Pelham, New York

According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of {{convert|2.4|sqmi}}. It is directly north of the the Bronx, a New York City borough, and borders Eastchester, New Rochelle, and Mount Vernon.

File:Pelham Picture House 2011.JPG

In 1654, Thomas Pell bought the area within the present-day town from the Siwanoy Indians. He named his manor "Pelham" in honor of his tutor, Pelham Burton.

The Town of Pelham was part of Westchester County when it was established by the post-Revolution New York State legislature in 1788. It included all of City Island and present-day Pelham Bay Park east of the Hutchinson River. In 1889, the town was incorporated at its current boundaries. In 1891, the village of Pelham Manor incorporated. In 1896, the village of North Pelham and the village of Pelham incorporated. In 1975, the villages of North Pelham and Pelham merged, forming the present village of Pelham.{{cite web |url=http://www.townofpelham.com/history.htm |title=Town of Pelham History |last=Bell |first=Blake |publisher=Town of Pelham |year=2008 |access-date=May 1, 2009}}

The Village of Pelham and the Village of Pelham Manor share several services such as school and recreational activities.{{citation needed|date=July 2014}} There is a grassroots movement to continue the consolidation of services in order to reduce taxes.{{citation needed|date=July 2014}} Given the differences in debt levels, tax rates, population and tax base such a consolidation has been opposed by many Pelham Manor residents. Such a merger is unlikely under current conditions.

For many years after 1916, Pelham was the headquarters of the Sanborn Map Company, which produced Sanborn maps.

The Pelham Picture House was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.{{NRISref|version=2010a}}

The book, The Haunted History of Pelham, New York, documents the history of Pelham and the region, including ghost stories.Blake A. Bell. The Haunted History of Pelham, New York: Including Ghostly Tales of the Bronx, Westchester County, and Long Island Sound. New York: Excelsior Editions, 2022. 221 pages. {{ISBN|1-4384-8674-X}}

{{US Census population

| 1790 = 199

| 1820 = 283

| 1830 = 334

| 1840 = 789

| 1850 = 577

| 1860 = 1025

| 1870 = 1790

| 1880 = 2540

| 1890 = 3941

| 1900 = 1571

| 1910 = 2998

| 1920 = 5195

| 1930 = 11851

| 1940 = 12272

| 1950 = 12195

| 1960 = 13404

| 1970 = 13933

| 1980 = 12978

| 1990 = 11903

| 2000 = 11866

| 2010 = 12396

| 2020 = 13078

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| footnote = U.S. Decennial Census{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/decennial-census.html|title=Census of Population and Housing|publisher=Census.gov|access-date=June 4, 2015}}United States Census Bureau, 2020 Report, Pelham town, New York

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As of the census{{cite web |url=https://www.census.gov |publisher=United States Census Bureau |access-date=January 31, 2008 |title=U.S. Census website }} of 2000, there were 12,107 people, 4,149 households and 3,190 families residing in the town. The population density was {{convert|5,523.4|/mi2|/km2|disp=preunit|people |people}}. There were 4,246 housing units at an average density of {{convert|1,976.4|/mi2|/km2}}.

The racial makeup of the town was 87.33% White, 4.57% Black or African American, 0.08% Native American, 3.96% Asian, 1.82% from other races and 2.23% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino people of any race were 6.02% of the population.

There were 4,149 households, out of which 41.3% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 64.4% were married couples living together, 9.7% had a female householder with no husband present and 23.1% were non-families. 19.4% of all households were made up of individuals, and 8.3% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.86 and the average family size was 3.31.

In the town, the population was spread out, with 28.6% under the age of 18, 5.1% from 18 to 24, 28.3% from 25 to 44, 25.1% from 45 to 64 and 12.9% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 38 years. For every 100 females, there were 93.4 males.

For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 86.9 males.

The median income for a household in the town was $91,810 and the median income for a family was $112,339.{{Cite web|url=http://www.city-data.com/city/Pelham-New-York.html|title = Pelham, New York (NY 10803) profile: Population, maps, real estate, averages, homes, statistics, relocation, travel, jobs, hospitals, schools, crime, moving, houses, news, sex offenders}} Males had a median income of $74,760 versus $46,086 for females. The per capita income for the town was $51,548. About 2.2% of families and 3.7% of the population were below the poverty line, including 4.3% of those under age 18 and 3.2% of those age 65 or over.

Major employers in Pelham include Pico Electronics, Barksdale Home Care Services Corp., Pelham Public Schools, the New York Athletic Club, and the De Cicco & Sons grocery.Search Results - Pelham, New York - [http://www.referenceusa.com/ ReferenceUSA] Current Businesses Other companies based in Pelham include Archie Comics.

