Talk:Bronxville, New York

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Can someone tell me about the controversy, if any, about Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, Yonkers, and the zip code boundaries?

[edit] Zip Code Issue

It is unnecessary to refer to my changes as a "rant". It is equally as unnecessary to dismiss the facts that I posted with the instructions that I should "get over" the misinformation that has been posted. That being said, if SLC were not properly in Bronxville, then its address would not be "1 Mead Way, Bronxville NY 10708." If Sarah Lawrence were officially in Yonkers, and if it wished to change its address for public relations purposes, then it would have opened a POBox in Bronxville. This was the case, for example, with Warren Wilson College in Swannanoa, NC, which opened a POBox in Asheville, NC as its official address for PR reasons. SLC, on the other hand, is officially and has always been in Bronxville. A call to the school's archivist will confirm this. This has nothing to do with my opinion on the subject. It is simply fact. I personally do not care what address the school may have, but I feel obligated to correct misinformation; it is the nature of this website.

Actually, the original content of the article is correct. Sarah Lawrence College is located in the city of Yonkers and the Bronxville Postal District. It's not at all uncommon for an address to be in a Postal District that doesn't share its name. The determining factor is what city a school pays taxes in, and Sarah Lawrence pays taxes in Yonkers. If you'd like to test this theory, call 911 from campus and see whether it's the Bronxville or Yonkers police department that shows up.--djrobgordon 16:48, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

Also, does anyone have a source confirming that Sarah Lawrence influenced that USPS to put it in the Bronxville Postal District for the purpose of PR? It's fine to note that the college is in the Postal District, but without a source I don't think we should speculate as to how that came about. --djrobgordon 21:16, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

Nobody is claiming that the college influenced the USPS in any way. Being in the 10708 section of Yonkers means one can choose to address one's mail as either Yonkers or Bronxville. However, it is disingenuous to claim to be in Bronxville when one is within the city boundaries of Yonkers. --Nelson Ricardo 21:42, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

My only problem with the former wording is that it speculated as to the motives of the college. I share the opinion that the choice of address is a PR move, but without a source it's nothing more than an opinion, and therefore not NPOV. --djrobgordon 22:25, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Sarah Lawrence

Sarah Lawrence is most certainly not in Bronxville, and the first paragraph of the article should be revised to reflect that simple fact. (We're now in the position of having both the Bronxville and Yonkers Wikipedia articles making the claim that they are the home of Sarah Lawrence College, which is absurd.)

Although people who get involved in this issue seldom resort to facts, I'm going to do just that. First, take a look at the campus map from the Sarah Lawrence website, which I found at http://www.slc.edu/data/386/link/1299/SLC_CampusMapWeb.pdf. Then, take a look at the map viewer on the website of the Westchester County Geographic Information Systems (Yonkers and Bronxville are both in Westchester County) at http://giswww.westchestergov.com/westchester/emap/viewer.htm and navigate to the area under discussion. (To save time, you can look at http://www.WebFeats.com/SarahLawrence-Yonkers.gif, where I've copied the relevant area of the map.) Even a cursory comparison of the maps reveals that the entire campus is within the city limits of Yonkers (the area in gray), and that not one square inch of the campus crosses the Bronx River into Bronxville (one of the areas in white).

It's obvious to me that the article should be corrected, but I won't do that until I hear what others have to say. HMishkoff 21:12, 7 December 2006 (UTC)