East View, New York
| Eastview, New York | |
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| Hamlet | |
One of dozens of office buildings in Eastview
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 Location of Eastview in New York
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| Coordinates: 41°04′53.4″N 73°49′45.5″W / 41.081500°N 73.829306°WCoordinates: 41°04′53.4″N 73°49′45.5″W / 41.081500°N 73.829306°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | New York |
| County | Westchester |
| Town | Mount Pleasant |
| Time zone | Eastern (EST) (UTC-5) |
| • Summer (DST) | EDT (UTC-4) |
| Area code(s) | 914 |
| GNIS feature ID | 972438 |
| Historic names | East Tarrytown Knapp's Corners |
Eastview (or East View) is a business district and former hamlet in Mount Pleasant, New York. It was primarily residential, and had a post office, railroad station, and school. In the late 1920s, John D. Rockefeller, Jr. purchased most of the hamlet's property and razed the buildings. Currently a variety of commercial buildings are present in the area. The Hammond House, a National Register of Historic Places-listed farmhouse dating to the 1720s, is located in the district, on New York State Route 100C.
The Eastview area consisted entirely of farmland until 1824, when Westchester County purchased 110 acres (45 ha) and built the Westchester County Alms House, a building complex and cemetery for abandoned children and the elderly, poor, and homeless. The almshousewas used by the 715 Military Police Battalion and later became part of Westchester Medical Center. The area became known as Eastview after East View Farm, a 350-acre (140 ha) estate purchased by grocery chain owner James Butler in 1893. John Paulding, a captor of John André in the American Revolutionary War, had previously owned part of Butler's estate.
At one point, Eastview was a small hamlet with approximately 15 frame houses, general stores and candy shops, a community hall, a Methodist church, a one-room schoolhouse, and surrounding farms that supplied dairy to Tarrytown. The hamlet was located near the old Tarrytown Lakes Pump house and continued east by the current Park-and-Ride lot. John Paulding's grandfather Joseph Paulding had built a small farm in Eastview in 1753. John F. Brown owned a small general store at the center of the hamlet. Brown's Mill, which burned to the ground in the 1920s, was one of the last active grist mills on the Saw Mill River. The Eastview railroad station was close to the almshouse, and also held the community's post office. The railroad station was part of the New York and Putnam Railroad, and close to the station was an eighty-foot (25 m) high trestle (41°5′0″N 73°50′0″W / 41.08333°N 73.83333°W) which served as a railroad bridge. In 1881, the tracks were relocated to eliminate the trestle.
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