Bronxville

Bronxville is a village in Westchester County, New York, United States, located approximately 15 miles (24 km) north of Midtown Manhattan. The village comprises one square mile (2.5 km²) of land in its entirety, approximately 20% of the town of Eastchester. In 2016, Bronxville was rated by CNBC as the most expensive suburb of any of the U.S. ten largest cities, with a median home value of $2.33 million. It was ranked eighth in Bloomberg's "America's 100 Richest Places" in 2017 and 2018 and ninth in 2019 and is the second-richest town in the state of New York behind Scarsdale. Elizabeth Clift Bacon, General George Armstrong Custer's widow, lived in Bronxville, and her house still stands to this day. The Gramatan Hotel on Sunset Hill was a residence hotel in the late 19th century and early 20th century. St. Joseph's Catholic Church, located in the downtown area, was attended by the Kennedys when they were residents from 1929 to about 1938 before moving to London. Edward Kennedy returned to St.Joseph's in 1958 for his wedding to Joan Bennett. Two years later, in the 1960 Presidential Election voters in the Village overwhelmingly chose Richard Nixon over Edward's brother, John, by a 5-to-1 margin. The US Post Office was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. As of the 2020 census, there were 6,656 people and 2,212 households.

History

Bronxville is the primary city name, but also Yonkers are acceptable city names or spellings. The official name is Bronxville, New York. Millionaire real-estate and pharmaceutical mogul William Van Duzer Lawrence sparked the development of Bronxville as an affluent suburb of New York City. Elizabeth Clift Bacon, General George Armstrong Custer's widow, lived in Bronxville, and her house still stands to this day. St. Joseph's Catholic Church, located in the downtown area, was attended by the Kennedys when they were residents from 1929 to about 1938 before moving to London. In the 1960 Presidential Election voters in the Village overwhelmingly chose Richard Nixon over Edward's brother, John, by a 5-to-1 margin. Bronxville was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. The village was home to an arts colony in the early 20th century, when many noteworthy houses were built by prominent and casual architects. After the Bronx River Parkway was completed in 1925, the village expanded rapidly with the construction of several apartment buildings and townhouses, many of them built by the Lawrence family. As of 1959, the family continued to own or manage 97% of the rental market. The hotel was demolished in 1970, and a complex of townhouses was built on the site in 1980. The Bronxville Women's Club, Lawrence Park Historic District, and Masterton-Dusenberry House. Other sites on theNational Register are the Bronxville Men's Club and Lawrence Park Neighborhood. The US Post Office was listed in 1988 as a National Historic Landmark. The U.S. Post Office is located in a building that was once the home of General Custer.

Demographics

As of the 2020 census, there were 6,656 people and 2,212 households. The racial makeup of the village was 87.5% White, 1.1% African American, 0.1%. The median household income was $205,781, the average household income is $340,448. The per capita income for the village is $116,698. Median income is currently ranked 16th highest in the country. In 2016, Forbes named it one of the ten most expensive suburbs of America's major cities. The median age of the population was 38 years. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 82.1 males. The average household size was 2.71, and the average family size was 3.27. In the village, 24.3% of all households were made up of individuals, and 11.4% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. About 1.7% of families and 2.9% of those age 65 or over were below the poverty line, including 1.6% of people under age 18. The village is located on the U.S. Census Bureau's definition of a suburb, which is defined as a place with a population greater than 1,000. It is the only town in the state of New Hampshire that has a population of over 1,200. The population of the town is estimated to exceed 6,000 by the end of the year. The town's population is expected to exceed 7,500 by the year 2020.

