Basic Information
- Type of Place
- Independent City or Town
- Metro Area
- Politics c. 1860?
- Don’t Know
- Unions, Organized Labor?
- Don’t Know
Sundown Town Status
- Sundown Town in the Past?
- Probable
- Was there an ordinance?
- Don't Know
- Sign?
- Don’t Know
- Year of Greatest Interest
- Still Sundown?
- Probably Not, Although Still Very Few Black People
Census Information
| Total | White | Black | Asian | Native | Hispanic | Other | BHshld | |
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| 1930 | 1784 | 5 | ||||||
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| 1960 | 2083 | 0 | ||||||
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| 1990 | 1980 | 1 | ||||||
| 2000 | 1983 | 1915 | 9 | 21 | 3 | 57 | 1 | |
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| 2020 |
Method of Exclusion
- Private Bad Behavior
- Realtors
Main Ethnic Group(s)
- Unknown
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
- Hispanic
Comments
“I grew up in Cold Spring NY [from] 1967-1985. It was an all white town to the extent that it did block out blacks and hispanics. There were some families from India and such as they were doctors in the now defunct local hospital. There was two or three black families (during my years there) that ‘some how managed to get in’ as my father would say. There was an ‘unspoken’ rule not to let minorities rent your properties or to sell to them. I know one family owned
the local dry cleaners. I thought it ironic that my father did work for them and yet would not let me talk to
their son! I remember cops stopping a friend because they were driving through town. The guy wasn’t doing
anything wrong. Just a black guy driving through town with a white girl from town in the car…
“[My father] would say things like that when he did show the apartment to blacks. I also heard it from my
mom… that they would have issues with the other residents if they ever did rent to blacks. (my father
would not have anyway)…
“I do not believe the family that owned the dry cleaners] lived in town. And I believe that Cold Spring
tried hard to keep out blacks but it was not always possible. If they had money they could manage to get in.”
-former Cold Spring resident
August 2005
One person wrote: Cold Spring NY has no public signs but still is. “Don’t be a healthy minority” buyer tactics may have changed but they still drive you out.