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46-624: Timothy Knapp House and Milton Cemetery is a historic district at 265 Rye Beach Avenue and Milton Road in Rye, New York . The earliest part of the Timothy Knapp House was built around 1670, and the site was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. The Timothy Knapp House is considered the oldest residential property in Westchester County, New York , having been built in

92-520: A province . In Canada, charters are granted by provincial authorities . Since the beginning of American colonial rule, Philippines cities were formally established through laws enacted by the various national legislatures in the country. The Philippine Commission gave the city of Manila its charter in 1901, while the city of Baguio was established by the Philippine Assembly which was composed by elected members instead of appointed ones. During

138-529: A city in 1942, making it the youngest city in the State of New York . Its population density for its 5.85 square miles of land is roughly 2,729.76/sq mi. Rye is notable for its waterfront which covers 60 percent of the city's six square miles and is governed by a waterfront act instituted in 1991. Located in the city are two National Historic Landmarks : the Boston Post Road Historic District

184-569: A local landmark law that protects the following properties: Of note are two 200 plus year old milestones labeled 24 and 25 on the Boston Post Road , oldest thoroughfare in the United States. The concept of mile markers to measure the distance from New York City was originated in 1763 by Benjamin Franklin during his term as Postmaster General . These sandstone markers likely date from 1802 when

230-709: A massive center chimney reinforced with mud mortar. The Halsted family lived in the house for the next 157 years. In 1906, Simeon Ford, co-owner of the Grand Union Hotel in Manhattan and a real estate developer, purchased the Knapp House. Julia Lauren Ford, his daughter, was an internationally known religious artist whose work is included in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum , the Art Institute of Chicago and

276-614: A variety of environmentally significant areas. Numerous tidal and freshwater wetlands are found near the waterfront and brooks. The Milton Harbor area (including the Marshlands Conservancy and Rye Golf Club), Disbrow Park and the Manursing area contain the most extensive wetlands in the City. In addition, substantial areas near the Sound, Milton Harbor, Blind Brook and Beaver Swamp Brook are within

322-527: Is a coastal community with numerous sensitive wetlands and watercourses. In 1991, the City of Rye adopted a comprehensive plan to further regulate land and water usage to protect and preserve these fragile resources. In 2010, spurred by disastrous flooding events in 2007 and other environmental concerns, the Rye Sustainability Committee (RSC) was formed and tasked with creating a plan to inform best environmental and land stewardship practices for

368-629: Is a top high school football rivalry in Westchester County. Rye High School's mascot is the "Garnets" a name given due to the abundance of the precious gem found during the school's construction. Rye schools were recently ranked #18 in New York State with "A" ratings in all aspects except diversity. The Rye train station provides commuter rail service to Grand Central Terminal in New York City or Stamford and New Haven-Union Station via

414-495: Is also a significant coastal community. In 1991, the City of Rye authored a Local Waterfront Revitalization Program (LWRP) to provide clear guidance for addressing future water conservation and preservation issues Rye has numerous private country clubs, many of which were formed in the late 19th and early 20th century. The combined acreage of these clubs affords members and guests over 993 acres of recreation. Access to recreation in Rye

460-604: Is now owned and maintained by the City of Rye and no longer in use. The Timothy Knapp House contains the Rye Historical Society Archives, including about 15,000 documents, maps, pictures, books and pamphlets. The Kay Donahue Memorial Garden is a historic kitchen/herb garden with authentic plantings maintained by the Little Garden Club. The House and Cemetery were placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. The Rye Historical Society purchased

506-769: Is plentiful with numerous public, private and shared sports facilities from tennis, to ice hockey to boating. Planning and zoning oversight is vested in several branches of the Rye government including several volunteer staffed committees like the Planning Commission, the Architectural Review Board, the Sustainability Committee, the Conservation Committee and the Landmarks Committee to name a few. The city's current Master Plan guides

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552-613: The Commonwealth era , the National Assembly established an additional ten cities. Since achieving independence from the United States in 1946 the Philippine Congress has established 149 more cities (as of September 2024 ), the majority of which required the holding of a plebiscite within the proposed city's jurisdiction to ratify the city's charter. In Sweden until 1951, cities were established by royal charter . In

