Editing Tuckahoe (village), New York

{{For|the Suffolk County hamlet|Tuckahoe, Suffolk County, New York}}
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| official_name      = Tuckahoe, New York
| settlement_type    = [[Administrative divisions of New York#Village|Village]]
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| image_map          = Westchester County New York incorporated and unincorporated areas Tuckahoe highlighted.svg
| map_caption        = Location of Tuckahoe (village), New York

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| subdivision_name1  = [[New York (state)|New York]]
| subdivision_type2  = [[List of counties in New York|County]]
| subdivision_name2  = [[Westchester County, New York|Westchester]]
| subdivision_type3  = [[Municipalities in Westchester County|Town]]
| subdivision_name3  = [[Eastchester (town), New York|Eastchester]]
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| leader_title       = Mayor
| leader_name        = Omayra Andino
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| established_date   = 1903

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| population_total   = 7084

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| elevation_m        = 34
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| coordinates        = {{coord|40|57|11|N|73|49|25|W|region:US_type:city|display=inline,title}}
| postal_code_type   = [[ZIP code]]
| postal_code        = 10707
| area_code          = [[Area code 914|914]]
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| blank_info         = 36-75583
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| blank1_info        = 0967924
| website            = {{URL|http://www.tuckahoe.com/}}
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'''Tuckahoe''' {{IPAc-en|t|ʌ|k|ə|ˈ|h|oʊ}} is a [[administrative divisions of New York#Village|village]] in [[Westchester County, New York]], United States. One-and-a-half miles long and three-quarters of a mile wide, with the [[Bronx River]] serving as its western boundary, the Village of Tuckahoe is approximately sixteen miles north of [[midtown Manhattan]] in Southern Westchester County.<ref>[http://whitemgmt.net/doc/Handbook_2008_PDF.pdf. A Brief History of the Village of Tuckahoe]</ref> As of the 2010 census, the village's population was 6,486.<ref name="Census 2010">{{Cite web| url=https://www.census.gov| title=Profile of General Population and Housing Characteristics: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (DP-1): Tuckahoe village, New York| publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]]| access-date=November 18, 2011}}</ref>

The village can be reached by the [[Metro-North]] railroad system. The [[Tuckahoe (Metro-North station)|Tuckahoe]] and [[Crestwood (Metro-North station)|Crestwood]] stations are 32 minutes and 34 minutes from New York City's [[Grand Central Terminal]], respectively.

==History==

===Industry and growth===
{{main|Tuckahoe marble}}

[[File:Tuckahoe Village.JPG|thumb|Village square and downtown]]

The name "Tuckahoe," meaning “it is globular," was a general term used by the Native Americans of the region when describing various bulbous roots which were used as food. Throughout the 1700s and 1800s, Tuckahoe was a rural, minor community which was part of the larger town of Eastchester. It was not until the early nineteenth century that Tuckahoe first became a semi-prominent part of the New York Metropolitan Area upon the discovery of vast, high-quality, white [[marble]] deposits near the Bronx River by Scottish businessman [[Alexander Masterson]].<ref>[http://www.themastertons.org/alexander-masterton-quarry-owner.html The Mastersons]</ref> Through the use of his financial wealth and influence, Masterson started Tuckahoe's marble industry, its first quarry in 1812. The high quality of "Tuckahoe Marble" was in great demand, quickly transforming the once quiet village into the "marble capital of the world".<ref>[http://www.eastchester.org/regional_info/history.html Town Eastchester - Local History]</ref> In the 1840s, to serve quarry owners who transported marble to the city, the [[New York and Harlem Railroad]] opened two train depots in Tuckahoe. The booming industry drew succeeding waves of German, Irish and Italian immigrant workers, and, after the Civil War, African-Americans who migrated from the South.<ref>[http://eastchester350.org/350/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Here-Comes-the-Train-1850-8-15-2008.pdf Here Comes the Train Circa 1850]</ref> The Tuckahoe quarries produced heavily for almost a century before supplies dwindled and the industry ended.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/06/realestate/06Living-tuckahoe.html?pagewanted=all Holding on to Tradition, and Independence NY Times]</ref> The village's [[Immaculate Conception Church (Tuckahoe, New York)|Church of the Immaculate Conception]] was constructed for the predominantly Catholic population using Tuckahoe Marble.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Present Church|url=http://www.assumption-immaculate.org/icc/icc_history_21-30.pdf|website=ICC History|access-date=September 26, 2016}}</ref>

[[File:Tuckahoe quarry ny monument 2009.png|thumb|right|Descriptive monument at Tuckahoe Quarry]]