Postal code

Bronxville's 10708 ZIP code covers the village of Bronxville proper, plus Chester Heights and other sections of Eastchester. This brings the ZIP code's population to 22,411 (2000 census), covering an area more than twice as large as Bronxville itself and encompassing several institutions, including Sarah Lawrence College. The ZIP code also covers parts of Tuckahoe, Lawrence Park West, Cedar Knolls, Armour Villa, and other parts of Yonkers. These areas are collectively known as "BronXville P.O." and have a population of more than 20,000. The 10708 zip code also includes parts of Queens, Queens, Long Island, New Jersey, and Long Island City, New York, as well as parts of New Jersey and New York City. It is the only ZIP code in New York state that does not have a post office in the city of New York. It also has no post offices in Queens or Long Island. It does have one in Queens, and one in Long Island; it also has one in New Jersey; it is in Queens County. The Bronxville ZIP code is also the only one in the state that has a ZIP code that doesn't have a Post Office in the town of Queens; it has a postcode that is not in Queens. It has one post office that is also in Queens; the Bronxville post office has one that is in Bronxville. It was established in 1881 and has been in the same ZIP code since 1881.

Education

Bronxville was home to Concordia College, a liberal arts college operated by the Lutheran ChurchMissouri Synod. The college was shuttered on January 28, 2021 following financial difficulties accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Plans are set for the campus to become acquired by nearby Iona College (New York) Adjacent to the Concordia college campus is the Chapel School, a pre-K-8 school affiliated with the Lutherans. The Bronxville Public School was started as a progressive educational institution in 1922. The school was established in 1951 and is now a public school. St. Joseph School is a Catholic parochial school run by St. Joe's Church. It was established by the church in 1922 and now has children from kindergarten through eighth grade. The public school is now known as the Bronxville School. It is a private school and is run by the City of Bronxville. It has an enrollment of about 2,000 students and is currently in its third year of operation. The campus is located on the former site of the former Bronxville High School, which was closed in the 1990s due to declining enrollment. The high school was reopened in 1998 and has a current enrollment of around 1,200 students. It currently has an average of about 1,800 students and an average class size of about 12.5 students. The town has a population of about 3,000 people, or 1.5% of the New York City metropolitan area's population.

Parks and recreation

The Village of Bronxville has more than 70 acres (280,000 m2) of parkland including athletic fields, woodlands, and a very small part of the Bronx River Parkway Reservation. The Bronxville School's athletic fields contain a football field, three smaller fields used for various sports like field hockey and lacrosse. Bacon Woodlands, located on Kensington Road, is a natural rock outcropping which has been left in its natural state, the flatter portion of which is used as an informal play area by children. Scout Field, a Westchester County Park which is located predominantly in Yonkers and Mount Vernon but is controlled by Bronxville, is heavily utilized by the Bronxville schools' soccer, football, baseball, and cross-country running programs. In 2006, Chambers Field was replaced with turf, which was funded by the community and parents of athletes in Bronxville. The Reservation features ponds, wooden footbridges and hundreds of varieties of native trees and shrubs. It is Westchesters oldest park, and was the first linear park in the United States. The park is a favorite place for bicycling, walking, running, and nature study, and it is sometimes referred to by locals as the "Duck Pond" It is also the home of the New York City Mets baseball team, which is based in the village. The village is home to a number of sports teams, including New York State Yankees baseball, New York Mets hockey, and New York Knicks basketball.

In popular culture

The Siwanoy Country Club, located in Eastchester, is featured in the films Six Degrees of Separation (1993) and Rounders (1998), starring Matt Damon and Edward Norton. The film Baby Mama (2008) was shot partly on Legget Road in Bronxville. The opening scene in the film Tales from the Darkside (1990) was also shot in the area. In season 8, Episode 4 of the TV series Blue Bloods, DCPI Garrett Moore gets swatted by a stray dog in the Bronx. The Bronxville School appears in the movies Firstborn (1984), starring Teri Garr and Stepmom (1998), starring Julia Roberts and Susan Sarandon. The school is located in the Eastchester neighborhood of Bronxville, New York City. It is also featured in a few scenes of the film Admission (2013) which was filmed in the same neighborhood. The city is home to the Bronxville High School for Girls, which was founded in the 1970s. It was the first school of its kind in the U.S. and has since become a magnet for young girls and boys. The town is also home to a number of other institutions, including the New York State College of Art and Design, the Bronx Museum of Art, and the University of New York at St. John's, which is based on the Bronx School of Music. The Eastchester School for Boys, founded in 1973, is located on the same street as the Bronx High School of Science, which opened in 1978.