598-729: The Corcoran Gallery in Washington. Miss Ford was responsible for all three 20th-century additions to the house, including a studio, a greenhouse and an aviary. Lauren was also helped in the founding of the Benedictine Abbey of Regina Laudis in Connecticut, which became the basis for the film Come to the Stable , written by Clare Boothe Luce . Before moving to Connecticut in 1940, Ms. Ford rented

644-530: The Metro-North Railroad 's New Haven Line . The Bee-Line Bus System provides bus service to Rye on routes 13 and 61 with additional seasonal service to Rye Playland on routes 75 and 91. Rye Police Department has 36 sworn police officers. The Rye Auxiliary Police is an all-volunteer force that provides assistance when needed. The Westchester County Police also patrol areas of Rye. New York State Police patrols Interstate 95 and 287, and MTA Police patrol

690-627: The Northeast , the Dragon Coaster . Rye was once a part of Fairfield County , Connecticut , belonging to the Sachem Ponus, of the Ponus Wekuwuhm, Canaan Parish, and was probably named for that chieftain, "Peningoe Neck". It was founded in 1660 by three men: Thomas Studwell, Peter Disbrow and John Coe. Later landowners included John Budd and family. During the 19th and early 20th centuries it

736-603: The Rye Neck School District . Rye Neck High School and Middle School are on one campus also located partially in the City of Rye. Rye High School has been named a Gold Medal school and the 61st-best high school in the U.S., ninth-best in New York state, and best in New York state if test-in schools are disregarded, according to U.S. News & World Report ' s 2013 "Best High Schools". The annual Rye - Harrison football game has been played for more than 80 years and

782-513: The United Kingdom , cities are established by royal charter . In the United States , such charters are established either directly by a state legislature by means of local legislation , or indirectly under a general municipal corporation law, usually after the proposed charter has passed a referendum vote of the affected population. A municipal charter is the basic document that defines

828-484: The United States Census Bureau , the city has a total area of 20.0 square miles (52 km ), of which 5.9 sq mi (15 km ) is land and 14.2 sq mi (37 km ) is water. Rye is "situated in the eastern part of central Westchester County on Long Island Sound. The western border of the City generally parallels Beaver Swamp Brook, while the eastern border is formed by Milton Harbor and

874-721: The Westchester Turnpike was configured. Rye is also home to a rare 1938 WPA mural by realist Guy Pene du Bois which is located within the city's Post Office lobby and titled John Jay at His Home. Rye is home to two of the 16 sites on the African American Heritage Trail of Westchester County - The Rye African-American Cemetery and the Jay Estate. Rye has over 454 acres of green open space with multiple types of usage from active to passive recreation including walking, hiking, bird-watching and dog walking. It

920-414: The 100 year flood hazard area, and thus subject to potential flooding." According to the City of Rye, "Considerable acreage of these important natural resources has been lost or impaired by draining, dredging, filling, excavating, building, polluting and other acts inconsistent with the natural uses of such areas. Remaining wetlands are in jeopardy of being lost, despoiled or impaired by such acts contrary to

966-576: The 1660s. The property has been owned by only 5 families between 1663 and 1992, when it was acquired by the Rye Historical Society. The Milton Cemetery, across the Street from the Knapp House, is Rye 's first public burying ground. The house, surrounding gardens and adjacent Milton Cemetery are listed on the National Register of Historic Places . Thomas Studwell, one of the original settlers of

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1012-403: The 2020 United States Census, there were 16,592 people living in the city. This is representative of approximately 5491 households. 74.8% have a college degree. 15.5% were over the age of 65 and 51.7% were women. 88.2% identified themselves as White alone. 1.3% identified as Black or African American alone. 6.7% identified as Hispanic or Latino. 5.6% identified as Asian alone. Rye is home to: Of

1058-666: The 43 municipalities in Westchester County in updating this "serious document". Failure to modernize the 1985 Master Plan on that schedule has produced concerns from residents about the lack of community consensus, lack of informed and coordinated regulation of development and the subsequent impacts including increased flooding and a higher than expected volume of teardowns. Other concerns include threats to historical resources, cultural resources, natural resources, sensitive coastal and environmental areas and numerous other negative repercussions on neighborhood character. Previous Master Plans for Rye were created in 1929, 1945, and in 1963. Rye

