Parks60 Haines Rdfree
Bedford Hills Memorial Park
The hamlet green off Haines Rd — ballfields, the town pool (Memorial Day to Labor Day, the Barracudas swim & dive team), and where the library strings its summer StoryWalk.
✓ Town of Bedford Parks
Yeah·borhood
Bedford Hills · 10507
What kind of table?
Where in the world?
Cafes
Bedford Bagel & Bakery
720 Bedford Rd
Early riser
Fast Casual & Fast Food
Bedford Grab & GO
1 Adams St
Early riser
Fast Casual & Fast Food
Bedford Hills Deli
7 Babbitt Rd
Early riser
Cafes
Cafe on 117
526 Bedford Rd
Caribbean
Restaurants
Nino's Restaurant
13 Adams St
Brick-oven
Restaurants
Sette e Venti by Gianfranco's
720 Bedford Rd
Pizza & pasta
Restaurants
Sinapi's Pizza Rustica
5 Norm Ave
Wood-oven
Restaurants
The Bedford Diner
710 Bedford Rd
Since 1956
Fast Casual & Fast Food
Tikal Deli
733 N Bedford Rd
Italian & Guatemalan
Fast Casual & Fast Food
Nolvis Deli & Market
25 Depot Plaza
The Zip EditionLedger live
One zipcode, fully ledgered
Everything free and useful on the block, the history underneath it, and what's coming next — 10507, sourced door by door.
The free city§ 01
Parks, free workouts, playgrounds, piers, mailboxes, shipping counters. No ads, no ranking games — just what's there, with its source.
ParksCross River · 10536free
Cross River Reservoir
A NYC-watershed reservoir a few miles east, placed in service 1908 behind the 986-foot Cross River Dam — 12 miles of shoreline, ~120 feet at its deepest, ~10 billion gallons, stocked with thousands of brown trout each year. A rowboat-and-permit reservoir, not a swimming one.
✓ NYSDEC · Croton Waterworks · outside the zip
The culture layer§ 02
What's on the walls and in the halls — street art, landmarks, movie scenes, the museums and stages of the ledger — and the zips this one is twinned with, by decree and by geometry.
Landmarks247 Harris Rdfees
Bedford Hills Correctional Facility
New York State's only maximum-security prison for women. Opened 11 May 1901 as the Westfield State Farm / State Reformatory for Women; replaced Auburn as the state women's prison in 1931. Its prison nursery, dating to 1901, is the longest continuously operating one in the country. From 1995 to 2007 it also held the state's death row for women — never used.
✓ Wikipedia · BHCF · DOCCS
Landmarks332 Bedford Rdfree
Bedford Hills Fire Department
Founded 4 February 1903 at a meeting in George W. Gardner's store; still an all-volunteer department, now on Bedford Rd. One of the hamlet's oldest continuous institutions.
✓ bedfordhillsfd.org · coords approx
Landmarks26 Main Stfree
Bedford Hills Free Library
The hamlet's public library, a Westchester Library System member on Main St — the reading room, the StoryWalk, the bilingual Tech Tuesday, and the summer reading challenge.
✓ bedfordhillsfreelibrary.org
Landmarks46 Depot Plazafree
Bedford Hills Metro-North Station
The reason the hamlet exists. The New York & Harlem Railroad opened a stop here on 1 June 1847 and the settlement grew off it as "Bedford Station." The current depot is the third on the spot, built around 1906 with Richardsonian cues; the original signage still hangs. Electrified in 1984; roughly an hour to Grand Central.
✓ Wikipedia · Bedford Hills station
Landmarks323 Haines Rdfees
Richard H. Mandel House
A 1933–35 International Style landmark by Edward Durell Stone, interiors by Donald Deskey — one of the earliest modern houses in the country, added to the National Register on 1 March 1996. A private residence on Haines Rd; view from the road only.
✓ NRHP #96000176 · Smithsonian/Cooper Hewitt
Landmarks250 Harris Rdfees
Taconic Correctional Facility
The medium-security women's facility next door to Bedford Hills CF — the two run the length of Harris Rd together.
