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83-555: The schools are Dows Lane Elementary School (K-3); the Main Street School (4&5), which at one time was a K-12 school, then the district's high school, and later the middle school; Irvington Middle School (6-8); and Irvington High School (9-12). The Middle School and High School are sited together on a combined campus on Heritage Hill Road off of North Broadway, on the site where the Stern castle, "Greystone", once stood. Stern purchased

166-413: A Google contractor. Further, Lubinsky was paid a higher rate for this work by the district than other teachers receive, or than is required by union contract. Investigation showed that the district's chief administrator accommodated Lubinsky's "double-dipping", and that Lubinsky's rise through the district's bureaucracy was rapid, having started in 2005 as a teacher, and becoming a Tech Coordinator in 2006,

249-566: A " commuter town " or a "bedroom community". The village's half-mile-long (0.8 kilometers) Main Street area has been designated as a historic district by New York State and on January 15, 2014, was added to the National Register of Historic Places . In 2010, Westchester Magazine ranked Irvington as the "Best Place to Live in Westchester". Before the area where Irvington is now located

332-633: A Catholic non-denominational school for students in grades 2 through 8 with learning disabilities, which had formerly been St. Ursula's Learning Center in Mount Kisco , moved into the vacant building. There are no colleges totally within Irvington, although part of the campus of Mercy University , founded in 1950, is located there, while the majority is just over the southern border in Dobbs Ferry , very close to Irvington's Ardsley-on-Hudson train station, which

415-412: A Republican, drew a quarter from the bag. It was handed to Village Clerk Lawrence Schopfer, who declared Flood to be the winner. Flood was then sworn in for his sixth two-year term as mayor of Irvington. Months later, to complicate the situation even more, it was learned that an Irvington resident who has two houses and was registered to vote in both Irvington and a Long Island suburb, inadvertently broke

498-680: A combined campus on Heritage Hill Road off of North Broadway, on the site where the Stern castle, "Greystone", once stood. Stern purchased the property from Augustus C. Richards in the late nineteenth century. Small portions of Irvington extend into the Dobbs Ferry Union Free School District , the Ardsley Union Free School District , and the Elmsford Union Free School District . Abbott School Located in Irvington, but not part of

581-405: A great deal of pillaging and plundering, even of Tory households, both by the regular British army and loyalist militias and irregulars, all in the name of hunting down rebels. By the time the war was over, the countryside had been ravaged: The country is rich and fertile, and the farms appear to have been advantageously cultivated, but it now has the marks of a country in ruins, a large portion of

664-461: A hotel, six stores, a lumber yard and around 50 houses, and the hamlet of "Abbotsford" – which would later become Ardsley-on-Hudson – was forming along Clinton Avenue. In 1854, Dearman and Abbotsford combined, and by popular vote adopted the name "Irvington", to honor the American author Washington Irving , who was still alive at that time and living in nearby " Sunnyside " – which

747-487: A lawsuit was filed against an 18 year old Irvington High School senior, Ellis Pinsky, who was accused with co-conspirators from the US and Europe of swindling digital currency investor Michael Terpin – the founder and chief executive officer of Transform Group – of $ 23.8 million in 2018, when the accused was 15 years old, through the use of data stolen from smartphones by "SIM swaps" . The complaint alleges that Pinsky had

830-480: A notorious hang-out for American patriots. Washington Irving later wrote about it under the name of " Wolfert's Roost " ("roost" meaning "rest"), and purchased and re-modeled another house on the land to become " Sunnyside ". Another early settler was Capt. Jan Harnse, and the Harnse-Conklin-Odell Tavern on Broadway was built in 1693 and became an inn in 1743. (See below ) It was at Odell's Tavern that

913-546: A number of programs to support children and families with challenging circumstances. Abbot House's administrative offices remain in the former school building in Irvington. Immaculate Conception School The Immaculate Conception School, a Catholic elementary school located in Irvington, was closed by the Archdiocese of New York in June 2008, after 100 years of existence. In the 2009–2010 school year, John Cardinal O'Connor School,

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996-556: A personal worth of $ 70 million as of December 2017. The lawsuit was filed in federal court in White Plains, New York and asked for triple damages. An investigation by the New York Post revealed that Pinsky lived a lavish lifestyle, driving an Audi R8 , maintaining an account with a private air service, purchasing prime tickets to New York Rangers hockey games, and wearing expensive clothing. Pinsky had previously been recognized by

