New Rochelle, NY (July 3, 2010) – Habitat For Humanity of Westchester in New Rochelle sponsored its third trolley bus tour of New Rochelle. The ‘Fourth Of July’ tour showed the historic aspects of the city and is meant to spur tourism of ‘The Queen City Of The Sound’.
The tour began at its New Rochelle headquarters at 524 Main Street and passed through the southern and northern portions of town. Notable locations such as the recently controversial Naval Armory that was built in the 1930s as a Federal Relief Project and housed New Rochelle Naval Reserves, a volunteer group. The building has been targeted as part of the controversial Echo Bay redevelopment project by the City of New Rochelle. The building was ‘sold’ by New York State to the City for public use in 1997, for one dollar and has mostly lain dormant since then.
Landmarks such as the site of the first movie studio, former New York, Westchester and Boston Railroad station on North Avenue (which currently being reworked), Thomas Paine Cottage/museum and monument, Norman Rockwell studios, where George Washington slept (it seems like it was everywhere) and the statue of New Rochelle founder Jacob Leisler were highlighted and discussed.
The hour-long tour left the busload of 22 passengers clamoring for more. With its nine miles of Long Island Sound coastline as a beginning, The Queen City Of The Sound certainly does.
Jim Killoran, The Habitat For Humanity of Westchester (HFH) Executive Director, gives the thumbs-up for the HFH-sponsored trolley bus tour of New Rochelle showing the historic aspects of the city. The tour is meant to spur tourism and demonstrate its history, hoping to make it a future tourist destination.
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