ECAP Held Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Breakfast at The Reformed Church
By Patty George, Community Liaison, Supervisor’s Office, Town of Eastchester
Feb. 1, 2017: The Eastchester Community Action Partnership (ECAP) recently held its annual Martin Luther King, Jr. breakfast at The Reformed Church of Bronxville.
The breakfast is a major fundraiser and also gives ECAP the chance to honor its community supporters.
This year’s honoree was the Eastchester 5K Committee for its large donation, which enabled ECAP to finally purchase a much-needed passenger van. ECAP area director Don Brown commented, “We are so thankful to the Eastchester 5K for this generous donation. This new van will enable ECAP to deliver food pantry bags to older residents who do not drive and are unable to walk with the heavy grocery bags. It will also be used to pick up donations and could be used in various other ways as well.”
The Rotary Club of Eastchester has agreed to help pay the insurance costs for the van. The club also donates many of the turkeys for ECAP’s Thanksgiving food drive.
ECAP serves only residents of Bronxville, Tuckahoe, and Eastchester, and all services are free. It runs an after-school program, a bi-weekly food pantry, and an emergency food pantry and offers gently used clothing, toys, and household items. ECAP also offers a tutoring service using Concordia College and local high school students and a referral service to hundreds of agencies and community-based partnerships, and it distributed over 200 Thanksgiving baskets to residents last year.
Pictured here: Members of the ECAP Advisory Board, the Eastchester 5K Committee, and the Rotary Club of Eastchester at a recent ECAP meeting.
Photo courtesy Patty George, Community Liaison, Supervisor’s Office, Town of Eastchester
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Bronxville is a quaint village (one square mile) located just 16 miles north of midtown Manhattan (roughly 30 minutes on the train) and has a population of approximately 6,500. It is known as a premier community with an excellent public school (K-12) and easy access to Manhattan. Bronxville offers many amenities including an attractive business district, a hospital (Lawrence Hospital), public paddle and tennis courts, fine dining at local restaurants, two private country clubs and a community library.
While the earliest settlers of Bronxville date back to the first half of the 18th century, the history of the modern suburb of Bronxville began in 1890 when William Van Duzer Lawrence purchased a farm and commissioned the architect, William A. Bates, to design a planned community of houses for well-known artists and professionals that became a thriving art colony. This community, now called Lawrence Park, is listed on the National register of Historic Places and many of the homes still have artists’ studios. A neighborhood association within Lawrence Park called “The Hilltop Association” keeps this heritage alive with art shows and other events for neighbors.
Bronxville offers many charming neighborhoods as well as a variety of living options for residents including single family homes, town houses, cooperatives and condominiums. One of the chief benefits of living in “the village” is that your children can attend the Bronxville School.
The Bronxville postal zone (10708, known as “Bronxville PO”) includes the village of Bronxville as well as the Chester Heights section of Eastchester, parts of Tuckahoe and the Lawrence Park West, Cedar Knolls, Armour Villa and Longvale sections of Yonkers. Many of these areas have their own distinct character. For instance, the Armour Villa section has many historic homes and even has its own newsletter called “The Villa Voice” which reports on neighborhood news.
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