Profile for Ossining, New York, NY

Ossining is on the Hudson River

Former and merged names include:
· Hunters Landing
· Mount Pleasant
· Sing Sing

Settled by Dutch and French Huguenots in the late 1600s.

Sing Sing Prison was built here in 1825, by convicts brought in from Auburn Prison. The community, formerly called Sing Sing, changed its name to Ossining in 1901.

The prison's location - up the Hudson from New York - is the source of the idiom, "sent up the river."

Crime: The number of violent crimes recorded by the FBI in 2003 was 102. The number of murders and homicides was 0. The violent crime rate was 4.2 per 1,000 people.

Ossining received national attention for the 1953 execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who had been convicted of betraying U.S. military secrets to the Soviets.

Filming location for:
· 1997 movie, "In & Out"
· 1999 movie, "Analyze This"
· 2005 movie, "Hide and Seek"
· 2005 movie, "Broken Flowers"

Well-known residents have included:
· John L. Worden, rear admiral who commanded the Monitor in the 1862 battle against the Merrimac

Coffee: National and regional coffee companies with outlets here include Starbucks

Local festivals include:

• Teatown Fall Festival - Oct. 13, 2007

Nearby parks & recreation: Teatown Lake Reservation, Briarcliff-Peekskill Trailway

Historic sites and museums: Ossining Heritage Area Park Visitors Center, Old Croton Aqueduct, Maryknoll, Ossining Historical Society Museum

Support for libraries: Local government funding for the local library system, in fiscal years 2001-2002, was above the national average. (See library links below.)

Gays & lesbians
National index: 100
Local index: 183

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7% of Ossining residents report German ancestry, and 10% report Irish. For more info on local ancestry groups, see the Ossining ancestry & family history guide.

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At the time of the 2000 census, the per capita income in Ossining was $25,036, compared with $21,587 nationally.

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29% of Ossining residents age 25 and older have a bachelor's or advanced college degree.

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Ossining festival dates:

• Teatown Fall Festival - Oct. 13, 2007

Dates often change. Check with local tourism officials to be sure.

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Historic districts in Ossining include Downtown Ossining Historic District, Scarborough Historic District ... View historic districts

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Median rent in Ossining, at the time of the 2000 Census, was $810.   Monthly homeowner costs, for people with mortgages, were $1,912.

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Westchester County supported John Kerry in the 2004 presidential election. For more information, see our Ossining political report.

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The average commute time for Ossining workers is 32 minutes, compared with 26 minutes nationwide.

A total of 2 fatal motor vehicle accidents occurred in Ossining between 2001 and 2003, according to reports gathered by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

This is a rate of .8 fatal crashes per 10,000 population, which was lower than the national norm.

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