Piermont, New York facts for kids

Piermont
Piermont
	Village
	A short section of Piermont's long pier, the village's most prominent physical feature
	; Location in Rockland County and the state of New York.
Country	United States
State	New York
County	Rockland
Town	Orangetown
Incorporated	1859
Area
• Total	1.1 sq mi (3.0 km2)
• Land	0.7 sq mi (1.7 km2)
• Water	0.5 sq mi (1.2 km2)
Elevation	95 ft (29 m)
Population (2010)
• Total	2,510
• Density	2,280/sq mi (837/km2)
Time zone	Eastern (EST) (UTC-5)
• Summer (DST)	EDT (UTC-4)
ZIP code	10968
Area code(s)	845 Exchange: 359
FIPS code	36-57749
GNIS feature ID	960362
Website	http://piermont-ny.org/

Piermont is a village incorporated in 1847 in Rockland County, New York, United States. Piermont is in the town of Orangetown, located north of the hamlet of Palisades, east of Sparkill, and south of Grand View-on-Hudson, on the west bank of the Hudson River. The population was 2,510 at the 2010 census. Woody Allen set The Purple Rose of Cairo, a fictional film within The Purple Rose of Cairo (1984) in Piermont.

The village's name, in earlier years known as Tappan Landing, was given by Dr. Eleazar Lord, author, educator, deacon of the First Protestant Dutch Church and first president of the Erie Railroad. It was derived by combining a local natural feature – Tallman Mountain – and the most prominent man-made feature of the village – the long Erie Railroad pier.

History

Piermont Pier, south of the Tappan Zee Bridge

Sparkill Creek cuts through the north end of the Hudson Palisades, providing easy access to the fertile valley of the unnavigable upper Hackensack River. "Tappan Landing," "Tappan Slote", or "Taulman Landing," as the little port on the Hudson River was called, thus became the original port for southern Orange County. The valley in the Palisades created by the creek also provided a way for the Erie Railroad to easily reach the Hudson, and the railroad built a long pier in 1839 as its principal terminal. The pier and the nearby mountains suggested a new name for the community, which was incorporated as a village in 1850. During World War II the pier was the ferry terminal to which troops from Camp Shanks marched and were then transported to New York Port of Embarkation piers for transfer to overseas transports bound for the European Theater. A memorial plaque notes that history at the pier.

Late in the 20th century, Piermont became a modest tourist attraction for day-trippers from New York City, particularly those bicycling on Bike Route 9.

Piermont Station

Piermont Railroad Station, located on Ash Street, is a Victorian Stick style structure built in 1873 which served as Piermont's stop for the former Erie Railroad line, which went from Nyack, New York, to Jersey City, New Jersey. The Erie Railroad line stopped running through Piermont in 1966. The rail branch was abandoned in the 1970s as a result of railroad consolidation.

The exterior of the building was renovated to its original architecture and French gray, light-green and oxide-red color scheme in 2006 by the Piermont Historical Society. They replaced the roof and installed a new 9-foot (2.7 m) cupola. The train station was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.

Piermont Fire Department

Piermont Fire Department, Rockland County department 13, is an all-volunteer fire department, providing fire, EMS, and water rescue services, and is located on Main Street. Piermont is one of the few districts in Rockland County having a Dive Rescue team, providing water rescue services from the Tappan Zee Bridge to the Palisades.

Piermont hand-cranked drawbridge

Sparkill Creek Drawbridge (1994)

Renovated Drawbridge (2012)

The Piermont hand-cranked drawbridge, also known as the Sparkill Creek Drawbridge, was originally built in 1880 by the King Iron Bridge Company, a company from Cleveland, Ohio, that constructed more than 10,000 bridges over six decades. The hand-cranked drawbridge is used as a pedestrian walkway providing a link to Tallman Mountain State Park. This bridge is the only hand-cranked drawbridge in Rockland County and perhaps in the United States. Back in the day, fishermen on sloops heading up and down the creek got out of their vessel, cranked up the drawbridge, sailed across, got out of their vessel and cranked down the drawbridge for vehicular traffic. The whole bridge was dismantled piece by piece, sent off-site for restoration and restored to its original state after a complete forensic analysis. Allan King Sloan, the great-great-grandson of the company's founder, provided some of the information that is on the historical marker nearby and attended the dedication ceremony on August 7, 2009.

