I was a third generation Mamaroneck resident. My grandfather, Nathan Sirlin, built a lot of the Tudor style houses, some apartment buildings, and owned Sirlin’s Hardware - where Molly Malone’s is now. My brother, Norman Rosenblum, was recently a 4 term Mayor. I graduated from Bellows H.S. Class of 1954 - Mr. Devine was one of my wonderful teachers. Jacqueline McMichaels, whose husband owned the boatyard, was my Girl Scout Mariner leader. It was a fabulous place to grow up.
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It was a great place to grow up in the 60's early 70's, -my my father was the principal of Rye Neck High School. That was when you could actually afford to live there, though, on a teacher's pay. My childhood home, a spacious but relatively modest Victorian, just sold for close to a million dollars. A town with a lot to recommend it but not for the middle middle class any more, I don't think.
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I grew up in Mamaroneck, as did my mother. I had some of the same teachers as she did 22 years earlier. I was fortunate enough to have enjoyed some of the most amazing art teachers I've ever had; those who believed in me and prompted me to continue with my art and craft. Thanks always to Milo Dalbey, my first ceramics mentor. 41 years after first playing with clay at age nine I'm still a muddy girl (and making some money at it!). I can't afford to live near my beloved Harbor with its Kanzan Sakura trees, but I did plant one in my back yard when I moved to Peekskill in 2006.
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I grew up in greenhaven, a neighbor of Mamaroneck Village. my mother went to Mamaroneck high and I was married at St Thomas Episcopal church! I am so happy to see Walters hotdogs still thriving. what a treat!
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The very best thing about this beautiful community: its people! I moved from Bronxville to Mamaroneck 12 years ago, and my kids grew up here. It's a welcoming place, with active civic groups and inclusive local government. There's something for everyone, or plenty of privacy -- whatever your preference. Among my favorite life memories will be the many weekends spent at the harbor watching soccer, kickball, baseball and softball -- and meeting lifelong friends and supportive fellow parents with diverse interests. It's a wonderful place.
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Does the diversity include gay and lesbian people? No mention.
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I grew up in lovely Larchmont, went to Mamaroneck High School (class of 52), and while nowhere near the top of the class was admitted to and graduated from Swarthmore College eventually resulting in a wonderful teaching career at Georgia Tech. I loved MHS and my fellow students whom I now recognize as being a supportive and diverse group and continue to support the MHS far-seeing scholarship program.
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"It was on a Thursday that Jonathan and Ariel Treiber first saw the listing for the house in the village of Mamaroneck and fell in love. On Friday, they toured the property and made an offer. Over the weekend, knowing the market was competitive, they increased their bid twice. By Monday afternoon, despite 11 rival offers, the house was theirs."
And they had a family income of $400,000 per year.
Such a normal income for a 36 year old in "marketing analytics".
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@Yaj Apparently "diversity" doesn't include income diversity
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@David Waterston:
Well "diverse" here means the rich, and the extraordinarily rich. (Right, applies mostly to residents new to the town in the last 20 years.)
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Love the photographs especially the advertisements including those covering up the descriptions.
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Mamaroneck is a beautiful community with much diversity (at least by Westchester standards). Harbor Island Park is beautiful on a nice day. Also glad to see Walter's pictured in the slide show with this article!
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@David Westchester is about 50% white
I grew up in NYC and have lived in Mamaroneck for about a decade. It’s an amazing town and a great place to raise children. As the article notes, it’s a diverse community full of local shops and restaurants. It has a true community feel with pride in its schools and sports (Go Tigers!), and it’s its idyllic scenery. And an easy commute to NYC for work or weekend excusrions. Can’t say enough about Mamaroneck, it’s nice to see it get the attention and praise it deserves from the NYT.
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Those are surprisingly low SAT scores, aren't they? They're lower than mine, and I always felt ashamed of my scores. Are the higher scoring kids in private school. I ask seriously, as a guy who might raise kids in Rye. I think the average at my private school in Mass was probably closer to 670/650, and that was the the SAT from last century, which people say is more difficult. I knew a lot of kids who scored 1400+.
I want to live in Rye or Greenwich. I'm more of an inland guy, but the whole coast from Mamaroneck up to Cos Cob and beyond is lovely. It's not surprising that most homes seem to be around 3 million. It's not Yonkers.
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@richguy - if high test scores are important to you then Rye/Scarsdale/Bronxsville/Greenwhich indeed have higher averages. I can assure you the education at the HS level in Mamaroneck is top notch, with students going to Ivy’s and other top notch public colleges and private universities. But those other towns have less economic and social diversity, and consequently provide a more homogenous experience as a result IMO.
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In my HS years (MHS '90), there were multiple 1400 scores on SATs, and I have no reason to think much has changed. At the same time, Mamaroneck is more diverse than Rye, etc, and that's good. Case in point: last weekend, the classes of 88, 89 and 90 had a joint reunion, and there were attendees who were from very different backgrounds, who have had very different lives, who had a great time together. It really was, and hopefully still is, The Friendly Village.
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@Marc Acheson
I want my kids to go Ivy (or similar) and get into finance. I did the opposite myself. I smoked weed, listened to the Dead, cut class, dropped out of college, and finally got a PhD. I'll tell my kids graduate from Rice or Bates with a degree in Chem and then go smoke all the pot you want to.
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I grew up in an apartment above a restaurant next to Brewer's Hardware on the Boston Post Road. The restaurant was called the Harbor House when I was a child, then the Jonathan Seagull, and now I believe it's Bar Harbor. It had once been the grand waterfront home of my maternal great-grandparents, Dr. and Mrs. Matthew J. Hall. It was sold to Brewer's by my great-uncle in the 1950s and turned into a restaurant and three upstairs apartments. Our apartment had a sweeping view of the harbor and Harbor Island, where I learned to swim and spent countless days at the playground and beach. I graduated from Rye Neck High School and, although I no longer live in Mamaroneck, I can see on periodic visits that it remains virtually unchanged from the charming and idyllic waterfront community that it has been for many years. Places such as Sal's Pizza, Miller's Toys, and the Carvel stand have been happily frequented by many generations of locals.
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Yes, unchanged in many ways but I fear that the rampant development will change that. BTW thanks for the history of that building - didn't know about that.
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I grew up in Mamaroneck/Larchmont. First job was Derecktor shipyard summer of 87. Worked at Brewer's the next two summers. Overlapped with old man Brewer. Graduated MHS '90.
I ❤ Mamaroneck
(Do I know you?)
Marc Acheson
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My first job was Derecktor shipyard summer of '87. Then worked at Brewer's the next two summers, graduated MHS '90.
Do I know you?
I ❤ Mamaroneck
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I lived in Mamaroneck for 8 years, and I absolutely loved it. It is a beautiful, family oriented town.
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I've lived in Shore Acres for 16 years and I love it. Being a community on the water is special in and of itself. There are all kinds of people and many of us come together to support our kids sports teams. With sports being a big focus in the community, there is definitely a camaraderie that grows over the years. As a parent of kids in the Rye Neck school district, the school strives to stay cutting edge in terms of the array of classes they offer, especially in High School. I find the people warm and welcoming. It's a great place to live.
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"There, he produced black-and-white silent films like 'Way Down East,' starring Gish, and the Revolutionary War drama 'America,' featuring Barrymore and Carol Dempster."
It's lovely to think about those earlier "Hollywood" days and where "Hollywood" used to be located.
Ithaca, New York, was also a hotspot for film-making, as was Flatbush, Brooklyn. Mary Pickford's old house still sits on Ditmas Avenue. Quite beautiful -- and modest.
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