Unattended Death and Biohazard Cleanup in Ardsley, NY

Ardsley is a village in the town of Greenburgh, Westchester County, about 15 miles north of Manhattan, and it is not to be confused with Ardsley-on-Hudson, a hamlet in Irvington.

In 1781, during the Revolutionary War, both George Washington's Continental Army and the French army of the Comte de Rochambeau camped at Ardsley.

The settlement was first known as Saw Mill Corners and then as Ashford, named for a large ash tree that stood over the Saw Mill River, where the community had a sawmill and a gristmill and, by the Civil War, three pickle factories.

When the village applied for a post office in 1883 and found the name Ashford already taken, it was renamed Ardsley after Ardsley Park, the estate of Cyrus W. Field - the tycoon of transatlantic-cable fame, who used his influence to secure the post office; the estate's name honored East Ardsley in Yorkshire, birthplace of his ancestor Zechariah Field, who emigrated in 1629.

Ardsley was incorporated as a village in 1896.

The 2020 census counted 5,079 residents in Ardsley - a 14.1% jump from 4,452 in 2010, according to figures published by the village from Census redistricting data - living in 1,721 housing units within just 1.32 square miles.

The 1880s arrival of the Putnam Railroad and the building of the New Croton Aqueduct set off a development boom, and the Ardsley Country Club's 1896 membership rolls included the Vanderbilt, Rockefeller and Morgan families.

A fire in 1914 destroyed much of Ardsley's village center.

In the late 1950s the New York State Thruway cost Ardsley its Putnam Division station - the last passenger train ran on May 29, 1958 - along with much of its downtown.

Ardsley is one of the smallest municipalities in Westchester County by population.