| Baldwin, New York | |
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  Baldwin, New York
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| Coordinates: 40°40′12.8″N 73°36′45″W / 40.670222°N 73.6125°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | New York |
| County | Nassau |
| Elevation | 23 ft (7.0104 m) |
| Population (2000) | |
| - Total | 23,455 |
| - Density | 7,954.4/sq mi (3,069.8/km2) |
| Time zone | Eastern (EST) (UTC-5) |
| - Summer (DST) | EDT (UTC-4) |
| ZIP code | 11510 |
| Area code(s) | 516 |
| Website | http://www.baldwinchamber.com |
Baldwin is a hamlet (and a census-designated place) located in the Town of Hempstead in Nassau County, New York. The population was 22,200 at the 2007 census. In 2007 CNN/Money Magazine ranked Baldwin as the 25th best place to live in the United States.[1]
Baldwin is also a station on the Babylon Branch of the Long Island Rail Road.
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History
Original inhabitants of the area between Parsonage Creek near Oceanside and Milburn Creek near Freeport were Native Americans known as Merokes, or Merrick, an Algonquin tribe indigenous to most of the South Shore of Long Island, who lived in two villages along Milburn Creek. In 1643, the land became known as Hick's Neck after two of Hempstead's early settlers, John Spragg from England and John Hicks from Flushing, who extended Hempstead village south to the salt meadows. The grist mill built by John Pine in 1686 on Milburn Creek attracted more settlers who engaged in fishing, farming, marshing, raising longwood, and breeding and raising sheep. Between the American Revolutionary War and the War of 1812, growing Hick's Neck came to be called the village of Milburn. The first churches were built in 1810 and 1872, and the first school was built in 1833.[2][3]
After the area was previously regarded as Hick's Neck and later Milburn, Baldwin was founded in 1855 (as Baldwinsville) and named in honor of Thomas Baldwin (1795-1872), who was a sixth generation member of the Baldwin family of Hempstead and the leading merchant of Milburn at the time. Mr. Baldwin owned a general store named T. Baldwin and Sons, as well as a hotel at a location that would now be considered the northwest corner of Merrick Road and Grand Avenue. Mr. Baldwin also owned and operated a sawmill by Silver Lake just southeast of the hotel.[4]
In 1867, the South Side Rail Road began operating with a station in Baldwinsville. In 1870, one of Thomas Baldwin's sons, Francis Baldwin, became a member of the New York State Assembly representing Queens County's 2nd District and, then later, he served as the Queens County treasurer.[2] (During this time, Baldwinsville was part of Queens County.) A year later, the name of the village was changed from Baldwinsville to Baldwins by the U.S. Postal Service so as to not confuse it with the village of Baldwinsville in upstate New York. By 1892, by an act of local government, the village was officially named Baldwin.[4]
Shortly after Hempstead separated from Queens County in 1899, people began to move to "Beautiful Baldwin", as it was called by Charles Luerssen, a village realtor, for the village's fine boating, bathing, and fishing. By 1939, ten years after the opening of Sunrise Highway, Baldwin became the largest unincorporated village in New York State—a title that was lost to Levittown by 1960.[4] In 1990, the area south of Atlantic Avenue was separated from Baldwin and designated as the hamlet of Baldwin Harbor, although it remains entirely within the Baldwin zip code.
Demographics
There were 1,200 people in the community of Baldwin (which included Baldwin Harbor) in 1882, 1,500 in 1890, 5,000 in 1920, 12,000 in 1930, 15,000 in 1940, 31,630 in 1980[5][6] As of the census[7] of 2000, there were 23,455 people, 7,868 households, and 6,081 families residing in the village. The population density was 7,954.4 per square mile (3,069.8/km²). There were 7,999 housing units at an average density of 2,712.8/sq mi (1,046.9/km²). The racial makeup of the CDP was 60.3% White, 22.9% African American, 11.6% Hispanic or Latino, 2.1% Asian, 0.8% Native American, 0.3% Pacific Islander, 4.60% from other races, and 3.03% from two or more races.
There were 7,868 households out of which 38.3% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 61.0% were married couples living together, 12.7% had a female householder with no husband present, and 22.7% were non-families. 18.5% of all households were made up of individuals and 9.3% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.98 and the average family size was 3.40.
In the community the population was spread out with 26.1% under the age of 18, 7.2% from 18 to 24, 30.5% from 25 to 44, 24.1% from 45 to 64, and 12.0% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 37 years. For every 100 females there were 89.9 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 85.2 males.
The median income for a household in the community was $71,456, and the median income for a family was $78,400 (these figures had risen to $88,704 and $98,142 respectively as of a 2007 estimate[8]). Males had a median income of $51,069 versus $40,496 for females. The per capita income for the CDP was $28,114. About 3.3% of families and 5.4% of the population were below the poverty line, including 5.5% of those under the age of 18, and 7.1% of those aged 65 or over.
School System
Baldwin, together with Baldwin Harbor, has its own school district, officially named the Baldwin Union Free School District (formerly Union Free School District No. 10, Town of Hempstead). The boundaries of the Baldwin School District are not identical with those of Baldwin itself, also containing a significant portion of Freeport, up to Knollwood Road in Rockville Centre and a few blocks from other neighboring villages. A substantial portion of Baldwin, located to the West of Silver Lake, is included in the Oceanside Union Free School District.