Air Quality, Water Quality, Superfund Sites & UV Index

The Air Quality index is in Bronxville, Westchester County, New York = 35.2. These Air Quality index is based on annual reports from the EPA. Higher values are better (100=best). The number of ozone alert days is used as an indicator of air quality, as are the amounts of seven pollutants including particulates, carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide, lead, and volatile organic chemicals. The Water Quality Index is 36. A measure of the quality of an area’s water supply as rated by the EPA. Higher values are better (100=best). The EPA has a complex method of measuring the watershed quality, using 15 indicators such as pollutants, turbidity, sediments, and toxic discharges. The Superfund Sites Index is 20. Higher is better (100=best). Based upon the number and impact of EPA Superfund pollution sites in the county, including spending on the cleanup efforts. The UV Index in Bronxville = 3.6 and is a measure of an area's exposure to the sun's ultraviolet rays. This is most often a combination of sunny weather, altitude, and latitude. The UV Index has been defined by the WHO (www.who.int/news-room/questions-and-answers/item/radiation-the-ultraviolet-(uv)-index) and is uniform worldwide.

Employed

The most recent city population of 4,920 individuals with a median age of 38.1 age the population grows by 4.19% in Bronxville, Westchester County, New York population since 2000 and are distributed over a density of 6,847.74 residents per square mile of area (2,642.69/km²). There are average 2.8 people per household in the 2,333 households with an average household income of $172,182 a year. The unemployment rate in Alabama is 7.20% of the available work force and has dropped -2.79% over the most recent 12-month period and the projected change in job supply over the next decade based on migration patterns, economic growth, and other factors will increase by 27.22%. The number of physicians in Bronxville per 100,000 population = 518.

Weather

The annual rainfall in Bronxville = 46.3 inches and the annual snowfall = 33.8 inches. The annual number of days with measurable precipitation (over .01 inch) = 106. The average number of days per year that are predominantly sunny = 200. 86 degrees Fahrenheit is the average daily high temperature for the month of July and 20.7 degrees Fahrenheit is the average daily low temperature for the month of January. The Comfort Index (higher=better) is 49, where higher values mean a more pleasant climate. The Comfort Index measure recognizes that humidity by itself isn't the problem. (Have you noticed nobody ever complains about the weather being 'cold and humid?) It's in the summertime that we notice the humidity the most, when it's hot and muggy. Our Comfort Index uses a combination of afternoon summer temperature and humidity to closely predict the effect that the humidity will have on people.

Median Home Cost

The percentage of housing units in Bronxville, Westchester County, New York which are owned by the occupant = 73.93%. A housing unit is a house, apartment, mobile home, or room occupied as separate living quarters. The average age of homes = 43.2 years with median home cost = $890,210 and home appreciation of -5.53%. This is the value of the years most recent home sales data. Its important to note that this is not the average (or arithmetic mean). The median home price is the middle value when you arrange all the sales prices of homes from lowest to highest. This is a better indicator than the average, because the median is not changed as much by a few unusually high or low values. The property tax rate of $20.95 shown here is the rate per $1,000 of home value. If for simplification for example the tax rate is $14.00 and the home value is $250,000, the property tax would be $14.00 x ($250,000/1000), or $3500. This is the 'effective' tax rate.

Study

The local school district spends $14,030 per student. There are 13 students for each teacher in the school, 386 students for each Librarian and 257 students for each Counselor. 3.90% of the area’s population over the age of 25 with an Associate Degree or other 2-year college degree, 30.95% with a master’s degree, Ph.D. or other advanced college degree and 42.59% with high school diplomas or high school equivalency degrees (GEDs).