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Community Information
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Armonk (Town of North Castle)
Today, North Castle is a community that is ensuring an orderly rate of growth in order to preserve the quality of environment. Citizen participation in town affairs has been a long-standing tradition. It has had a major impact on the character of the community and will continue to make North Castle an exceptional town in which to live.
BEDFORD
Welcome to Bedford New York: Country life in Westchester County, 48 miles and one hour north of New York City.
Bedford is a town of 16,000 population in 39 square miles in northern Westchester County. Once the home of dairy farms and large estates, it's still a favorite spot for those who love the country air but want to be near The City.
Each of Bedford's hamlets, Bedford Hills, Bedford Village, and Katonah, has a town park with swimming and tennis, a library, locally owned shops, a volunteer fire company, and, of course, its own special character. The town supports the arts with concerts, art museums and galleries, lectures by well known experts, house and garden tours, and family activities.
Chappaqua
New Castle is essentially a residential, family-oriented community with 35% of its area occupied by single family homes. Another third of the land is undeveloped or dedicated open space, giving New Castle a feeling of country living.
Bedford Hills
Briarcliff Manor
The Village of Briarcliff Manor, New York is located in affluent Westchester County, nestled along the historic and scenic Hudson River. With 5 3/4 square miles of land, the Village offers a rustic residential environment within easy commuting distance to Manhattan and all that New York City has to offer. Less than thirty (30) miles north of Manhattan, Briarcliff Manor is easily accessible via Route 9, Route 9A, Route 100, Saw Mill River Parkway, and Taconic State Parkway. Metro-North railroad makes regular stops at the Village's Scarborough Train Station, providing many residents with the opportunity to commute to New York City by train.
The Village's Central Business District is a quaint, tree-lined commercial area offering charming shops, restaurants and convenient services. With brick sidewalks, free parking and period street lighting, the area is one of the most desirable in the region.
The Village's population was 7,696 according to the 2000 U.S. Census.
Katonah
"Old Katonah" was the third settlement in this part of Westchester County in the first half of the nineteenth century, following the villages of Cherry Street and Whitlockville. The main streets of Old Katonah parallelled and crossed the railroad tracks where milk trains stopped to pick up produce for New York City sale.
Twice in the 1890's, the City of New York Water Supply condemned and purchased parcels of land upon which Old Katonah stood. New York City needed water, and the buildings of the village stood too close to the banks of the Croton and Cross Rivers, which would be dammed for the creation of reservoirs. The members of the Katonah community wished to remain together so they formed a syndicate and planned a new village on land nearby that would not be submerged. A street plan including wide boulevards and regular building lots was conceived, and members of the K. V. I. S. worked together to physically move more than 50 buildings from Old Katonah to New. The houses were drawn along soaped timber tracks by horse power.
1997 was the centennial of the move from Old Katonah to its current location. The Centennial celebration began on April 5, the exact anniversary of the day when the trains first stopped at the new train station. The celebration, marked by displays, lectures, tours of the old village site, and activities for young and old alike, took place from April 5 to July 5, 1997.
Mount Kisco
Mount Kisco's landmark, a statue of Chief Kisco, was once an elaborate fountain for watering horses. The statue stands at the intersection of Routes 117 and 133. D.F. Gorham, a strong supporter of prohibition, presented it to Mount Kisco in 1907. The inscription on the base to the statue reads "God's Only Beverage for Man and Beast."
Mount Pleasant
The Town of Mount Pleasant is located in central Westchester County, New York approximately thirty miles north of New York City. It is bounded on the north by the Towns of New Castle and Ossining, on the south by the Town of Greenburgh, on the east by the Kensico Reservoir and the Town of North Castle and on the west by the Hudson River. Within its boundaries lie the incorporated villages of Pleasantville, Sleepy Hollow, and a small portion of Briarcliff Manor. The remaining area of the Town is unincorporated and includes the hamlets of Hawthorne, Thornwood, Valhalla and Pocantico Hills. The Town has a population of 43,221 as reported in the 2000 Census.
