Tuckahoe is a village in
Westchester CountyWestchester County is a primarily suburban county located in the U.S. state of New York. Westchester covers an area of 450 square miles and has a diverse population of approximately 950,000, residing in 45 municipalities...
,
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,
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, and is located in the town of
EastchesterEastchester is a town in Westchester County, New York, United States. The population was 31,318 at the 2000 census. The town includes the villages of Bronxville and Tuckahoe.The Town of Eastchester is in the south part of the county.- History :...
. As of the 2000 census, the village's population was 6,211.
The
Village of Tuckahoe can be reached by the Metro North railroad system. The
TuckahoeThe Tuckahoe Metro-North Railroad station serves the residents of the village of Tuckahoe, New York via the Harlem Line. It is 16 miles from Grand Central Terminal....
and
CrestwoodThe Crestwood Metro-North Railroad station serves the residents of Crestwood, NY, which is in the city of Yonkers and the residents of the northern part of Tuckahoe, Westchester County, New York via the Harlem Line. It is from Grand Central Terminal...
stations are 32 minutes and 34 minutes from New York City's
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, respectively. The 1970s sitcom
MaudeMaude is a half-hour American television sitcom that was originally broadcast on the CBS network from September 12, 1972 until April 22, 1978....
, which starred
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,
Bill MacyBill Macy is an American television and stage actor.Macy was born Wolf Marvin Garber in Revere, Massachusetts, to Mollie and Michael Garber, a manufacturer...
and
Adrienne BarbeauAdrienne Jo Barbeau is an American television, film, character and musical theatre actress, as well as the author of two books. Barbeau came to prominence in the 1970s as Broadway's original Rizzo in the musical Grease, Bea Arthur's divorced daughter Carol Traynor in the sitcom Maude, and in...
as the Findlay family, was set in Tuckahoe.
Tuckahoe village is located at (40.953110, -73.823609), which is the lower, central section of Westchester County.
Tuckahoe is a village in
Westchester CountyWestchester County is a primarily suburban county located in the U.S. state of New York. Westchester covers an area of 450 square miles and has a diverse population of approximately 950,000, residing in 45 municipalities...
,
New YorkNew York is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States and is the nation's third most populous. The state is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
,
United StatesThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
, and is located in the town of
EastchesterEastchester is a town in Westchester County, New York, United States. The population was 31,318 at the 2000 census. The town includes the villages of Bronxville and Tuckahoe.The Town of Eastchester is in the south part of the county.- History :...
. As of the 2000 census, the village's population was 6,211.
The
Village of Tuckahoe can be reached by the Metro North railroad system. The
TuckahoeThe Tuckahoe Metro-North Railroad station serves the residents of the village of Tuckahoe, New York via the Harlem Line. It is 16 miles from Grand Central Terminal....
and
CrestwoodThe Crestwood Metro-North Railroad station serves the residents of Crestwood, NY, which is in the city of Yonkers and the residents of the northern part of Tuckahoe, Westchester County, New York via the Harlem Line. It is from Grand Central Terminal...
stations are 32 minutes and 34 minutes from New York City's
Grand Central TerminalGrand Central Terminal — often popularly called Grand Central Station or simply Grand Central — is a terminal station at 42nd Street and Park Avenue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City...
, respectively. The 1970s sitcom
MaudeMaude is a half-hour American television sitcom that was originally broadcast on the CBS network from September 12, 1972 until April 22, 1978....
, which starred
Beatrice ArthurBeatrice "Bea" Arthur was an American actress, comedian and singer whose career spanned seven decades. Arthur achieved fame as the character Maude Findlay on the 1970s sitcoms All in the Family and Maude, and as Dorothy Zbornak on the 1980s sitcom The Golden Girls, winning Emmy Awards for both roles...
,
Bill MacyBill Macy is an American television and stage actor.Macy was born Wolf Marvin Garber in Revere, Massachusetts, to Mollie and Michael Garber, a manufacturer...
and
Adrienne BarbeauAdrienne Jo Barbeau is an American television, film, character and musical theatre actress, as well as the author of two books. Barbeau came to prominence in the 1970s as Broadway's original Rizzo in the musical Grease, Bea Arthur's divorced daughter Carol Traynor in the sitcom Maude, and in...
as the Findlay family, was set in Tuckahoe.
