County Park Commission. The commission developed the county parks and parkway system based on the idea that “no matter where you live, you had access to a county park,” Goderre said. • The late actor and comedian Jackie Gleason built a home called Round Rock Hill, complete with a broadcast studio, on the outskirts of Peekskill in what is now Cortlandt Manor. A 1960 issue of Popular Mechanics reported, “Everything about the home is round,” from its exterior structure to the furniture, rugs and a shower room. • Baum wasn’t the only notable visitor to the Peekskill Military Academy. Hall of Fame quarterback Joe Namath practiced at the school with the New York Jets during the offseason in the 1960s. When asked how much he remembered of the city in a 2012 interview for HBO, Namath said, “I can see Peekskill Military Academy and our players in camp right now like it was yesterday.” • Though it wasn’t actually shot there, the
1980s sitcom “The Facts of Life” was set in Peekskill, referencing the city in dialogue and episode titles. • George Pataki, governor of New York from 1995 to 2007, was born in Peekskill. He served as mayor of the city in the early 1980s before being elected to the state Assembly in 1984 and the state Senate in 1992. Jackie Gleason built a round home, complete with a broadcast studio, on the outskirts of Peekskill. • Lifelong city resident Richard Jackson became when he was a child. Tucci, who has recently New York state’s first African-American mayreceived attention for his role as Caesar Flickor in 1984, when he took over the leadership erman in “The Hunger Games” series, attendof Peekskill with the departure of his friend, ed the Conservatory of Theatre Arts at SUNY Pataki, to Albany. Purchase. Reubens is known as the comedic • Famous actors born in Peekskill include man-child character Pee-wee Herman. Mel Gibson, Stanley Tucci and Paul Reubens. — Sources: Peekskill City Historian Frank Gibson, whose film credits include “Mad Goderre, the Peekskill Museum and historiMax,” “Braveheart” and “The Passion of the cal and media reports. Christ,” moved to Australia with his family
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