Pittsford, New York
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ZIP Code | 14534 |
Area code | 585 |
FIPS code | 36-055-58365 |
Website | www.townofpittsford.org |
Pittsford is an incorporated
The Town of Pittsford (formerly part of the town of Northfield) was settled in 1789 and incorporated in 1796. The Village of Pittsford was incorporated in 1827. It was named by
The Erie Canal passes through the town.
Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 23.4 square miles (60.6 km2), of which 23.2 square miles (60.1 km2) is land and 0.2 square mile (0.5 km2) (0.81%) is water.
The Town of Pittsford is located in the southeastern portion of
History
The town is situated within the region subject to the
In 1788, Massachusetts abandoned its claim to this region in favor of New York. Oliver Phelps and Nathaniel Gorham of Connecticut settled with the state of Massachusetts for a title of land in western New York. On July 8, 1788, Oliver and Nathaniel met with the Senecas and signed the Treaty of Buffalo Creek at Geneseo in Livingston County where the Indians gave up their title. The District of Northfield was formed in Ontario County in 1792. This became the Town of Northfield in 1796. What is now the Village of Pittsford was settled the same year. As Northfield, which was renamed Boyle in 1808 and again to Smallwood in 1813, was subdivided in the following years, a final split formed the towns of Pittsford and Brighton in 1814.[5]
The completion of the Erie Canal in 1825 led to increased development of the various towns in Western New York along its route. Proximity to Rochester via canal and the Genesee River proved beneficial to the village of Pittsford too.
The
The Adsit Cobblestone Farmhouse, Cole Cobblestone Farmhouse, Gates-Livermore Cobblestone Farmhouse, Mendon Cobblestone Academy, Mendon Presbyterian Church, Miller–Horton–Barben Farm, Sheldon Cobblestone House, Stewart Cobblestone Farmhouse, and Whitcomb Cobblestone Farmhouse are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.[6]
Demographics
Census | Pop. | Note | %± |
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1820 | 1,582 | — | |
1830 | 1,832 | 15.8% | |
1840 | 1,983 | 8.2% | |
1850 | 2,061 | 3.9% | |
1860 | 2,028 | −1.6% | |
1870 | 1,974 | −2.7% | |
1880 | 2,236 | 13.3% | |
1890 | 2,129 | −4.8% | |
1900 | 2,373 | 11.5% | |
1910 | 3,634 | 53.1% | |
1920 | 4,614 | 27.0% | |
1930 | 7,192 | 55.9% | |
1940 | 7,741 | 7.6% | |
1950 | 9,413 | 21.6% | |
1960 | 15,156 | 61.0% | |
1970 | 25,058 | 65.3% | |
1980 | 26,743 | 6.7% | |
1990 | 24,497 | −8.4% | |
2000 | 27,219 | 11.1% | |
2010 | 29,405 | 8.0% | |
2020 | 30,617 | 4.1% | |
U.S. Decennial Census[7] 2020[3] |
As of the
There were 9,448 households, out of which 37.1% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 70.4% were married couples living together, 5.5% had a female householder with no husband present, and 22.3% were non-families. Of all households, 19.1% were made up of individuals, and 9.5% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.65 and the average family size was 3.05.
In the town, the population was spread out, with 25.4% under the age of 18, 9.4% from 18 to 24, 22.1% from 25 to 44, 27.3% from 45 to 64, and 15.9% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 41 years. For every 100 females, there were 87.6 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 84.0 males.
The median income for a household in the town was $109,344, and the median income for a family was $119,509.
Pittsford has the highest average household income in New York State north of the
Greenprint
In 1996 the Town of Pittsford adopted its Greenprint Plan to preserve open space from the encroaching development that had taken so much of the town's countryside since the 1960s. The Greenprint involved the town's purchase of development rights to what was then two-thirds of Pittsford's remaining farmland. Initiated and successfully carried through by Supervisor William A. Carpenter, with passage of the Greenprint, Pittsford became the first town in the State of New York to save open space by purchasing development rights. In the years since, Pittsford's Greenprint has been recognized nationally and remains a frequently-cited example of successful open space preservation.
Education
Public schools are administered by the Pittsford Central School District.
The District has received the New York State Governor's Excelsior Award for quality.[12] It costs $13,900 per year to educate a Pittsford student. Barker Road Middle School and Calkins Road Middle School have also received an award in 2006 and 2009 as one of the national "Schools to Watch".[12][13]
The District has two high schools, Pittsford Sutherland and Pittsford Mendon. Sutherland plays its athletics as the Knights while Mendon students are known as the Vikings. In sports for in which the two high schools combine to form a single team, such as football and lacrosse, they are known as the Panthers. The two schools have a long-standing rivalry in basketball, culminating with the annual Rainbow Classic game held at the University of Rochester. The Rainbow Classic is an annual fundraiser to support Golisano Children's Hospital. The Rainbow Classic was created in memory of Katelyn Pasley, who was treated at the Golisano Children's Hospital before she died. In addition, when Ryan McCluski died in 2004 after treatment at the hospital, the Pasley and McCluski families joined together to turn the tragedies into something positive for the community. The event has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for Golisano Children's Hospital. Adding to the many successful sports teams in Pittsford, NY, the Pittsford Mendon Vikings soccer team has a strong tradition, holding the New York State record of seven state championships.[14] Pittsford's swimming program is ranked overall 22nd in the nation, with girls being ranked 12th and having won 14 straight sectional championships, and boys being ranked 22nd, having won 13 straight titles.
