Pound Ridge is a town in Westchester County, New York, United States. The population was 4,726 at the 2000 census.
The Town of Pound Ridge is in the eastern corner of the county. It is bordered to the east by New Canaan, Connecticut, to the south, by Stamford, Connecticut, to the west by Bedford, New York, and to the north by Lewisboro. The local school is the Pound Ridge Elementary School, one of five K-5 schools in the Bedford Central School District. Older children take the bus to the Fox Lane Campus in Bedford, NY, where the Middle and High Schools are located.
Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 23.5 square miles (60.8 km²). The east and south town lines are along the border with Connecticut. 59.1 km² (22.8 sq mi) of the town is land and 1.8 km² (0.7 sq mi) of it (2.90%) is water.
Demographics
As of the census[1] of 2000, there were 4,726 people, 1,699 households, and 1,406 families residing in the town. The population density was 207.3 people per square mile (80.0/km²). There were 1,868 housing units at an average density of 81.9/sq mi (31.6/km²). The racial makeup of the town was 95.54% White, 1.21% African American, 0.06% Native American, 1.65% Asian, 0.02% Pacific Islander, 0.32% from other races, and 1.21% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 2.45% of the population.
There were 1,699 households out of which 38.0% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 76.4% were married couples living together, 4.8% had a female householder with no husband present, and 17.2% were non-families. 13.2% of all households were made up of individuals and 5.2% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.77 and the average family size was 3.03.
In the town the population was spread out with 26.1% under the age of 18, 3.4% from 18 to 24, 25.6% from 25 to 44, 32.6% from 45 to 64, and 12.2% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 42 years. For every 100 females there were 96.1 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 95.9 males.
The median income for a household in the town was $153,208, and the median income for a family was $168,040. Males had a median income of $100,000 versus $50,553 for females. The per capita income for the town was $74,914. About 0.9% of families and 1.7% of the population were below the poverty line, including 0.6% of those under age 18 and 2.8% of those age 65 or over.
Government
Gary Warshauer is the current town supervisor. Pound Ridge government offices are located in the Pound Ridge Town House on Westchester Avenue.
Emergency Services
The Town of Pound Ridge has a staffed police department of 16 sworn in officers and a civilian staff member. The police station is located by the Pound Ridge Town House on Westchester Avenue. The police department receives aid from the New York State Police in its patrols.
Emergency medical services the Pound Ridge Lions Club Volunteer Ambulance Corp provides EMS coverage to the town. The PRLVAC has two ambulances and transports patients to neighboring New York And Connecticut Hospitals. The ambulance corp has around 20 members. The ambulance corp provides Basic Life Support (BLS) to the town of Pound Ridge. Advance Life Support can be brought in via an intercepting unit or via the expedient transport to a providing hospital. Additional Medical support is received from Westchester Emergency Medical Services (WEMS), they provide fly cars to assist the Ambulance Corp. In addition the fly car driver is a New York State licensed paramedic.
Fire protection is covered by the Pound Ridge Volunteer Fire department. The department was established in 1933 and has around 50 active members. The firehouse is located in Scott's Corners, the house has its own weight room and recreational room. All the members are completely volunteer and live or work in town. It is a single station fire district that covers an area of twenty five square miles. The firehouse has six pieces of apparatus inside its doors. This includes two primary attack engines, one supply engine, a 3500 gallon tanker, one rescue/engine, and a brush truck. In addition to these pieces of apparatus, the department has three chief vehicles and a brush fire trailer that carries one of the two gators the department owns. The department runs about 300 calls annually. In addition to serving its own fire district, the department also provides mutual aid to numerous surrounding towns in New York and Connecticut.
Communities and locations in Pound Ridge
Pound Ridge as film location
Pound Ridge and the Pound Ridge reservation were the settings for several films, including
Notable residents, past and present
(in alphabetical order)
- Max Abramovitz, architect and long term resident who died here in 2004
- Eva Amurri, lifelong resident and actor
- David Ballard, direct marketing executive, expert cataloguer
- Tallulah Bankhead, actor (deceased)
- Ellen Barkin, actor who lived in town in the 1990s
- David Bloom, journalist (deceased)
- Jerry Bock, composer and long term resident
- Blackleach Burritt, a noted Congregational clergyman in the American Revolution.
- Gabriel Byrne, actor who resided here in the 1990s
- Zoe Caldwell, long term resident and stage actor
- Howard Cosell, sportscaster (deceased)
- Hume Cronyn, long-term resident and actor, husband of Jessica Tandy (deceased)
- Ari Fleischer, press secretary for U.S. President George W. Bush (2001 to 2003) who grew up here and returned to raise his family here
- Henry Gabriel, writer
- Richard Gere, actor and husband of Carey Lowell[2]
- Hiram Halle, philanthropist, inventor and businessman who died here in 1944
- Matthew Harb, famous entrepreneur, actor, philanthropist, and humanist.
- Anne Jackson, actor
- Eartha Kitt, long term resident and actress (deceased)
- Stanley Lomas, television and advertising pioneer, produced first televised college football game (deceased)
- Carey Lowell, actor, wife of Richard Gere[2]
- Robert Morgan, actor (deceased)
- Ann Ostrow-Gilbert, RCA Victor Recording Artist- resident 1966-1995
- Stuart Ostrow, Broadway Producer- resident 1966-1995
- Mike Myers, actor
- Elizabeth Hand, author who grew up here
- William Rubin, art historian and curator who died here in 2006
- Benny Goodman, musician (deceased)
- Tom Brokaw, journalist and author
- Jane Pauley, journalist and author
- Christopher Reeve, long-time resident and actor who died here in 2004
- Dana Reeve, long-time resident and actor who died here in 2006
- Tim Robbins, long-time resident, Little League sponsor, and actor
- Robert Rubin, 70th United States Treasury Secretary
- Susan Sarandon, long-time resident and actor
- Jessica Tandy, long-time resident and actor, wife of Hume Cronyn (deceased)
- Vuko Tashkovich, architect and builder and long term resident who died here in 1996
- Eli Wallach, actor
- Vera Wang, lifelong resident and fashion designer
- Robert Whitehead, producer (deceased)
- Steven Rockefeller, professor, philanthropist
- Fred Gwynne, actor (deceased)
- Steve Reich, Composer
Notes
- ^ "American FactFinder". United States Census Bureau. http://factfinder.census.gov. Retrieved 2008-01-31.
- ^ a b Costaregni, Susie, "'Law & Order' actress spotted in Greenwich", from "The Dish" column in The Advocate of Stamford, Connecticut and the Greenwich Time daily newspapers, November 12, 2006, page 2 of The Advocate: "Actor and Pound Ridge, N.Y., resident Richard Gere's new project ..."
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Coordinates: 41°12′31″N 73°34′29″W / 41.20861°N 73.57472°W / 41.20861; -73.57472
