Chappaqua, New York Location of Chappaqua, New York Location of Chappaqua, New York State New York Town New Castle Seat New Castle Town Hall Chappaqua / t p kw / is a hamlet and census-designated place in the town of New Castle, in northern Westchester County, New York.
It is on 0.45 square miles (1.2 km2) of territory on the east bank of the Hudson River, about 30 miles (50 km) north of New York City.
In the New York State Legislature it is inside the New York State Assembly's 93rd precinct and the New York Senate's 40th district.
In Congress the village is in New York's 17th District.
Chappaqua was established by a group of Quakers in the 1730s and was the home of Horace Greeley, New-York Tribune editor and U.S.
In the early 1730s a group of Quakers moved north from Purchase, New York, to settle in present-day Chappaqua.
The region around the meeting home, known as Old Chappaqua Historic District, was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. Horace Greeley's home, known as Rehoboth and assembled by Greeley himself, still stands in Chappaqua.
It is also listed on the National Register of Historic Places along with Chappaqua Railroad Depot and Depot Plaza, Church of Saint Mary the Virgin and Greeley Grove, and the Greeley House. The Quakers spelled it Shapiqua, Shapaqua, Shapequa, Shappaqua, and, finally, Chappaqua.
On March 18, 1791, the government of New York decided to split the overly large town of North Castle (jokingly called "the two saddlebags") into two lesser towns, one of which was titled New Castle.
New Castle's borders have remained the same since 1791, except for a small piece of territory received from Somers in 1846 and the secession of Mount Kisco in 1978.
The majority of the Quaker pioneer of Chappaqua were farmers.
The prominent farming trade also helped give way to Chappaqua's high milk production.
Many early homes and businesses were completed in the 1904 Chappaqua tornado.
In 1846 when the New York and Harlem Railroad extended through Chappaqua, company became centered on the new train station.
The barns enabled commuters to travel to New York City and back each day. According to the 2010 United States Census, the CDP has a total region of 0.45 square miles (1.2 km2), all of it land. As delineated for the 2000 census, the CDP of Chappaqua veiled a much greater area: 9.44 square miles (24.4 km2), of which 9.38 square miles (24.3 km2) was territory and 0.06 square miles (0.16 km2), or 0.64%, was water.
Parts of the Chappaqua ZIP code region are positioned in the suburbs of Mount Kisco, New Castle, Mount Pleasant, Yorktown, and Bedford, as well as the hamlet of Millwood.
Parts of the Chappaqua Central School District include homes in other zip codes, such as 10570, the Pleasantville zip code.
Climate data for Chappaqua, New York As of the 2010 census, following a primary revision to the delineation of its boundaries by the Enumeration Bureau, the populace was 1,436. At the 2000 census, with very different census-defined boundaries, Chappaqua had a populace of 9,468. Nationwide, Chappaqua rates 42nd among the 100 highest-income places in the United States (with at least 1,000 homeholds).
In 2008, CNNMoney listed Chappaqua fifth in their list of "25 top-earning towns." Chappaqua 2007 estimated median homehold income was $198,000. Although Chappaqua's crime rate is far below the nationwide average, the region has had a several high-profile murders.
Main article: Chappaqua Central School District Parent expectations in the school precinct are high, and the educational surrounding has been described as highly competing and somewhat stressful. In addition, Horace Greeley High School has Chappaqua Summer Scholarship Program, which brings persuaded and aspiring students from The Bronx to Chappaqua for four weeks over three summers to take classes while living with host families in Chappaqua. Around 1981, the periodical Money rated the school among the top twelve in the United States. Schools in Chappaqua were not always so high-performing.
In the Chappaqua region, there were eight such schoolhouses. These small schools prevailed until around 1870, when the Quakers assembled a large school called the Chappaqua Mountain Institute on Quaker Street.
In the year 1885 the school caught fire, and much refurbishing was done, with the addition of two new wings.
Bell Middle School has the bulldog as its mascot while Horace Greeley High School has the quaker as its mascot.
The three elementary schools in Chappaqua were instead of over a twenty-year period: Roaring Brook School in 1951, Douglas G.
The district's undivided commitment to education was exemplified in the 1950s when Horace Greeley High School principal, Donald Miles, began hiring teachers based primarily on their subject knowledge, eschewing the "professional teacher".
In 2003, after the opening of the new middle school, Seven Bridges, and the moving of the fifth undertaking from Chappaqua's elementary schools to the middle schools, the precinct added a full day kindergarten. The Chappaqua Volunteer Ambulance Corps (CVAC) provides Basic Life Support services to most of New Castle, including Chappaqua.
The hamlet is protected by the New Castle Police Department, which also provides first-response services for medical emergencies.
The volunteer-based Chappaqua Fire Department, established in May, 1910, provides firefighting services to the hamlet of Chappaqua. The fire department presently maintains two firehouses in town. Chappaqua Farm, West Chester County, N.Y., The Residence of Hon.
Statue of Horace Greeley in Chappaqua Brozman, former Chief Justice of the Bankruptcy Court of the Southern District of New York The Clintons purchased their home in Chappaqua for $1.7 million in 1999, near the end of Bill Clinton's presidency. Andrew Cuomo, New York Governor and former Attorney General of New York Horace Greeley, reformer, politician, editor of the journal New York Tribune.
He came to Chappaqua to live in a non-urban area, so in 1853 he bought 78 acres (320,000 m2) of territory just east of the barns .
His territory included upland pastures near present-day Aldridge Road, Greeley Hill, and the marshy fields now the site of the Bell Middle School fields and the shopping region along South Greeley Avenue.
Jeff Van Gundy, former head coach of the Houston Rockets, former head coach of the New York Knicks The Chappaqua Friends Meeting House, about 1753, is the earliest Quaker meeting home standing in Westchester County.
It is a contributing property to the Old Chappaqua Historic District, north of downtown along King Street (New York State Route 120).
It was instead of by Horace Greeley on his Chappaqua farm in 1856.
The world command posts of Reader's Digest was in Chappaqua, although its mailing address is in neighboring Pleasantville, New York.
Part of the initial structure still stands, and is part of the present-day New Castle Historical Society. It is on King Street, just east of the train station and South Greeley Avenue and is home to the historical society.
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"Survivor's lead singer is a Real Man of Genius who teaches tunes to Chappaqua kids", Journal News, November 29, 2007.
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