Hastings in 1790, The Year of the First Census

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 […]

11 Feb 2010

Happy Birthday Hastings Theater

February 11, 2010
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1920s, Collection, Reminiscences

The Hastings Theater in 1929 Today is the 90th birthday of the Hastings Theater, which opened amid great fanfare on February 11th, 1920. We are lucky enough to have an eye-witness account of this event written in 1967 by Steve Zebrock (also known by his stage name of Alan Brock). […]

04 Feb 2010

Out of the Blue

February 4, 2010
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1940s, Collection, Mystery Photos

Draper Cottage must have been built on a field of four-leafed clovers. That is the only explanation of the incredible luck the Hastings Historical Society seems to have. We have a question, and miraculously, within two or three days, someone will call or e-mail with the answer. We start researching […]

21 Jan 2010

A Moment of Glory for 25 Main Street

January 21, 2010
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1950s, Collection, Reminiscences

By Judy (Wemer) Chamberlain Movie crew in front of 25 Main Street, transformed with temporary tiling and potted plants into a Santa Barbara restaurant. (photo copyright Anne Marie Leone) Hastings was all a buzz this past summer with the news that a movie was being filmed on Main Street. It […]

14 Jan 2010

Mystery Photograph: Ferrera’s Meat Market

January 14, 2010
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1950s, Collection, Mystery Photos, Reminiscences

Back in 2008 when Carol Venuto Davis wrote her wonderful article for the Hastings Historian on her house at 4 Spring Street, she included this photograph of herself (right) and her sister Priscilla (peeking over her shoulder) in Fererra’s meat market, taken around 1953. We recently asked her to tell […]

07 Jan 2010

Veselykh Sviat! (Happy Holidays!)

January 7, 2010
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1920s, Collection

The Historical Society does not own as many photographs of holiday festivities as we would like, but here is an exception. Nine members of the Hastings Ukrainian American Society pose for the camera in the costumes that they wore when they went out caroling on Christmas Eve, which by the […]