1079-561: A prep cook, in the kitchen of the River City Grille at 6 South Broadway. The accused woman, New York City resident Rosa Ramirez, told police when she was arrested shortly after the incident. that she had suffered a " psychotic break ". Ramirez pleaded guilty to second-degree murder , a Class A felony , on February 21, 2020, in return for an expected sentence of 17 years to life, which was made official in September 2020. In May 2020,

1162-462: A tie. To comply with state law, the village had to use random lots to decide the winner. State law does not specify the method of drawing lots, so the village opted to draw quarters from a bag. Eight quarters were used. Four had a bald eagle on the back and represented Malloy. Flood was represented by four quarters with the Statue of Liberty on the back. Village Trustee/ Deputy Mayor Richard Livingston,

1245-573: A time, a Village Trustee. He died in 1977. The Oley Track is named for Peter K. Oley, who was a track and field and cross-country coach for 50 years, beginning in 1956. He was inducted into the hall of fame of the New York State Public High School Athletic Association and the Westchester County Sports hall of fame. Irvington, New York Irvington , sometimes known as Irvington-on-Hudson ,

1328-679: Is a suburban village of the town of Greenburgh in Westchester County, New York , United States. It's a suburb of New York City , 20 miles (32 km) north of midtown Manhattan in New York City , and is served by a station stop on the Metro-North Hudson Line . To the north of Irvington is the village of Tarrytown , to the south the village of Dobbs Ferry , and to the east unincorporated parts of Greenburgh, including East Irvington . Irvington includes within its boundaries

1411-649: Is designated "North Broadway" above Main Street, and "South Broadway" below it. Main Street begins at the Metro-North train station, just off the Hudson River , and travels uphill to Broadway. Side streets off of Main, which were originally designated A Street, B Street, C Street, etc. when the village grid was laid out, now have names, most of which come from local history: Astor, Buckhout, Cottenet, Dutcher, Ecker, Ferris and Grinnell. The southbound Saw Mill River Parkway can be reached via Harriman Road/Cyrus Field Road, past

1494-569: Is provided on Broadway by the Westchester County Beeline Bus System via route #1T (The Bronx-Yonkers-Tarrytown) and #1W (The Bronx-Yonkers-White Plains). As with all river communities in Westchester, Irvington is traversed by a stretch of the old Croton Aqueduct , about 3 miles (4.8 km) long, which is now part of the Old Croton Trailway State Park. The Aqueduct is a National Historic Landmark . As of

1577-545: Is still an overwhelmingly well-heeled community. In June 2016, Irvington Fire Chief Christopher D. DePaoli was one of 23 recipients of the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission medal for heroism. In April 2015, DePaoli stepped in when he saw a woman being attacked by a man with a knife at the Irvington Metro-North Station . DePaoli was able get between the man and the woman, the man's girlfriend, who

1660-487: Is tied (847 votes for each candidate). The count that took place on election night gave Flood a one-vote lead. On March 18, the Westchester County Board of Elections recounted the votes, giving Malloy a one-vote lead. Turning to two unopened absentee ballots , the board found that one was for Flood, resulting in a tie. The other absentee ballot was not opened as the name on the envelope did not match any names on

1743-532: Is today preserved as a museum. Influential residents of the village prevailed upon the Hudson River Railroad , which had reached the village by 1849, to change the name of the train station to "Irvington", and also convinced the Postmaster to change the name of the local post office as well. It was thus under the name of "Irvington" that the village incorporated on April 16, 1872. By the census of 1860,

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1826-480: The College Board as being an "AP Scholar". The village has a total area of 4.0 square miles (10 km ), of which 2.8 square miles (7.3 km ) or about 1,850 acres (750 ha) is land and 1.2 square miles (3.1 km ), or 30.94%, is water. The village's main thoroughfare is Broadway ( Route 9 ) originally an Indian footpath which gradually became a horse track and then a dirt road. It came to be called

1909-557: The capture of New York City by the British, Irvington and the rest of southern Westchester County became the "Neutral ground", an unofficial 30-mile (48 km) wide zone separating British-occupied territory from that held by the Americans, and the people of the area who remained – many of the Patriot population had fled – traded with both sides to great profit. However, there was also

