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Bronxville is a
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in
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,
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, United States, located approximately north of
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. It is part of the
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of Eastchester. The village comprises one square mile (2.5 km2) of land in its entirety, approximately 20% of the town of Eastchester. As of the 2020 U.S. census, Bronxville had a population of 6,656.


History

The region that includes the contemporary village of Bronxville was deeded to British colonists in 1666, but first settled by Europeans in the early 18th century. The two founding inhabitants were the Underhill and Morgan families. The Underhills built a
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and a
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, which was the first factory in the area, on the
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. After they built a wooden bridge, the area became known as Underhill's Crossing. Millionaire real-estate and pharmaceutical mogul
William Van Duzer Lawrence William Van Duzer Lawrence (1842–1927) was an American millionaire real-estate and pharmaceutical mogul who is best known for having founded Sarah Lawrence College in 1926 and Lawrence Hospital in 1909. He played a critical role in the devel ...
sparked the development of Bronxville as an affluent suburb of
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by building grand homes in a rustic setting. The area became "Bronxville" when the village was formally established. The population grew in the second half of the 19th century when railroads enabled commuters from Westchester County to work in New York City. Lawrence's influence can be seen throughout the community, including the historic Lawrence Park neighborhood, the Houlihan Lawrence Real Estate Corporation, and Lawrence Hospital. 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
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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 Gramatan Hotel on Sunset Hill was a residence hotel in the late 19th century and early 20th century.Morgan pp. 60-64 Gramatan was the name of the chief of the local Siwanoy Indian tribe that was centered in the Gramatan Rock area above Bronxville Station. Chief Gramatan sold the land to the settlers. The hotel was demolished in 1972, and a complex of townhouses was built on the site in 1980. Elizabeth Clift Bacon, General
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'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
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;
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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
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over Edward's brother,
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, by a 5-to-1 margin. The US Post Office–Bronxville was listed on the
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in 1988. Other sites on the National Register are the Bronxville Women's Club,
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, and Masterton-Dusenberry House.


Demographics

As of the 2020 census, there were 6,656 people and 2,212 households. The population density was . The racial makeup of the village was 87.5%
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, 1.1%
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, 0.1% Native American, 7.1% Asian, 0%
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, 2% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latinos of any race were 7.3% of the population. As of 2000, there were 2,387 housing units, at an average density of . There were 2,312 households, of which 40.8% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 64.4% were married couples living together, 6.2% had a female householder with no husband present, and 28.2% were non-families. 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. The average household size was 2.71, and the average family size was 3.27. Age distribution was 29.1% under the age of 18, 7.3% from 18 to 24, 25.9% from 25 to 44, 25.6% from 45 to 64, and 12.2% 65 or older. The median age was 38 years. For every 100 females, there were 86.7 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 82.1 males. According to 2023 data from the U.S Census Bureau, the median household income in Bronxville was $215,726, and the per-capita income was $146,308. The median value of owner-occupied housing units was $1,137,700. The median gross rent from 2019-2023 was $3,355.


Postal code

Bronxville's 10708 ZIP Code covers the village of Bronxville proper, plus Chester Heights and other sections of Eastchester, parts of Tuckahoe, and Lawrence Park West, Cedar Knolls, Armour Villa, and other sections of
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. These areas are collectively known as "Bronxville P.O." This brings the ZIP Code's population to 22,411 (2000 census), covering an area more than twice as large as the municipality of Bronxville itself and encompassing several institutions, including
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. Many of the residential properties located within Bronxville PO are within walking distance of Bronxville's downtown, but are officially within the municipal boundaries of the City of Yonkers. As such, residents of these areas do not pay Village of Bronxville property taxes, but cannot take advantage of the Village of Bronxville's nationally-recognized, elite public school system. These neighborhoods remain popular with families not requiring schooling for children, or who intend to send their children to private schools, such as those in Riverdale, Bronx, or religious schools in Yonkers or Bronxville. That said, the Yonkers Public school system has demonstrated dramatic improvement in student outcomes over the past two decades, and elementary schools located in Bronxville PO (and the neighboring Tuckahoe PO neighborhood of Yonkers) are more highly rated than many in Yonkers. All said, the greater Bronxville area comprises a larger population of more mixed income residents that is also more ethically and religiously diverse than those living within the Village itself. Many of Bronxville's downtown businesses rely on customers from these nearby neighborhoods, and many Bronxville business owners also live in neighboring Yonkers.


Education

Bronxville was home to Concordia College, a
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operated by the
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. The college was shuttered on January 28, 2021, following financial difficulties accelerated by the
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. Plans are set for the campus to become acquired by nearby Iona University. In 2021, the purchase by Iona College, New Rochelle, NY was completed as the site for their new Health Sciences campus. Adjacent to the Concordia College campus is the Chapel School—a pre-K-8 school affiliated with the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, which came to national attention for holding a mock slave auction in 2019. The Bronxville Public School is known as The Bronxville School. The school was started as a
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al institution in 1922. St. Joseph School is a Catholic
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run by St. Joseph's Church. It was established in 1951, and schools children from kindergarten through eighth grade.


Parks and recreation

The Village of Bronxville has more than of parkland including athletic fields, woodlands, and a very small part of the
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Parkway Reservation. The Reservation, Westchester’s oldest park, was created as an adjunct to the
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that opened in 1925, and was the first linear park in the United States. The Reservation features ponds, wooden footbridges and hundreds of varieties of native trees and shrubs. The park is owned by Westchester County, and it is a favorite place for bicycling, walking, running, and nature study. It is sometimes referred to by locals as the "Duck Pond". The Bronxville School's athletic fields contain a football field, three smaller fields used for various sports like field hockey and lacrosse, and a running track (which is only 380 meters in Lane 1 because of space issues). 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
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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.


