36-559: Pocantico may refer to: Pocantico Hills, New York Pocantico River Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Pocantico . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pocantico&oldid=774785093 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
72-473: A home and larger office space on adjacent property. Subsequently, the Digest held office space in several buildings throughout Pleasantville, including the present-day Village Hall at Bedford Road and Wheeler Avenue and, diagonally opposite, the bank building currently occupied by Chase. Reader's Digest moved its headquarters to nearby Chappaqua in 1939, but retained its Pleasantville post office box, thus making
108-521: A marsh-filled valley. Because of the dangers of crossing the bridge, which often required that trains slow down to a crawl, the line was rerouted west around that valley in 1881. The bridge was torn down in 1883, and the valley became the Tarrytown Reservoir . The railroad ran through the Rockefeller property. In 1928, John D. Rockefeller Jr. negotiated with New York Central Railroad to relocate
144-564: A neighborhood of 50 houses spread among 100 acres (0.40 km ) of wooded hillside, was started in 1948. Three houses were designed by Frank Lloyd Wright . Pleasantville is home to the Westchester Table Tennis Center, where over 250 members compete, practice and train for various tournaments, and now, many are even training to become olympic athletes. The Captain Lawrence Brewing Company's first brewing location
180-406: A tanker truck which often responds mutual-aid to neighboring fire districts when called upon. It has assisted fire related incidents in the villages of Pleasantville, Briarcliff Manor, Croton-on-Hudson, Ossining, Sleepy Hollow, Tarrytown, Irvington, and Elmsford as well as the hamlets Archville, Hawthorne, Thornwood, and Valhalla. The first volunteer fire department, Liberty Hook and Ladder Company,
216-408: A wave of solid foursquare and Victorian houses built for a growing middle class. The 1890s saw the establishment of a police department, volunteer fire department, and a library system. Pleasantville was incorporated as a village on March 16, 1897. In the following years, Pleasantville quickly developed into a modern suburb of New York, with a large number of workers commuting between the village and
252-643: Is also home to the Pleasantville Farmers Market . Started in 1998 as one of the first markets in Westchester with a goal of breathing life into a struggling downtown, the Saturday morning market is now the largest year-round farmers market in Westchester County, attracting upwards of 3,500 people a week to shop from about 60 vendors of locally grown and produced food. The market is run by volunteers in
288-568: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Pocantico Hills, New York Pocantico Hills is a hamlet in the Westchester County town of Mount Pleasant, New York , United States. The Rockefeller family estate, anchored by Kykuit , the family seat built by John D. Rockefeller Sr. , is located in Pocantico Hills, as is the adjacent Rockefeller State Park Preserve . The area
324-713: Is host to the Blue Hill restaurant, a high-end eatery which features foodstuffs grown (or raised) on the Stone Barns property. The hamlet is a part of the Pocantico Hills Central School District, and the Pocantico Hills School, a K-8 school, has a diverse district that lays across town and village borders, including areas of Sleepy Hollow , Pleasantville , Briarcliff Manor , and Elmsford, New York. On graduating from Pocantico Hills School, as there
360-592: Is no high school for the district students to attend, they are afforded the choice of attending Sleepy Hollow High School , Briarcliff, or Pleasantville High School. The Roman Catholic Parish of the Magdalene began in 1893 as a mission Church of St. Teresa of Avila parish in North Tarrytown to serve about forty families in Pocantico Hills and Eastview. The Church was dedicated in September 1895. A significant benefactor of
396-736: Is served by the Pleasantville Union Free School District, with small parts of northern Pleasantville served by the Chappaqua Central School District . The village is also home to the Bedford Road School, Pleasantville Middle School, and Pleasantville High School . The region of Pleasantville commonly referred to as "The Flats" is mostly served by the Mount Pleasant Central School district. The settlement of Pleasantville dates back to
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#1732851523741432-515: Is today called the Old Village. The railroad offered a speedier and more frequent connection with New York City —only 70 minutes away by rail, compared with a five-hour overland journey by stagecoach or a two-hour steamboat trip down the Hudson River . The present-day train station, which currently houses a restaurant, was built in 1905 and was moved to its present location in the 1950s to accommodate
468-499: The United States Census Bureau , the village has a total area of 1.8 square miles (4.7 km ), all land. As of the census of 2000, there were 7,172 people, 2,637 households, and 1,824 families residing in the village. The population density was 3,943.4 inhabitants per square mile (1,522.6/km ). There were 2,684 housing units at an average density of 1,475.7 per square mile (569.8/km ). The estimated racial makeup of