1992-493: The census of 2020, there were 6,652 people and 2,141 households in the village. The population density was 2,384.23 inhabitants per square mile (920.56/km ). There were 2,141 housing units at an average density of 767.38 units per square mile (296.29 units/km ). The racial makeup of the village was 82.3% White , 1.6% African American , 0.0% Native American , 7.4% Asian , 4.3% from other races , and 1.67% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 8.6% of

2075-498: The poverty line . The average cost for a one-family house in 2010 was $ 585,780, below the Westchester County average of $ 725,000, although in 2009 the median home price was reported to be $ 790,000. Bloomberg ranked Irvington 54th in its March 2017 profile of "America's 100 Richest Places". In the 2018 survey, it ranked 67th of the over 6,200 places covered. As of 2018, there were approximately 1,180 single-family homes in

2158-539: The "King's Highway" around the time that it reached Albany . Later, it was called the "Queen's Highway", after Queen Anne , the "Highland Turnpike" after 1800 – a name still preserved in the nearby town of Ossining – the " Albany Post Road " and, after 1850, "Broadway". The stretch that runs through Irvington was completed by 1723. During his tenure as Postmaster General , Benjamin Franklin had 3-foot-high (0.91 m) sandstone milestone markers placed along

2241-404: The 1980s. Before the 2003–2004 school year, new buildings for the high school (grades 9-12) and Irvington Middle School (grades 6-8) were constructed and annexed to the existing high school building, due to the school district's growing population. The activities building was reconfigured and now houses the school's library, as well as a gym, and an arts and athletics building was constructed to

2324-467: The Broadway, inscribed with the distance from New York City . Milestone #27 is still in place in Irvington, near the driveway to 30 South Broadway. Broadway runs north-south parallel to the river, and connects Irvington to Dobbs Ferry in the south and Tarrytown in the north. All of the village's major streets, including Main Street, extend east and west from Broadway, and are designated as such. Broadway

2407-717: The Committee of Safety, the executive committee of the legislature of the new State of New York, officially received the news that George Washington had lost the Battle of Long Island , and, later, British troops camped nearby, putting Jonathan Odell into custody in the Old Dutch Church in Sleepy Hollow. No major battles of the Revolutionary War were fought in the area, only minor skirmishes between residents and soldiers. With

2490-852: The DEC for flood mitigation and as part of its Municipal Zero-Emission Vehicle program. Irvington Union Free School District The majority of Irvington is part of the Irvington Union Free School District , which also includes East Irvington , an unincorporated area of the Town of Greenburgh , and the Pennybridge section of Tarrytown , Irvington's northern neighbor. The schools are Dows Lane School (K-3), Main Street School (4&5), Irvington Middle School (6–8), and Irvington High School (9–12). The Middle School and High School are sited together on

2573-482: The Half Moon development on South Buckhout Street. In 1999, the village began a program to make affordable housing available to the public. Two buildings, The Burnham Building at 2 Main Street, and Hudson Views at Irvington at 1 South Astor Street, provide such units. As of February 2012, the village had passed a local ordinance requiring new developments to provide affordable housing. The cost of housing in Irvington

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2656-461: The Main Street School became the district's high school. Overcrowding was a problem, and when Greystone burned down, a new high school, accommodating students from grade 7 to 12, was built on the grounds around 1966. The Main Street School then became a middle school for grades 5 and 6. Shortly, the new high school proved to be less space then needed, and a temporary pre-fabricated unit, called "the Annex",

2739-539: The Main Street School, which accommodated all students in the area of the village of Irvington; and the Pennybridge School and East Irvington Schools, which took in students from their areas until they reached high school age. After the Dows Lane Elementary School was built, the two outlying schools were eventually closed down, and the Main Street School became the district's high school. By the 1960's

2822-546: The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) bronze-level certification as being a "Climate Smart Community", one of 65 such in the state. The certification was based on 17 actions taken by the village, including its Comprehensive Plan, last updated in 2018, an energy audit for the Town Hall, the village's flood mitigation program, the conversion of 81.5 percent of the villages streetlight to LEDs, and

2905-483: The Tech Coach and Chief Information Officer in 2009, a Program Chair in 2013, and an Administrator in 2017. He started working with EdTechTeam in 2014. When Lubinsky became an Administrator, the school district's spending on Google products increased from $ 43,000 in 2016-2017 to $ 129,000 in 2017-2018. Lubinsky has resigned. Lubinsky denied all of the claims and, subsequently, filed two separate defamation suits. The first

