New Rochelle
New Rochelle | ||
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Nickname : Queen City of the Sound | ||
Location in New York
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Basic data | ||
Foundation : | 1899 | |
State : | United States | |
State : | new York | |
County : | Westchester County | |
Coordinates : | 40 ° 55 ′ N , 73 ° 47 ′ W | |
Time zone : | Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 ) | |
Residents : | 77,062 (as of 2010) | |
Population density : | 2,875.4 inhabitants per km 2 | |
Area : | 34.3 km 2 (approx. 13 mi 2 ) of which 26.8 km 2 (approx. 10 mi 2 ) are land |
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Height : | 15 m | |
Postcodes : | 10801-10805 | |
Area code : | +1 914 | |
FIPS : | 36-50617 | |
GNIS ID : | 979271 | |
Website : | www.newrochelleny.com |
New Rochelle [ rəˈʃɛl, roʊ- ] is a city in Westchester County in the US state of New York . The city is approximately 16 miles from Grand Central Terminal . In 1900 there were still 14,720 residents in New Rochelle. In 1910 there were 28,867, in 1920 36,213 and in 1940 58,408. In 2010 the population was 77,062. The name of the city comes from the French Huguenot fortress La Rochelle .
history
17th century
The origin of New Rochelle is the contract of sale between Thomas Pell and the Siwanoy Indians for Pelham Manor in 1654.
1687 bought from Thomas Pell's nephew, John Pell, the wealthy merchant and governor of New York, Jakob Leisler , as representative for the Huguenots, 24 square kilometers of land and received an additional 0.4 square kilometers for a French church building.
In 1689, thousands of Huguenots came to the area after the French King Louis XIV revoked the Edict of Nantes . They named their new settlement after the port from which they had set out: La Rochelle. Even today there is a monument in Hudson Park that commemorates the French settlers.
Once again in 1689, John and Rachell Pell donated 25 km² of New Rochelle land to Jacob Leisler. The donation was linked to the condition, “as an Acknowledgment to the Lord of the said Manor one Fatt Calfe on every fouer and twentieth day of June yearly and every Year Forever (if demanded)”.
18th century
In 1775 General George Washington stopped in New Rochelle on his way to Cambridge , Massachusetts , where he was to take command of the army of the united colonies.
In October 1776 the British Army occupied New Rochelle and Larchmont . General Sir William Howe set up headquarters on the heights of North Avenue across from Eastchester Road. The British relief troops, 4,000 Hessians and Waldeckers under Lieutenant-General Baron Wilhelm zu Innhausen and Knyphausen landed at Davenport Neck. The British left New Rochelle on October 25, destroying the infrastructure. After the Battle of White Plains two days later, in which the British retained the upper hand, but the Americans under Washington were able to regroup, the area around New Rochelle was recognized as neutral.
During the 18th century, New Rochelle, with a population of 692 in 1790, became a larger village. 1.2 km² of land was honored in 1784 by the State of New York in recognition of his service to independence to the American patriot Thomas Paine .
19th century
In 1892 the New Rochelle Public Library was built at Trinity School. In the same year Rose Hill Gardens was laid out as one of the largest botanical gardens in the country in the 19th century. The first orchids in the United States were grown here.
20th century
In New Rochelle, as part of the judicial repeal of segregation between blacks and whites, the city government was ordered by the United States Supreme Court in 1962 to reallocate the school districts because of the Lincoln School, which was built exclusively for blacks , as they had been deliberately drawn to the separation between black and white be. The Lincoln School finally closed in 1965.
geography
The City of New Rochelle is located on Long Island Sound . It is the second largest city in Westchester County after Yonkers . New Rochelle is one of the most important suburbs of New York City. It is located about two miles from the Bronx .
Culture
In the early 20th century, New Rochelle was home to the first US film studios.
- Parts of the film Catch Me If You Can take place in New Rochelle.
- In 1941 the cartoon about Mighty Mouse was created in Terrytoons Studios in New Rochelle.
- The Dick Van Dyke Show TV show, starring Dick Van Dyke and Mary Tyler Moore , was set in New Rochelle in the 1960s.
Personalities
sons and daughters of the town
- Anthony C. Beilenson (1932-2017), politician
- James Bishop (born 1938), diplomat
- Mark Bomback (* 1971), screenwriter
- Edson Buddle (born 1981), soccer player
- Joey Calderazzo (* 1965), jazz pianist
- Bud Cort (born 1948), actor
- Bob Denver (1935-2005), actor
- Matt Dillon (born 1964), actor
- Daniel Dorff (* 1956), composer
- Peter Faneuil (1700–1743), colonial merchant
- Annie Finch (* 1956), poet, translator and editor
- Gerald D. Fischbach (* 1938), neuroscientist
- Eddie Foy junior (1905–1983), film and stage actor
- Leslie H. Gelb (1937–2019), government official and university professor
- Ralph Guggenheim (* 1951), graphic designer and film producer
- Doug Hoffer (born 1951), politician, State Auditor from Vermont
- Bill Hook (1925-2010), chess player
- Marcus Hurley (1883–1941), track cyclist and basketball player
- Max Keizer (* 1960), economist
- Lawrence Joyce Kenney (1930–1990), auxiliary bishop in the Catholic military ordinariate
- Walter Lantz (1899–1994), draftsman, director and producer of animated films
- Jay Leno (born 1950), comedian
- Don McLean (born 1945), singer
- Jordan McLean (* 1974), composer and jazz musician
- Alan Menken (* 1949), composer
- Bob Mintzer (* 1953), saxophonist, arranger and composer
- Rob Morrow (born 1962), actor
- House Peters Jr. (1916-2008), actor
- Richard O. Prum (* 1961), ornithologist
- Alex Raymond (1909–1956), comic book artist
- Ray Rice (born 1987), American football player
- Richard Roundtree (born 1942), actor
- Stan Rubin (* 1933), jazz musician
- Kevin Shattenkirk (* 1989), ice hockey player
- Marlena Shaw (* 1942), jazz and pop singer
- Donald Verrilli (* 1957), lawyer, former United States Solicitor General
- Burton Watson (1925–2017), translator of Chinese and Japanese literature
Other personalities
- Frederic Remington (1861–1909), painter and sculptor
- Norman Rockwell (1894–1978), artist
- Ruby Dee (1922-2014), actress