The Croton Journal headlined "Big Boom for Croton." The project never materialized. HARLEM-ON-THE-HUDSON (1923): The Hudson River Development Company, prominent Harlem investors, announced a verbal purchase agreement for the 350-acre Croton Point to create "a very high class place" — an established community, country club, churches and bathing beaches for Black New Yorkers. Within a week, Westchester County exercised eminent domain, purchasing the property for $360,000.

The Harlem group called it "anti-Negro sentiment." County officials denied this. Croton Point became a public park instead.