1104-635: The Blind Brook. Additional findings have been made at the Jay Estate in archaeological digs conducted by Dr. Eugene Boesch and submitted to the NY State Cultural Resource Information System (CRIS). Many of Rye's unique neighborhoods are defined in the 1985 Master Plan. Many have historic significance and their preservation was signaled as important for enhancing Rye's character. They include: Proposed National Register District Local or National Register Significance As of

1150-688: The Knapp House in 1992, while the Cemetery was deeded to the City of Rye. Rye, New York Rye is a coastal city in Westchester County , New York , United States, located near New York City and within the New York City metropolitan area . It is separate from the Town of Rye , which has more land area than the city. The City of Rye, formerly the Village of Rye, was part of the Town until it received its charter as

1196-528: The Rye Train station and property within the Metro North right-of-way. Municipal charter Traditionally, the granting of a charter gave a settlement and its inhabitants the right to town privileges under the feudal system . Townspeople who lived in chartered towns were burghers , as opposed to serfs who lived in villages. Towns were often " free ", in the sense that they were directly protected by

1242-477: The Sound. Blind Brook traverses the City from the northwest corner of Rye to Milton Harbor at the southern end." The geology and hydrology of Rye is characterized by a significant quantity of rock, marshes and wetlands which makes the city both desirably scenic but also challenging for developers. Rye's bedrock is predominantly constituted of Fordham gneiss and Harrison diorite also known as Byram Black granite. According to Rye's 1985 Master Plan, "Rye contains

1288-467: The area have not been updated in over 20 years Flooding has long been an issue in Rye as in other coastal towns with water coming in from Long Island Sound. The Blind Brook watershed is also a source of that flooding with significant deluges recorded in the neighborhood of Indian Village after four days of rain in October 1975. Three major weather events in just five years produced catastrophic damage in

1334-467: The city that had previously flooded during Hurricane Irene were under 8–9 feet of water. Other areas around the town normally not affected by flooding were also affected. Prior to the flooding event, Rye had undergone approximately five inches of rainfall from Hurricane Henri . Two weeks later, the remnants Hurricane Ida dropped another 8–9 inches of rain in the area within a 12-hour period. Hurricane Ida remnants caused flooding in Rye nearly 10 years to

1380-516: The city. A sustainability plan was formally adopted in December 2013 Most of the city is in the Rye City School District . Rye is served by three public elementary schools: Osborn, Milton, and Midland. Rye Middle School and Rye High School are part of the same campus, and the two buildings connect. The Greenhaven and The Preserve at Rye neighborhoods of the City of Rye are served by

1426-541: The construction of a bike path along the Playland Parkway in Rye. Within just one mile of the project site, the report noted a dozen archeologically sensitive areas. The publication included supporting data from files in the repositories of NYOPRHP and the NY State Museum; it further highlighted the existence of shell middens, evidence of camp sites and at least two burial grounds. One of these documented sites included

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1472-536: The day from Hurricane Irene. As of 2010, seventy-five percent of the acreage in Rye or the equivalent of 3,954 acres had been determined to be archaeologically sensitive with many Indigenous and First Nations contact sites. At least two villages have been determined to have existed, one on Manursing Island and the other on today's Milton Point. The presence of Indigenous people's activities has been noted in numerous locations where implements and bones were unearthed, including an "ancient Indian burial ground, site of

1518-510: The house to the Matthew Taylors, whose descendants purchased it in 1969 and owned the property until it was sold to the Rye Historical Society in 1992 for $ 320,000. The Milton Cemetery is a one-acre public burying ground originally part of the Knapp estate, located on the west side of Milton Street across from the Knapp House. The oldest tombstone is that of Nehemiah Webb who was buried in 1722. It

1564-451: The king or emperor, and were not part of a feudal fief . Today, the process for granting is determined by the type of government of the state in question. In monarchies, charters are still often a royal charter given by the Crown or the authorities acting on behalf of the Crown. In federations, the granting of charters may be within the jurisdiction of the lower level of government, such as

1610-416: The land was originally the ancestral home of American Founding Father John Jay . It is where he grew up and where he is buried. Rye Playland is a 279-acre theme park is owned and operated by Westchester County and includes rides, games, an indoor skating rink or Ice Casino, beach, a boardwalk, and concession stands. It is one of only two amusement parks in the country with National Historic Landmark status,