Geography
Tuckahoe village is located at (40.953110, -73.823609), which is the lower, central section of Westchester County. Tuckahoe is bordered by the village of
BronxvilleBronxville is a village within the town of Eastchester, New York. It is located approximately north of midtown Manhattan in southern Westchester County. As of the 2000 census, Bronxville had a population of 6,543.-Demographics:...
to its South and the town of Eastchester to its North and East. The
Bronx RiverThe Bronx River, approximately long, flows through southeast New York in the United States. It is named after Colonial settler Jonas Bronck.It originally rose in what is now the Kensico Reservoir, in Westchester County north of New York City...
separates it from the Crestwood section of
YonkersYonkers is the fourth most populous city in the state of New York , and the most populous city in Westchester County, New York, with a population of 196,086 . More recent estimates put the population at 197,234 in 2002, 197,126 in 2004 and 196,425 in 2005...
to its West. Easily accessible roadways include the
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, White Plains Road (Route 22), the Major Deagan Expressway, the
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, and the
Cross County ParkwayThe Cross County Parkway is a long parkway in Westchester County, New York. The parkway is a critical east-west connection throughout Westchester, having full interchanges with every major north-south parkway in southern Westchester, in addition to the New York State Thruway mainline. The western...
.
According to the
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, the village has a total area of 0.6 square miles (1.6 km²), all of it land.
Demographics
As of the
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of 2000, there were 6,211 people, 2,627 households, and 1,626 families residing in the village. The
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was 10,188.8 people per square mile (3,931.3/km²). There were 2,729 housing units at an average density of 4,476.8/sq mi (1,727.3/km²). The racial makeup of the village was 73.98% White, 10.11% African American, 0.10% Native American, 9.76% Asian, 0.02% Pacific Islander, 3.48% from
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, and 2.56% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 8.84% of the population.
There were 2,627 households out of which 30.3% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 47.0% were
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living together, 11.9% had a female householder with no husband present, and 38.1% were non-families. 33.0% of all households were made up of individuals and 10.2% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.36 and the average family size was 3.05.
In the village the population was spread out with 23.3% under the age of 18, 5.7% from 18 to 24, 36.7% from 25 to 44, 21.2% from 45 to 64, and 13.1% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 36 years. For every 100 females there were 91.0 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 86.6 males.
The median income for a household in the village was $60,744, and the median income for a family was $78,188. Males had a median income of $56,217 versus $41,077 for females. The
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for the village was $31,819. About 5.7% of families and 7.2% of the population were below the poverty line, including 5.6% of those under age 18 and 9.1% of those age 65 or over.
Tuckahoe marble
In 1818, after high-quality white marble was found, the Tuckahoe Marble Quarry opened and soon became a major producer of marble for the world. This marble was used in many famous projects, including the
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, the Washington Memorial Arch at Washington Square Park, New York, the General Post Office in Washington, DC,
St. Patrick's CathedralSaint Patrick's Cathedral is adecorated Neo-Gothic-style Catholic cathedral church in the United States. It is the seat of the archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, and a parish church, located on the east side of Fifth Avenue between 50th and 51st Streets in midtown Manhattan,...
and the main New York City Public Library, and even the bottom third of the
Washington MonumentThe Washington Monument is an obelisk near the west end of the National Mall in Washington, D.C., built to commemorate the first U.S. president, General George Washington. The monument, made of marble, granite, and sandstone, is both the world's tallest stone structure and the world's tallest...
in Washington, DC. Tuckahoe marble was discovered near the Bronx River, and is part of the Inwood Formation. It was used for gravestone markers in many cemeteries in the 19th century and the early 20th century until the quarry closed in 1930.
Tuckahoe renaissance
Over the past decade or so, Tuckahoe has enjoyed an influx of investor capital, which has resulted in the redevelopment of many of its former commercial and industrial areas. Several previous and current projects include: the conversion of a former Revlon factory to the high-end Rivervue Apartment Complex (located on the corner of Lake Avenue and Main Street), the new construction of residential, retail and medical office properties along the Main Street corridor, the shuttering of two gas stations, the updated and refurbished
Tuckahoe train stationThe Tuckahoe Metro-North Railroad station serves the residents of the village of Tuckahoe, New York via the Harlem Line. It is 16 miles from Grand Central Terminal....
(which includes a recently opened Starbucks), and the restored town hall which lives on as the Generoso Pope Foundation. Additional residential construction is occurring at the former site of Westcon on Main Street, and additional construction/redevelopment is expected in the downtown section of Crestwood as well.
Houses of worship
Tuckahoe is home to Immaculate Conception Church (53 Winter Hill Road) and Church of the Assumption (100 Pleasant Avenue), both of which are Roman Catholic, and can be seen below.
The village is home of the New York Japanese Church, an evangelical Protestant church ministering to the Japanese community.
Tuckahoe also houses two African-American churches: Emmanuel African Methodist Episcopal, 6 Van Duzen Place and Shiloh Baptist Church 15 Marbledale Road.
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