Notable Residents

NOTABLE RESIDENTS

Daniel Draper (1841-1931) 255 Broadway
Considered by most to be America’s first meteorologist, he established the New York Meteorological Observatory in Central Park in 1869 and was the official meteorologist of New York City for 42 years. He founded the Draper Manufacturing Company through which he sold recording instruments that he designed and patented. A plaque commemorating him can be seen on the Belvedere Tower in Central Park. Fourth child of John W. Draper.

Henry Draper MD (1837-1882) 271 Broadway, Observatory at 407 Broadway
Physician, amateur astronomer and pioneer in astrophotography. Took earliest clear photos of the moon through a telescope in 1863 at the observatory he and his brother Daniel built on the Draper property (now home of the Hastings Historical Society). Among his many other accomplishments, in 1877 he discovered that oxygen is present in the sun and in 1880 he took the very first photos of a nebula, the Orion Nebula. Second child of John W. Draper.

John William Draper MD (1811-1882) 271 Broadway
World-renowned chemist, physician, scientist, author, historian, philosopher and photographer. Born in England, he emigrated to the United States as a young man and moved to his 20-acre Hastings estate in 1847. He was a co-founder of the New York University School of Medicine and the first president of the American Chemical Society. He was a pioneer in photochemistry, improving upon Daguerre’s methods, and produced among the earliest photos of the human face (his sister Dorothy Catherine Draper) and of the moon, both circa 1840.

Antonia Maury (1866-1952) Likely 271 Broadway as a child, 407 Broadway in retirement
Graduated from Vassar in 1887 with honors in physics, astronomy and philosophy. Worked at the Harvard Observatory (1888-96 and intermittently from 1918-35), where she, with other female “computers,” classified the properties of stars through spectroscopy. She refined the classification system and also discovered the binary star Beta Aurigae. A granddaughter of John W. Draper and niece of Henry Draper, she lived at the Observatory Cottage in Draper Park from 1935 until her death.

Carlotta Maury (1874-1938) Lived here as a child, likely at 271 Broadway
A Hastings native, and a sister of Antonia Maury (see above), Maury was one of the first women to receive her PhD in paleontology, which she earned at Cornell University in 1902. She taught geology at Columbia College and Barnard College, and her field-work included the earliest exploration of oil fields in the Gulf of Mexico. Miss Maury also spent many years studying the fossil record in Brazil.

Leo James Rainwater (1917-1986) 342 Mount Hope Boulevard
Shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1975 with Aage Niels Bohr and Ben Roy Mottelson for his part in determining the asymmetrical shapes of certain atomic nuclei. He was a physics professor at Columbia University. In 1942, he joined the Manhattan Project, an allied effort to develop atomic bombs. He was the director of the Nevis Laboratories in Irvington, NY from 1951-54 and 1957-61

Hans Jakob “Jack” Steinberger (1921-2020) 765 North Broadway (Hastings House)
A prominent American physicist, who, along with Leon Lederman and Melvin Schwartz, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1988 for their discovery of the muon neutrino, a subatomic particle.

Max Theiler (1899-1972) 48 Circle Drive
A South African-born virologist and physician, Theiler was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1951 for his development of an effective yellow fever vaccine. He was the director of the Virus Laboratory at the Rockefeller Foundation in New York City.

Eugene Troubetzkoy (1931-2022) 42 Summit Drive
Dr. Troubetzkoy was a nuclear physicist and a founder of Blue Sky Studios, one of the first studios to specialize in computer animation. In 1999, he won an Academy Award for the short animated film “Bunny.” In 2017, he received a Scientific and Technical Lifetime Achievement Academy Award. He and his wife Helen moved to Hastings in 1962.

Frederick Zinsser (1868-1956) Locust Wood (Zinsser Park)
Chemist, established Zinsser Chemical Company on the Hastings waterfront in 1897. Among the chemicals produced were wood alcohol (called Hastings Spirits), tannic acid and various dyes. Near the end of World War I, the US government contracted with Zinsser to produce mustard gas. It is not clear if production ever began at the site. Zinsser also served as president (the title became mayor in 1927) of the village from 1901-1912 and was president of the Board of Education for several years.

Andrew Berends (1973-2019) 14 Lefurgy Avenue
An independent filmmaker whose documentaries dealt with topics related to international conflict. More recently, he was a cameraman for the Oscar-winning 2018 film Free Solo.

