South Blooming Grove, New York | |
Official Name: | Village of South Blooming Grove |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Pushpin Map: | New York |
Pushpin Label Position: | left |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of South Blooming Grove within the state of New York |
Mapsize: | 260px |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | United States |
Subdivision Type1: | State |
Subdivision Name1: | New York |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Orange County |
Subdivision Type3: | Town |
Subdivision Name3: | Blooming Grove |
Established Title: | Established |
Established Title1: | Incorporated (village) |
Established Date1: | 2006 |
Unit Pref: | Imperial |
Area Total Km2: | 12.20 |
Area Land Km2: | 12.11 |
Area Water Km2: | 0.09 |
Area Total Sq Mi: | 4.71 |
Area Land Sq Mi: | 4.68 |
Area Water Sq Mi: | 0.03 |
Population As Of: | 2020 |
Population Total: | 3973 |
Population Density Km2: | 328.02 |
Population Density Sq Mi: | 849.66 |
Timezone: | Eastern (EST) |
Utc Offset: | -5 |
Timezone Dst: | EDT |
Utc Offset Dst: | -4 |
Coordinates: | 41.3733°N -74.1783°W |
Postal Code Type: | ZIP code |
Blank Name: | FIPS code |
Blank Info: | 36-68610 |
Blank1 Name: | GNIS feature ID |
Blank1 Info: | 2391145 |
Area Footnotes: | [1] |
South Blooming Grove is a village inside the Town of Blooming Grove in Orange County, New York, United States. As of the 2020 census the population was 3,973. It is part of the Kiryas Joel - Poughkeepsie - Newburgh, NY Metropolitan Statistical Area as well as the larger New York - Newark - Bridgeport, NY-NJ-CT-PA Combined Statistical Area.
Robert Jeroloman was the village's first mayor. James LoFranco was the second mayor. George Kalaj is the current mayor.
The idea for incorporating a new village came in 2004 when a group called the South Blooming Grove Homeowner's Association was concerned about the rapid expansion of the sprawling Satmar Hasidim village of Kiryas Joel and hoped to prevent unchecked annexation of land for high-density residential housing by incorporating a section of the large, unincorporated area known as Blooming Grove. After gathering over 1,000 signatures in favor of the new village, a New York State Supreme Court Justice put things on hold in January 2005. Finally, on June 29, 2006, incorporation passed overwhelmingly, 856 votes to 89.
A similar incorporation vote was held on August 11, 2006 in the neighboring Town of Woodbury; it also passed by a wide margin.
On September 2, 2006, South Blooming Grove held its first board elections. The candidates for mayor (Robert Jeroloman) and four trustee seats (Garry Dugan, Jim Mulany, Dorine Sas and John Hickey) ran unopposed. All five have since been re-elected, again unopposed: Sas and Hickey in 2008 and 2012, and Dugan, Mulany and Jeroloman in 2010. In the 2014 elections, Mayor Jeroloman and Trustee Mulany were again re-elected, but Gary Dugan did not seek another term; James LoFranco was elected to Dugan's old seat.
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