The District has renovated many of its schools and built some entirely new facilities. In 2006, it completed work on Calkins Road Middle School, a middle school for students that will be attending Sutherland High School. The other middle school is Barker Road.
The Pittsford Central School District also operates five elementary schools, Jefferson, Park, Thornell, Mendon Center, and Allen Creek. They are all named for the roads on which they're located.
Pittsford is home to Allendale Columbia School, a leading independent, co-educational college preparatory school for students in grades Nursery through 12. Allendale offers a combined interscholastic sports program in Grades 7-12 with The Harley School, also a Nursery - 12 independent school in the neighboring town of Brighton. The Harley-Allendale Columbia teams are affiliated with the New York State Public High School Athletic Association, Section V and the Finger Lakes Athletic Association.
Pittsford is also home to St. Louis School, a Roman Catholic school offering a program from preschool to grade 6, operated by the St. Louis Parish in Pittsford.
Two colleges are located in Pittsford:
The Rochester Japanese School (RJS; ロチェスター日本語補習校 Rochesutā Nihongo Hoshūkō), a
Media
The Brighton-Pittsford Post was Pittsford's local weekly newspaper and was in print since 1942. As of 2021, it apparently has ceased publication.[16][17]
Industry and commerce
Pittsford's access to the Erie Canal was the main driver of commerce in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Some of the old buildings and barns on the canal have been converted into restaurants, cafes and shops. Concerts, boat tours, and other events highlight this area in the warmer months.
Two large malls,
Pittsford is home to five country clubs: Oak Hill Country Club, Irondequoit Country Club, Monroe Golf Club, Country Club of Rochester, and Locust Hill Country Club.
The Pittsford Chamber of Commerce works with businesses in the Town and Village of Pittsford.
Parks
Pittsford has 11 town parks within its borders. Great Embankment and Thornell Farm Park include several athletic fields, while Lock 32 and the Erie Canal trail offer a look at the historic double lock. The Isaac Gordon Nature Park offers hiking trails and cross-country skiing. Two Monroe County parks can also be found in Pittsford: Powder Mills Park and Mendon Ponds Park. Powder Mill has a ski lift and a creek that is popular with trout fishermen, while Mendon Ponds includes a vast trail system and unique geology.
Sports
Professional golf regularly comes to Pittsford. From 1977 through 2014, the LPGA Championship was held in the town, at Locust Hill Country Club for all but the last year, when the tournament was held at Monroe Golf Club. Oak Hill Country Club, located in Pittsford, hosted the 1995 Ryder Cup, the 1956, 1968 and 1989 United States Opens and the 1980, 2003, 2013 and 2023 PGA Championships. The Xerox Classic was a golf tournament on the Nationwide Tour from 2005 to 2008 played in August at Irondequoit Country Club, also in Pittsford.
The NFL Buffalo Bills hold their summer training camp each August at St. John Fisher College.
The University Athletic Association is based in Pittsford. Sports teams of both Pittsford high schools and the Harley-Allendale Columbia teams are regularly featured in the weekly Brighton-Pittsford Post.
Agriculture
Before the onset of rapid suburban development in the 1950s, Pittsford was a largely agricultural community with a distinct rural character, home to many family-owned farms. Remaining farms today include the Knickerbocker farm on Knickerbocker Road in the southeast part of town, where the family has been growing corn, wheat and other crops for more than 150 years. Other significant family farms still operating include the Hopkins Farm on Clover Street, the Powers Farm behind the Village, the Willard Farm and the Sweeney Farm. Pittsford's Greenprint plan, described above, in 1996 preserved for future generations to come two-thirds of the remaining farmland in the Town. The Town government remains committed to using planning techniques with a view toward conserving open space for the future.
Government
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The town is governed by an elected Town Supervisor and four elected members of the Town Board. The current Town Supervisor is William A. Smith, Jr., first elected in November 2013.
Current members of the Town Board are Naveen Havannavar, Cathy Koshykar, Kim Taylor, and Stephanie Townsend.
Officers appointed by the Supervisor and Town Board include the Town Clerk, Renee McQuillan and the Commissioner of Public Works, Paul Schenkel.
Town Justices are John Bernacki, re-elected in 2021, and Michael Ansaldi, elected in 2020.