2988-521: The area recovered and continued to develop. The Hudson River Railroad reached the settlement on September 29, 1849; the first passengers on a regularly scheduled run through the village paid fifty cents to travel from Peekskill to Chambers Street in Manhattan on September 29, 1849. By 1853, a ferry ran across the Hudson from Dearman to Piermont on the west bank, the village had a population of around 600,

3071-466: The area to buy up farms and build large summer residences on their new estates, setting a pattern which would hold until the early 20th century. Still, the village continued to expand, with various commercial enterprises opening along the waterfront. Pateman & Lockwood, a lumber, coal and building supply company, opened in the village in 1853, and Lord & Burnham , which built boilers and greenhouses, in 1856. Both expanded to newly created land across

3154-424: The average family size was 3.13. In the village, the population was spread out, with 31.2% under the age of 18, and 14.4% who were 65 years of age or older. 54.9 percent of the population is female. The median income for a household in the village was $ 145,313. Males had a median income of $ 85,708 versus $ 50,714 for females. The per capita income for the village was $ 74,319. About 7.1% of the population were below

3237-405: The bigger estates in the area were broken up into smaller lots, and were developed into communities inside the village, such as Jaffray Park, Matthiessen Park and Spiro Park. Many of the estates and mansions are now gone, but a small number still exist. After World War II, cooperative apartment complexes were built in the village, but despite these changes, Irvington still has many large houses, and

3320-630: The case is currently before the Second Department. Irvington High School (New York) 41°02′26″N 73°51′39″W  /  41.040447°N 73.86073°W  / 41.040447; -73.86073 Irvington High School ( IHS ) is a public high school in Irvington, New York , United States. It is part of the Irvington Union Free School District in Westchester County . In 2021, Irvington High School's graduation rate

3403-458: The community of Ardsley-on-Hudson , which has its own ZIP code and Metro-North station , but which should not be confused with the nearby village of Ardsley . The population of Irvington at the 2020 census was 6,652. Because many of Irvington's residents – especially those in the upper income brackets – live in Irvington and work in New York City, the village has a reputation as

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3486-527: The country, which won it a gold medal for being in the top 500 nationally. In June 2016, Niche rated the Irvington school district as #42 in New York State. In October of that year, Niche also listed Irvington as New York State's #16 best school district to teach in. In January 2017, Niche rated the Irvington school system as #29 among all the public school systems in New York state. The Irvington School system

3569-495: The establishment of a drop-off food waste program. The Climate Smart program, which began in 2009, is designed to provide technical support and guidance to the efforts of communities to deal with the effects of climate change, by, for instance, reducing greenhouse gas emissions and improving their response to extreme weather. The village also participates in the ERDA's "Clean Energy Communities" program, and has previously received grants from

3652-565: The foremost expert on landscape design . Downing condemned the use of the street grid outside of cities and saw the hilly and heavily wooded site of Dearman as particularly suited to his own theories, which called for curvilinear roads and irregular lots which followed the contours of the land. With the frequent steamboat, stagecoach, and train transportation available, he felt that Dearman could have been an ideal suburb, instead of "mere rows of houses upon streets crossing each other at right angles and bordered with shade trees". The side streets off

3735-415: The gym, an auditorium, and spaces for vocal music, instrumental music, and shop and health classes. The two buildings were connected by a bridge over a concrete underpass. Within a few years of the school's opening, a demographic bulge has made it necessary to add modular units, called "the Annex", in which many classes for the 7th and 8th grades were primarily held. The school was extensively renovated in

3818-469: The high school as #45 in New York state, and #377 in the country, which earned it a gold medal for being in the top 500 nationally. In 2021, U.S. News & World Report ranked Irvington High School #304 nationally and #35 in New York State. Most recently, in 2023, the U.S. News & World Report ranked Irvington High School #271 in national ranking and #34 in New York State. The Irvington Union Free School District originally had three schools,

3901-418: The installation of a microgrid system, which would run under Main Street. The village's power lines would be moved underground and solar and natural gas generators would be utilized to make it 80% power self-sufficient. In the initial phase, the board of trustees is in discussion with a possible technology provider. There are no current community microgrids in New York. On March 4, 2021, Irvington received from

