The Picture House Regional Film Center in Pelham will host a special advance screening of the new documentary "They Call Us Monsters" on Saturday, Jan. 21. The documentary is set in California where violent juveniles between the ages of 14 and 17 can be tried as adults depending on the seriousness of the crime. These young teens are accused of heinous crimes--murders and attempted murders--that leave their victims' families shattered.
... their personal digital calendars and are notified when those events change. Roche, a mother of four and resident of Pelham, NY, conceived of Burbio.com after being exasperated by the antiquated way in which she learned about things going on locally ...
... memories, these years have been the most professionally rewarding of my career. I could not reflect on my 20 years in Pelham without honoring those of you, and the long line of Prospect Hill families who have brightened my life in countless ways." ...
Julia B. Fee Sotheby's International Realty today announced that seasoned real estate agents Holly Mellstrom, Kristin Bischof, Alison Schair-Trigona and Elizabeth Ritchie have joined the firm and will be based in the Bronxville, N.Y., brokerage. Holly Mellstrom has ranked as the highest producing real estate agent in the Pelham, N.Y., marketplace for five of the past six years including 2016, as well as one of the top producers in all of Westchester County.
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.
On August 8, 1909, a man named Fontaine Fox arrived with his wife at the Pelham Station in the Village of North Pelham. The couple hopped on the rickety little trolley that met all the trains.
A fast-moving storm system likely to result in accumulating snow for much of the area Thursday night into Friday could impact the morning commute and result in school delays and possibly even some closings. Snow is expected to arrive sometime after 11 p.m. in most of the area.
In 1873, railroad crews were working furiously to construct the New Haven Branch Line through Pelham. Although the Branch Line did not open to passenger traffic until November, 1873, for many months before then crews worked to lay the tracks and to construct the railroad drawbridge next to the new Pelham Bridge that first opened on June 1, 1871 and permitted its first public travel across the bridge on June 3, 1871.
What a grand and awe-inspiring sight the fifteen hundred residents of the little Town of Pelham experienced on Saturday, July 7, 1866. Those lucky ones who gazed skyward saw the great Thaddeus Sobieski Constantine Lowe, known as Professor T.S.C. Lowe, in his massive hot air balloon as it descended from the heavens directly above the little town.
Recently I was able to purchase a copy of the August 9, 1884 issue of Harper's Weekly . Why? Because it included a brief article on the newly-acquired lands northeast of New York City intended to create parks including Pelham Bay Park and a page of engraved images of the area within what was, at the time, part of the Town of Pelham.
I have written about the massive tax burden that the Town of Pelham faced beginning in the 1880s after New York City began acquiring lands within the Town of Pelham to create Pelham Bay Park. A judicial decision released by the New York Court of Appeals was construed as permitting New York City to own the lands without having to pay the Town of Pelham any property taxes on those lands.
From left: Laura deBuys, TPH's executive director; Brian Hinchcliffe, benefactor, Yonkers P.S. 17 Principal Rita Moorhead and Francile Albright, TPH director of education. PELHAM, N.Y. -- A baker's dozen of sixth-graders have been learning the basics of filmmaking - and perhaps discovering their own voices and visions - thanks to a partnership between a Pelham arts organization and a Yonkers school.
It was election day in Pelham, 1896. What a day it was! By 9 o'clock in the morning the ballot boxes already were stuffed nearly full.
Benjamin Lewis Fairchild was a principal founder of Pelham Heights. He was instrumental in the development of the neighborhood as well as its incorporation as the smallest village in the State of New York known as the "Village of Pelham."
John Fletcher Fairchild lived in Pelham in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was a brother of Benjamin L. Fairchild, a United States Congressman and a founder of Pelham Heights.
Nancy Silberkleit, publisher and co-CEO of Pelham-based Archie Comics , credits her years as a public schoolteacher, for helping her navigate the comic book world. Hard as it is to believe , Archie is 75 this year.
Advance Screening of Fences and Q&A with Award-Winning Actor Stephen Henderson at The Picture House Regional Film Center Advance Screening of Fences and Q&A with Award-Winning Actor Stephen Henderson at The Picture House Regional Film Center Advance Screening of Fences and Q&A with Award-Winning Actor Stephen Henderson at The Picture House Regional Film Center PELHAM, NY -- On Wednesday, December 21st at 7:30 p.m. The Picture House Regional Film Center will show an advance screening of the much anticipated new film Fences starring Denzel Washington, Viola Davis, Jovan Adepo, and Stephen Henderson followed by a Q&A with Henderson led by TPH critic-in-residence Marshall Fine. Fences opens nationwide on December 25th.
