The Hastings Historical Society

06 May 2010

House Tour Preview: Kenneth Clark – Neighbors and Guests

Our May 22 & 23 house tour will include the home of African-American psychologists Kenneth and Mamie Clark. In 1950, the Clarks moved to Hastings’ Pinecrest neighborhood, the area west of the Andrus Memorial Home. They raised their children here and remained here until their deaths, Mamie in 1983 and […]

29 Apr 2010

Mystery Photo: 1938 High School Fire Squad

April 29, 2010
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1930s, Collection, Mystery Photos

”FIRE SQUAD: The fire bell rings and students are efficiently rushed out of the building by the Fire Chief Albro Rile assisted by those ten strong men on the fire squad: Eben Chabot, John Moser, Walter Bennett, Jack Galvin, Frank Wills, Bill Burckhalter, Bill Kaufman, Joe Janik, and Chris Rohrbach.”

So […]

22 Apr 2010

House Tour Preview: Margaret Sanger’s Window

April 22, 2010
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1900s, 1910s, Collection

Margaret Sanger in a photograph she included in her book My Fight for Birth Control with the caption “Suburban Motherhood.”
In 1998, Margaret Sanger was included in Time Magazine’s 100 Most Important People of the Century for her relentless crusade for women’s rights, and especially for birth control (a […]

15 Apr 2010

House Tour Preview: Henry Draper’s Observatory

April 15, 2010
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1870s, Collection, Society Events

Save the date! May 22 & 23
Get acquainted with fifteen historic Hastings houses and the celebrities who lived in them. Come to our 2010 house tour and learn more about Civil War Admiral David Farragut, women’s rights activist Margaret Sanger, Hudson River School artist Jasper F. Cropsey, African-American sociologist Kenneth […]

08 Apr 2010

Hastings in 1790, The Year of the First Census

April 8, 2010
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1700s, Collection

The 1790 census: a page showing the numbers for Yonkers and Greenburgh.
The census you and I have just completed is the twenty-third national population count. Since the Constitution directs that a census be taken every ten years, it does not take very higher math to determine the date […]

01 Apr 2010

The New “Hastings Historian” Mails Today!

April 1, 2010
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1950s, Collection, Society Events

Hanging out at the counter at Lange’s Sweet Shop, ca. 1958. The photograph shows, left to right, sitting: Marianne Marinello (later Marra), Savo Tseros (later Fries), and Margy Jenkins (later Fisher); standing: Kevin Grauer, Lee Manning, Janet Aluisio (later D’Alio), and in the very back you can see the […]

25 Mar 2010

Broadway: A Millionaires’ Playground

March 25, 2010
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1890s, 1900s, Collection

The New York City Coaching Club’s road coach “Pioneer” stopping to change horses in Hastings on the way to the Ardlsey Country Club, ca. 1900. (This photograph is a detail of the photograph further down the page. Click either one to examine it more closely in Flickr.)
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18 Mar 2010

Mystery Photo: An Irish Field Day in 1949

March 18, 2010
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1940s, Collection, Mystery Photos

The picture you see below is 8 inches high and 29 inches long. It was taken in Draper Park on June 24th of 1949 and shows the Hastings Irish American Club’s second annual Field Day in Draper Park. Click on either the top or the bottom photograph to look at […]

11 Mar 2010

Tales of the Blizzard — of 1947

March 11, 2010
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1940s, Collection

Warburton Avenue looking north from Williams Street. (click on any image for more information about the photograph) You think we had a tough time a couple of weeks ago with 20.9 inches of snow? Well, the 26.4 inches that fell on December 26, 1947 hit New York much harder. “Metropolis […]

04 Mar 2010

Hudson River Maps at the New York Public Library

March 4, 2010
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Hastings History

The 2009 Hudson-Fulton-Champlain Quadricentennial has stirred an excitement in early New York history that lingers on into 2010, especially at institutions that have collections rich in that period. Such is the case with the New York Public Library. Their current exhibition entitled “Mapping New York’s Shoreline, 1609 – 2009” opened […]