East Syracuse, New York
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The Village of East Syracuse, a suburb of the City of Syracuse is located in the Town of De Witt in eastern Onondaga County, New York. As of the 2000 U.S. Census, the village had a population of 3,178.
Geography
East Syracuse is located at (43.064516, -76.070143)[Geographic references#1GR1]. The Village center is at Manlius and North Center Streets.According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 4.1 km² (1.6 mi²), all land.
Demographics
As of the census[Geographic references#2GR2] of 2000, there were 3,178 people, 1,393 households, and 742 families residing in the village. The population density was 776.6/km² (2,015.0/mi²). There were 1,503 housing units at an average density of 367.3/km² (953.0/mi²). The racial makeup of the village was 95.06% White, 1.45% African American, 1.01% Native American, 0.25% Asian, 0.09% from other races, and 2.14% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.16% of the population.There were 1,393 households out of which 30.1% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 30.1% were married couples living together, 15.8% had a female householder with no husband present, and 46.7% were non-families. 40.2% of all households were made up of individuals and 16.8% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.28 and the average family size was 3.09.
In the village the population was spread out with 27.0% under the age of 18, 7.9% from 18 to 24, 30.4% from 25 to 44, 19.1% from 45 to 64, and 15.6% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 36 years. For every 100 females there were 90.6 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 86.0 males.
The median income for a household in the village was $28,703, and the median income for a family was $34,293. Males had a median income of $34,405 versus $24,875 for females. The per capita income for the village was $17,066. About 14.3% of families and 14.7% of the population were below the poverty line, including 17.9% of those under age 18 and 11.4% of those age 65 or over.
History
The settlement, originally named Messina, grew up along the northern edge of the Erie Canal near Headson's Landing, a busy canal port with the only bridge to cross the canal east of downtown Syracuse for ten miles. In the middle of the nineteenth century the Messina Plank Road (now NYS Route 290) was built from Messina east to Manlius Center and the canal port there. One of the largest venetian blind factories in the New World operated in Messina in the late nineteenth century.In the 1870's, the main line of the New York Central Railroad was built through the northern part of Messina, and the DeWitt Railyards complex, one of the busiest in the world in its day, stretched from Messina five miles east to Minoa. During most of the nineteenth century the larger part of the hamlet was south of the railroad yards, but as the population grew with rail workers, housing expanded to the north. In the 1960's, Interstate Route 690 was built through the southern part of the Village between the railroad and Erie Blvd, which was built over part of the old canal. Now only a small portion of the original settlement south of the railroad remains, including about 100 of the Village's 1200 dwelling units.
During the boom following construction of the railroad, the name East Syracuse began to replace Messina. That name was chosen for the new village when it was incorporated in 1881. At that time the Village thrived due to its access to transportation. The railroad was the new powerhouse, but the canal remained viable, with Headson's Landing still a busy port. The northeastern corner of the Headson's Landing Bridge was the original southwestern corner of the Village.
Since then, the canal has gone, paved over for a thoroughfare, and the railroad sees only a portion of its former business. As the interstate system and other high speed roads have turned the all day trip of the nineteenth century into an hours's drive, East Syracuse has become fully a suburb of Syracuse.
East Syracuse is home to Bristol Labs, a division of Bristol-Myers Squibb. Formerly the world's largest source of penicillin, production was recently ended there due to the less expensive production of this drug overseas. Bristol Labs now makes several newer drugs, along with housing a state-of-the-art ramp-up facility designed to quickly adapt to make moderate quantities of new drugs for clinical trials.
East Syracuse played another role in making the world a little bit smaller in 1996, when Village Trustee Jason M Rhoades, a twenty year old college student and management intern at NYNEX (now Verizon), made history by being the first legislator in the world to participate in a governmental meeting by telecom from a business trip in Massachusetts. Rhoades was also the Village's youngest Trustee when elected in 1995 at the age of nineteen, and one of the youngest people ever elected to any municipal office in New York State. In 2001, he became the Village's youngest Mayor at the age of twenty-five.
A recent list of the Mayors of East Syracuse includes:
- Michael "Mickey" Wrenn (Progressive Party) 1961-65;
- Carl Sterling (Peoples Party) 1965-70;
- Ronald A Russell Jr (Peoples Party) 1970-73, 1975-1979, 1981-1985, 1997-2001;
- Fred Ray (Citizens Party) 1973-75;
- Richard Benack (Citizens Party) 1979-81;
- Richard Rhoades (Citizens Party) 1985-87;
- Peter Higgins (Peoples Party) 1987-95;
- Donald E Reichert (Citizens Party) 1995-97;
- Jason M Rhoades (Citizens Party) 2001-03;
- Lorene McCoy Dadey (Peoples Party) 2003-05;
- Tony Albanese (Citizens Party) 2005- .
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