Herbert Bohnert (1888-1967) 243 South Broadway (Oakledge)
Herbert Bohnert was born in Cleveland, Ohio. He was a painter and illustrator. He purchased Oakledge from the Langmuir family in 1943. Husband of painter Rosetta Bohnert.

Rosetta Bohnert (1885-1980) 243 South Broadway (Oakledge)
Rosetta Bohnert was the second wife of Herbert Bohnert. She was a painter and president of the Hudson Valley Art Association as well as a member of numerous other artist organizations. She was trained at the New York School of Applied Design. She was known for landscapes, seascapes, still lifes and florals.

Carl Ludwig Brandt (1831-1905) 558 Warburton Avenue (now the VFW Building)
A native of Holstein, Germany, and a portraits and landscape painter, he moved to the United States in 1854 and in 1862 built a studio in Hastings.

Jasper F. Cropsey (1823-1900) 49 Washington Avenue
A celebrated Hudson River School painter, he worked in his home and studio on Washington Avenue from 1885-1900. The house, known as Ever Rest, is on the National Register of Historic Places.

John Emmett Donnelly Sr. (1867-1947) 44 Calumet Avenue
Distinguished architectural sculptor who provided decorative details such as bas relief and free-standing figures for the facades of buildings. Notable works of the John Donnelly Company include the sculptures on the facade of the New York Public Library on 7th Avenue (but not the famous lions on the steps), the Riverside Church, the Woolworth Building, the Federal Courthouse and Grand Central Terminal, all in New York City. His company also worked on projects for the Department of Justice and the National Archive building in Washington D.C. and numerous commissions for the 1939 World’s Fair, including the statue of George Washington.

George Harvey (1801-1878) Division Street near Aqueduct Lane, house demolished in 1963
Painter, architect and writer. Immigrated to the United States from England in 1929 and moved to Hastings in 1834. Planned the remodeling of Washington Irving’s home Sunnyside (in Irvington, NY) into an outstanding example of domestic Gothic Revival and designed his own cottage in Hastings.

Lewis Hine (1874-1940) 170 Edgars Lane
Well-known sociologist and photographer who used his photography for social reform. His photographs of child workers helped lead to the passage of child labor laws in the 1930s. During World War I, he traveled to Europe to photograph the work of the Red Cross and documented more of their work during the Great Depression. Hine was also commissioned to photograph the construction of the Empire State Building in 1930.

Alvin C. Hollingsworth (1928-2000) 12 Edgewood Avenue
One of the first Black artists in comics, who also worked under the names A.C. Hollingsworth and Alvin Holly. Early on in his career he drew crime, romance, and horror comics. In the 1950s, he moved into syndicated comics such as Kandy (1954-1955), Scorchy Smith (1953-1954) and, with George Shedd, Marlin Keel (1953-1954). As an artist, he created paintings, drawings, sculptures and prints, often exploring the experience of African Americans.

Jacques Lipchitz (1891-1973) 168 Warburton Avenue
Internationally renowned sculptor who moved to Hastings in 1947. In 1952, after fire damaged his New York studio, American museums raised money for a new studio that he built on Aqueduct Lane. A Lipchitz sculpture, “Between Heaven and Earth,” stands in front of the Hastings Library thanks to the efforts of the Hastings Creative Arts Council.

Raffaello E. Menconi (1877-1942) 10 Riverview Place
Architectural sculptor who created many decorative pieces, including the bronze flagpole bases at the New York Public Library. In Hastings, he is known for the eagle sculpture at the Municipal Building and the squirrel sculpture in “Squirrel Alley,” at the north end of Maple Avenue.

Ralph J. Menconi (1915-1972) 10 Riverview Place
Son of Raffaello and a medal sculptor, his nickname was “Sculptor of Presidents,” because of the 36-medal series of Presidential Art Medals he created.

Tony Palazzo (1905-1970) 95 Mount Hope Boulevard
Author and illustrator of more than 65 children’s books. His illustrations for Timothy Turtle by Al Graham won the 1947 Caldecott Honor Medal.

Eleanor Platt (1910-1974) 1 Fulton Street
Sculptor who executed busts of many prominent Americans, including Justice Louis Brandeis for the Supreme Court, Albert Einstein for the Metropolitan Museum, and Chief Justice Earl Warren for the National Lawyers Club.