During the 1920s Burroughs Wellcome (now part of [[GlaxoSmithKline]]) established research and manufacturing facilities on Scarsdale Road on land acquired from the Hodgman Rubber Company,<ref name=TriCent>Tricentennial Committee. [http://eastchester350.org/350/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/History-of-the-town-1964.pdf 1664-1964 The Story of a Town]</ref>{{rp|18}}<ref>The Eastchester Citizen-Bulletin, November 19, 1924 [http://news.hrvh.org/veridian/cgi-bin/senylrc?a=d&d=theeastchester19241119.1.2 Page 2]</ref><ref>[[Peter Pennoyer]] and Anne Walker. The Architecture of Delano & Aldrich. W. W. Norton & Company, 2003 {{ISBN|9780393730876}}. [https://books.google.com/books?id=PfsvwzwaQqUC&pg=PA188 Page 188]</ref> and for many years was a leading industry in Tuckahoe<ref name=TriCent/> until the company moved to [[Research Triangle Park]] in North Carolina in 1971.<ref>Triangle Modernist Houses Press release. October 8, 2012 [http://recentpast.org/iconic-burroughs-wellcome-headquarters-open-for-rare-public-tour/ Iconic Burroughs Wellcome Headquarters Open for Rare Public Tour] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160331011246/http://recentpast.org/iconic-burroughs-wellcome-headquarters-open-for-rare-public-tour/ |date=March 31, 2016 }}</ref>  The Nobel Prize winning scientists [[Gertrude B. Elion]] and [[George H. Hitchings]] worked there and invented drugs still used many years later, such as the cancer and autoimmune disease suppressant [[mercaptopurine]].<ref>Katherine Bouton for the New York Times. January 29, 1989 [https://www.nytimes.com/1989/01/29/magazine/the-nobel-pair.html?pagewanted=all The Nobel Pair]</ref>

==Geography==
Tuckahoe village is located at {{coord|40|57|11|N|73|49|25|W|type:city}} (40.953110, -73.823609),<ref name="GR1">{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/geographies/reference-files/time-series/geo/gazetteer-files.html|publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]]|access-date=April 23, 2011|date=February 12, 2011|title=US Gazetteer files: 2010, 2000, and 1990}}</ref> which is the lower, central section of Westchester County. Tuckahoe is bordered by the village of [[Bronxville, New York|Bronxville]] to its south and the unincorporated portion of the town of Eastchester to the north and east. The Bronx River separates it from the [[Crestwood (Yonkers)|Crestwood section]] of [[Yonkers, New York|Yonkers]] to its west. Easily accessible roadways include the [[Bronx River Parkway]], White Plains Road ([[New York State Route 22|Route 22]]), the [[Major Deegan Expressway]] ([[Interstate 87 (New York)|I-87]]), the [[Hutchinson River Parkway]], and the [[Cross County Parkway]].

According to the [[United States Census Bureau]], the village has a total area of {{convert|0.6|sqmi|km2}}, all land.

==Demographics==
{{US Census population
|1910= 2722
|1920= 3509
|1930= 6138
|1940= 6563
|1950= 5991
|1960= 6423
|1970= 6236
|1980= 6076
|1990= 6302
|2000= 6211
|2010= 6486
|2020= 7084
|footnote=U.S. Decennial Census<ref name="DecennialCensus">{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/decennial-census.html|title=Census of Population and Housing|publisher=Census.gov|access-date=June 4, 2015}}</ref>
}}
As of the [[census]]<ref name="GR2">{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov|title=U.S. Census website|publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]]|access-date=January 31, 2008}}</ref> of 2010, there were 6,486 people, 2,855 households, and 1,657 families residing in the village. There were 3,122 housing units. The racial makeup of the village was 67.5% [[White (U.S. Census)|White]], 10.2% [[African American (U.S. Census)|African American]], 12.1% [[Hispanic (U.S. Census)|Hispanic]] or [[Latin (U.S. Census)|Latin]] of any race, 8.2% [[Asian (U.S. Census)|Asian]], 1.7% from two or more races, 0.2% from [[Race (United States Census)|other races]], and 0.1% [[Native American (U.S. Census)|Native American]].

There were 2,627 households, out of which 29.4% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 42.0% were [[Marriage|married couples]] living together, 12.7% had a female householder with no husband present, and 42.0% were non-families. In total, 37.3% of all households were made up of individuals, and 27.9% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.27 and the average family size was 3.04.

In the village, the population was spread out, with 23.7% under the age of 20, 4.7% from 20 to 24, 29.3% from 25 to 44, 18.9% from 45 to 64, and 15.3% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 40 years. The male population represented 46.4% of the population whereas females accounted for 53.6% of the population.

The median and mean incomes for a household in the village was $68,648 and $129,406, respectively, and the median income for a family was $92,250. Approximately 14.7% of the village population earned income of $200,000 or more and the [[per capita income]] for the village was $56,057. About 1.1% of families and 3.9% of the population were below the [[poverty line]], including 0.0% of those under age 18 and 2.9% of those age 65 or over.

==Notable people==
*[[Al Carapella]], football player
*[[Robert Creamer]], sportswriter
*[[Tom Creavy]], golfer, winner of [[1931 PGA Championship]]
*[[Connie Kay]], drummer
*[[Eric Naposki]], [[National Football League]] player
*[[David Osit]], documentary filmmaker<ref>{{cite news|title=Police union announces scholarship winners|url=http://news.hrvh.org/veridian/cgi-bin/senylrc?a=d&d=bronxvillereviewpressreporterBRONXVILLE20050609.1.6|access-date=May 17, 2017|work=The Bronxville Review Press and Reporter|publisher=Gannett Company|date=June 9, 2005}}</ref>
*[[Robert Seguso]], professional tennis player

==In popular culture==
The village was fictionally represented as the setting of the CBS sitcom ''[[Maude (TV series)|Maude]]'' from 1972 to 1978.

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.tuckahoe.com/ Village of Tuckahoe official website]
* [http://tuckahoelibrary.org Tuckahoe Public Library]
* [http://www.tuckahoeschools.org Tuckahoe School District]

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