From an Indian hunting ground, to a community of scattered farms, to “Ashford" and a country village in the shadow of a great city, Ardsley is becoming a typical suburban community. Once this was a "grandfather community” where you didn’t rate unless your folks had lived here before you. Now, if you have lived here more than ten years, you are an "old timer.”

Arthur Silliman - “A Short, Informal History of Ardsley” (1968)