3984-401: The land to Dr. Augustus Corey Richards of Boston, who, in the 1860s, used the property to build a three-story stone cottage with a circular tower that looked like a castle, which he called Cedar Lawn. Isaac Stern, one of the founders of Stern's department store , bought the cottage and the surrounding land. A fire heavily damaged the cottage, and it was torn down in 1961. Stern's grandson sold

4067-537: The law by voting in both elections, although his intent was to cancel his Irvington voter registration. He was an adamant supporter of Flood. Erin Malloy was elected mayor in the election of 2007, but resigned in 2008 to spend more time with her injured daughter. Irvington is one of 83 communities in New York State which are being considered by the New York State Energy and Research Development Authority (ERDA) for

4150-486: The ninth-best in Westchester, while the next year it was ranked as #198 in the United States, and #35 in New York, with a college readiness index of 70.3, and a student-teacher ratio of 12:1. In 2016, Niche.com , a rating and ranking website, listed Irvington High School as the #83 high school in New York, and #595 in the country. The next year, in 2017, U.S.News ranked the high school as #45 in New York state, and #377 in

4233-462: The ninth-best in Westchester. The next year it was ranked as #198 in the United States, and #35 in New York – which was the 10th best in Westchester – with a college readiness index of 70.3, and a student-teacher ratio of 12:1. Earlier that same year, 2016, Niche.com , a rating and ranking website, listed IHS as the #83 high school in New York, and the 595th high school in the country. In 2017, U.S. News & World Report ranked

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4316-472: The northeast of the Middle School. In October 2016, the school dedicated a new football field and track, both named after long-time coaches. Meszaros Field is named after Harold K. Meszaros, an IHS graduate who returned to the school in the late 1950s as a physical education and health and science teacher, football coach and, from 1961, the director of athletics. Meszaros was a resident of Irvington and, for

4399-473: The parcel to John Jay – the grandson of the American Founding Father by the same name – that same year, and Jay laid it out as a village which he called "Dearman", after Justus Dearman, and sold lots at auction in New York City starting on April 25, 1850. The organization of the streets into a right-angled grid pattern was criticized by Andrew Jackson Downing , who was at the time

4482-490: The population of the village was 599. A few years later, in 1863, Irvington was touched by the New York Draft Riots . Fearing that the violence in the city, which had to be put down by Federal troops, would spread to Westchester, special police were brought in and quartered in a schoolhouse on Sunnyside Lane. They were commanded by James Hamilton – the third son of Alexander Hamilton – whose estate, Nevis,

4565-407: The population. There were 2,141 households, out of which 37.7% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 62.2% were married couples living together, 7.6% had a female householder with no husband present, and 28.0% were non-families. 24.3% of all households were made up of individuals, and 9.5% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.60 and

4648-407: The present motion,” that “the response by 1UFSD to Defendant Wilson's FOIL request, rather than establishing the truth of the statements regarding Plaintiff's ineligibility to receive payment over the summer of 2017, establishes the falsity of the statements.” and that “the statements were made, at a minimum, with reckless disregard of whether the statements were false.“ The defendants have appealed and

4731-499: The property from Augustus C. Richards in the late nineteenth century. The district originally had three schools, the Main Street School, which accommodated all students in the area of the village of Irvington; and the Pennybridge School and East Irvington Schools, which took in students from their areas until they reached high school age. After the Dows Lane School was built, the two outlying schools were eventually closed down, and

4814-544: The property to the Irvington School Board for $ 133,000. The new concrete school building, designed in the Brutalist style , opened for the 1965–1966 school year, and the Main Street School – the old high school – was used by the district's fifth and sixth graders. The new school was actually two separate buildings, the academic building in which classes were held, and the activities building, which included

4897-486: The proprietors having abandoned their homes. On the high road where heretofore was a continuous stream of travelers and vehicles, not a single traveler was seen from week to week, month to month. The countryside was silent. The very tracks of the carriages were grown over with grass or weeds. Travelers walked along bypaths. The villages are abandoned, the residents having fled to the north, leaving their homes, where possible, in charge of elder persons and servants. Eventually,

4980-542: The railroad tracks, in 1889 and 1912 respectively, and the Cypress Lumber Company opened on a nearby site in 1909. Notwithstanding this commercial activity, for many years, through the 19th and early 20th centuries, Irvington was a relatively small community surrounded by numerous large estates and mansions where millionaires, aristocrats and captains of industry lived – the population was reported as 2,299 in 1890 and 2,013 in 1898. After World War I , some of

