Elmira

I’ve lived in Elmira, NY all my life, and I’m glad to say that it is starting to become a nice place to visit again. There used to be an amusement park here called Eldridge Lake that was in business since the early 1900’s, but it was dismantled in the late 1980’s. The park is starting to come back together, due to a lot of money and hard work from the community. Eldridge Park has an old-fashioned carousel again, and one of the horses is from the original Eldridge Park carousel from the early 1900’s. My mom and I walk around the walking path around the lake as often as we can. It’s a lot of fun during the summer time when the carousel is running. They have 1950’s music playing, 50’s era automobiles parked in front of the carousel, and popcorn for sale from a refurbished 1950’s era popcorn truck.

Of course, there’s also Mark Twain’s study in Elmira, which is a really cool thing to see. It’s a small open-windowed building that was given to Mark Twain by his sister and brother in law. He wrote a lot of his books there, and the study is still in great condition, sitting on the Elmira College Campus.

:O This place is so freaking sick! EWWW!

its pretty boring no night life no good shopping not alot of people not alot of sites to see it used to to beautiful and quiet but now it totally went to hell its pretty much a dirty hood with drugs and crime everywhere. Its very poltical you get what you want if you know the right people. You can get out of anything if you know the right people. i would stay far away from that city once you are in you are trapped.

very diverse…plus my boyfriend lives there

I love elmira and i can’t wait to go to college there!

Population (year 2000): 30,940,
Est. population in July 2004: 30,073 (-2.8% change)
Males: 15,564 (50.3%), Females: 15,376 (49.7%)

Elevation: 873 feet

County: Chemung

Land area: 7.3 square miles

Zip codes: 14901, 14903, 14904, 14905.

Median resident age: 33.4 years
Median household income: $27,292 (year 2000)
Median house value: $51,900 (year 2000)

Races in Elmira:
White Non-Hispanic (80.8%)
Black (13.1%)
Hispanic (3.1%)
Two or more races (2.6%)
Other race (1.4%)
American Indian (0.9%)

Ancestries: Irish (17.4%), German (16.5%), Italian (11.0%), English (9.6%), Polish (6.7%), United States (4.6%).

For population 25 years and over in Elmira
High school or higher: 74.2%
Bachelor’s degree or higher: 14.6%
Graduate or professional degree: 5.8%
Unemployed: 12.7%
Mean travel time to work: 17.0 minutes

For population 15 years and over in Elmira city
Never married: 35.8%
Now married: 40.8%
Separated: 3.9%
Widowed: 7.7%
Divorced: 11.9%

2.2% Foreign born (0.8% Europe, 0.6% Asia, 0.6% Latin America).

Population change in the 1990s: -2,929 (-8.6%).

any one remember the flood of 72? Ahh What a Beautiful place to grow up

It’s the hometown of Tommy Hilfiger.