Notable people

* Frank Abagnale, Jr. (born 1948), security consultant and former
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/ forger, subject of the book ''
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'' and its 2002 film adaptation *
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(1884–1960), explorer for the American Museum of Natural History *
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(1849–1903), pioneer of the women’s cosmetics industry * Kenneth Bacon (1944–2009),
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spokesman who later served as president of Refugees International * Harrison Bader (born 1994),
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outfielder for the
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, and previously with the
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,
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, and
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. * Chris Baio (born 1984), musician *
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(1900–1993), lexicographer, noted for the Thorndike-Barnhart school dictionary series. *
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(1969–2021), associate research professor at
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and immunologist, who was the developer of the first
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-approved rapid saliva test for
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diagnosis. * Henry Billings Brown, US Supreme Court justice, died at the Gramatan Hotel in 1913. *
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, author and illustrator of children's books * Marvin Bower, former managing director of McKinsey & Co. * Mika Brzezinski, television journalist on ''
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'' * Thomas S. Buechner (1936–2010), founding director of the
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and director of the
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* William J. Burns, founder of the Burns Detective Agency, and director of the FBI’s predecessor organization * Mary Cain, middle distance runner *
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, host of
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* Juanin Clay de Zalduondo, American actress * Janet Cox-Rearick, art historian * Elizabeth Custer, widow of General George Armstrong Custer * Jeanne Darst, writer, Fiction Ruined My Family *
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, writer * Lawrence Dutton, musician * Francis William Edmonds (1806–63), genre painter * Michelle Ekizian, is an American composer. * Ford C. Frick, National League President - The third Major League Commissioner of Baseball *
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, owned a home in Bronxville before his appointment as treasury secretary in 2009. *
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, famed ''New Yorker'' writer * Michael Gates Gill, author of ''How Starbucks Saved My Life: A Son of Privilege Learns to Live Like Everyone Else'' *
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, commissioner of the
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* Don Herbert (1917-2007), television host * John Hoyt, actor * Rose Kennedy, Kennedy family matriarch * Joseph P. Kennedy, Kennedy family patriarch. Ambassador to Great Britain and 1st Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission * Robert F. Kennedy, 64th attorney general and U.S. senator from New York *
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, U.S. senator from Massachusetts *
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, 35th president of the United States of America, U.S. senator from Massachusetts * Denison Kitchel, campaign manager for Barry M. Goldwater in
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, was born in Bronxville in 1908. *
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, a psychologist and developer of theories on stages of moral development. * Steve Liesman, television reporter * Jamie Loeb (born 1995), tennis player * James Grover McDonald diplomat and first U.S. Ambassador to Israel. * Ginna Sulcer Marston, public service advertiser, attended Bronxville high school *
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, television host * Jose Melis, musician and band leader for Jack Paar on ''The Tonight Show'' *
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, radio and television talk show host * Frank Patterson, Irish tenor * Mark Patterson, investor * Gretchen Peters, country singer/songwriter * Peter Pennoyer, architect *
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, one of the creators of Unix and the C programming language * Gary Robinson, software entrepreneur * Ron Rothstein (born 1942), NBA basketball coach and college basketball player * Chuck Scarborough, news anchor * William E. Schluter (1927-2018), politician who served in the
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and the
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. * Tad Smith, CEO of
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* Frederick D. Sulcer, advertising executive who wrote ''Put a Tiger in Your Tank'' for
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* Ruth Ann Swenson, operatic soprano * Philip Torchio, electrical engineer with Edison Electric Company * Charles J. Urstadt, real estate executive * David Kenyon Webster, World War 2 soldier in Easy Company, the "Band of Brothers" * Witold Woyda, Polish Olympic gold medalist.


In popular culture

*The town in the setting for
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's 1917 Broadway musical '' Love O' Mike''. * The Bronxville School appears in the films ''
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'' (1984), starring
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and
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, and '' Stepmom'' (1998), starring
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and
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. * The Siwanoy Country Club, located in Eastchester, is featured in the films ''
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'' (1993), starring
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, and
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and ''
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'' (1998), starring
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. * The film ''
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'' (2008) was shot partly on Legget Road in Bronxville. * The opening scene in the film '' Tales from the Darkside'' (1990) was shot in Bronxville. * A few scenes from the film '' Admission'' (2013) were filmed in Value Drugs and Womwraths in Bronxville * In season 8, Episode 4 of the TV series ''Blue Bloods'', DCPI Garrett Moore gets swatted at his home in Bronxville


Image gallery

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See also

* Eastchester *
William Van Duzer Lawrence William Van Duzer Lawrence (1842–1927) was an American millionaire real-estate and pharmaceutical mogul who is best known for having founded Sarah Lawrence College in 1926 and Lawrence Hospital in 1909. He played a critical role in the devel ...
* US Post Office–Bronxville * Bronxville Women's Club *
Lawrence Park Historic District Lawrence Park Historic District is a national Historic District (United States), historic district located at Bronxville, New York, Bronxville, Westchester County, New York. The district contains 94 contributing buildings, the majority of whic ...
* Masterton-Dusenberry House * Bronxville Union Free School District * Lawrence Hospital


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Village of Bronxville official website

'My Hometown' Bronxville

Bronxville Government Access TV
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