Richmond H. Shreve (1877-1946) 50 Euclid Avenue
A member of the architecture firm Shreve, Lamb & Harmon, whose works included the Empire State Building, military and naval installations, and public and private housing projects. Director of the Slum Clearance Committee of New York in 1933, president of the American Institute of Architects from 1941-1943; member of the Royal Institute of British Architects

Jack A. Warren (1887-1955) 31 Hillside Avenue
Artist, cartoonist and cowboy. Painted a western-themed mural for the WPA that hangs in the Hastings High School cafeteria. From 1910-1917, he was a political cartoonist for The New York Sun. In the 1930s, he was the illustrator of the “Pecos Bill” comic strip.

Ed Young (1931-2023) 3 Whitman Street
Children’s book author and illustrator of more 100 titles, tai chi instructor, and mentor. Emigrated to the U.S. from China in 1951. Was awarded the 1990 Caldecott Medal for the illustrations in his children’s book, Lon Po Po, Young’s version of the Red Riding Hood story set in China; he also won two Caldecott honors. Young experimented with different mediums in his work, including paint, pencil and ink, as well as torn paper and found objects. His books often centered on the retelling of Chinese folk tales. Young lived in Hastings for more than 45 years and taught tai chi locally even longer.

Arthur Abell (1866-1958) 32 Sheldon Place
Music critic, amateur violinist, and journalist. His book, Talks with the Great Composers, details insights gleaned from interviews and conversations with Johannes Brahms, Richard Strauss, Giacomo Puccini, and others.

Kay Brown Barrett (1902-1995) 55 Maple Avenue
Hastings native. Talent scout and entertainment agent who convinced David O. Selznick to make Gone with the Wind. She persuaded actress Ingrid Bergman to leave Stockholm for Hollywood, and represented actors Alec Guinness, John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson, Rex Harrison, Frederic March, Patricia Neal, and Montgomery Clift, as well as writers Lillian Hellman, Isak Dinesen, and Arthur Miller.

Michael Brecker (1949-2007) Pinecrest Parkway
Influential jazz saxophonist and composer. He and his brother, Randy (an original member of the band, Blood, Sweat and Tears), performed together and were known as the Brecker Brothers. He also collaborated with a wide range of pop and rock artists, and recorded with leading jazz artists of his day, including Todd Rundgren, Quincy Jones, Eric Clapton and Frank Zappa.

Alan Brock (b. Stephen Zebrock) (1909-1995) 6 Main Street, 15 Villard Avenue
Stage, screen and TV actor; actor’s agent; and author, whose 40-part series, “Main Street through the Years,” about his immigrant family, was published in The Hastings News in 1941.

Billie Burke (1883-1966) Burkeley Crest (Burke Estate)
Actress, best known for role as Glinda the Good Witch in The Wizard of Oz. Lived with her husband, impresarios and producer Florenz Ziegfeld, on a 22-acre estate off of Broadway, where they kept a menagerie that included bears, lion cubs, buffalo, ponies, parrots, and an elephant. A playhouse on the property resembled a miniature Mount Vernon (home of George Washington).

Albert Dekker (1905-1968) 60 Main Street
Film and television actor, and politician. Dekker lived in Hastings during the 1950s. Dekker replaced Lee J. Cobb in the original television production of Death of a Salesman. Among his better-known film roles were in Dr. Cyclops, The Killers, and The Wild Bunch. In 1944 he was elected to a seat in the California State Assembly.

Alexis Kosloff (1892-1983) 131 Pinecrest Drive
Ballet dancer, instructor, writer and choreographer. He organized the Kosloff Dancers, and was featured in the 1917 silent film, The Dancer’s Peril. Became ballet master of the Metropolitan Opera in the 1920s.

Henry Kulky (Kuklovich) (1911-1965) 539 Warburton Avenue
This Hastings native began his professional life as wrestler “Bomber Kulkovich” before becoming an actor. Played (sometimes lovable) thugs, gangsters, and bartenders. Made dozens of films and was known for TV roles on Life of Riley and Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.

David Manners (1917-1998) 39 Lefurgy Avenue
Stage and film actor best remembered for his role in Bela Lugosi’s Dracula in 1931. He performed on Broadway in Dancing Mothers with Helen Hayes.

