Mount Kisco
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 Mount Kisco Village Hall |
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| Basic data | |||
| State : | United States | ||
| State : | new York | ||
| County : | Westchester (New York) | ||
| Coordinates : | 41 ° 12 ′ N , 73 ° 44 ′ W | ||
| Time zone : | Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 ) | ||
| Residents : | 10,877 (as of 2011) | ||
| Population density : | 8.4 inhabitants per km 2 | ||
| Area : | 1,300 km 2 (approx. 502 mi 2 ) | ||
| Height : | 92 m | ||
| Postal code : | 10549 | ||
| Area code : | +1 914 | ||
| FIPS : | 36-48890 | ||
| GNIS ID : | 0957852 | ||
| Website : | www.mountkisco.org | ||
Mount Kisco is a city in Westchester County , New York . It has an area of 8.1 km². In 2010 there were 10,877 residents.
history
The first mention was around 1700. The name is based on a word of the local Indian tribe Munsee , asiiskuw means mud in German. The place name was first mentioned in the 1850s by a local postal worker.
Mount Kisco City Hall, St. Mark's Cemetery, United Methodist Church and Parsonage, and Merestead, a residential building, are listed on the United States' National Register of Historic Places .
Personalities
The following people were born or lived in Mount Kisco:
sons and daughters of the town
- Ann Blyth (born 1928), actress and singer
- Gavin MacLeod (born 1931), actor
- Thomas Briccetti (1936–1999), composer, pianist and conductor
- Michael Eisner (* 1942), CEO of the Walt Disney Company
- James Francis McCarthy (born 1942), Roman Catholic bishop
- Bruce H. Lipton (* 1944), developmental biologist and stem cell researcher
- Caitlyn Jenner (born 1949), sports and television personality
- Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr. (* 1951), journalist
- Doane Perry (born 1954), musician
- Kimiko Hahn (* 1955), poet
- Laurie Parsons (* 1959), artist of minimalism
- John Schneider (* 1960), actor
- Rick Carey (born 1963), swimmer
- Andreas Münzner (* 1967), Swiss writer and translator
- Dar Williams (* 1967), musician
- Elizabeth Otto (* 1970), art historian, university professor and non-fiction author
- Andy Daly (* 1971), actor and comedian
- Samantha Hunt (* 1971), writer
- Matthew Del Negro (born 1972), actor
- Scott Arpajian (* 1973), technology manager, entrepreneur and author
- Ken Silverman (* 1975), computer game programmer
- Adam Green (* 1981), musician
- Taj Finger (born 1986), basketball player
- Olivia Giaccio (* 2000), freestyle skier
Personalities related to the city
- Chaim Michael Dov Weissmandl (1903–1957), Rabbi
- Alexander Gode (1906–1970), linguist and translator
- Samuel Barber (1910–1981), composer
- Rob Thomas (* 1972), musician
Web links
Commons : Mount Kisco, New York - Collection of images, videos, and audio files
Individual evidence
- ↑ Town of Mount Kisco official website
- ↑ Community Facts. Retrieved October 25, 2016 .
- ^ A b Robert S. Grumet, Manhattan to Minisink: American Indian Place Names of Greater New York and Vicinity (University of Oklahoma Press, 2013), p. 62., engl.
- ^ National Register Information System . In: National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service . Retrieved March 13, 2009.