Name | Tenure | Name | Tenure | Name | Tenure | ||
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Silas Nye | 1796–1797 1799 |
William C. Rawley | 1854 | Paul M. Spiegel | 1966–1987 | ||
Noah Norton | 1798 | Thomas Wilcox | 1857 | Margaret Freeman | 1988–1993 | ||
Ezra Patterson | 1800–1804 1806–1807 1811 1814 |
Isaac Sutherland | 1858 | William A. Carpenter | 1994–November 2012 | ||
Augustus Griswold | 1805 | Daniel Kingsley | 1859–1860 1863 |
Sandra J. Zutes | Appointed to vacancy 12/2012-12/2013 | ||
William McKinstry | 1808 | Jarvis Lord | 1861 | William A. Smith, Jr. | January 2014–present | ||
Caleb Hopkins | 1809 | Nathan K. Welch | 1864 | ||||
Stephen Lusk | 1810 1826–1828 |
Patrick Malone | 1865–1872 1879 | ||||
Samuel Spafford | 1812–1813 | Francis A. Scherer | 1873–1874 | ||||
Nathan Nye | 1815–1816 | George A. Goss | 1875–1877 1880 1888–1898 | ||||
Samuel Fall | 1817 | Samuel H. Stone | 1878 1884–1885 | ||||
Simon Stone III | 1818–1825 | J.M. Wiltse | 1881–1883 | ||||
Nathan Calhoun | 1829–1832 1838–1839 |
Thomas Spiegel | 1886–1887 | ||||
John Armstrong | 1833–1834 | Burton N. Wiltse | 1898–1899 | ||||
Ephraim Goss | 1835–1836 1847–1848 1855 |
Charles G. Schoen | 1899–1903 | ||||
Solomon Stone | 1837 1843–1845 1856 |
Jared W. Hopkins | 1904–1909 1925–1931 | ||||
Marvin Hopkins | 1840 1842 1846 1850 1862 |
George A. Hicks | 1910–1925 | ||||
Ira Bellows | 1841 | Howard R. Bacon | 1932–1933 | ||||
Wales M. Huntington | 1849 | Charles H. Westerman | 1934–1943 | ||||
Elias Matthews | 1851 | Edward D. Seward | 1944–1959 | ||||
Horace Wheeler | 1852–1853 | F. Ross Zornow | 1960–1965 |
Emergency response
Access to emergency services is obtained by dialing
The Pittsford Volunteer Fire Department, staffed by volunteers, provides fire protection, rescue, and non-transport emergency medical services for the town. There are two fire stations, one of which is located in the village.
The Pittsford Volunteer Ambulance provides
Notable people
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- Johnny Antonelli, Major League Baseball (MLB) pitcher who won the 1954 World Series with the New York Giants, lived in Pittsford after retiring.[18]
- Charles August, businessman and founder of Monro Muffler Brake[19]
- Tyson Beckford, model and actor, attended Pittsford Mendon High School
- Paige Conners (born 2000), Israeli-American pairs figure skater who competed at the 2018 Winter Olympics with skating partner, Evgeni Krasnopolski, representing Israel.
- Mary Therese Friel, Miss New York USA 1979 and Miss USA 1979.
- John Curran, film director[20]
- Gossip Girl
- Steve Gadd, jazz drummer, born in Irondequoit, New York, attended high school in Pittsford
- Teddy Geiger, pop musician and songwriter
- Ephraim Goss (1806–1877), lawyer and state senator[21]
- Higgs Bosonin 1964
- Carl Hausman (born 1953), author, journalist, and educator
- Mike Jones, Major League Baseball player
- David Lanz, Grammy-nominated New Age pianist[22]
- Christopher Lasch, historian, moralist, and social critic
- Henry Lomb, co-founder of Bausch & Lomb Company
- Chuck Mangione, jazz musician
- Pamela Melroy, astronaut, lived in Pittsford as a child
- Danny Mendick, professional baseball player
- Kaitlin Monte, USO Show Troupe, Miss New York 2011
- Cathy Morse, professional golfer
- Adam Podlesh, professional football player[23]
- Henrik Rummel, Olympic athlete, won a bronze medal at the 2012 London Olympic Games
- Pam Sherman, Gannett columnist known as The Suburban Outlaw
- Life With Derek
- Abby Wambach, soccer player, grew up in Pittsford
- Mando-popsinger-songwriter, previously lived in Pittsford
- Gerald B. Zornow (1916–1984), Chairman of Eastman Kodak Co, grew up in Pittsford
- Magnus Sheffield, professional cyclist, born in Pittsford
Communities and locations in the Town of Pittsford
- Cartersville" a location on the Erie Canal on NY 96, home to the Cartersville Guard Gate.
- East Rochester" most of the Town/Village of East Rochester is near the northeast town line on Routes 31F and 153.
- Pittsford" The Village of Pittsford is centrally located in the town, on Routes 96 (Main Street) and 31 (State Street).
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- ^ United States Census Bureau, "Pittsford town, Monroe County, New York: 2006-2008 American Community Survey 3-Year Estimates"
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- ^ "NEW YORK: Essential Elements: Schools-to-Watch (EE: STW) Program", Schools to Watch website.
- ^ "Records/Boys Soccer". NEW YORK STATE PUBLIC HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION. Retrieved June 3, 2023.
- ^ "Home page." Rochester Japanese School. Retrieved on April 1, 2015. "415 Thornell Rd. Pittsford, NewYork 14534 Christ Clarion Presbyterian Church of Pittsford"
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