If you ask the average grown-up in Pelham to tell you which African waterway the Aswan Dam is located on, you might get a blank stare. But if you put the question to Vikram Jallepalli, you're likely to get the right answer: the River Nile.
The New York Athletic Club has cut the ribbon on a new 13,000-square-foot Field House at its Traverse Island facility at 31 Shore Road, according to a statement from the business.
... Owner Alvin Clayton. Make Merry: 14 Memorial Hwy., (914) 654-6549. Rompope (Mexican Eggnog), Cantina Lobos, Pelham: Take a mental break South of the Border with Rompope, aka Mexican Eggnog made with blanched almonds, sugar, almond, cinnamon sticks, ...
... Owner Alvin Clayton. Make Merry: 14 Memorial Hwy., (914) 654-6549. Rompope (Mexican Eggnog), Cantina Lobos, Pelham: Take a mental break South of the Border with Rompope, aka Mexican Eggnog made with blanched almonds, sugar, almond, cinnamon sticks, ...
For a number of years after the New Haven Branch Line stopped running passenger service in December, 1937 at the beautiful little Pelham Manor Depot designed by noted architect Cass Gilbert, a model railroad club was permitted to use the empty station. The Westchester Model Club, Inc. built a massive model railroad that even included a tiny replica of the very Pelham Manor Depot within which the model railroad sat.
On September 20, 1689, John Pell, and his wife, Rachel, sold to Jacob Leisler of New York City 6,000 acres of Manor of Pelham land. At the same time they gifted to Leisler another 100 acres for use as church grounds.
A terrible blizzard raged across Pelham that night. The winds were blowing furiously as the brutal cold and heavy snow pounded the little town.
... a small popcorn. The TPH event is being organized by a group of third grade girls from Colonial Elementary School in Pelham. Lucy Cole, a student in Mrs. Lombardi's class who is spearheading the drive said, "We know we're really lucky to be able to ...
During a meeting held on May 12, 1898, Pelham residents organized what is known today as the "First Pelham Country Club." The club is not related either to today's Pelham Country Club or to the club that once stood along Shore Road known simply as "the Country Club."
A Merritt Parkway accident 10 years ago in Westport involving a New York couple killed when a 70-foot tree crashed on to their Volvo will finally be the subject of a trial. A car in which a Pelham, N.Y. couple was killed in the June 9, 2007 accident.
A quirky "funeral" cortege passed through Pelham on that day long ago. Bedecked with crepe, the somber procession traveled slowly from the New Rochelle border on Boston Post Road until it reached Pelhamdale Avenue where it turned there toward Colonial Avenue.
Happy Evacuation Day dear Pelham. Today is the 233rd anniversary of the original Evacuation Day on November 25, 1783 when British troops departed Manhattan at the close of the Revolutionary War and George Washington, his staff, and troops made a triumphal entry into New York City before cheering throngs of ecstatic Americans.
It is Thanksgiving Day in Pelham and throughout our beloved nation. It is a day to give thanks for many blessings.
For more than a century, Pelham has loved its Highbrook Avenue railroad bridge, known today as the "Bridge to Nowhere." Pelhamites long have believed it to be a work of art.
... the northeast including the Old Boston Post Road. The section of that famous roadway that passes through the Town of Pelham is known today as "Colonial Avenue." The Beginnings of the Old Boston Post Road The brief stretch of the Old Boston Post Road ...
... more carefree fictional universe. Yep, this is the story of a divorcing couple living in the snow-covered suburb of Pelham, New York that HBO just picked up for a second season. It had better luck than "Vinyl" because it marks the virgin return of ...
... more carefree fictional universe. Yep, this is the story of a divorcing couple living in the snow-covered suburb of Pelham, N.Y, that HBO just picked up for a second season. It had better luck than "Vinyl" because it marks the virgin return of Sarah ...
... 1889 . In that post I noted that I had never been able to locate any images of the structure. Thankfully, the Town of Pelham is blessed to have a number of talented and dedicated historians devoted to the history of the Town and the surrounding ...
... years. They were proud of the technological progress that prompted construction of trolley service to connect Pelham with surrounding Villages, Towns, and Cities. They were proud of their three "artistic" railroad stations: the Pelham Station, the ...
Hudson Valley residents should be on the lookout for deer when driving, especially at night as their breeding season is underway and makes them more active. According to the National Highway Safety Administration, deer collisions are most likely to occur during deer breeding season - from October through early January, at dawn and from dusk to late evening.
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 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.
On August 7, 1874, a cryptic announcement appeared in the New-York Tribune regarding the opening of a new stagecoach line through City Island and Pelham Bridge in the Town of Pelham. It read: "CITY ISLAND.