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Old Bronxville and Eastchester Newspapers Now Digitized and Online


By Eloise L. Morgan, Bronxville Village Historian


Mar. 2, 2016:  We could be living in villages called Gramatan Hills or Crawford Hills if a couple of early twentieth-century movements had been successful.

In the 1910s and 1920s, newcomers to Bronxville repeatedly sought to rid themselves of a name that was unfavorably confused with the Bronx, advocating instead for Gramatan Hills. The 1920s also saw Tuckahoe debate renaming itself Crawford Hills to eliminate associations with a rough-and-tumble past.

These are tidbits of history gleaned from the newly digitized historic newspapers of Eastchester, Bronxville, and Tuckahoe, which have just gone online. 

For the full stories and other questions about local history, see the Hudson River Valley Heritage website (http://news.hrvh.org/), where local newspapers covering the years 1902 to 2007 are hosted. Papers dating from 1902 through the early 1930s are already available, and the remaining newspapers will be posted periodically during 2016.

Now searchable are:

Still to go online later this year are additional years of the Review, the Bronxville Press and:

  • The News (1912-1913)

  • The Bronxville Review-Press (1937-1953)

  • The Bronxville Reporter (1946-1953)

  • The Bronxville Review Press and Reporter (1953-2000)

  • Review Press (2000-2007)

The digitization of more than a century of local newspapers, all of which carried news of Bronxville, Eastchester, and Tuckahoe, provides a superb source of historical information that is readily available to researchers anywhere. The project was funded jointly by Eastchester 350th Anniversary, Inc., and The Bronxville Historical Conservancy and planned and coordinated by Bronxville Village Historian Eloise L. Morgan.

Currently researchers can search the full text, including ads, of all issues of each newspaper title separately (put quotation marks around search terms of more than one word).

In addition to looking for specific search terms, it is also possible to search by issue date and read through each issue page by page. When the full collection is digitized and posted later in the year, it will be possible to search through all ten local newspapers at once. 

Pictured here:  The Bronxville Public Library.

Photo by A. Warner

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Bronxville Overview

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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