504-615: The British in New York City. André lost his bearings near the present-day corner of Bedford Road and Choate Lane and was captured in Tarrytown, New York . The capture of André is often cited as a key factor in the ultimate victory of the American forces. As the area's population grew in the early 19th century, the settlement was called Clark's Corners, referring to property owned by Henry Clark at
540-704: The Museum of Modern Art. The hamlet is within and governed by the Town of Mount Pleasant, New York. Emergency services stem from a variety of sources, with policing services provided by the Town of Mount Pleasant Police Department, fire protection services provided from the all-volunteer Pocantico Hills Fire Department, and emergency medical services from a combination of the Sleepy Hollow Volunteer Ambulance Corps (SHVAC), Pleasantville Volunteer Ambulance Corps (PVAC), and Westchester EMS. The fire department has
576-765: The Rechgawawank and Sinsink tribes, belonging to the Munsee dialect of the Lenni Lenape . This region of the Hudson Valley has been inhabited since just after the last ice age. Lenape communities practiced ecosystem management, small-scale agriculture, hunting and gathering, democratic politics, and matrilineal governance. Called the “Grandfathers” by neighboring tribes, the Lenape were peaceful and skilled at conflict resolution between tribes and established trading routes crossing through
612-472: The Rome Theater in 1925, Memorial Plaza in 1930, Parkway Field in 1930, and Nannahagen Park in 1937 (the adjacent village pool was completed two years later). By the time of World War II , the village had taken on the appearance that it bears today. Pleasantville merits interest for its literary history. Playwright Lillian Hellman ( The Children's Hour , The Little Foxes ) bought Hardscrabble Farm on
648-508: The South on their way to freedom in the north. The latter half of the 19th century was a time of rapid growth in Pleasantville. By the 1870s, there were four shoemaking businesses, a shirtmaking business, and a pickle factory. The first newspaper to serve the village, The Pleasantville Pioneer , was launched at about 1886. The village's numerous small farms and orchards began to be subdivided for
684-699: The community as a non-profit, and it has won the readers' choice "Best of Westchester" award from Westchester Magazine for eight consecutive years, since 2014. From 1975 to 1987, Pleasantville was home to the New York Giants Training Camp. Each summer the Giants would hold their off-season workouts and Training Camp at the Pace University Pleasantville Campus. During their time at Pleasantville, thousands would flock to camp. During their stay in Pleasantville many businesses benefited from
720-530: The influx of people and many of the players would be seen at many of the restaurants and delicatessens in town. Pleasantville is also the only place in America to have hosted a royal wedding, between Estelle Bernadotte and Count Folke Bernadotte , a duke of Sweden who rejected his claim to the crown. The Marmaduke Forster House was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2011. According to
756-535: The intersection of Broadway and Bedford Road. This area was the village's original commercial center. In the 1820s, the newly appointed postmaster, Henry Romer, was directed by the Postmaster General 's office in Washington, D.C., to give a name to the post office planned here. Romer's proposed name, Clarksville, was rejected because another New York post office already had the name. His second choice, Pleasantville,
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#1732851523741792-682: The line to along the Saw Mill River , costing $ 200,000, which Rockefeller Jr. paid. When the De La Salle Brothers ' property in Amawalk was condemned to make way for the New Croton Reservoir , they moved the novitiate to Pocantico. Around 1929, the Rockefeller family purchased the property. The Stone Barns agricultural center in Pocantico Hills was established in 2003 to demonstrate multi-cultural, self-sustaining farming techniques; it
828-534: The lowering of the tracks below grade. Before the addition of the now heavily trafficked station, commuters working in New York City and lower Westchester County were forced to rely on rides from Marc Damon, now famous in Pleasantville for being "The Friendly Coachman". According to several sources, Pleasantville was a stop on the Underground Railroad , a network of safe houses for escaped slaves from
864-537: The metropolis on what is now the Metro-North Railroad 's Harlem Line . During the first two decades of the 20th century, roads were paved for the first time, water mains were installed, and electrical wires brought power to the village's houses. Other improvements during the first half of the 20th century include the construction of Soldiers and Sailors Field in 1909, the Saw Mill River Parkway in 1924,
900-663: The modern settler-colonial history of Pleasantville. By the time of the American Revolution , the population of the growing settlement comprised English, Dutch, and Quakers , most of whom were tenant farmers . During the Revolution, this area was part of the Neutral Ground , where there were conflicting loyalties among the settlers. British spy Major John André passed through present-day Pleasantville carrying information from Benedict Arnold at Fort Clinton (West Point) to
