Old Westbury, New York

Old Westbury, New York
Old Westbury, New York
—  Village  —
U.S. Census Map
Old Westbury, New York is located in New York
Old Westbury, New York
Location within the state of New York
Coordinates: 40°46′55″N 73°35′50″W / 40.78194°N 73.59722°W / 40.78194; -73.59722Coordinates: 40°46′55″N 73°35′50″W / 40.78194°N 73.59722°W / 40.78194; -73.59722
Country United States
State New York
County Nassau
Area
 - Total 8.6 sq mi (22.2 km2)
 - Land 8.6 sq mi (22.2 km2)
 - Water 0.0 sq mi (0.0 km2)
Elevation 164 ft (50 m)
Population (2010)
 - Total 4,671
Time zone Eastern (EST) (UTC-5)
 - Summer (DST) EDT (UTC-4)
ZIP code 11568
Area code(s) 516
FIPS code 36-54705
GNIS feature ID 0959332

Old Westbury is a village in Nassau County, New York on the North Shore of Long Island. As of the 2010 United States Census, the village population was 4,671.

The Village of Old Westbury is located in both the Town of Oyster Bay and the Town of North Hempstead.

Business Week dubbed Old Westbury New York's most expensive suburb.[1] Old Westbury Gardens has been recognized as one of the three best public gardens in the world.[2] by Four Seasons magazine

Contents

Geography

Old Westbury is located at 40°46′55″N 73°35′50″W / 40.78194°N 73.59722°W / 40.78194; -73.59722 (40.782038, -73.597236).[3]

According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 8.6 square miles (22 km2), all of it land.

Demographics

Ranked #10 for most expensive zip codes In the United States. As of the census[4] of 2000, there were 4,228 people, 1,063 households, and 967 families residing in the village. The population density was 493.9 people per square mile (190.7/km²). There were 1,109 housing units at an average density of 129.5 per square mile (50.0/km²). The racial makeup of the village was 68.19% White, 14.24% African American, 0.02% Native American, 11.52% Asian, 3.67% from other races, and 2.37% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 7.14% of the population.

There were 1,063 households out of which 43.2% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 82.2% were married couples living together, 5.9% had a female householder with no husband present, and 9.0% were non-families. 5.6% of all households were made up of individuals and 2.9% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 3.33 and the average family size was 3.37.

In the village the population was spread out with 22.7% under the age of 18, 20.2% from 18 to 24, 19.9% from 25 to 44, 25.7% from 45 to 64, and 11.6% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 35 years. For every 100 females there were 86.7 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 84.6 males.

The median income for a household in the village was $163,046, and the median income in the village was $184,298 for a family. The median earnings of the 899 households (89.6% of total households) in the village that took in earnings supplemental to income was $230,721. Males had a median income of $100,000+ versus $45,200 for females. The per capita income for the village was $72,932. About 1.1% of families and 3.5% of the population were below the poverty line, including 1.5% of those under age 18 and 3.3% of those age 65 or over.

History

Westbury was founded by Edmond Titus,[5][6] and was later joined by Henry Willis. Henry Willis, one of the first English settlers, named the area after a town in his home county of Wiltshire, England. Westbury had been a Quaker community of isolated farms until the railroad came in 1836; after the Civil War, the New York elite discovered that the rich, well wooded flat countryside of the Hempstead Plains was a place to raise horses, and to hunt foxes and play polo at the Meadow Brook Club. They bought entire farms and built grand houses, somewhat separated from the Gold Coast mansions along Long Island's North Shore. 'Westbury House', was the residence of Henry Phipps' eldest son, John Shaffer Phipps. Today, the property is operated as Old Westbury Gardens. Robert Low Bacon built 'Old Acres' in the style of an Italian villa.

Other landowners were Thomas Hitchcock and his family, Harry Payne Whitney and his wife the former Gertrude Vanderbilt, founder of New York's Whitney Museum, at Apple Green (formerly a Mott house), Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, whose estate is now subdivided into the Old Westbury Country Club and New York Institute of Technology. The architect Thomas Hastings built a modest house for himself, 'Bagatelle', in 1908. A. Conger Goodyear, then president of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City had a house built in 1938 by famed architect Edward Durell Stone, who also destined the building for Conger's museum. In 2003, the A. Conger Goodyear House was added to the National Register of Historic Places to protect the structure from being demolished to subdivide the expensive land surrounding it.[7] The estate of Robert Winthrop, an investment bank and member of the Dudley–Winthrop family, for whom Winthrop-University Hospital was named, has been similarly preserved. Part of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney's estate and her sculpture studio has been preserved and maintained by one of her grandchildren, Pamela Tower LeBoutillier, who currently resides there.

When Robert Moses was planning the Northern State Parkway, the powers of Old Westbury forced him to re-site it five miles (8 km) to the south. Once the parkway was completed, many residents found it to not be the eyesore they had been anticipating and regretted making their commutes more inconvenient than necessary. The residents, however, did not have to wait very long: The state was able to buy land from Charles E. Wilson, a former president of General Motors who needed to sell off his Old Westbury estate to pull himself out of financial crisis and relocate to the nation's capital to serve in President Dwight D. Eisenhower's cabinet. The land, which runs along an edge of the village, was used for Moses' next project, the Long Island Expressway.

Notable sites

Education

  • Holy Child Academy - A private catholic day school, grades K through 8.
  • New York Institute of Technology - A private undergraduate and graduate university.
  • SUNY Old Westbury - A public, four-year liberal arts college.
  • The Wheatley School - A public high school

Notable residents: past and present

Entertainment

Film

Television

  • Gossip Girl: Season two's nineteenth episode, "The Grandfather," originally airing March 23, 2009, featured an Old Westbury estate as the "van der Bilt" mansion
  • Growing Up Gotti: A&E Network reality series about life in Victoria Gotti's Old Westbury home.
  • Royal Pains: Season one's third episode, "Strategic Planning," originally airing June 18, 2009, features the Phipps estate as the home of a wealthy senator and used the lawn as a University of Notre Dame Fighting Irish practice field
  • Sex and the City: Season five's finale episode, "I Love a Charade," originally airing September 8, 2002, featured an Old Westbury home in place of an estate in the Hamptons

References

  1. ^ Businesss Week, "The Most Expensive Suburbs of the Biggest U.S. Cities, New York City: Old Westbury"
  2. ^ Four Seasons' Magazine, "Where is the World's Best Public Garden?" Old Westbury Gardens, Royal Horticultural Society Garden Wisley and Singapore's National Orchard Garden are named as the three best public gardens in the world
  3. ^ "US Gazetteer files: 2010, 2000, and 1990". United States Census Bureau. 2011-02-12. http://www.census.gov/geo/www/gazetteer/gazette.html. Retrieved 2011-04-23. 
  4. ^ "American FactFinder". United States Census Bureau. http://factfinder.census.gov. Retrieved 2008-01-31. 
  5. ^ Titus Family in America-Page 3
  6. ^ Hartford Courant
  7. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2009-03-13. http://nrhp.focus.nps.gov/natreg/docs/All_Data.html. 
  8. ^ http://cityfile.com/profiles/ashanti
  9. ^ http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/bestdressed/bestdressed_women?currentPage=2
  10. ^ http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/19/magazine/to-the-manor-born.html
  11. ^ Bryan, Carmen, It's No Secret: From Nas to Jay-Z, from seduction to scandal, a hip-hop Helen of Troy tells all. New York: VH1 Books, 2006. p 208.

External links

v · d · eTown of Oyster Bay, New York
County
Villages
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Website: oysterbaytown.com
v · d · eTown of North Hempstead, New York
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Website: northhempstead.com

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