5063-482: The regular public school district, was the Abbott School, which served homeless, neglected, abused, or developmentally disabled boys in grades 2 through 9. The students came both from the residential Abbott House, where the school was located, and as day students from community schools in Westchester County, Rockland County , and New York City. The school graduated its last class in 2011. Currently, Abbott House operates

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5146-419: The school system's fourth graders met state-wide English standards, and 80% met the standards for math, as opposed to 41% and 43% for the state as a whole. In the high school, the mean SAT scores were 619 for "evidence-based reading and writing" and 625 in math, compared to 523 and 528 for the state. In 2015, U.S. News & World Report rated Irvington High School as number 32 in New York State, making it

5229-558: The school was over-crowded, and the Irvington School Board purchased property on which to build a new, larger junior/senior high school, encompassing grades 7-12. In 1785, an officer under General George Washington, named Captain William Dutcher, bought 215 acres of land for 646 pounds, 10 shillings. In 1837, the eastern part of the land was sold to John Ellis, a founder of a locomotive factory located in Schenectady . Ellis later sold

5312-560: The student population of which was around 1,900 in 2013 and 1,775 in 2018 – is known for its small class size and emphasis on academics; and about 98% of graduates go on to higher education. In 2012, the average SAT scores were 571 (reading), 583 (math) and 573 (writing), compared to the statewide averages of 496. 514 and 488, and 74.7 percent of fourth grade students met state standards in English, and 66.1 percent in math, compared to statewide averages of 30.3 and 36.3 percent. In 2017, 74% of

5395-423: The town of Greenburgh. The village is governed by a mayor, who is elected every two years in odd-numbered years, and four trustees, who also serve two-year terms. Two of the trustees are elected in odd-numbered years, with the mayor and the other two in even-numbered years. Each year, the mayor appoints one of the trustees to be deputy mayor. A paid village administrator is responsible for the day-to-day operations of

5478-734: The village reservoir, or East Sunnyside Lane/Mountain Road through East Irvington . The northbound Saw Mill and the New York State Thruway are accessible via Ardsley , and the Mario Cuomo Bridge is nearby in Tarrytown. Commuter train service to New York City is available at the Irvington and Ardsley-on-Hudson train stations, served by the Metro-North Railroad of the MTA . Bus service

5561-606: The village's Main Street – or "Main Avenue", as an 1868 map has it – were originally designated "A", "B", "C", and so forth, but are today named after many of the area's early settlers, such as Barent and William Dutcher, Captain John Buckhout (who lived to 103) and Wolfert Ecker (or "Acker"). Wolfert Ecker's house, then owned by Jacob van Tassel, was burned by the British in the Revolutionary War because it had become

5644-406: The village's citizens through a newsletter, e-mail notifications and the village website. The controversial 2005 Irvington mayoral election was held on March 15, 2005, but was not decided until October 27, 2005. The race between Republican incumbent Dennis P. Flood and Democratic challenger Erin Malloy ended up being decided "by lots", as required by New York state law when a village election

5727-498: The village, as well as 100 multi-family homes. Although Irvington primarily consists of single family homes, there are eight condominium complexes, 13 cooperative ones and 17 apartment buildings, totally almost 1,100 units altogether. Cooperative or condominium apartment complexes in the village include in the Fieldpoint development, Woodbrook Gardens located at 140 North Broadway, and Irvington Gardens at 120 North Broadway, as well as in

5810-457: The village, assisted by a clerk-treasurer. The administration is divided into eleven departments: In addition, the mayor and board of trustees are assisted in the governance of the village by a number of voluntary boards and committees: Irvington is protected by its own 22-person police department, along with a volunteer fire department and volunteer ambulance corps, all of which are located on Main Street. Irvington's government communicates with

5893-454: The voter-registration list. Susan B. Morton, who had registered to vote as Susan Brenner Morton, stepped forward three days later and demanded that her vote for Malloy be counted. For several months afterward, various suits, motions, and appeals were filed in state courts. On October 20, the Court of Appeals , New York State's highest court, denied requests by Malloy and Morton, leaving the election in

5976-457: Was 98%. Of the school body, 96% are proficient in reading, and 95% are proficient in mathematics. Of seniors, 84% had taken at least one Advanced Placement exam, and 75% had passed at least one Advanced Placement exam. In 2021, 71% of the student body was white, 11% was Asian, 7% was black, 7% was Hispanic, 4% was multiracial, and 1% was Native American. In 2015, U.S. News & World Report rated IHS as #32 in New York State, making it

