Chappaqua Limousine®

Our past, our mission and our future

One of the oldest!

Chappaqua Limousine was established in last quarter of 19th century. As of today we don't know our first day of business. Our founder Wilbur Hyatt was an entrepreneur business person from Chappaqua. He was respected member of our community and member of "The Greeley Memorial Committee". At the time Mr. Hyatt was operating a livery stables and hacking services on N Greeley Ave and stable out of King Street (then Main). He incorporated his business in 1914 and he kept it until 1925. 

Second owner Earl Gedney was also from Chappaqua. He was community person and he had organized many events. Mr Gedney started taxi service with motor vehicles from Greeley Avenue and sold the business to our third owner McCarty Family.  In 1938 company bought by John Cotter & James Cotter brothers. When James Cotter became New Castle Police Chief in 1949, brothers sold their business to Arco family as company's 4th owner in 1952. 

Arco family was from Pleasantville and expanded Cotter Brother's 2 vehicle business to 8 vehicles. Mr. Arco replaced small wooden shack at the train station to larger and substantial building. At the time of Mr. Arco minimum charge was $4.00 and once it was only 50 cents. Sons of Arco family Joseph & David started to helping their father as youngsters. They started to drive by age 14. Family also transported mail, backing the old International truck to the train, rushing to the post office and returning while train is waited. Quite days train wasn't even stopping and they were doing exchange by throwing. From 1949 to 1985 business continued to grow, having noticeable clients including President Richard Nixon, Tommie Manville, David Rockefeller and other Rockefeller family members, Governor Averill Harriman, Werner von Braun, Henry Cabot Lodge, James Michener, Betty White, Allan Ludden, Vanessa Williams, Dianne Sawyer & more. Today Chappaqua Limousine continuing to serve, respected authors, journalists, new and old state senators, local government officials, business clients such as IBM, and many families in the area. By Mr. Frank Arco's sudden death in 1985, Joseph and David Arco took over the business after their father and they sold to Mr. Jack Aydogdu in 2019. 

When Mr. Aydogdu became a fifth owner of the company he brought the company to 21st century standards by creating website, online reservations, online dispatching, driver and customer applications, GPS tracking system for active dispatching and safety etc. Company had updated its fleet and added newer vehicles in 2020. Also as of beginning of 2020 social responsibility programs launched. 

Chappaqua 1730-1791

In 1730's (according to some sources 1740's) some people from religious group called Quakers moved from Purchase to today's Chappaqua. Chappaqua was a part of Town of  North Castle until New York State broke North Castle into smaller towns. Chappaqua became a part of New Castle on March 18, 1791. 

Chappaqua Train Station 1846

In 1846 New York and Harlem Railroad extended railroad to Chappaqua and opened to commuters on June 1, 1947. By convenience of train, town expended and businesses moved to today's downtown area of Chappaqua.  Railroad rebuild twice after original construction (1902, 2007).  Railroad also brought some known public figures and companies from New York City to Chappaqua, such as Horace Greeley and magazine Reader's Digest from 1939 to 2004.

Chappaqua Tornado 1904

Chappaqua hit by strong tornado in 1904 and took couple of years to fully recovered from it. 

Wilbur Hyatt, Establishment of
Livery Stables & Hacking Service

Our founder Mr. Wilbur Hyatt started to operate hacking service with carriages with the name of "Livery Stables & Hacking Service". (According to Turner's New York & Harlem Railroad Directory between New York City and Brewster for the years 1891-1892 Livery Stable was running business between those years.) Stable was located on Main Street of Chappaqua. (today's King Street) Later years service turned into taxi service with cars and finally in 1989 changed it's name and became Chappaqua Taxi and Limousine Service. Mr. Hyatt was business entrepreneur and  member of Chappaqua Historical Society, Greeley Memorial Committee  along with other organizations. 

Earl Gedney 1925

Earl Gedney bought Mr. Wilbur Hyatt's Livery Stables & Hacking Service and turned in to Car Service.  He expanded the business and it to McCarty family out of Chappaqua. McCarty family carried the company through Great Depression. In 1938 John Cotter & James Cotter brothers bought the company. 

Cotter Brothers 1938-1949

Company was able to survive World War II under management of John & James Cotter brothers but business inevitably shrank to only 2 cars operation. Even after victory of the war economical hardship continued. In 1949 when James Cotter became Chief of Police of New Castle, New York they sold the business to Arco family as fifth owner of the company. 

Mr. Frank Arco 1949

Mr. Arco was able to add 6 more cars to fleet in 4 years and many more in following years.. Under his management  the company became one of the largest taxi and limousine company in the region. 

Chappaqua Train Station 1953

Newly added 6 cars belongs to Chappaqua Taxi Services lined up in front of Chappaqua Train Station. 

Mr. Frank Arco 1962

Newspaper from 1962. Mr. Arco recently purchased 2 new Cadillacs from Mr. Richard Martabano. 

Mr. Frank Arco by Chappaqua Train Station  

Towards end of 1970's. Mr. Arco with his Cadillac Limousine

Chappaqua Limousine 1985

1985. Chappaqua Limousine making pickup from private jet at Westchester Airport

Joseph & David Arco Brothers 2010's

After Mr. Frank Arco his two sons run the company from 1985 to 2019. In that 34 years they were able to accomplished to expand the company even further.

Jack Aydogdu 2019

Jack Aydogdu - long time member of Chappaqua Limousine family - took over the company in 2019 from Arco brothers. He added new website,  online reservation future, customer and driver applications to the company. His experience in Limousine and Transportation industry helped company to meet today's standards and beyond. 

Our New Logo 2019

While we were renewing our 55 years old logo, as of 2019 ending, we didn't want to have something totally new. Our talented designer who has over 35 years experience in his field work very hard to give us our new logo without disconnecting the company from it's long past. Between many options and meetings, we choose our logo to represent our company.

Upgrading Our Fleet With New Vehicles 2020

Company added new ways to stay connected with customers by end of 2019 and beginning of 2020. Community has many ways to reach Chappaqua Limousine now more than ever. While communication part is getting done by our IT team,  our fleet updated with newer vehicles. We have added large SUV's and new sedans to our fleet.

Pandemic of Covid-19

As pandemic started to hit US Cities in beginning of March 2020, Chappaqua Limousine started to operate with skeleton crew to a few selected customers' emergency needs. Starting end of March 2020 for 3 months we temporary closed down our office and adopted working from home model for office personal. Chappaqua Limousine stayed open through out the pandemic and it was one of the a few companies who sanitized their vehicles before each trip in the nation. We offer free face shields, face masks and sanitizers to all of our customers during the pandemic. While we survived our second pandemic after Spanish Flu, we share the pain of people, who lost loved ones...
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