Old Westbury, New York
Old Westbury, New York | |
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Country | United States |
State | New York |
County | Nassau |
Area | |
• Total | 8.6 sq mi (22.2 km2) |
• Land | 8.6 sq mi (22.2 km2) |
• Water | 0.0 sq mi (0.0 km2) |
Elevation | 164 ft (50 m) |
Population (2000) | |
• Total | 4,228 |
• Density | 493.9/sq mi (190.7/km2) |
Time zone | UTC-5 (Eastern (EST)) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC-4 (EDT) |
ZIP code | 11568 |
Area code | 516 |
FIPS code | 36-54705 |
GNIS feature ID | 0959332 |
Old Westbury is a village in Nassau County, New York on the North Shore of Long Island. As of the United States 2000 Census, the village population was 4,228.
The Village of Old Westbury overlaps the Town of Oyster Bay and the Town of North Hempstead.
Geography
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According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 8.6 square miles (22.2 km²), all of it land.
Demographics
Ranked #10 for most expensive zip codes In the United States. As of the censusTemplate:GR of 2000, there were 4,228 people, 1,063 households, and 967 families residing in the village. The population density was 493.9 people per square mile (190.7/km²). There were 1,109 housing units at an average density of 129.5/sq mi (50.0/km²). The racial makeup of the village was 68.19% White, 14.24% African American, 0.02% Native American, 11.52% Asian, 3.67% from other races, and 2.37% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 7.14% of the population.
There were 1,063 households out of which 43.2% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 82.2% were married couples living together, 5.9% had a female householder with no husband present, and 9.0% were non-families. 5.6% of all households were made up of individuals and 2.9% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 3.33 and the average family size was 3.37.
In the village the population was spread out with 22.7% under the age of 18, 20.2% from 18 to 24, 19.9% from 25 to 44, 25.7% from 45 to 64, and 11.6% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 35 years. For every 100 females there were 86.7 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 84.6 males.
The median income for a household in the village was $163,046, and the median income in the village was $184,298 for a family. The median earnings of the 899 households (89.6% of total households) in the village that took in earnings supplemental to income was $230,721. Males had a median income of $100,000+ versus $45,200 for females. The per capita income for the village was $72,932. About 1.1% of families and 3.5% of the population were below the poverty line, including 1.5% of those under age 18 and 3.3% of those age 65 or over.
History
Westbury was named by Henry Willis, one of the first English settlers after a town in his home county of Wiltshire, England. Westbury had been a Quaker community of isolated farms until the railroad came in 1836; after the Civil War, the New York elite discovered that the rich, well wooded flat countryside of the Hempstead Plains was a place to raise horses, and to hunt foxes and play polo at the Meadow Brook Club. They bought entire farms and built grand houses, somewhat separated from the Gold Coast mansions along Long Island's North Shore. Thomas Hastings built an estate in Old Westbury known as "Knole". Completed in 1903, it was designed by Carrere and Hastings. In 1910 he sold the property to Henry Phipps who bought it as a wedding gift for his daughter Helen's marriage to Bradley Martin. Old Westbury House, was the residence of Henry Phipps' son, John Shaffer Phipps. Today, the property is open as Old Westbury Gardens. Robert Low Bacon built Old Acres in the style of an Italian villa. Other landowners were Thomas Hitchcock and his family, Harry Payne Whitney and his wife the former Gertrude Vanderbilt, founder of New York's Whitney Museum, at Apple Green (formerly a Mott house), Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, whose estate is now subdivided into the Old Westbury Country Club and New York Institute of Technology, Alfred I. du Pont, whose estate, Templeton also now serves part of the NYIT campus, the Post family and many other elite families. The architect Thomas Hastings built a modest house for himself, Bagatelle, in 1908. A. Conger Goodyear, then president of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City had a house built in 1938 by famed architect Edward Durell Stone, who also desined the building for Conger's museum. The house was recently designated a historical site to protect the structure from being demolished to subdivide the expensive land surrounding it. The estate of Robert Winthrop, an investment bank and member of the Dudley-Winthrop family, for whom Winthrop-University Hospital was named, has been similarly preserved. Part of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney's estate and her sculpture studio has been preserved and maintained by one of her grandchildren, Pamela Tower LeBoutillier, who currently resides there.
When Robert Moses was planning the Northern State Parkway, the powers of Old Westbury forced him to re-site it five miles (8 km) to the south. Once the parkway was completed, many residents found it to not be the eyesore they had been anticipating and regretted making their commutes more inconvenient than necessary. The residents, however, did not have to wait very long: The state was able to buy land from Charles E. Wilson, a former president of General Motors who needed to sell off his Old Westbury estate to pull himself out of financial crisis and relocate to the nation's capital to serve in President Dwight D. Eisenhower's cabinet. The land, which runs along an edge of the village, was used for Moses' next project, the Long Island Expressway .
Education
- Holy Child Academy - A private catholic day school, grades K through 8.
Notable Residents: Past and Present
- Carol Alt, model
- Jerome Ash, owner of Sam Ash music stores
- Robert Low Bacon, banker and congressman
- Alva Belmont, socialite, woman's suffragist
- Oliver Belmont, son of August Belmont
- Pete Bostwick, standard oil heir, tennis champion
- David Brooks, founder of DHB Industries (largest military armor supplier)
- F. Ambrose Clark, equestrian, heir to Singer Sewing Machine Co.
