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35(6257(' 67$1'$5' 3(50,7 :+,7(3/$,161< Vol. V No. XXIX Thursday, July 28, 2011 :HVWFKHVWHU·V0RVW,QIOXHQWLDO:HHNO\ Christian Persecution MayorMayor ClintonClinton YoungYoung 3DJH Caught Red Handed Brain-Based Learning 3DJH Festival International du Blues de Tremblant 3DJH Not So Grim Reaper 3DJH BUSTED Fair Housing BUSTED 3DJH Integrity in Journalism 3DJH )`:HTAOLYRH7HNL Enablers of the Rich and Powerful Westchester’s Changing Demographics 3DJH Whites Soon to be a Minority Jaybird Flies )`9VILY[:JV[[7HNL 3DJH westchesterguardian.com PAGE 2 THE WESTCHESTER GUARDIAN THURSDAY, JULY 28, 2011 Of Significance FeatureSection Feature Section ...........................................................................2 Radio ........................................................................................2 Community Section ...................................................................4 Westchester’s Changing Demographics— Business ....................................................................................4 Calendar ...................................................................................4 Economics................................................................................5 Whites Soon to Be a Minority Higher Power ...........................................................................6 By ROBERT SCOTT Community ..............................................................................9 If you think census numbers are towns, many still with their original boundaries and Ed Koch Movie Reviews .........................................................9 of scholarly interest only to statisti- each nominally administered by a supervisor. Within Music .....................................................................................11 cians and demographers, you’ve got another think the towns, six cities and 20 villages were added, each coming. administered by a mayor. Three Westchester towns- Eye On Theatre .....................................................................12 Careful analysis of the 2010 Census results -Mount Kisco, Scarsdale and Harrison--are now in Community Theatre ..............................................................12 being dribbled out by the Census Bureau reveals a separate category described as a “town/village.” Government Section ...............................................................14 some startling and unanticipated trends. Administrative nomenclature can be down- The most notable statistic is the degree to which right confusing. For example, there’s a separate Housing .................................................................................14 Westchester’s population balance has been affected Ossining town and an Ossining village, a separate Infrastructure .........................................................................15 by international migration and high fertility rates Mamaroneck town and a Mamaroneck village, and Government ...........................................................................16 among minority groups, especially Hispanics. a separate Pelham town and a Pelham village, as well Investigation ...........................................................................16 What the Numbers Tell Us as a Pelham Manor village. Two villages are shared by towns: Briarcliff Manor is split between Ossining Law ........................................................................................17 Today, Hispanics are the fastest-growing popu- and Mount Pleasant, Mamaroneck between the OpEd Section ...........................................................................19 lation group in Westchester. In the 20 years between towns of Rye and Mamaroneck. 1990 and 2010, the county’s Latinos grew by an Westchester’s area is 500 square miles, 433 of Letters to the Editor ..............................................................19 astonishing 140 percent and Asians by 60 percent. Ed Koch Commentary ..........................................................20 which are land and 67 are water. At the time of the Hispanics constituted only nine percent of the 2010 Census, its population was 949,113. In order New York Civic ......................................................................22 county’s population in 1990. That number grew to of population size, Westchester’s six cities are Legal Notices ............................................................................23 16 percent in 2000, displacing blacks as the largest minority group. Another decade later, the coun- Continued on page 3 ty’s Latino population stands at an impressive 22 percent. Blacks increased by a mere five percent between ,/04,1.,3+ 1990 and 2010. (The Census Bureau accepts the #(,',3 designations Hispanic or Latino as equivalent, but $3-.