Editing Pearl River, New York (section)

==Commerce==
[[File:Blue Hill Plaza .jpg|thumb|Blue Hill Plaza office tower. [[New York City]] is visible in the far distance.]]
[[Lederle Laboratories]] (which became [[Wyeth]]) was founded in 1907 on a Pearl River farm by Ernst J. Lederle.<ref name=Lederle/> The site grew to encompass {{convert|550|acre|km2}} and 40 buildings, and employ 4,000 workers. After [[Pfizer]] acquired Wyeth in 2009, the number of employees at the site was greatly reduced,<ref>{{cite news |first=Eric |last=Palmer |url=https://www.fiercepharma.com/manufacturing/pfizer-cutting-150-as-it-closes-out-vax-production-at-new-york-site |title=Pfizer whacks 150 jobs as it closes out vax production at New York site |website=Fierce Pharma |date=August 2, 2016 |access-date=July 23, 2022 }}</ref> and most of the campus was sold in the mid-2010s.<ref name=Lederle/><ref>{{cite news |first=Tina |last=Traster |url=https://rcbizjournal.com/2022/01/24/real-estate-veteran-has-plans-to-steer-former-pfizer-campus-into-a-new-era/ |title=Real Estate Veteran Has Plans To Steer Former Pfizer Campus Into A New Era |work=Rockland County BusinessJournal |date=January 24, 2022 |access-date=July 23, 2022 }}</ref> Streets and a pond on the campus are named after scientists and inventors:

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*[[Thomas Addison|Addison Road]]
*[[Frederick Banting|Banting Way]]
*[[William Bayliss|Bayliss Road]]
*[[Harvey Cushing|Cushing Road]]
* Curie Way, named after 
**[[Pierre Curie|Pierre]] and [[Marie Curie]]
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*[[Charles Darwin|Darwin Road]]
*[[John Christopher Draper|Draper Way]]
*[[Benjamin Duggar|Duggar Way]]
*[[James Ewing (pathologist)|Ewing Way]]
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*[[Carlos Finlay|Finlay Way]]
*[[William Gorgas|Gorgas Way]]
*[[Henry Gray|Gray Road]]
*[[William Harvey|Harvey Way]]
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*[[Karl Imhoff|Imhoff Road]]
*[[Zacharias Jansen|Jansen Road]]
*[[Edward Jenner|Jenner Place]]
*[[Robert Koch|Koch Way]]
*Lederle Road, named after
**Ernst J. Lederle
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*[[William T. G. Morton|Morton Road]]
*[[Louis Pasteur|Pasteur Road]]
*[[Santiago Ramón y Cajal|Ramon Road]]
*[[Walter Reed|Reed Pond]]
*[[James Watt|Watt Place]]
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Pearl River is the site of [[Blue Hill Plaza]], an office complex that includes Rockland County's first commercial skyscraper, completed in 1972.<ref>[http://bluehillplaza.com/ Blue Hill Plaza].</ref><ref>{{cite news |first=Lee A. |last=Daniels |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1983/11/27/realestate/rockland-s-new-office-frontier.html |title=Rockland's New Office Frontier |newspaper=The New York Times |date=November 27, 1983 }}</ref>