✓ Wikipedia · Taconic CF
Landmarks74 Main Stfees
The Community House
Built in 1919 to serve the hamlet's returning WWI veterans; the Town House followed in 1927. Still in civic use — the library's Family Movie Night and the 60+ senior drop-in (Mon/Wed/Fri) run out of it.
✓ Wikipedia · Bedford Hills · Town Rec
Museums, galleries & stages · from the business ledger
No arts links synced yet — run the sync.
Jumelage · twinned across the globe
The official ledgerTown of Bedford · no formal twinning
No twin, on the record
The Town of Bedford keeps no sister-city pact — no twinning committee, no jumelage to point at. The honest ledger entry is: none, as of this edition. The only kinship the name carries is nominal — the county town of Bedford in England behind it, and the scatter of American Bedfords that share it.
✓ no sister-city record found 2026-07 · verify with Town clerk
Antipode
Augusta, Western Australia
Australia
41.24°S · 106.30°E
The zip's antipode is empty ocean — the point falls in the Indian Ocean southwest of Australia, a thousand kilometres from any door. The nearest is Augusta, the small town on Cape Leeuwin where the Indian and Southern Oceans officially meet: one lighthouse, one bakery, and the whole of Antarctica next stop south.
Longitude mirror
Özgön (Uzgen)
Osh region, Kyrgyzstan
41.24°N · 73.70°E
Same parallel, longitude flipped across Greenwich — and the point lands in the foothills of the Fergana valley's rim in southern Kyrgyzstan. The nearest town is Özgön, a Silk Road stop with an 11th-century Karakhanid minaret and mausoleums of carved terracotta. New York's cast iron and Karakhanid brickwork share a latitude almost to the block.
Equator mirror
Bahía Mansa
Osorno province, Chile
41.24°S · 73.70°W
Latitude mirrored below the equator: the point sits in the Pacific about thirty kilometres off the Chilean coast. The nearest door is Bahía Mansa, a fishing cove in San Juan de la Costa — larch forests down to the water, sea lions on the rocks, and the same cold-current fog that never reaches New York.
The living ledger§ 03
The zip's other residents — the animals, plants and corals you can actually meet here, with where to find them and when they show up.
BirdsCross River Reservoir, winterDecember – March
Bald eagle · Haliaeetus leucocephalus
Winters on the Westchester reservoirs. When Cross River holds open water in January, an eagle or two works it — a recovery story you can now watch from a rowboat.
✓ eBird · reservoir region
BirdsField edges and nest boxes, year-roundicon
Eastern bluebird · Sialia sialis
Uncommon across most of Westchester, but at home in the Pound Ridge country year-round — the flash of blue over a field-edge nest box is a small local privilege.
✓ Westchester County Parks
BirdsWard Pound Ridge & the woods, nightcommon
Great horned owl · Bubo virginianus
The reservation's night hunter, listed among its watchable wildlife — the low double-hoot from the winter woods, nesting as early as February.
✓ NYSDEC · Watchable Wildlife
BirdsField edges and poles, year-roundcommon
Red-tailed hawk · Buteo jamaicensis
The resident raptor over the reservoir and the fields — a broad brown bird on a bare limb or a light pole, watching the verges below.
✓ eBird · Bedford region
BirdsField edges and roadsides, year-roundicon
Wild turkey · Meleagris gallopavo
A flock crossing Harris Rd stops traffic like nothing else. Documented year-round at Ward Pound Ridge and thoroughly at home on the hamlet's edges.
✓ Westchester County Parks · Ward Pound Ridge
MammalsStreams and pond outlets, duskrecovering
American beaver · Castor canadensis
The engineer of Bedford's waterways — a state-protected furbearer working the streams that feed the reservoir. Look for the gnawed stumps before you ever see the animal.
✓ NYSDEC · The Examiner
MammalsWoodlots and back yards, spring–fallApril – November
American black bear · Ursus americanus
The rising story. Sightings climb every year — the Examiner logs bears raiding beehives in Cross River and banana plants in Bedford. Bring the bird feeders in.
✓ NYSDEC · The Examiner
MammalsWoodland edges and stone walls, morningscommon
Eastern chipmunk · Tamias striatus
The stone-wall commuter of the hamlet's woodland edges — Westchester's old field walls are close to purpose-built for it.
