Woodridge is a

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in Sullivan County, New York, United States. The population was 847 at the 2010 census. The village is in the town of

Fallsburg Fallsburg is a town in Sullivan County, New York, United States. The town is in the eastern part of the county. The population was 14,192 at the 2020 census. (It is not to be confused with the hamlet of Fallsburg which bears a similar name and ...

at the junction of county routes 53, 54, 58, and 158. The Woodridge ZIP Code is 12789.

History

The village was formerly called "Centreville". A history of the village, ''Centreville to Woodridge'' by Erna W. Elliott, was published by Exposition Press in 1976. Centreville was a station stop along the old

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. Woodridge is located in the

Catskills The Catskill Mountains, also known as the Catskills, are a physiographic province of the larger Appalachian Mountains, located in southeastern New York. As a cultural and geographic region, the Catskills are generally defined as those areas c ...

Borscht Belt The Borscht Belt, or Jewish Alps, is a colloquial term for the mostly defunct summer resorts of the Catskill Mountains in parts of Sullivan, Orange, and Ulster counties in the U.S. state of New York, straddling both Upstate New York and the nort ...

resort area. In its heyday it was home to numerous summer hotels, bungalow colonies, and boarding houses. Fallsburgh Central School's high school was in Woodridge. The last graduating class was in 1958. The new high school was built in Fallsburg. During the 1950s, Woodridge had: *4 bars *3 hardware stores *2 dental offices *1 amusement business *6 gasoline stations *3 produce markets *2 bus lines *5 automobile repair shops *5 groceries *1 fish market *2 taxi services *2 dry cleaners *4 luncheonettes *2 drug stores *1 bank *1 movie theatre *3 clothing stores *1 liquor store *1 shoe store *1 steam laundry *2 barber shops *3 automobile dealerships *1 mattress manufacturer *3 butcher shops *2 medical doctor's offices *3 lumber yards 1- bakery- Mortmans In addition, there were numerous trades and professionals, including painters, a plumber, electricians, masons, carpenters, auto body repair, CPAs, architects, lawyers, flooring contractors, sign painters and chicken dealers. A small percentage of the permanent population is still

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. There are two active synagogues in Woodridge: * Ohave Shalom Synagogue was listed on the

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in 2000. * K'hal Yerim of Woodridge on 25 Highland Avenue was founded in 1985 by the Grand Rabbi Yitzchok Lebovits. On July 16, 2010, an

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was erected in Woodridge under the supervision of Rabbi Yechiel Steinmetz of

Monsey, New York Monsey (, yi, מאנסי, translit=Monsi) is a hamlet and census-designated place in the town of Ramapo, Rockland County, New York, United States, located north of Airmont, east of Viola, south of New Hempstead, and west of Spring Valley. The ...

. Rabbi Yechiel Steinmetz's eruv was functional only for that summer. Silver Lake Dam was listed on the

in 2000.

Notable former hotels in Woodridge

Vanishing Catskills
/ref> *Palms Hotel *Olympic Hotel *Avon Lodge *Glory Hotel *Hotel Israel (Fischel Kleinberg's)

(Konviser family) *The Biltmore *Sunny Oaks *The Claremore Country Club *Sunny Acres Dude Ranch *The Rosemond *The Alamac Country Club *Rubinstein's Hotel *Saperstein's Bungalow's *Hotel Weingerson *Shein's Hotelformer guest & friend of the owners

Government

*Mayor- Joan Collins *Trustees- Ronald Kates, Yits Kantrowitz, Leni Binder, and Steve Levy *Village Clerk- Myra Bennett *Village Justice- Eddie Hernandez *Acting Village Justice- Bart Rasnick *Justice Court Clerk- Amanda Dole

Geography

Woodridge is located at (41.708062, -74.569809). Woodridge is bordered by the Hamlet of

or Old Falls, the Hamlet of Mountaindale, and the Hamlet of Glen Wild. According to the

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, the village has a total area of , of which is land and (6.10%) is water.

Demographics

As of the

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of 2000, there were 902 people, 351 households, and 228 families residing in the village. The

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was 583.9 people per square mile (226.1/km²). There were 473 housing units at an average density of 306.2 per square mile (118.6/km²). The racial makeup of the village was 72.84%

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, 12.42%

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, 0.22% Native American, 1.00%

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, 0.22%

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, 8.98% from

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, and 4.32% from two or more races.

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of any race were 23.61% of the population. There were 351 households, out of which 33.3% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 41.0% were married couples living together, 16.2% had a female householder with no husband present, and 35.0% were non-families. 30.8% of all households were made up of individuals, and 15.1% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.50 and the average family size was 3.10. In the village, the population was spread out, with 27.3% under the age of 18, 7.1% from 18 to 24, 25.3% from 25 to 44, 22.4% from 45 to 64, and 18.0% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 39 years. For every 100 females, there were 89.9 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 86.9 males. The median income for a household in the village was $23,750, and the median income for a family was $29,167. Males had a median income of $30,357 versus $25,694 for females. The

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for the village was $14,993. About 25.4% of families and 31.1% of the population were below the

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, including 40.9% of those under age 18 and 24.4% of those age 65 or over.

References

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