Bronxville
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Bronxville | ||
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Location in New York | ||
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Basic data | ||
Foundation : | 1898 | |
State : | United States | |
State : | new York | |
County : | Westchester County | |
Coordinates : | 40 ° 56 ′ N , 73 ° 50 ′ W | |
Time zone : | Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 ) | |
Residents : | 6,323 (as of 2010) | |
Population density : | 2,634.6 inhabitants per km 2 | |
Area : | 2.4 km 2 (approx. 1 mi 2 ) of which 2.4 km 2 (approx. 1 mi 2 ) is land |
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Height : | 38 m | |
Postal code : | 10708 | |
Area code : | +1 914 | |
FIPS : | 36-08532 | |
GNIS ID : | 2391564 | |
Website : | www.villageofbronxville.com |
Bronxville is a village in Westchester County in the State of New York in the United States and is located about 24 km north of Manhattan . Geographically and politically it belongs together with Tuckahoe to the city of Eastchester. In 2010 there were 6,323 residents. The community is one of the wealthiest in the United States and is home to the prestigious Sarah Lawrence College .
sons and daughters of the town
- Mort Dixon (1892–1956), musician, songwriter and lyricist
- John Hoyt (1905–1991), film, theater and television actor and screenwriter
- Jack Lemaire (1911–2010), jazz musician, comedian and actor
- Lawrence Ferlinghetti (* 1919), Beatnik writer and Beatnik poet
- Lawrence Kohlberg (1927–1987), psychologist and professor of education
- Mary Fickett (1928–2011), actress
- David Towell (1937-2003), politician
- Brice Marden (born 1938), artist
- Dennis Ritchie (1941–2011), computer scientist and co-developer of UNIX
- Fred Sandback (1943–2003), artist who can be assigned to minimalism
- Tina Sloan (born 1943), actress
- Louise Lawler (* 1947), artist
- Frank Abagnale (* 1948), impostor and expert on check fraud
- Garrick Ohlsson (* 1948), pianist
- Molly Cheek (born 1950), actress
- Dave Wilson (* 1955), jazz saxophonist
- Tom McClintock (born 1956), politician
- Nick Didkovsky (* 1958), guitarist and composer
- Jeffrey Brock (* 1970), mathematician
- Gil Netter (* before 1991), film producer