The topography of the Town is one of gently rolling hills with large areas of open land including State, County and local parks, watershed protection lands and several cemeteries. The Pocantico River and Pocantico Lake traverse the Town from north to south where they empty into the Hudson River at Kingsland Point Park in Sleepy Hollow. The Town's largest body of water is the Kensico Reservoir which is located in the eastern portion of the town and forms the boundary between Mount Pleasant on the west and North Castle on the east.
The Town is essentially a residential area consisting of single-family homes, apartments and estates. Most residents work throughout the County or commute to New York City. Industrial development in the Town includes several large office parks, International Business Machines Corp. (I.B.M.), PepsiCo, Inc. and Verizon. Estate holdings of the Rockefeller family are also situated in the Town.
There are two major medical facilities, the Westchester Medical Center in Valhalla and Phelps Hospital in Sleepy Hollow. The New York Medical College is located at the Westchester Medical Center and Pace University's Pleasantville campus is located on Bedford Road.
Pleasantville
The Village of Pleasantville (incorporated in 1897) is located in the Town of' Mount Pleasant, Westchester County, 30 miles north of New York City and 6 miles east of the Hudson River. The Village encompasses an area of 1.9 square miles and has a population of approximately 7,172 according to the 2000 Census.
Pleasantville is primarily a suburban residential area.Business and industrial activity in Pleasantville is comprised of retail activity, research laboratories, a dress factory, a corporate park and other light industry servicing some 30,000 area residents. The Pleasantville Post Office ranks third in the country in postal receipts, this largely represents the huge mailings of the famous Reader's Digest (P.0. Pleasantville, but located in Chappaqua, Town of New Castle).
Pace University, located just outside the corporate boundaries of the Village, came to Pleasantville in 1962. There are both undergraduate and graduate schools serving over 5,000 day and evening students who come from all parts of Westchester and neighboring counties. Students on the 200 acre campus can follow a program of study leading to one of six undergraduate and three graduate degrees from one of the nine schools of Pace University. Students enrolled at the Pleasantville campus may use the facilities of both the White Plains campus and the nearby Briarcliff Manor campus. Since 1995 Pace University has offered all of its undergraduate programs exclusively on its Pleasantville Campus. Daytime population is estimated to achieve 7,500 students. There are also special programs for the non-traditional student including evening degree programs, "New Directions" for students returning to school and the "Executive MBA" program offered by the Graduate School for Business.
The Village maintains various recreational facilities including a municipal swimming pool, parks, tennis courts, playgrounds and a building devoted exclusively to recreational uses. It conducts a full-time, year-round recreational program for people of all ages. The library, operated jointly with the Town of Mount Pleasant, is housed in a modern building designed for maximum convenience and effective use by the public.
Municipal services such as police protection, sanitary sewers, water supply, solid waste disposal, street lighting and maintenance are provided by the Village. Fire protection and ambulance services are provided by volunteer units. Gas and electricity are supplied by Consolidated Edison.
Pleasantville is on the Harlem Division of the Metro North Commuter Railroad, taking approximately 50 minutes to reach Grand Central Terminal in New York City. The Village is also serviced by the Pleasantville-White Plains Bus Lines. The Village has an excellent interior road network and is also served by the Saw Mill River Parkway and New York State Routes 141 and 117.
Pound Ridge
Often described as "God's Country",
a rural area of about 23 square miles
with some of the most beautiful homes
and picturesque scenery...Typical stone fences and a rugged landscape...Winding country roads and lakes, densely wooded hills, cliffs that cascade into ravines...Ward Pound Ridge Reservation - Westchester County's largest park, covering more than 4,700 acres of trails, campsites and picnic areas...The Hamlet - an historic landmark district of Pound Ridge. Included are Conant Hall, The Pound Ridge Museum, and the Hiram Halle Library...The shopping area called Scotts Corners, with a variety of antique shops and services...
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