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Westchester Avenue (c.1928)
Star of stage and screen
Art Carney lived here in the 1940s/50s. He commuted into Manhattan
in the mid to late 50s when the first season of The
Honeymooners aired. With the incredible success of the show and a
subsequent raise, Carney bought a larger home in the Lawrence Park
area of Yonkers.
175 Pennsylvania Avenue (c. 1930)
1930s home of Eleanor Powell. Known as "The
Girl from Pennsylvania Avenue", Powell was a star on Broadway before
becoming a Hollywood legend. A world-class "tapper", she starred
opposite Fred Astaire, George Murphy, and others. An amateur
ornithologist, she was often found birdwatching along the Bronx
River at dawn.
 164 Pennsylvania Avenue
(c.1930)
WWI home of Robert Benchley, author/humorist. Benchley wrote
many books including "My Ten Years in a Quandry" and "From Bed to
Worse". He was a theater critic for Life Magazine and later The New
Yorker; made films for Fox, MGM and Paramount; was a celebrated
radio personality, and was a founding member of the famed
"Algonquin Round Table".
 Pendray House
(c.1929) - 491 Westchester Avenue
This twenties Tudor Revival belonged to
Dr. G. Edward Pendray the famed "Rocket Man of
Crestwood." Pendray and his wife Leatrice were founding
members of the American Rocket Society. In 1932 Pendray and a fellow
Society member designed the first liquid fuel rocket. Some
old-timers remember his experiments in rocketry conducted in
what is now Schultze Field. Pendray served as a consultant for NASA
in the 1960’s.
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