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Ward Acres is a 62-acre park in the Wykagyl section of the city of New Rochelle, in Westchester County, New York.Formerly part of a large country estate and horse farm, New Rochelle purchased the land in 1962 with help from the New York State Park and Recreation Land Acquisition Bond Act.
Rochelle Park is essentially rectangular in dimension, with the southeast corner having been clipped from it by the construction of the New York & New Haven Railroad in the 1850s. In the original plan, the parcel was diagonally divided by a wide boulevard (The Boulevard) that entered the park at a stone gateway and ended at a circle ("The Court").
In 1923, New Rochelle resident Anna Jones became the first African-American woman to be admitted to the New York State Bar. [18] Poet and resident James J. Montague captured the image of New Rochelle at the time in his 1926 poem "Queen City of the Sound". [19] In 1930, New Rochelle recorded a population of 54,000, up from 36,213 only ten years ...
New York's senators announced New Rochelle will receive $16 million to transform part of Memorial Highway into an elevated park.
Glen Island Park is a 105-acre (0.42 km 2) waterfront park, located on Glen Island, on the Long Island Sound, New York.The park is owned and operated by Westchester County and shares the island with a privately operated but county-owned entertainment facility, the Glen Island Harbour Club (formerly the Glen Island Casino).
The Rochelle Park–Rochelle Heights Historic District is a historic residential district located in the city of New Rochelle in Westchester, New York. The district is historically and architecturally significant as an intact and distinctive example of residential park development at the turn of the Twentieth Century. [ 3 ]
Residence Park is situated on the former country estate of the wealthy 19th century New York City hotelier Simeon Leland.Leland, having traveled extensively throughout Europe studying the various hotel systems there, returned with a knowledge and experience that knowledge back to experience effected important changes in American hotel-keeping.
Donald J. Trump State Park is a 436-acre (1.8 km 2) state park in the towns of Yorktown and Putnam Valley in Westchester and Putnam counties, New York.. The park consists of property that was donated to New York State in 2006 by developer Donald Trump.