Ardsley, New York Ardsley, New York Map of Ardsley, New York Map of Ardsley, New York Location of Ardsley, New York Location of Ardsley, New York Ardsley is a village in Westchester County, New York, United States.
The village's populace was 4,452 at the 2010 census. The current mayor of Ardsley is Peter Porcino.
The Ardsley postal service serves the entire village of Ardsley plus some close-by unincorporated sections of Greenburgh.
The Ardsley Union Free School District includes the entire village of Ardsley plus parts of the village of Dobbs Ferry and unincorporated parts of Greenburgh.
Ardsley should not be confused with the close-by hamlet of Ardsley-on-Hudson, which is part of the village of Irvington.
Before the region where Ardsley is now positioned was settled by Europeans, it was inhabited by the Wickquasgeck Indians, a band of the Wappingers, related to the Lenape (Delaware) tribes which dominated lower New York state and New Jersey. After the Dutch came to the area, the territory was part of the Bisightick tract of the Van der Donck grant purchased by Frederick Philipse in 1682, but in 1785 the state of New York confiscated the territory from his grandson, Frederick Philipse III, after he sided with the British in the American Revolution, and sold it to small-town patriot farmers who had been tenants of the Phillipse family.
Due to the existence of an earlier Ashford Post Office in New York state, the town took the name "Ardsley" after the name of a small-town baron's estate, and the first village postmaster was appointed in 1883.
The renaming of Ardsley is attributed to Cyrus West Field, who owned 780 acres (3.2 km2) of territory lying between Broadway (Dobbs Ferry) and Sprain Brook (Greenburgh) titled Ardsley Park.
He had titled Ardsley Park after the English place of birth of his immigrant ancestor, Zechariah Field (East Ardsley, West Riding of Yorkshire, England), who immigrated to the U.S.
Field agreed to use his influence to get the postal service established, and in return the village would be retitled Ardsley.
Incorporated in 1896, Ardsley would continue to expanded at a steady pace, until a fire finished the village center in 1914.
This second boom led to the eventual assembly of a several village schools, including Concord Road Elementary School (1952), Ardsley High School (1958), and Ardsley Middle School (1967).
The village was greatly changed by the assembly of the New York State Thruway in the late 1950s, which resulted in both the loss of the Ardsley station on the Putnam Division of the New York Central Railroad and the loss of much of the downtown company district.
On October 19, 1985, an earthquake measuring 4.0 on the Richter scale shook Ardsley and was felt over much of the New York City area. Ardsley is positioned at 41 0 41 N 73 50 29 W (41.011324, -73.841521). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the village has a total region of 1.3 square miles (3.4 km2), all of it land.
With the demise of the New York and Putnam Railroad, commuter rail service to New York City is available via the Dobbs Ferry train station and Ardsley-on-Hudson train station, served by Metro-North Railroad's Hudson Line, and the Hartsdale train station and Scarsdale train station served by Metro-North Railroad's Harlem Line.
The Ardsley Union Free School District operates enhance schools.
Ardsley High School is the district's senior high school.
Lyceum Kennedy International School maintains its Ardsley campus, serving elementary grades.
According to the Koppen Climate Classification system, Ardsley has a humid subtropical climate, abbreviated "Cfa" on climate maps. Ardsley High School "Profile of General Population and Housing Characteristics: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (DP-1): Ardsley village, Westchester County, New York".
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