Abel Meeropol (pen name Lewis Allen) (1903-1986) 2 Fraser Place
In 1937, as a New York schoolteacher, he wrote the poem “Strange Fruit” after seeing a photograph of the lynching of Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith. He set the words to music and showed it to Billie Holliday who, with her pianist Sonny White, recorded it and made it unforgettable. He was active in the American Communist Party and, after the execution of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg in 1953, he adopted their two sons. He taught at DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx for 18 years, but continued to write songs, including the Frank Sinatra hit “The House I Live In.”

Frank Morgan (1890-1949) 18 Calumet Avenue
Born Francis Wuppermann, he was an actor best known for his role as the Wizard in The Wizard of Oz, a movie in which he also played five other characters. The youngest of 11 children, including his brother, Ralph, also an actor, he moved to Hastings with his family when he was 21. The family built their wealth through distributing Angostura bitters.

Ralph Morgan (1883-1956) 18 Calumet Avenue
Born Raphael Wuppermann, he was an actor and older brother of Frank. Was among a group of actors who formed the Screen Actors Guild and was its first president, in 1933.

Leonard Rose (1918-1984) 19 Overlook Road
Distinguished American cellist, principal with the Cleveland Orchestra (1939-1943) and the New York Philharmonic (1943-1951), and teacher at The Juilliard School for almost 40 years. In 1961, Rose formed a trio with Isaac Stern and Eugene Istomin; they performed all over the world, playing together until Rose’s death.

Alan Schneider (1917-1984) 30 Scenic Drive
A theater director who premiered five of Samuel Beckett’s plays in the U.S. He won a Tony Award in 1963 for directing the Broadway production of “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”

Charlie Spivak (1907-1982) 50 Summit Driveway
Trumpeter and big band leader. Played with numerous, prominent bands including Tommy Dorsey and the Glenn Miller Orchestra, before forming Charlie Spivak and His Orchestra 1940.

Walker Whiteside (1869-1942) 5 Riverview Place
Began his career as a Shakespearean actor before branching out into other genres. He appeared on Broadway in several productions and also performed in a number of silent films.

Jonathan Winters (1925-2013) 57 Kent Avenue
Renowned comedian, actor, author and artist. He was awarded the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in 1999. He was also the winner of two Grammy awards and one Emmy award. Winters appeared in hundreds of TV shows and films, including The Jonathan Winters Show that ran from 1967-1969. He was the author of several books, including the 1988 bestseller Winters’ Tales: Stories and Observations for the Unusual. In 1960 he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

May Yohé (1869-1938) 60 Edgars Lane (formerly 41 Villard Avenue)
Musical theater actress. Her first husband was Lord Francis Pelham-Clinton-Hope of “Hope Diamond” fame. She was subsequently married three other times. The home in Hastings, which belonged to her mother and where she lived with her second husband, Captain Bradlee Strong, was known as Gribben House.

Florenz Ziegfeld (1867-1932) Burkeley Crest (Burke Estate)
Producer, known for his theater revues, most famously “Ziegfeld’s Follies.” He lived with his wife, actress Billie Burke, on her Hastings estate (see entry under Billie Burke.)

Helen Barolini (1925-2023) 19 Maple Avenue
Acclaimed translator, novelist, advocator, and chronicler of Italian American women. Most well-known for her book, Umbertina (1979), a story of four generations of women in one Italian American family. Winner of multiple literature awards. Long-time member of the Literature Club of Hastings and supporter of the Hastings Historical Society.

Henry Collins Brown (1863-1961) 55 Maple Avenue
Publisher of a set of illustrated histories of old New York entitled Valentine’s Manual. Founder of the Museum of the City of New York. Lived in a Victorian house (long since demolished) that was once owned by the brother of Washington Irving.

Martin Gardner (1914-2010) 10 Euclid Avenue
Author, pseudoscience debunker and eminent puzzler, he published more than 70 books, from The Annotated Alice to The Whys of a Philosophical Scrivener, and penned popular columns in Scientific American and Skeptical Inquirer. He wrote fiction and poetry, wrestled with religious questions, popularized math for the masses, and perplexed the professionals.

Lewis G. Leary Jr. (1906-1990) 46 Summit Driveway
Noted scholar of American literature, and professor of English at Columbia University from 1951-1968. He wrote and edited more than 40 books, many on colonial and 19th century literature.

