Peekskill, New York Peekskill, New York Official seal of Peekskill, New York Location in Westchester County, New York City urbane area, and the state of New York Location in Westchester County, New York City urbane area, and the state of New York State New York County Westchester & New York City urbane region Peekskill, officially the City of Peekskill, is a town/city in the New York City urbane area, Westchester County, New York, in the United States.
Peekskill is situated on a bay along the east side of the Hudson River, athwart from Jones Point.
7.1 New York Presbyterian Hudson Valley Hospital In September 1609, Henry Hudson, captain of the Halve Maen, anchored along the reach of the Hudson at Peekskill.
His firstmate noted in the ship's log that it was a "very pleasant place to build a town". After the establishment of the province of New Netherland, New Amsterdam resident Jan Peeck made the first recorded contact with the Lenape citizens of this area, then identified as "Sachoes".
Fort Independence was assembled in August 1776, while Forts Montgomery and Clinton were started in June.:18 Fort Hill Park, the site of Camp Peekskill, contained five barracks and two redoubts. The river docks allowed transport of supply items and soldiers to the a several other fort garrisons placed to prevent British naval passage between Albany and New York City.
Officers at Peekskill generally supervised placing the first iron link chain between Bear Mountain and Anthony's Nose in the spring of 1777.
Peekskill's first legal incorporation of 1816 was reactivated in 1826 when Village elections took place.
In August 1949, following reports misquoting Paul Robeson's speech to the World Peace Conference in Paris as stating that African Americans would not fight for the United States in any prospective war against the Soviet Union, a prepared benefit concert for the Civil Rights Congress in Peekskill had to be cancelled amid ethnic and anti-communist violence.
These Peekskill Riots were later well-publicized in news report and folk music and formed a primary event in E.L.
Peekskill was the landing point of a fragment of the Peekskill Meteorite, just before midnight on October 9, 1992.
The Peekskill Evening Star and the Peekskill Highland Democrat were two of the city's daily newspapers through much of the City's history.
The Evening Star presented under various mastheads from the 19th century on, and as the Evening Star from 1939 till 1985 when the paper closed into what would turn into the hub of the Journal News, a conglomeration of small-town papers from throughout Westchester County. The Journal News concentrated more on statewide and New York City issues, however, which led to the beginning of the Peekskill Herald in 1986. Although various prominent people came together to try to keep the paper afloat after a series of New York Times articles about the paper's foundering fiscal situation, it 'folded in 2005, being replaced by the Peekskill Daily in 2009. As part of a highway ongoing standard universal it was to be relocated to a new historic district. The town/city spent $150,000 in grant cash in preparing the building.
Peekskill is positioned at 41 17 N 73 55 W (41.2889, 73.9200) in northwestern Westchester County.
Peekskill is also in the urbane region (suburbs of New York City) and is positioned north of the Bronx.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 5.5 square miles (14 km2), of which, 4.3 square miles (11 km2) of it is territory and 1.1 square miles (2.8 km2) of it (20.99%) is water.
The town/city is bordered by the town of Cortlandt Manor, New York and the Hudson River.
Peekskill train station provides commuter service to New York City, 41 miles (66 km) away via Metro-North Railroad.
The Bear Mountain Bridge, five miles (8 km) to the northwest, gives road access to Bear Mountain State Park athwart the Hudson River, Palisades Interstate Parkway and to the United States Military Academy at West Point via US 6 and US 202.
The town contains a several parks and recreation areas, including Charles Point, with bay and river views; Depew Park, which has pools and a pond in addition to ballfields and trails and is the home of the Recreation Department headquarters; Franklin Park; Lepore Park; Fort Hill Park; Peekskill Dog Park; Peekskill Stadium; Riverfront Green Park; and Tompkins Park (home of Little League). The Peekskill City School District was headed by Superintendent Judith Johnson, the 2008 New York State School Superintendent of the Year, up until 2011.
The current superintendent is David Fine. It consists of four elementary schools, one middle school, and one high school.
Beginning the 1995 1996 school year, sixth graders were moved from elementary schools to the middle school.
