Pelham, New York

Pelham is a suburban town in Westchester County, New York, about 10 miles northeast of Midtown Manhattan. The 2020 census counted 13,079 residents in a town of only 2.4 square miles (6.2 square kilometres). It contains two independently incorporated villages, the Village of Pelham and the Village of Pelham Manor. The Town of Pelham was part of Westchester County when the state legislature established the county after the Revolution in 1788, and at that time it took in all of City Island and the part of present-day Pelham Bay Park east of the Hutchinson River. The town was incorporated at its current boundaries in 1889, Pelham Manor became a village in 1891, and the villages of North Pelham and Pelham incorporated in 1896. Local writing on the town includes a book on its ghost stories and haunted history.