Vermont Connecticut Royster (1914-1996) 27 Darwin Avenue
Wall Street Journal editor and columnist, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient (1986).

Albert Shaw (1857-1947) 715 North Broadway
Editor of the American version of the reformist Review of Reviews, a monthly magazine of news and political analysis in the U.S., which was first printed in England. He earned a PhD from Johns Hopkins University.

J. Otis Swift (1871-1948) 81 Summit Drive
Well-known journalist, naturalist, poet, and humanitarian. Author of a daily column in the New York World entitled, “News Outside the Door.” Was the founder of the Yosian Brotherhood of Nature Philosophers. An avid organizer and participant in nature walks, he walked more than 100,000 miles in his lifetime. His home was known as Treetops.

Charles Webb (1939-2020) 152 Villard Avenue
Novelist, best recognized for his book The Graduate, published in 1963. He and his wife, Eve (known as Fred) lived in Hastings with their two young sons for several years in the 1970s. Non-conformists, they eschewed material possessions and gave their house away when they left the area.

Charlotte Zolotow (1915-2013) 29 Elm Place
Editor and children’s book author of more than 70 books including William’s Doll, Over and Over, and The Summer Night. She became a vice president at HarperCollins, where she also had her own imprint, Charlotte Zolotow Books. She collaborated with renowned illustrator Maurice Sendak (Where the Wild Things Are) on Mr. Rabbit and the Lovely Present, for which he which won a Caldecott Medal Award in 1963.

Maurice Zolotow (1913-1999) 29 Elm Place
Hollywood biographer, magazine writer, and Broadway theater critic. Husband of book editor and children’s book author, Charlotte Zolotow. He was the only author to write a biography of Marilyn Monroe prior to her death. Other notable biographies include those on the actor John Wayne and Oscar-winning director and screenwriter Billy Wilder.

Harry Hillman (1881-1945) 44 Maple Avenue
Olympic hurdler who won three gold medals in the 1904 Summer Olympics in St. Louis. He went on to win a silver medal in the 400 meters hurdles in the 1908 Summer Olympics in London. Became a long-tenured track coach at Dartmouth College.

Stephen Lysak (1912-2002) The Graham School
Olympic gold medalist in the 10,000-meter race in canoeing in 1948, along with his friend and Hastings resident Steve Macknowski, in a canoe that Lysak built himself. Raised in the orphanage along with his two sisters, and his brother, John Lysak, who was also a canoeist and competed in the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games.

Elsie Muller McLave (1895-1967) 184 Rosedale Avenue
Speed skating champion who represented the U.S. in the 1932 Olympics when the sport was only an exhibition event for women. McLave trained on the Hudson River. She was inducted into the National Speedskating Hall of Fame in 1968.

William Briesemeister (1895-1967) 124 High Street
Prominent mapmaker who was chief cartographer for the American Geographical Society for more than 50 years. His many accomplishments include the Briesemeister Elliptical Equal Area projection, which permits a flat map to show land areas in their true relative size.

Daniel J. Callahan (1931-2019) 50 Summit Street and 42 Whitman St
In 1969 co-founded the Hastings Center, a bioethics research institute first based in our village on Warburton Avenue, then on the Burke Estate, later relocated to Garrison, NY. He was also the author or editor of 47 books and numerous articles.

Kenneth B. Clark (1914-2005) 17 Pinecrest Drive
Influential civil rights pioneer and psychologist. Kenneth Clark was the first African-American to earn a doctorate in psychology from Columbia University, the first to become a tenured instructor in the City College system of New York, and the first black man elected to the New York State Board of Regents. He and his wife, Mamie Phipps Clark, founded the Northside Center for Child Development, which helped thousands of emotionally troubled children living in Harlem. The couple’s research on black children’s perceptions of themselves was instrumental in the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision that found segregation in public schools unconstitutional.

Mamie Phipps Clark (1917-1983) 17 Pinecrest Drive
Wife of Kenneth B. Clark. The first African-American woman to earn a doctorate in experimental psychology from Columbia University, in 1943. See entry for Kenneth B. Clark for her accomplishments.

