graph, most think of Thomas Alva Edison. Pelhamites, however, think of Pelham Manor resident Ezra Torrence Gilliland who actually assisted Edison in the creation and improvement of both inventions.
... in school buildings. Its four rooms were ample to accommodate the students of Pelham Heights and a portion of Pelham Manor. With the construction of the Siwanoy School the Colonial school shared the educational work, and as the school children grew ...
... occasions. For a few examples, see : Thu., Apr. 21, 2016: St. Louis Newspaper Described the "Exclusivity" of Pelham Manor in 1892 . Fri., Nov. 27, 2015: Detailed and Fascinating Description of the Village of Pelham Manor in 1892 . Tue., Apr. 28, ...
... that such a system would not suffice. Moreover, other nearby communities including the settlements known as Pelham Manor and Pelhamville were also beginning to look for a larger, more-reliable water source. To make matters worse, in 1886 the area ...
... all of Pelham grew increasingly concerned with the quality of the water sourced from Pelham Reservoir. As Pelham Manor, Pelham, and North Pelham worked on finding alternative water sources, construction began on the new Hutchinson River Parkway that ...
... Turnpike and Post Road, otherwise known as the section of today's Boston Post Road that passes through Pelham Manor, was a toll road. Other bridges and highways in the county required tolls as well. The people of Westchester were not happy about it. ...
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 .
Ogden Philip Pell was a son of Stephen Sneden Pell and a grandson of Revolutionary War hero David Jones Pell who once owned the Pell farmhouse now incorporated into the home known today as Pelhamdale at 45 Iden Avenue and listed on the National Register of Historic Places. He spent his youth in Pelham, but left and became a very successful man.
... the side of the roadway away from Long Island Sound. The hill is just past the low spot on Shore Road near the Pelham Manor boundary at the small cove often referenced as "Plum Cove" where a small creek sometimes called "Roosevelt Creek" still ...
The intersection of Boston Post Road and Pelhamdale Avenue in the Village of Pelham Manor is a historic place. Long known as "Red Church Corner" because of the little wooden red church that once stood there and as "Four Corners," the intersection long has been the busiest in the Village of Pelham Manor.