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Aerial view of the town of Bedford along with neighboring towns of Mount Kisco, Bedford Hills and Katonah.. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 39.4 square miles (102.1 km 2), of which 37.2 square miles (96.3 km 2) is land and 2.2 square miles (5.8 km 2), or 5.70%, is water. [12]
Some of these areas are civil parishes, while others elect their own urban community councils. Pages in category "Areas of Bedford" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total.
The Marcy Houses, or The Marcy Projects, is a public housing complex built and operated by the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) and located in Bedford–Stuyvesant and is bordered by Flushing, Marcy, Nostrand and Myrtle avenues. [1] [2] [3] The complex was named after William L. Marcy (1786–1857), a lawyer, soldier, and statesman. [4]
The area is nearly 100% residential homes with a concentration of commercial activity along South Bedford Road (State Route 117) along the Mt. Kisco border and North Bedford Road. The area is served by three commuter rail Metro North train stations—Bedford Hills, Katonah and Mount Kisco—with regular service on the Metro-North Harlem Line to ...
Bedford hamlet had an inn as early as 1668, and, in 1670, the people of Breuckelen purchased from the Canarsie Indians an additional area for common lands in the surrounding region. Bedford Corners, approximately located where the present Bedford Avenue meets Fulton Street, and only three blocks west of the present Historic District, was the ...
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is selling the Bedford, N.Y., property where his estranged wife, Mary Richardson Kennedy, committed suicide in May. The 10-acre property and its gorgeous 10,000-square-foot ...
South end at Sheepshead Bay. Bedford Avenue is the longest [2] street in Brooklyn, New York City, stretching 10.2 miles (16.4 km) and 132 blocks, from Manhattan Avenue in Greenpoint south to Emmons Avenue in Sheepshead Bay, and passing through the neighborhoods of Williamsburg, Bedford–Stuyvesant, Crown Heights, Flatbush, Midwood, Marine Park, and Sheepshead Bay.
Also facing the common is Bedford's town hall, which was built in 1857 as a school, and has seen a variety of civic uses before housing town offices. When the district was listed on the National Register in 1977, its period of significance extended to 1927; in 2014, the district underwent boundary adjustments that increased its size by 20 acres ...