{{Weather box

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| Jan record high F = 73

| Feb record high F = 75

| Mar record high F = 86

| Apr record high F = 96

| May record high F = 97

| Jun record high F = 99

| Jul record high F = 104

| Aug record high F = 102

| Sep record high F = 101

| Oct record high F = 89

| Nov record high F = 82

| Dec record high F = 77

| year record high F = 104

| Jan high F = 39.2

| Feb high F = 42.9

| Mar high F = 51.4

| Apr high F = 62.6

| May high F = 73.8

| Jun high F = 81.6

| Jul high F = 86.0

| Aug high F = 83.9

| Sep high F = 76.1

| Oct high F = 65.4

| Nov high F = 55.1

| Dec high F = 43.8

| Jan low F = 20.1

| Feb low F = 22.3

| Mar low F = 29.1

| Apr low F = 38.4

| May low F = 47.2

| Jun low F = 56.8

| Jul low F = 62.3

| Aug low F = 60.8

| Sep low F = 53.0

| Oct low F = 41.2

| Nov low F = 34.6

| Dec low F = 25.6

| Jan record low F = -10

| Feb record low F = -5

| Mar record low F = 2

| Apr record low F = 17

| May record low F = 29

| Jun record low F = 38

| Jul record low F = 49

| Aug record low F = 44

| Sep record low F = 34

| Oct record low F = 27

| Nov record low F = 12

| Dec record low F = -4

| year record low F = -10

| Jan precipitation inch = 3.56

| Feb precipitation inch = 2.84

| Mar precipitation inch = 4.07

| Apr precipitation inch = 4.16

| May precipitation inch = 4.33

| Jun precipitation inch = 3.44

| Jul precipitation inch = 4.20

| Aug precipitation inch = 3.93

| Sep precipitation inch = 4.37

| Oct precipitation inch = 3.67

| Nov precipitation inch = 4.09

| Dec precipitation inch = 3.80

| year precipitation inch = 46.46

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| Jan snow inch = 9.8

| Feb snow inch = 10.9

| Mar snow inch = 6.8

| Apr snow inch = 1.4

| May snow inch = .2

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| Jul snow inch = 0

| Aug snow inch = 0

| Sep snow inch = 0

| Oct snow inch = .1

| Nov snow inch = .8

| Dec snow inch = 8.6

| year snow inch = 38.6

| Jan rain days = 8.5

| Feb rain days = 8.1

| Mar rain days = 9.3

| Apr rain days = 9.8

| May rain days = 10.9

| Jun rain days = 9.3

| Jul rain days = 9.0

| Aug rain days = 8.7

| Sep rain days = 7.6

| Oct rain days = 6.7

| Nov rain days = 9.2

| Dec rain days = 9.4

| year rain days = 113.4

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| title=Historical Weather for New York, United States of America - Travel, Vacation and Reference Information

| publisher = Canty and Associates LLC

| access-date = June 11, 2012

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| source 2 = Homefacts (precipitation only)

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| url = http://www.homefacts.com/weather/New-York/Westchester-County/Pelham.html

| title = Pelham Westchester County New York average temperature, sunshine and precipitation data

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| access-date = June 11, 2012}}

The Weather Channel (extremes){{cite web

| url = http://www.weather.com/outlook/travel/businesstraveler/wxclimatology/monthly/10803

| title = Monthly Averages for Pelham, NY (10803)

| publisher = The Weather Channel

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Pelham Town is within the Pelham Union Free School District.{{cite web|url=https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/DC2020/PL20/st36_ny/schooldistrict_maps/c36119_westchester/DC20SD_C36119.pdf|title=2020 CENSUS - SCHOOL DISTRICT REFERENCE MAP: Westchester County, NY|publisher=U.S. Census Bureau|accessdate=2024-10-18}} - [https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/DC2020/PL20/st36_ny/schooldistrict_maps/c36119_westchester/DC20SD_C36119_SD2MS.txt Text list]

Pelham is home to four elementary schools{{cite web |url=http://www.townofpelham.com/community_schools.htm |title=Community-Schools |access-date=May 1, 2009}} (two located in each village), one middle school, and one high school, the last two are attached. The elementary schools are Hutchinson, Colonial, Siwanoy, and Prospect Hill. Pelham Middle School and Pelham Memorial High School gather students for all of Pelham. These are all part of the Pelham Union Free School District. There are also several private and religious based schools. Since 1948 (and as of 1997), New York City has paid the district to educate children who live in Bronx Manor, as doing so is less expensive than sending school buses there.{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/05/06/nyregion/a-tiny-strip-of-new-york-that-feels-like-the-suburbs.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm | title=A Tiny Strip of New York That Feels Like the Suburbs | work=The New York Times | date=May 6, 1997 | access-date=June 9, 2012 | author=Gross, Jane}}

The Village of Pelham Fire Department has 10 firefighters and five lieutenants, using one fire station. The fleet has two engines, one ladder, one utility unit, and a command vehicle. The Pelham Fire Department responds to approximately 800 emergency calls annually.