1656-481: The more than 2600 National Historic Landmark (NHL) sites in the country, Rye has two: the Boston Post Road Historic District and Playland Amusement Park Both are also listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Rye also has one of the few National Historic Landmark Districts in the country. The Boston Post Road Historic District includes 5 historically significant parcels; much of

1702-491: The other one being Kennywood in Pennsylvania . It has been a popular destination since it first opened in 1928. Its wooden roller coaster, the Dragon Coaster , built in 1929, is one of the last roller coaster rides built by engineer Frederick Church that is still operating. The Derby Racer , also built by Church, is one of only three rides of its kind remaining in the world. Glenn Close 's and Ellen Latzen's characters ride

1748-511: The planning process. Also known as a Comprehensive plan , it was authored 39 years ago with an expectation that it would be updated again in 2000. Attempts to revise the 1985 document with community input as recommended in NY State's Statute on Comprehensive Planning were made in 2016 and 2017. The review, which was aimed to reflect current conditions of growth and forecast future changes, was not completed. As of 2018, Rye lagged behind almost all of

1794-421: The present Playland Casino" together with discoveries of artifacts along the shoreline, pottery, skeletons and relics along Milton Road, Disbrow Park and throughout today's Boston Post Road Historic District including Marshlands Conservancy. The presence of Indigenous people in Rye was more recently documented in a 2012 Phase IA archaeological investigation commissioned by Westchester County in connection with

1840-504: The public safety and welfare." As a result, the city has charged itself with the responsibility of "preventing the despoilation and destruction of wetlands and watercourses while taking into account varying ecological, economic, recreational and aesthetic values. Activities that may damage wetlands or watercourses should be located on upland sites in such a manner as not to degrade these systems." In 2017, Rye resident and then New York State Senator George Latimer noted that wetlands maps for

1886-464: The roller coaster in the 1980s thriller film, Fatal Attraction . Airplane Coaster , Church's most acclaimed coaster, was removed in 1957. Playland is also the setting for several key scenes in the 1988 comedy film Big , starring Tom Hanks Of the more than 88,000 sites in the country that are listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP), Rye has 10 including the aforementioned Playland and Boston Post Road Historic District. Rye has

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1932-687: The town. The city's response to these recurring hazards was to apply for funding through the NY Rising Community Reconstruction Program. Rye received $ 3,000,000 to safeguard the city against future flooding threats, upgrade its infrastructure for resiliency, identify stormwater mitigation solutions, and protect historic buildings and natural wetlands. Starting on September 1, 2021, Rye experienced another substantial flooding event. The storm lasted two days and caused significant damage to municipal facilities, businesses and residences. Areas around Indian Village and other sections of

1978-568: The village of Rye, New York built a house on the Rye Beach Ave. property in 1663. At the time, the town of Rye was part of Connecticut . He traded houses with Timothy Knapp of Stamford, CT, who then built the foundations of the current structure as a two-room residence between 1667 and 1670. Knapp was the deputy to the General Court in Hartford, Connecticut , as a Town Constable and Tax Collector. He

2024-429: Was a haven for wealthy Manhattanites who traveled by coach or boat to escape the city heat. Its location on Long Island Sound and numerous beaches also appealed to visitors with more moderate means who gravitated for short stays at cottages and waterfront hotels. It has an extraordinary inventory of buildings with architectural distinction that help visually articulate specific neighborhoods and districts. According to

2070-581: Was also a vestryman of Grace Church in Rye. Ezekiel Halsted, a wealthy landowner originally from Long Island, purchased the property from Timothy Knapp's sons in 1746. He expanded the house, adding a second floor using "post-and-beam" construction with a sloping roof in the back containing a dining room and kitchen, which gave the house the distinctive saltbox architecture. Beams are hand-hewn, and some retain their original bark. The house has cellar walls reinforced with lime made from crushed oyster shells, 12-inch wooden nails holding floorboards together and

2116-544: Was designated a National Historic Landmark by the National Park Service in 1993; its centerpiece is the Jay Estate , the childhood home and final resting place of John Jay , a Founding Father and the first Chief Justice of the United States. Playland , a historic amusement park designated a National Historic Landmark in 1987, is also located in Rye. Playland features one of the oldest wooden roller coasters in

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