Location:
This micro cache is hidden in the pocket park on Columbus Ave. Please bring your own writing implement!
About the Library:
In September, 1912, the Women’s Club of Eastchester discussed their plans for the support of the establishment of the Tuckahoe Library, through the formation of a Library Association. They proposed a membership fee of $1 per member and hoped “every household in Tuckahoe will be represented with at least one Membership in the association.” The money they raised would be matched up to a certain amount by New York State. Bronxville News reported in February that: “The rooms in the new village hall will be ready for occupancy by about March 18, 1913.” The Tuckahoe Library served the community well in the original Village Hall in Depot Square for 65 years.
The new Tuckahoe Public Library and Community Center were funded by an $800,000 Federal Community Development Block Grant from HUD (Housing & Urban Development) that covered the construction, solar, and some of the furnishings for the library. Mayor Phil White was instrumental in acquiring the grant that at that time, when small communities could directly apply, receive, and control projects of their own.
Tom Marra remembers: "My dad Al Marra a lifelong Tuckahoe resident was the Project Supt on the construction of the library. He orchestrated the build in the field from start to finish."
Gloria Goldreich Horowitz wrote for the New York Times Sunday, January 1, 1978 a story entitled: Tuckahoe Losing Storied Library. In it she laments the imminent move to the current site: “It will mean, of course, that the large room in the Village Hall, with its scarred wood tables and wide-armed oak reading chairs, its rows of narrow bookcases and scuffed linoleum floors, will be closed. The readers of Tuckahoe will have a new library—more stream-lined, more convenient—but there are those of us who will always be wistful for a room heavy with history.” But the new library, has not disappointed. It’s making its own storied history.
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