Your Guide to Buying a Home in Wesley Hills, NY

Buying a Home in Wesley Hills, New York

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Wesley Hills is located in Rockland County

Wesley Hills is about 14 miles from the Tappan Zee Bridge and 30 miles northwest of New York City. It borders the Villages of Montebello, New Hempstead, Pomona, and the Unincorporated Town of Ramapo. It is approximately 4.5 square miles. The major transportation routes are 306 (north/south) and Grandview Avenue (east/west), East Willow Tree Road, and Lime Kiln Road.

Wesley Hills’ population is about 4,500. The average house price is $440,000 to over $1,000,000. The schools include East Ramapo and Ramapo Central School Districts, with the average class size 25. The median household income is about $86,000. General Demographic Profile of Village of Wesley Hills - Census 2000 (pdf)

Village attractions include The Atrium Playhouse, Lime Kiln Park and Willow Tree Park, which has a stocked pond for fishing, nature area, ice skating (seasonal), walking and jogging path (located off Route 306 on Willow Tree Road).

History
Wesley Hills, originally named Wesley Chapel, named after a chapel built in 1829 by a circuit-riding preacher named James Sherwood.

The northeast corner of Grandview Avenue and Route 202 was the Kakiat Airstrip. Early air-mail delivery was flown from there.

Wesley Hills is green and peaceful with quiet neighborhood streets. All the lots are relatively large. Vestige fringes of orchard and forest remain between houses. The only commercial area is small and very vital. It contains a kosher supermarket, a drug store, a cleaner, a doctor, a nail salon, a kosher Italian and a Kosher Chinese take-out, and a few other stores. At night the village is quiet, peaceful and largely dark. Wildlife abounds here with many kinds of birds, small mammals and deer.

Residents take considerable care of their houses and property, carefully maintaining both. Peace, quiet, beauty and a certain closeness to nature, coupled together with reminders of the rural past, make Wesley Hills an attractive and desirable place to live and raise children.

The Village Board wants to help preserve the character of the village. They recognize a tendency for change towards urbanization and away from the rural, suburban character that all the residents enjoy and appreciate. The strong zoning is the key.

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