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A brief Intro to Crestwood ... ¹

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Originally a farming community, the advent of the railroad in the Bronx River Valley in the middle eighteen hundreds marked the beginning of Crestwood as we know it today. The opening of Tuckahoe Station circa 1840 signaled the building of a few houses along Scarsdale Road. Then came a whistle (flag) stop at Crestwood (then Yonkers Park), marking a flurry of building in the 1890’s along Vermont Terrace, lower Read, Carpenter, Pennsylvania, Crestwood and Hollywood Avenues.²

At the turn of the Century when Crestwood became a regular stop, real estate  developers presented our quiet, sylvan community to fresh-air-hungry New Yorkers with beckoning brochures and advertisement. The rest is history.

The earliest homes were mostly clapboard with the occasional addition of local stone from its own excavations, or from the Tuckahoe Marble Quarry, followed by the use of shingles, cement, stucco and brick in the mid 1920’s. Crestwood is unique in that it represents many different styles of architecture from early Farmhouses through Victorian, Arts and Crafts, Tudor Revival, to ultra-Modern (and, frequently, a combination of more several stylings). It is this very mix, which lends a special charm of individuality to our community, which is also a defining characteristic of its residents.

1. Research and text by Marguerite Aumann   2. On early maps Crestwood Avenue was Prospect Avenue and Pennsylvania Avenue was Central Avenue

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