Biohazard and Pathogen Disinfection in Montebello, NY

Montebello is an incorporated village in the town of Ramapo in Rockland County, just north of Suffern.

Montebello was incorporated on May 7, 1986, largely so that residents could control the intensity and types of land use in the village.

Montebello — Italian for 'beautiful mountain' — takes its name from the estate of Gilded Age financier Thomas Fortune Ryan, who bought the property in 1887 and replaced its mansion with a $600,000 brick-and-stone mansion of more than 44 rooms, complete with a two-lane bowling alley, an electric elevator, a private chapel and 13 fireplaces.

Ryan's 1,000-acre estate later served as a seminary retreat, then as the Phelps Dodge Corporation's records headquarters for 31 years from 1951, and the property is now an office park.

Montebello had 4,507 residents at the 2020 census, in 1,498 households, spread across 4.33 square miles of curving residential subdivisions — the village has no downtown or commercial center.

Exit 14B of the New York State Thruway, Interstate 87, sits within Montebello's borders.

Indian Rock, on Route 59 in Montebello, is a glacial boulder of about 12,300 tons estimated to be 800 million to 1.2 billion years old; residents saved it from destruction in 1995, and the neighboring shopping plaza took its name.

On Bayard Lane in Montebello, economist Ralph Borsodi founded an experimental self-sufficient homestead colony in 1935, promoting what he called agrarianism for commuters.

Montebello children attend the Suffern Central School District — Montebello Elementary School sits inside the village — and SUNY Rockland Community College is located just outside the village line.