This led to a petition process followed by a referendum which was approved by a substantial majority of the voters.
The group, later known as The Independent Civic Association or ICA, met over a period of about eighteen months. They concluded that the only safe and certain way of achieving independence, self-determination, and protection of its tax base would be to form their own village. A group of residents in the unincorporated area began to discuss, even before the Pace Study was published, what the Pace Study could bring out and what effect it would have on their neighborhood. The concept of becoming self-governing began with an 1981 Pace University examination and study, commissioned by the Village of Port Chester, for alternative forms of government for the future of Port Chester. Nevertheless, the unincorporated area had only a small voice in the Town Council as it represented only a fifth of the Town’s voting block. In 1960 the count exceeded 6,000 and by 1980 it had grown to 8,000. The number of residents grew to 2, 661 by the 1950 census. The area relied on the Town government for services and administration.
It had large estates, farmland, and open space. In 1940, the unincorporated area (now the Village of Rye Brook) had a population of less than two thousand residents. Rye Brook remained the last unincorporated area in the Town until it became a Village on July 7, 1982. In 1904 Rye Village was incorporated but, in 1942, it seceded to become a city and is no longer part of the Town. In 1895, Mamaroneck officially became a village with its western section in the Town of Mamaroneck and its eastern section, east of the Mamaroneck River known as “Rye Neck” in the Town of Rye. Port Chester was the first of the areas to incorporate as a village. Communities within the Town eventually established themselves as four separate municipalities. It is supposed that the town was named after Rye, in Sussex, England, the former home of some of the settlers. In 1660 they negotiated a treaty with Shenarockwell, a Mohican chief, for all the land along Long Island Sound between the Mamaroneck and Byram Rivers. The first colonists to move into the area were settlers from Greenwich, Connecticut. Town history began in 1640 when land was purchased from Native American inhabitants. It is the shared heritage of four communities. Rye Brook History THE VILLAGE OF RYE BROOK – A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE Written by: Jules Harris The story of the Village of Rye Brook is the most recent chapter in the continuing development of the Town of Rye.
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