File:Saint Catherine's Church Pellham April 2011.jpg

St. Catharine's was originally a mission church of St Gabriel's parish in New Rochelle. In July 1896 a frame church was built in the newly incorporated village of Pelham on land donated by Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Farrell. In December 1897 St. Catharine's became a separate parish with Rev. Francis P. McNichol as first pastor. A school was established in 1904, staffed by the Sisters of St. Francis. At the end of the school year in 1983 St. Catharine's School closed bringing to an end 75 years of Catholic education in the parish. The school building was converted to a Parish Center to provide space for Religious Education classes, parish activities and groups to meet.{{Cite web |title="Parish History", Our Lady of Perpetual Help-St. Catherine Parish |url=http://olph-pelhammanor.org/web/index.php/about-us/parish-history |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161202170501/http://olph-pelhammanor.org/web/index.php/about-us/parish-history |archive-date=December 2, 2016 |access-date=December 1, 2016}} A new church was dedicated in 1909.[https://books.google.com/books?id=KL4YAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA399 Lafort, Remigius. The Catholic Church in the United States of America, Vol. 3: The Province of Baltimore and the Province of New York, Section 1: Comprising the Archdiocese of New York and the Diocese of Brooklyn, Buffalo and Ogdensburg Together with some Supplementary Articles]. (New York City: The Catholic Editing Company, 1914), p.423

In 1936 W. T. Grant, who owned a chain of five-and-ten cent stores, gave property in Pelham Manor to St. Catharine's to serve as a separate “mission”. The mission evolved to become Our Lady of Perpetual Help parish, with its own church building. In 2014 it was announced that the two parishes would merge, with the newer, larger Our Lady of Perpetual Help building designated as the parish church. However, St. Catharine's Church in the Village of Pelham was retained as a worship center.{{Cite web |title="St. Catharine's Merging into Our Lady of Perpetual Help But Remaining Open for Masses and Sacraments", The Pelhams-PLUS, November 5, 2014 |url=http://www.pelhamplus.com/top_news/article_0ffaf77a-64f7-11e4-8254-001a4bcf6878.html}}

The Bee-Line Bus System provides bus service to Pelham.{{Cite NYC bus map|W}}

On Amtrak, Pelham is located closest to the New Rochelle station ("NRO") on the Northeast Corridor. On Metro-North Railroad, the Pelham station is within Fare Zone 12 on the New Haven Line. Pelham is also about 28 minutes from Grand Central Terminal.

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• Nancy Allen, New York Philharmonic harpist
• Liborio Bellomo, boss of the Genovese crime family
• Alessandra Biaggi (born 1986), New York State Senator
• Nick Bollettieri (1931-2022), tennis coach
• Charles Lewis Bowman, architect, designed nine homes{{Cite web|url=http://ww16.historicpelham.com/blogarchive/Blog20051123.htm?sub1=20211208-2014-2391-989d-8ee7064ea74f|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101216175412/http://www.historicpelham.com/blogarchive/Blog20051123.htm|title=historicpelham Resources and Information.|archivedate=December 16, 2010|website=ww16.historicpelham.com}}
• Felix Cavaliere (born 1942), musician- founder of The Young Rascals
• Antonio Ciacca, jazz pianist, composer and conductor
• Joseph Cross, Hollywood actor, starred in films such as Jack Frost, Milk, and Lincoln
• Tony DeMeo, retired college football coach, author, and motivational speaker
• Kate Douglass, 2020 and 2024 Olympic swimmer, 5-time Olympic medallist
• Brett Gardner (born 1983), Major League Baseball player
• C. P. H. Gilbert, architect best known for designing townhouses and mansions, retired in Pelham Manor at his home on 216 Townsend Avenue
• Herman 'Jackrabbit' Smith-Johannsen (1875-1987), Norwegian credited for introducing cross-country skiing to North America
• Mary Lorson, musician
• Richard Rood (born 1955), Grammy Award-winning violinist
• Clinton Roosevelt (1804–1898), politician and inventor
• Ethel Schwabacher (1903—1984), abstract expressionist painter
• Michael Schwerner (1939-1964), civil rights worker murdered by the Ku Klux Klan while helping African-Americans register to vote in Mississippi
• Gary Scott (born 1968), Major League Baseball player
• Gene Stone (born 1951), writer and editor
• James M. Stone, Founder, Chairman, and CEO, Plymouth Rock Assurance
• Dame Nita Barrow, Ambassador to the United Nations for Barbados

File:Pelham Train Station April 2011.jpg|Pelham Train Station, also in the village

File:Daronco Town House 20 5th Av Pelham jeh.jpg|Daronco Town House

File:Pelham Town Hall 2011.JPG|Pelham Town Hall

{{reflist}}

{{Commons category|Pelham, New York}}

• [http://www.townofpelham.com/ Town of Pelham official website]
• [http://www.pelhamschools.org/ Pelham Union Free School District]
• [http://www.historicpelham.com/ Historic Pelham, website by town historian]
• [http://historicpelham.blogspot.com/ Historic Pelham, blog by town historian]

{{Geographic Location (8-way)

| Centre = Pelham

| North = Eastchester,

| Northeast = Wykagyl

| East = New Rochelle

| South = Long Island Sound

| Southeast =

| Southwest = Pelham Bay Park

| Northwest =

| West = Mount Vernon

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