The Baldwin Public Schools consist of nine schools with a total enrollment of 5,441 students in the 2005-2006 school year. There is one high school, Baldwin Senior High School, and one middle school, Baldwin Middle School. There are seven elementary schools spaced throughout the town: Brookside, Lenox, Meadow, Milburn, Plaza, Shubert, and Steele.
Three former elementary schools were closed in 1980: Prospect School was torn down, along with the former Baldwin Junior High School and former Baldwin Senior High School which were combined in one building in the 1980s to make way for a housing complex; Coolidge School on Grand Avenue has been converted to condominiums; Harbor Elementary School on Hastings Street is now the school district office building.
The high school is located near the north end of town, and the middle school near the south end. Buses are run to both of these schools. Most students are able to walk to their elementary schools. The elementary schools contain grades kindergarten to fifth grade. The middle school contains grades six through eight—but the sixth graders spend most of their time in a separate wing except for music, gym, lunch, arts, computers, technology, and language. The high school contains grades nine through twelve.
The District is governed by a five-member elected board of education. As of 2007, Dr. Thomas Caramore is serving as the superintendent of the schools.
Baldwin also has one Catholic school, St. Christopher's. This school was established in 1925 as part of St. Christopher's parish. The school serves students from Baldwin, Freeport, and surrounding areas, and it ranges from kindergarten to eighth grade. Although originally staffed by nuns, most of the school's faculty consists of lay people. Originally the school was one building that housed all classes, however it has been expanded twice. The school now consists of the "original building" (now housing classrooms, a gym, stage, computer lab, and music room), the "middle building" (housing the school and religious education offices, classrooms and an art room), and the "new building" (housing a cafeteria, library, and classrooms). Over the years the school has gained a highly regarded reputation in the Baldwin community. Students from the school participate in a wide variety of both Catholic and community events. For example, students take religion classes from kindergarten to the eighth grade, as well as march in the Baldwin Memorial Day Parade and help out at Baldwin's Big Sweep (a community event in which volunteers clean up Grand Avenue).
Notables who have lived in and/or hailed from Baldwin, New York
- Rob Weiss, director/producer Amongst Friends, Entourage.[9]
- Dee Snider, lead singer of heavy metal band Twisted Sister. Graduated Baldwin High School in 1973.
Congressional Medal of Honor
Baldwin is the hometown of two soldiers who were awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor posthumously.
First Lieutenant Bernard J. Ray deliberately gave his life to spare his men of Company F, 8th Infantry, 4th Infantry Division on November 17, 1944 in the Hurtgen Forest.
Specialist Fifth Class John J. Kedenberg (BHS '64) was serving with a long range reconnaissance team of South Vietnamese irregular troops while a member of the U.S. Army 5th Special Forces Group (Airborne). When his group came under attack and was encircled by a battalion-size North Vietnamese Army force, Sp5c Kedenberg conducted a rear-guard action which allowed his group to break out of their encirclement and move to a landing zone. While in the landing zone, Sp5c Kedenberg directed the defense of the L-Z and ultimately gave up the last chance of evacuation to one of his Vietnamese comrades.
Grumman
Baldwin was also the initial home of the Grumman Aircraft Engineering Company.[10]
References
- ^ http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/bplive/2007/snapshots/PL3604143.html
- ^ a b Baldwin History at Baldwin Public Library
- ^ Hick's Neck: The Story of Baldwin at Baldwin Fire Department
- ^ a b c Baldwin Chamber of Commerce: History and Mission Statement
- ^ HICK'S NECK The Story of Baldwin INTO THE 1800's, part II
- ^ HICK'S NECK The Story of Baldwin 1900 TO THE PRESENT
- ^ "American FactFinder". United States Census Bureau. http://factfinder.census.gov. Retrieved 2008-01-31.
- ^ http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/ACSSAFFFacts?_event=Search&geo_id=06000US3401353680&_geoContext=01000US%7C04000US34%7C05000US34013%7C06000US3401353680&_street=&_county=baldwin&_cityTown=baldwin&_state=04000US36&_zip=&_lang=en&_sse=on&ActiveGeoDiv=geoSelect&_useEV=&pctxt=fph&pgsl=060&_submenuId=factsheet_1&ds_name=ACS_2007_3YR_SAFF&_ci_nbr=null&qr_name=null®=null%3Anull&_keyword=&_industry=
- ^ Lyall, Sarah. "FILM; 'Amongst Friends' Tops Off a Journey Of Self-Discovery", The New York Times, July 18, 1993. Accessed September 18, 2008. "Born in Baldwin, near the Five Towns, Mr. Weiss dropped out of the Parsons School of Design, where he studied fashion, then film. He found himself out of work and living goallessly back at his divorced father's house in Lawrence, smack in the Five Towns."
- ^ LONG ISLAND OPINION; Grumman, We Need Leadership
External links
- Baldwin, Nassau County, New York is at coordinates 40°39′48″N 73°36′38″W / 40.663346°N 73.610618°WCoordinates: 40°39′48″N 73°36′38″W / 40.663346°N 73.610618°W
- [1] CNN/Money Magazine 2007 Ranking Baldwin the 25th best place to live in the US
- [2] Baldwin Union Free School District
- [3] Baldwin Community Website
- [4] Baldwin Volunteer Fire Department
- [5] Hose Company One - Baldwin Fire Department
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