In 2009, the newly assembled Peekskill Middle School caused a shift in the locations of grades yet again and consequently moved grades one through five around.
Peekskill Middle School educates the district's sixth, seventh, and eighth graders.
The new Middle School building opened at the beginning of the 2009 2010 school year.
The former Peekskill Middle School was positioned at 212 Ringgold Street, which was later demolished.
Peekskill High School educates most of the district's ninth, tenth, eleventh, and twelfth graders.
The high school is positioned on the grounds of the initial Peekskill Military Academy at 1072 Elm Street.
That year, the school ranked in the top 5% of all high schools nationally based on the ratio of graduating seniors and students taking Advanced Placement Tests. Pataki Leadership and Learning Center, positioned in Peekskill, is designed to educate schoolchildren on government using Governor Pataki's enhance service as an example. Charles Gargano, Pataki's former economic evolution chief, led the accomplishment to problematic the center. On August 14, 2008, The New York Times announced that the center's sponsors had "filed paperwork with the State Department of Education and are trying to raise $500,000 for a start-up fund so they can open the center in the fall." The center presently holds Governor Pataki's official portrait, which will be moved to Albany at the end of 2009. The center has three directors: David Catalfamo, the governor's former communications chief; Kimberly Cappelleri, Libby Pataki's former chief of staff; and Amy Holden, former executive assistant to the governor. New York Presbyterian Hudson Valley Hospital Founded in 1889 as Peekskill Hospital on lower South Street, the facility went through a radical transformation in the late 1990s to turn into Hudson Valley Hospital Center (HVHC).
In 2014, the hospital began an affilition with New York Presbyterian and is now referred to as New York Presbyterian Hudson Valley Hospital.
Emergency Medical Services in the City of Peekskill are staffed EMTs and paramedics from the city's fire department and volunteer ambulance corps.
Former New York Governor George Pataki (served 1995 2006) was born in Peekskill.
Jackson, a former Peekskill mayor, was the first black mayor in New York State. Depew was chairman of the board of the New York Central Railroad and then served as a United States senator for New York. Beach was responsible for initiating the Associated Press (AP) while publisher of the New York Sun newspaper. 1948), a novelist, is a former Peekskill resident. Former NFL lineman Tre Johnson graduated from Peekskill High School, and had a stellar nine-year NFL longterm position highlighted by his selection to the 2000 Pro Bowl with the Washington Redskins.
NBA basketball professionals Elton Brand and Hilton Armstrong are Peekskill High School graduates. Hayward Burns graduated from Peekskill High School before becoming editor of the Harvard Law Review.
"Major" Swain (01/5/1844-05/25/1926) was a primary in the 176th New York Volunteer Infantry in the Civil War, and went on to serve in the New York State Guard.
Independent filmmaker Abel Ferrara was born in the Bronx, moved to Peekskill as a teenager and graduated from high school here.
Frank Baum, author of The Wizard of Oz, attended Peekskill Military Academy for approximately two years.
Theodore Haupt, American modernist artist, lived in Peekskill (1941 48) Mel Gibson (born 1956), American-Australian actor, was born and raised in Peekskill until his family moved to Australia in the late 1960s Peekskill is about 40 miles (64 km) north of New York City.
At the same time, the Common Council wanted to get citizens into downtown Peekskill, rising real estate prices in New York City were driving artists to move further away from even the boroughs outside Manhattan.
Peekskill took an active part in pursuing displaced artists by taking out advertisements in So Ho art magazines and offering them low interest rates.
Once a several artists had moved to Peekskill, a buzz was created and more artists made the move north.
Since 1991, property owners have 58 artist live/work lofts and in 2002, the City of Peekskill and the County of Westchester joined with a private real estate business to evolution The Peekskill Art Lofts.
Peekskill has drawn a number of artists and art appreciators to its environs recently.
Other highlights include the Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, STUDIO No.9 Gallery and Workshops, and the Peekskill Coffee House, which showcases small-town acts.
National Register of Historic Places listings in Peekskill, New York Dunwell, F.F., 1991, The Hudson River highlands, New York: Columbia University Press; ISBN 0231 - 070438 "History and Events in Peekskill | Peekskill History Summary".
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