(*$0(*$ 2 ()/,+!,0' '(0+$4/0 0(,+/ prefers the term black to African-American.) :HVWFKHVWHU·V0RVW,QIOXHQWLDO:HHNO\ In 1990, the number of residents identifying themselves as white--Westchester’s largest ethnic or racial group--constituted 79 percent of the county’s population. By 2010, the white population ,*-)$0$*$0., *XDUGLDQ1HZV&RUS 0.(/0 0$",2$. &$ dropped an unexpectedly large 22 percentage points. ,3$.%1)+$30. +/*(00$./ 32%R[ ,1. +#' )%',1.-.(*$0(*$ 2 ()/ Whites now comprise 57 percent of Westchester’s ,+!,0' +# 1HZ5RFKHOOH1HZ<RUN (./0",*$%(./0/$.2$# population. -$"( ) 0$/%,.#1" 0(,+ )5 $)(&(,1/51!)("%% (./5 6DP=KHUND3XEOLVKHU 3UHVLGHQW Some Westchester Basics (/"1//(,+51/("',3/5$ )0' $))+$//51)0("1)01. )+&)(/' On March 7, 1788, five years after the end of the ) +&1 &$ +#,0'$./ SXEOLVKHU#ZHVWFKHVWHUJXDUGLDQFRP Revolutionary War, Westchester County was created $/$.2$,3,+0 "0 2(#6' 1&'+$//4 +H]L$ULV(GLWRULQ&KLHI 9LFH3UHVLGHQW and divided into 20 towns. Today, it is made up of 19 ZK\WHGLWRU#JPDLOFRP RADIO $GYHUWLVLQJ Stephen Cerrato On the Level with Narog and Aris 1HZVDQG3KRWRV NEW ROCHELLE, NY – Stephen Cerrato, Yonkers City Council )D[ candidate vying to represent the 5th District is Richard Narog’s and Hezi Aris’ guest this Tuesday, July 26, 2011, on the On the Level radio show heard 3XEOLVKHGRQOLQHHYHU\0RQGD\ on the WVOX-1460 AM radio dial and on audio and visual streaming 3ULQWHGLWLRQGLVWULEXWHG7XHVGD\:HGQHVGD\ 7KXUVGD\ technology worldwide at www.WVOX.com from 10 – 11 a.m. For those who live and breathe radio and politics, listen to Hezi Aris on Good Morning *UDSKLF'HVLJQ:DWWHUVRQ6WXGLRV,QF Westchester with Bob Marrone when he and host Bob Marrone discuss all things Westchester at ZDWWHUVRQVWXGLRVFR 7: 37 a.m every Wednesday. Listeners and readers are invited to send a question to the co-hosts by directing email to [email protected] for possible use prior to any shows’ airing and even during the course of an interview. westchesterguardian.com THE WESTCHESTER GUARDIAN THURSDAY, JULY 28, 2011 PAGE 3 FEATURE Westchester’s Changing Demographics—Whites Soon to Be a Minority Continued from page 2 Native Americans make up an almost Yonkers (also the largest in area), New insignificant percentage of Westchester’s Rochelle, Mount Vernon, White Plains, population (0.1%). Recent news stories Peekskill (the smallest in area) and Rye. alleging that many Hispanics are describing Among Westchester’s towns, Bedford themselves on census forms as Native and Yorktown are the largest in area; Pelham American are not borne out by census results. is the smallest. Greenburgh is the most In 1990, Native Americans numbered 1,405; populous; Pound Ridge has the smallest by 2010, that figure had dropped to 1,141. population. Among villages, Port Chester is the most populous; Buchanan has the Population Density smallest population. Density of a community’s population is a function of lot size and the number of Population Distribution multiple dwellings. Overall, Westchester’s Realtors don’t like to admit it, but choice population density is 2,193 persons per of a community by house- or apartment- square mile. seekers is often based on two factors: the Mount Vernon is the most densely racial or ethnic complexion of a community populated city, followed by Yonkers and New and the strength of its school system. The Rochelle. Rye is the least densely populated latter figure, of course, is not measured by the city. Eastchester is the most densely popu- federal census. lated town, Pound Ridge the least dense. The “whitest” Westchester city is Rye, Among villages, Port Chester is the with an 85-percent white population. Among most densely populated, followed closely by towns, Pound Ridge (94%) and Lewisboro Tuckahoe. The latter’s 6,486 residents are (90%) are the leaders, closely followed by crammed into only six-tenths of a square Somers, North Salem and New Castle. mile, making it almost as densely populated Mamaroneck, North Castle, Eastchester and as the city of Yonkers. Yorktown also are towns with white popula- Other densely populated villages are tions of more than 80 percent. Pelham, Ossining and Bronxville. Briarcliff Among villages, Larchmont (88%) and Manor is the least densely populated village, Bronxville (87%) have the largest percentage trailed by Buchanan and Croton-on-Hudson. of whites. Pelham Manor, Briarcliff Manor, Irvington, Rye Brook and Croton-on- Population Growth Hudson also have white populations larger In 1900, Westchester was home to than 80 percent. 184,257 persons. One hundred years later, Hispanics are the leading minority in the its population had grown more than five- city of Peekskill, making up 37 percent of the fold. Much of this growth occurred in the population,