Geography

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According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 1.1 square miles (2.8 km²), of which 0.7 square miles (1.8 km²) is land and 0.5 square miles (1.3 km²), or 41.74%, is water.

Piermont is on the west bank of the Hudson River, south of the Tappan Zee Bridge.

Demographics

Historical population
Census	Pop.	%±
1870	1,703	—
1880	1,369	−19.6%
1890	1,219	−11.0%
1900	1,153	−5.4%
1910	1,380	19.7%
1920	1,600	15.9%
1930	1,765	10.3%
1940	1,876	6.3%
1950	1,897	1.1%
1960	1,906	0.5%
1970	2,386	25.2%
1980	2,269	−4.9%
1990	2,163	−4.7%
2000	2,607	20.5%
2010	2,510	−3.7%
Est. 2015	2,573	2.5%
U.S. Decennial Census

The Hudson at Piermont (1852)
by Jasper Francis Cropsey

As of the census of 2000, there were 2,607 people, 1,189 households, and 672 families residing in the village. The population density was 3,878.9 people per square mile (1,502.3/km²). There were 1,320 housing units at an average density of 1,964.0 per square mile (760.7/km²). The racial makeup of the village was 78.75% White, 4.72% Black, 0.19% Native American, 7.79% Asian, 5.49% from other races, and 3.07% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 11.62% of the population.

There were 1,189 households out of which 25.0% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 43.7% were married couples living together, 9.4% had a female householder with no husband present, and 43.4% were non-families. 35.5% of all households were made up of individuals and 6.4% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.19 and the average family size was 2.87.

In the village, the population was spread out with 19.2% under the age of 18, 6.4% from 18 to 24, 32.7% from 25 to 44, 30.5% from 45 to 64, and 11.2% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 40 years. For every 100 females there were 100.5 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 98.3 males.

The median income for a household in the village was $61,591, and the median income for a family was $89,846. Males had a median income of $50,659 versus $43,176 for females. The per capita income for the village was $43,731. About 3.0% of families and 9.0% of the population were below the poverty line, including 11.5% of those under age 18 and 4.4% of those age 65 or over.

Tourism

Shops and Galleries in Piermont, NY

Historical markers

Bogertown - 102 Paradise Avenue
Sneden House - 38 Paradise Avenue
Dederer Stone House or Stonehurst

Landmarks and places of interest

Piermont Erie Railroad station

Flywheel from old factory at Flywheel Park

Dederer Stone House or Stonehurst
Eleanor Stroud Park - A pond and small surrounding park next to Sparkill Creek and under the U.S. Route 9W viaduct. The park is named after a woman who lived near the pond on Ferdon Avenue. For decades she looked after the children who ice skated at the pond and served hot chocolate, coffee, hot dogs and cookies from a nearby shed. The pond is free to the public and open until 9 PM every day the green signal flag is posted.
William Ferdon House (NRHP)
First Reformed Church (NRHP)
Haddock's Hall - 300 Ferdon Avenue (NRHP)
House at 352 Piermont Avenue (NRHP)
Onderdonk House - 758 Piermont Avenue (NRHP)
Piermont Railroad Station - Ash Street (NRHP)
The Piermont Historical Society
Rockland Road Bridge- between Piermont & Ferdon Avenue. (NRHP)
Rockland Road Bridge Historic District (NRHP)
Sneden House - 38 Paradise Avenue
Sparkill Creek Drawbridge- Bridge Street (NRHP)
Swamp Church - Carteret Avenue (St Charles A. M. E. Zion Church) In 1865 the black community around the Slote attended the Swamp Church at Skunk Hollow pastored by "Reverend Billy" Thompson.
Happy Dog Gallery- 2 Roundhouse Rd, Piermont, NY- open to the public 845-365-0906