✓ iNaturalist · Westchester
MammalsWoods and field edges, nightcommon
Eastern coyote · Canis latrans
Westchester's apex canid — the "coywolf," carrying a little wolf ancestry, established here since around the war. Heard more than seen; the dusk chorus off the reservoir is this.
✓ NYSDEC · The Examiner
MammalsWoods, yards and roadsides, year-roundcommon
White-tailed deer · Odocoileus virginianus
The default large mammal of the Bedford woods — in the yards, on the reservoir edges, on NY-117 at dusk. If you drive after dark, you are sharing it.
✓ iNaturalist · Westchester
Marine lifeCross River Reservoir · stockedcommon
Brown trout · Salmo trutta
The reservoir's headline fish — stocked by the thousands every year, with fish that top five pounds. The reason for the rowboats and the permits.
✓ NYSDEC · introduced/stocked
Marine lifeCross River Reservoir, warm monthsMay – September
Largemouth bass · Micropterus salmoides
The warmwater resident of the reservoir, alongside smallmouth and chain pickerel — the summer catch when the trout go deep.
✓ NYSDEC
ReptilesWet woods and gardens, spring eveningsApril – June
American toad · Anaxyrus americanus
Recorded just east at Ward Pound Ridge — the spring-evening trill from the wet woods is this. Warty, harmless, and doing the hamlet's insect control for free.
✓ iNaturalist · Ward Pound Ridge
ReptilesClean streams and wet woods, spring–summerApril – September
Wood turtle · Glyptemys insculpta
The reservation's headline reptile and a New York Species of Special Concern — a stream turtle with a sculpted, growth-ringed shell. Rare, protected, and a genuine find.
✓ NYSDEC · Watchable Wildlife
TreesThe wooded ridgescommon
Northern red oak · Quercus rubra
The dominant canopy tree of the Ward Pound Ridge woods and the ridge behind the hamlet — the acorn crop the deer, turkeys and bears all count on.
✓ NY Phenology Project
TreesThe wooded slopesgold in October
Sugar maple · Acer saccharum
The tree that turns the ridge orange in October and runs the sap in February — a documented canopy species of the Bedford woods.
✓ NY Phenology Project
Mobility§ 04
Every way in, out and across the zip — the trains and where they're headed, the buses, the bike docks, a cab when you need one, and what to do with a car.
No mobility ledgered yet.
Eat & drink§ 05
Every café, restaurant, bar and counter on the ledger — typed and faceted straight from the knowledge layer.
Cuisines of the worldThe Americas
Cafés720 Bedford Rd
Bedford Bagel & Bakery
Bagels
Fast casual1 Adams St
Bedford Grab & GO
Sandwiches
Fast casual7 Babbitt Rd
Bedford Hills Deli
Sandwiches
Cafés526 Bedford Rd
Cafe on 117
Cafe
Restaurants13 Adams St
Nino's Restaurant
Pizza & Italian
Fast casual25 Depot Plaza
Nolvis Deli & Market
Deli & grocery
Restaurants720 Bedford Rd
Sette e Venti by Gianfranco's
Pizza & Italian
Restaurants5 Norm Ave
Sinapi's Pizza Rustica
Pizza
Restaurants710 Bedford Rd
The Bedford Diner
Diner
Fast casual733 N Bedford Rd
Tikal Deli
Deli
The economy of 10507§ 06
The zip's flagships, staples and indies, the brands they carry, and the shared product vocabulary underneath — the graph an integrated zip-POS would settle against. 0 retailers · 0 brands tracked.
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Carriers on the ledger · brand graph synced from Notion
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Who's here§ 07
The block's human makeup — the cohorts, the day-vs-night swell, the mix of who shows up. Set a lens up top and you'll see yourself among the neighbours.
6.1k
residents
~6.4k
here by day
39
median age
Live here vs. here for the day
Live here 95%Come in for the day 5%
About 291 more people come in by day than live here — the courts, Borough Hall and the MetroTech offices.
Source: US Census ACS 2024 5-yr (ZCTA 10507; median HH income ~$107k) + illustrative mix
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Bedford Hills · Town of Bedford · NY