However, I prefer Washington Irving's interpretation of the origin of Tarrytown's name, in "The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow" which was published in the Sketch Book in 1820. This led to the area being known as Wheat Town, or Terve Town, which later became mispronounced as Tarrytown. Tarrytown soil was light and loamy which was ideal for growing cereals especially wheat. The first white settlers were Dutch and that they were farmers, fur trappers, and fishermen. Records show that the first residence in Tarrytown was built in 1645 however, the exact location is not known. Their principle settlement was at the foot of Church Street at place they called Alipconk,or the Place of Elms. They also trapped for fur and hides for clothing, and later traded these with the Dutch. They hunted the area for deer and black bear. They fished the Hudson for shad, oysters and other shellfish. They raised corn, squash, beans, and tobacco. The Weckquasgeeks were a friendly tribe that were closely related to the Wappinger Confederacy and further related to the Mohicans. The first residents of what eventually became Tarrytown were the Weckquaesgeeks Indians. It is a village of rolling hills, twenty-five miles north of New York City. "At the end of the day, it's about community safety and well-being, period.Situated on the eastern shore of the Hudson River, in an area called the Tappan Zee, (Tappan for the Tappan Indians who once lived in what is now Rockland County, and Zee meaning sea in the Dutch language), lies the village of Tarrytown, a village rich in history and of course, local legend. It's been spoken about amongst city departments and the mayor's office and it is very much a collaborative effort on who and what should be included and at that table to ultimately provide those services."īryden says there are a "lot of moving parts" with a venture like a new neighbourhood operations centre, and it could be 2024 before it is in operation. "It's very much in preliminary stages but it's on the table. Our stakeholders in this type of venture that have a say and should have a say on location and exactly what it is," Bryden said. "It's various community partners that, obviously, sort of live and work in the downtown core. Stephanie Plante told CTV News Ottawa on Saturday she would like to see a "hub" set up in the market area with police and OC Transpo special constables.īryden says police are working with various community and social services departments and community partners to discuss what should be included in the neighbourhood operations centre in the market or downtown area. Last week, business owners in the ByWard Market called on a city committee to increase security in the market area to address safety. It's with that extra presence that we hopefully deter and if not prevent a crime like that from even happening in the first place." "It's a proactive approach to essentially show a much more thick, obvious presence in the downtown core-ByWard Market area specifically. "Predominantly on the weekends, Thursday through to Sunday, we increase our presence in the market," Bryden said. Police have said it was a targeted shooting, and bystanders were wounded by gunfire.īryden says Ottawa police do step up patrols in the ByWard Market in the summer. It is something that is in the works."įour men were injured in a shooting on Clarence Street in the ByWard Market early Saturday morning. "It's to have all those services together, you know, literally under one roof is the vision. "It's another collaborative effect to put all the right services, all the right programs, all the right sort of skills and subject matter experts together as collectively and collaboratively as we possibly can to address what are very complex needs, predominantly, in the downtown core and the ByWard Market. "It is a bricks-and-mortar a forward-facing neighbourhood operations centre," Acting Supt. Now, police tell CTV News Ottawa "the ball is rolling" on plans to establish a new neighbourhood operations centre for police and social services to operate under one roof in the tourist area. Mayor Mark Sutcliffe campaigned on a promise to open a community resource centre in the ByWard Market, along with hiring 100 more officers over four years. The Ottawa Police Service is working on plans to set up a storefront police station in the ByWard Market, CTV News Ottawa has learned.Ī weekend shooting at an establishment on Clarence Street that left bystanders with gunshot wounds is the latest incident in the area where people feel unsafe.
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