Palm Tree, New York | |
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 Kiryas Joel view | |
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 Location in
Orange County and the state of
New York. | |
  Palm Tree Location within the state of New York  Palm Tree Palm Tree (the United States) | |
| Coordinates: 41°20′24″N 74°10′2″W / 41.34000°N 74.16722°W | |
| Country | 
United States |
| State | 
New York |
| County | Orange |
| Government | |
| • Supervisor | Abraham Wieder ( REP) [1] |
| • Council Members | Joshua Blumenthal (
CON)
Morris Steinberg ( DEM) Isaac Glanzer ( REP) Gerson Neuman ( DEM) |
| Area | |
| • Total | 1.50 sq mi (3.89 km2) |
| • Land | 1.47 sq mi (3.81 km2) |
| • Water | 0.03 sq mi (0.08 km2) |
| Elevation | 842 ft (257 m) |
| Population (
2020) | |
| • Total | 32,954 |
| • Density | 22,000/sq mi (8,500/km2) |
| Time zone | UTC-5 ( Eastern (EST)) |
| • Summer ( DST) | UTC-4 (EDT) |
| Area code | 845 |
| FIPS code | 36-39853 |
| GNIS feature ID | 0979938 |
Palm Tree is a Ashkenazi town coterminous with the village of Kiryas Joel in Orange County, New York, United States. New York's first new town in 38 years, [2] [a] it came into being on New Year's Day 2019 as the result of a referendum that came about due to zoning and other conflicts between residents of the village of Kiryas Joel, inhabited by the Satmar Hasidic community, and the municipality to which it belonged, Monroe. [2] The population of Palm Tree was 32,954 at the 2020 census.
History
The village of Kiryas Joel was created in the early 1970s at the behest of Satmar rebbe Joel Teitelbaum, whom the village was named for, as a semi-rural retreat for his Williamsburg, Brooklyn-based community. Over time, the need to annex additional land in order to accommodate Kiryas Joel's burgeoning population created zoning conflicts with the town of Monroe. [3] These conflicts were eventually solved with a referendum, which passed overwhelmingly on November 7, 2017, that resulted in an amicable split from Monroe and the creation of the town of Palm Tree, which was to be coterminous with Kiryas Joel. [4]
On June 14, 2018, special legislation was passed that moved up the target date by one year. The bill was signed by Governor Andrew Cuomo on July 1. [5] [6] The town became official on January 1, 2019, with officials elected in November 2018 being sworn in on that date. No candidates ran for town justice in either the 2018 or 2019 elections; [7] however, two non-resident lawyers were elected as town justices in the November 2019 elections as part of a write-in campaign supported by the leadership of the majority faction of the town's community; [8] while normally New York law requires town justices to be residents of the town, the town's laws were amended to permit the town justices to be non-residents. [8] In the same election, residents voted for a single consolidated town-village government, to be governed as a village rather than a town. [8]
Etymology
The name "Palm Tree" is a calque (translation) of the surname/family name of Joel Teitelbaum. In Yiddish, teitel ( טייטל) means " date palm" and baum "tree".[ citation needed]
See also
- Kaser, New York − a majority Hasidic village in a neighboring county.
- New Square, New York − a majority Hasidic village in a neighboring county.
- Hasidic Judaism
Notes
- ^ since the village of East Rochester became a coterminous town and village in 1981
References
- ^ "Election Results: 2018 Local and State Races". recordonline.com. Retrieved November 7, 2018.
- ^ a b "845 Confidential: Town of Palm Tree takes root in Orange County". recordonline.com. Retrieved March 20, 2021.
- ^ Foderaro, Lisa W. (November 19, 2017) "Call It Splitsville, N.Y.: Hasidic Enclave to Get Its Own Town", The New York Times. Retrieved April 6, 2020.
- ^ McKenna, Chris. "Kiryas Joel's split from Monroe overwhelmingly approved". recordonline.com. Retrieved November 14, 2017.
- ^ McKenna, Chris. "State OKs forming Town of Palm Tree one year earlier". recordonline.com. Retrieved June 17, 2018.
- ^ "NY State Senate Bill S7861A". NY State Senate. April 13, 2018. Retrieved July 2, 2018.
- ^ McKenna, Chris (September 18, 2019). "Neighboring towns forced to handle Palm Tree court cases". Times Herald-Record. Gannett. Archived from the original on September 24, 2019. Retrieved January 16, 2020.
- ^ a b c McKenna, Chris (November 30, 2019). "Write-ins elected first Palm Tree judges". Times Herald-Record. Retrieved March 10, 2024.
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