David Dudley Field, II (1805-1894) 665 North Broadway
Prominent lawyer and law reformer, brother of Supreme Court Justice Stephen Johnson Field, and of Atlantic Cable promoter Cyrus Field. He was responsible for New York State enacting the Field Code in 1850.

Willard Gaylin (1935-2022) 108 Circle Drive
Pioneering bioethicist and clinical professor of psychiatry at Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons. Co-founded the Hastings Center (a bioethics research institute) with Daniel J. Callahan in 1969. He wrote and edited over 140 articles and 22 books.

Jeremiah Gutman (1923-2004) 2 Riverview Place
A founder of the New York Civil Liberties Union in 1951 in partial response to Senator Joseph McCarthy’s anti-communism agenda. Consistently pursued cases related to free speech, civil rights and anti-war protests. His clients included Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, the Hare Krishnas, and the Rev. Sun Myung Moon.

Margaret Sanger (1879-1966) 155 Edgars Lane
Nurse, Organizer of the American Birth Control League in 1921 (later Planned Parenthood) and in 1923, she was the founder of the first all-female, doctor-staffed birth control clinic in the U.S. located in New York City. She lived with her husband and three children for six years in Hastings before moving back to New York City at the end of 1910. She launched her birth control crusade in 1914.

Louis E Brus (Born 1943) 25 Crossbar Rd
Dr. Brus shared the 2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work in the 1980s discovering and developing quantum dots, which are extremely tiny inorganic particles that glow when exposed to light. Quantum dots are used in TV screens and light bulbs, and in the biomedical field to track tumors and drugs in the body.

Robert C. Merton (born 1944) 111 Pinecrest Drive
With Myron Scholes, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1997 for developing a mathematical formula that measured the worth of an option. He served as a professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management where he is known for his pioneering contributions to continuous-time finance.

Edmund Phelps (born 1933) 42 Pinecrest Parkway
Won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2006 for his analysis of the relationship between the short and long-term effects of macroeconomic policy.

William Vickrey (1914-1996) 162 Warburton Avenue
In 1996, he and fellow economist James Mirrlees won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for their research into the economic theory of incentives under asymmetric information.

George Baker (1807-1899) 532 Broadway (Baker Lane)
French-born cabinetmaker, undertaker, businessman, and politician who helped Hastings become an incorporated community in 1879. He was the village’s third president (the position was changed to mayor in 1927).

Bertha Berbert (1872-1936) Maple Avenue
Elected Westchester’s first female School Commissioner at age 27, a position she held from 1899 to 1905.

Leffert L. Buck (1837-1909) 666 Broadway
Civil engineer and pioneer in the use of the steel arch bridge structure. Engineer of the Williamsburg Bridge and Queensboro Bridge, among many other projects.

Charles Callison (1913-1993) 43 South Calumet Avenue
Prominent environmentalist and author. Was executive vice president of the National Audubon Society, and founded the Public Lands Institute, which later merged with the Natural Resources Defense Council.

Arthur C. Langmuir (1872-1941) 243 South Broadway (Oakledge)
A retired chemical engineer when he came to Hastings in 1919, Langmuir quickly immersed himself in local life. He served on the Village Zoning Board, organized and financed a village-wide clean-up effort during the Great Depression and landscaped Quarry Park on the west side of his property. Later used as a village dump, the area has been cleaned up and is once again parkland. Langmuir was an avid amateur photographer and is best remembered for the many photos he took around the village. They provide an invaluable record of life in Hastings during the 1920s and 1930s and are in the Historical Society’s collection.

Robert Bowne Minturn (1805-1866) Locust Wood (now Zinsser Park)
Shipping magnate and philanthropist, bought 173 acre estate, Locust Wood, in Hastings in 1857. He owned Flying Cloud, the fastest clipper ship in the world at the time.

Abba Tor (1923-2017) 48 Cochran Avenue
Structural engineer, perhaps best known for his work with famed architect Eero Saarinen on the Trans World Flight Center (TWA Terminal) at Kennedy International Airport. Born in Warsaw, Poland, he moved to Palestine (later Israel) as a boy. Tor settled permanently in the US in 1967 when he moved to Hastings.

Dorothy Hayden Truscott (1925-2006) 22 Pleasant Avenue
One of the most successful American female bridge players, she won four world titles and more than two dozen national championships. The author of several books on bridge, including Winning Declarer Play (1969).