Rockland Secrets · Hamlet
Monsey is a hamlet, not a town or a village. Rockland has 5 towns and zero cities. Villages have their own mayor; hamlets are run by the town. Monsey never formed a village, so it is still a hamlet.
64 sec · Rockland Secrets
Monsey isn't a town. Neither is New City. 🗺️
Rockland has 5 towns and zero cities.
Villages have their own mayor. Hamlets are run by the town.
Pomona? Split between Ramapo and Haverstraw.
It decides your taxes, your zoning, even who plows your street.
Map data: U.S. Census Bureau (2023 cartographic boundaries). Music: "Limit 70" by Kevin MacLeod (public domain).
68 sec · Rockland Secrets
Why does Rockland have so many little villages? 🏘️
In the 1840s, Rockland was all farms. Then the Erie Railroad came through Suffern, and New York City was suddenly a train ride away.
Wherever the train stopped, life showed up. Suffern became a village in 1896, Spring Valley in 1902.
Then in 1967, Pomona neighbors said "not here" to apartments on land meant for one-acre homes, and formed their own village to make their own rules.
Wesley Hills, Chestnut Ridge, Montebello and Kaser followed. New City and Monsey never did. They're still hamlets.
"Americana" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), CC BY 4.0
Public domain: "American Farm Scenes No. 1" (Fanny Palmer for N. Currier, 1853) & "The Express Train" (Currier & Ives, 1870), Library of Congress; Suffern station (James E. Bailey, c.1910); Spring Valley Erie station postcard (1910). Map: © OpenStreetMap contributors
Monsey
Taxes, schools, zoning and what homes are selling for. Moshe will text you back.