- Alfred I. du Pont, member of DuPont family
- Herman Duryea, thoroughbred race horse owner and breeder
- Herman Edwards, Kansas City Chiefs coach
- Robert Entenmann, Entenmann's heir, thoroughbred horse owner
- William Entenmann, founder of Entenmann's bakery products
- Alan Fortunoff, president and CEO of Fortunoff Department Store
- Max Fortunoff, founder and chairman of Fortunoff Department Store
- A. Conger Goodyear, president of the Museum of Modern Art (NYC)
- Victoria Gotti, daughter of John Gotti, reality television star, author
- Margarita Grace, Grace Shipping heiress
- C.Z. Guest, socialite, Truman Capote swan, celebrity gardener, author
- Cornelia Guest, socialite, "Deb of the Decade" (1980s), author
- Winston F. Guest, member of Phipps family, polo champion
- Thomas Hastings, architect
- Rolan Grant, Global Investor
- Frederick Hicks, congressman, diplomat
- Thomas Hitchcock, polo champion
- Edward Francis Hutton, founder of E. F. Hutton & Co., former husband of Marjorie Merriweather Post
- Matthew Ianniello, restaurateur
- James L. Kernochan, socialite
- John LeBoutillier, U.S. congressman
- Lenard Leeds, Anna Nicole Smith's former attorney
- Marvin Middlemark, inventor of/patent-holder for the "rabbit ears" television antenna
- Stanley Mortimer, Sr., father of Stanley Mortimer, Jr. (first husband of Babe Paley)
- Bess Myerson, Miss America (1945)
- Nas, rapper
- William Olsten, founder of leading global employment agency, the Olsten Corporation
- Angel Penna, Sr., thoroughbred horse trainer
- Murray Pergament, founder of Pergament Home Centers
- John Shaffer Phipps, director of U.S. Steel and W. R. Grace & Co.
- Lillian Bostwick Phipps, socialite, thoroughbred horse stable owner
- Ogden Phipps, Carnegie Steel heir, tennis champion, philanthropist
- Leonard Pines, owner of Hebrew National
- Eben Wright Pyne, director of LILCO and W. R. Grace & Co., senior VP of Citigroup
- John Shalam, CEO of Audiovox
- Igor Sikorsky, airplane developer and first major producer of helicopters
- David Simon, CEO of Simon Property Group
- Howard Stern, entertainer
- Beatrice Straight, member of Whitney family, actress
- Willard Dickerman Straight, banker, diplomat, co-founder of The New Republic magazine
- Seabury Tredwell, future owner of what is now the Merchant's House Museum in Manhattan
- Gloria Vanderbilt, Vanderbilt family heiress, clothing and perfume designer
- Anthony Westreich, President and CEO Monday Properties, current owner of the Helmsley Building and other notable NYC realty
- Electra Havemeyer Webb, collector, philanthropist, founder of the Shelburne Museum
- William Collins Whitney, founder of the Whitney family, financier, U.S. Cabinet member, thoroughbred stable owner
- Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, Vanderbilt family and Whitney family heir, financier, philanthropist
- Dorothy Payne Whitney, Whitney family heiress, co-founder of The New Republic magazine and the Dartington School
- Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, Vanderbilt family heiress, founder of the Whitney Museum of American Art
- Harry Payne Whitney, member of Whitney family, thoroughbred horse breeder
- Marylou Whitney, socialite, philanthropist, thoroughbred stable owner
- Charles E. Wilson, president of General Motors, U.S. Cabinet member
- Robert Winthrop, member of the Dudley-Winthrop family, banker, philanthropist (Winthrop University hospital)
- Louis Wolfson, financier, thoroughbred horse owner
- Raphael Yakoby, creator of Hpnotiq
- Alexei Yashin, professional hockey player, New York Islanders
Entertainment
Film
- 8mm (1999), starring Nicolas Cage: the home of the wealthy widow, Mrs. Carter
- The Age of Innocence (1993), starring Daniel Day-Lewis: the scenes depicting May Welland (Winona Ryder)'s Floridian mansion were actually shot in Old Westbury
- American Gangster (2007), starring Denzel Washington: Dominic Cattano's house
- Arthur (1981): the mansion that Arthur (Dudley Moore) lives in
- The Associate (1996): Whoopi Goldberg's character Ayers attends an Old Westbury house party dressed as Cutty (a man) for the first time
- Bernard and Doris (2008): the Phipps' estate used for the Doris Duke (played by Susan Sarandon) mansion in Newport, Rhode Island
- Captain Valedor (2006): filmed in an Old Westbury home and backyard
- Cruel Intentions (1999): the home of Kathryn (Sarah Michelle Gellar) and Sebastian's (Ryan Phillippe's) Aunt Helen on Long Island, where Annette (Reese Witherspoon) is living
- The Curse of the Jade Scorpion (2001) by Woody Allen: scenes shot at Old Westbury gardens and mansion
- He Got Game (1998) by Spike Lee, starring Denzel Washington: scenes filmed in an Old Westbury home's indoor basketball court
- Hitch (2005), starring Will Smith and Eva Mendes: Allegra Cole's house
- Love Story (1970), starring Ali MacGraw and Ryan O'Neal: the home of Oliver's wealthy father
- The Manchurian Candidate (2004): the Phipps' estate used for the home of Eleanor Shaw (played by Meryl Streep)
- North by Northwest (1959) by Alfred Hitchcock: Townsend’s home, where Roger Thornhill (Cary Grant) is taken after being kidnapped
- Reversal of Fortune (1990), starring Glenn Close and Jeremy Irons: the Knole estate used for interiors of the Sunny von Bülow mansion
- To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar (1995), starring Wesley Snipes and Patrick Swayze: film's final scene
- Wolf (1994): the country home of Laura (Michelle Pfeiffer) where Jack Nicholson's character first becomes a wolf, which appears on the DVD cover
Television
- Growing Up Gotti A&E Network reality series about life in Victoria Gotti's Old Westbury home.
References