6059-412: Was against Della Marie Lenz, an Irvington UFSD parent who spearheaded the effort to make the allegations against Lubinsky public through the press and who allegedly targeted Lubinsky for failing to provide a district contract for her husband’s technology company, OLAFE Incorporated . Lenz filed counterclaims and a motion to dismiss against Lubinsky. The counterclaims were dismissed and the motion to dismiss

6142-592: Was built in 1690. In 1785, the state of New York confiscated the Phillipse's land from his grandson, Frederick Philipse III, after he sided with the British in the American Revolution, and sold it to local patriot farmers who had been tenants of the Phillipse family. This is presumably how part of it came to be the farm of William Dutcher. Dutcher sold half of his farm to Justus Dearman in 1817, who then sold it to Gustavo F. Sacchi in 1848 for $ 26,000. Sacchi sold

6225-503: Was ineligible to receive payments in the summer of 2017, that Plaintiff had his administrative appointment moved so he could get paid as a teacher in the summer of 2017, stating there was a discrepancy in the vacation days charged to Plaintiff for days he worked for EdTech, and that EdTech paid Lubinsky's travel expenses for the EDU Think Tank, which was part of school business, are refuted by the documentary evidence submitted in support of

6308-530: Was on South Broadway. The presence of this special force deterred any violence a group of draft protestors which passed through Greenburgh on their way to Tarrytown may have intended. This was the only instance in which Civil War -related activity directly affected Irvington. With convenient rail transportation now available, the village's cool summer breezes off the Hudson and the rural riparian setting began to attract wealthy residents of New York City – businessmen, politicians and professionals – to

6391-399: Was on the ground being stabbed, and distract him with a baseball bat until the police arrived. The man was arrested and the woman survived the attack. Since 2014, Irvington has held a "Celebrate Irvington" festival on the village's Main Street in the early summer. Irvington's first murder since 1974 took place on April 25, 2018, when a recently-hired dishwasher stabbed Bonifacio Rodriguez,

6474-462: Was partially denied. The case is currently pending trial. The second suit was filed against David McKay Wilson, the Journal News reporter who published articles on the issue, as well as the newspaper’s publisher, Gannett Incorporated. The reporter and publisher also filed a motion to dismiss which was partially denied. In the decision, the judge noted that “Defendant Wilson's statements that Plaintiff

6557-507: Was purchased by Frederick Philipse in 1682, after the British had taken over the area in 1664. At first it was settled by tenant farmers, but by the 1700s, most of the settlers were artisans. The King's Highway – later the Albany Post Road , and now Broadway – which connected New York City with Albany, was built through the settlement by the 1720s, which created a need for inns and taverns to supplement Odell's Tavern, which

6640-407: Was pushed upwards by Greenburgh's town-wide re-evaluation of property values, which was initiated in 2016. Although Irvington is still an affluent suburban "bedroom community", with a large number of people commuting into New York City to work, there are also several notable businesses and institutions located in the village, such as: Irvington is one of six incorporated villages that lie within

6723-821: Was settled by Europeans, it was inhabited by the Wickquasgeck , a band of the Wappingers , related to the Lenape (Delaware) tribes which dominated lower New York state and New Jersey . The Wickquasgeck still lived in the area as late as 1775. After the Dutch came to the area in the 1600s, the land was part of the Bisightick tract of the Adrian Van der Donck grant. Early settlers in the Irvington area were Stephen Ecker, Jan Harmes, Captain John Buckhout, and Barent Dutcher. The Van der Donck grant

6806-436: Was sited on the grounds south of the high school, This was used primarily for junior high school students (grades 7 and 8). Many decades later, the high school's activities building was torn down and replaced and additional space was added for academics – the original high school building was retained. As part of this overall project, a new middle school was built to the east of the high school. The school system –

6889-411: Was voted "Best of" Westchester Public Schools in 2016, 2017, and 2018 by readers of Westchester Magazine . In 2019, it came to light that the school district's Director of Technology, Jesse Lubinsky, was paid by the district to attend seminars to earn credits to maintain his state teaching license, but that Lubinsky actually taught many of those seminars in his position as a contractor for EdTechTeam,

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