936-411: The name of the village familiar to millions of Reader's Digest subscribers around the world. Pleasantville is also the home of Joseph Wallace, writer of the novel Diamond Ruby . Today Pleasantville is home to many novelists, editors, and writers, who find its easygoing charm and proximity to New York an attractive combination. Pleasantville's reputation as a cultural center was enhanced in 2001 with
972-545: The opening of the nonprofit Jacob Burns Film Center in the landmark Rome Theater, a Spanish mission-style building and one of the first movie theaters in Westchester County. The Burns Center is dedicated to presenting independent, documentary, and world cinema. Guest speakers at the Burns Center have included Jerry Lewis , Woody Allen , Jonathan Demme , Robert Klein , Oliver Stone , Stephen King , Rob Lowe and numerous other notable filmmakers and actors. Usonia Homes ,
1008-407: The parish was grocery store magnate James Butler of Eastview. The Union Church of Pocantico Hills was built by the Rockefeller family in 1921. It features stained glass windows by Henri Matisse and Marc Chagall. The Matisse window was his final piece prior to his death in 1954 and was commissioned by Nelson A. Rockefeller in memory of his mother, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller , one of the founders of
1044-531: The present-day village before the arrival of Europeans. By the end of the 17th century, most if not all of the New York Lenape people had been killed by disease or conflict or had been displaced westward; Lenape in the 21st century reside in Ontario, Oklahoma, Ohio, Wisconsin, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. French Huguenot Isaac See settled here as an agent for Dutch landowner Frederick Philipse in 1695, beginning
1080-550: The village in 2018 was 71.7% Non-Hispanic White , 90.8% White , 4.3% African American , 0% Native American , 3.1% Asian , and 1.8% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 18.3% of the population. There were 2,637 households, out of which 35.2% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 58.3% were married couples living together, 7.8% had a female householder with no husband present, and 30.8% were non-families. 25.6% of all households were made up of individuals, and 10.3% had someone living alone who
1116-512: The western outskirts of Pleasantville and lived there in the 1940s and 1950s. For many years author Dashiell Hammett ( The Thin Man , The Maltese Falcon ), with whom Hellman was romantically involved, lived and worked at Hardscrabble Farm. DeWitt Wallace and Lila Bell Wallace , co-founders of Reader's Digest , made Pleasantville their headquarters in 1922, using a converted garage and pony shed on Eastview Avenue as their office and later building
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1152-452: Was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.61 and the average family size was 3.16. In the village, the population was spread out, with 28.5% under the age of 18, 4.8% from 18 to 24, 29.9% from 25 to 44, 23.5% from 45 to 64, and 13.3% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 38 years. For every 100 females, there were 98.3 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 91.1 males. The median income for
1188-627: Was accepted, and the Pleasantville Post Office opened on February 29, 1828. A significant change in the development of Pleasantville came with the arrival of the New York Central Railroad and New York and Harlem Railroad in 1846. In the following year, a train station was built near the present corner of Bedford Road and Wheeler Avenue, and as a result the commercial center of Pleasantville shifted to its current location. The older business district at Bedford Road and Broadway
1224-586: Was in Pleasantville. Another addition to Pleasantville's cultural scene is the Pleasantville Music Festival , made possible by the village, over 150 volunteers and WXPK , an all-day outdoor event stage at Parkway Field on the second Saturday in July. Main stage acts have included Roger McGuinn , The Bacon Brothers , Rusted Root , Jakob Dylan , Dar Williams , Carney, Back Door Slam , Marc Cohn , Augustana , Z.Z Ward, and Joan Osborne . Pleasantville
1260-467: Was organized in 1904. Pleasantville, New York Pleasantville is a village in the town of Mount Pleasant , in Westchester County , New York , United States. It is located 30 miles north of Manhattan . The village population was 7,513 at the 2020 census . Pleasantville is home to the secondary campus of Pace University and to the Jacob Burns Film Center . Most of Pleasantville
1296-709: Was originally settled by Native Americans of the Wecquaesgeek tribes; "Pocantico" means "stream between two hills", a reference to the meandering Pocantico River . The hamlet was once a part of Philipsburg Manor . The area was once called Beeckmantown, after the family of Stephen D. Beeckman, who had lived in a residence on the highest ground of the area, just west of the "Irving Institute". John D. Rockefeller , an industrialist, began buying land in Pocantico Hills in 1893. In 1880, The "Old Put" Railroad ran from New York to Brewster. The section between East View and Pocantico Hills , travelled over an 80-foot-high trestle over
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