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Tarrytown, New York

Tarrytown is a village in the town of Greenburgh in Westchester County, New York. It is located on the eastern bank of the Hudson River, approximately 25 mi north of Midtown Manhattan in New York City, and is served by a stop on the Metro-North Hudson Line. To the north of Tarrytown is the village of Sleepy Hollow (formerly "North Tarrytown"), to the south the village of Irvington and to the east unincorporated parts of Greenburgh. The Tappan Zee Bridge crosses the Hudson at Tarrytown, carrying the New York State Thruway (Interstates 87 and 287) to South Nyack, Rockland County and points in Upstate New York. The population was 11,860 at the 2020 census.

History
The Native American Weckquaesgeek tribe, who were closely related to the Wappinger Confederacy and further related to the Mohicans, lived in the area prior to European settlement. They fished the Hudson River for shad, oysters and other shellfish. Their principal settlement was at what is now the foot of Church Street near the Hudson River shore, between the current location of Losee Park and the Tappan Zee Bridge, at a place they called Alipconk, or the "Place of Elms".

The first European settlers of Tarrytown were Dutch farmers, fur trappers, and fishermen. Records show that the first Dutch residence in Tarrytown was built in 1645; however, the exact location of this residence is not known. Tarrytown sits within the lands of the former Dutch Colony of New Netherland which became English territory in 1674 with the signing of the Treaty of Westminster. The name may come from the Dutch tarwe, meaning "wheat".

In 1780, in a famous Revolutionary War incident, Major John André was arrested as a spy in Tarrytown, which exposed the plans of his associate Benedict Arnold. André, a British army officer, was traveling south through the village on the Albany Post Road when he was stopped and searched by three local militiamen. When suspicious papers were found in his boot, he was arrested as a spy, later convicted, and hanged. A circumstantial account of André's capture by militiamen David Williams, John Paulding, and Isaac Van Wart was written in 1903 by the owner and publisher of the Tarrytown Argus, Marcius D. Raymond.

The writer Washington Irving described Tarrytown in "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" (1820). Irving began his story, "In the bosom of one of those spacious coves which indent the eastern shore of the Hudson, at that broad expansion of the river denominated by the ancient Dutch navigators of the Tappan Zee, and where they always prudently shortened sail and implored the protection of St. Nicholas when they crossed, there lies a small market town or rural port which by some is called Greenburgh, but which is more generally and properly known by the name of Tarry Town. This name was given, we are told, in former days, by the good housewives of the adjacent country, from the inveterate propensity of their husbands to linger about the village tavern on market days." The Underground Railroad ran through Tarrytown prior to the end of the U.S. Civil War.

Tarrytown later became a favorite residence for many rich New Yorkers, including John D. Rockefeller, who first moved to Tarrytown in 1893. Kykuit, Rockefeller's elaborate mansion, was completed in 1906. In 1914, Kykuit became the site of numerous labor protests by radical anarchists, which protests were broken up by police in a series of violent clashes. Kykuit was the intended target of at least two bombing attacks planned by anarchists associated with the radical journalists Alexander Berkman and Luigi Galleani.

On November 19, 1915, a powerful dynamite bomb was discovered at Cedar Cliff, the Tarrytown estate of John D. Archbold, President of the Standard Oil Company. Police theorized the bomb was planted by anarchists and Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) radicals as a protest against the execution of IWW member Joe Hill in Salt Lake City. The bomb was discovered by a gardener, John Walquist, who found four sticks of dynamite, weighing a pound each, half hidden in a rut in a driveway 50 feet from the front entrance of the residence. The dynamite sticks were bound together by a length of wire, fitted with percussion caps, and wrapped with a piece of paper matching the color of the driveway, a path used by Archbold when going to or from his home by automobile. The bomb was later defused by police.

The Christ Episcopal Church, First Baptist Church of Tarrytown, Foster Memorial AME Zion Church, Washington Irving High School, North Grove Street Historic District, Patriot's Park, and Tarrytown Music Hall are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Lyndhurst and Sunnyside are listed as National Historic Landmarks.

The General Motors car manufacturing plant North Tarrytown Assembly was located in North Tarrytown until 1996. Today's Metro-North Railroad's Hudson Line runs through the abandoned property.

Sleepy Hollow Mayor Philip Zegarelli, in March 2007, met with Tarrytown Mayor Drew Fixell and district superintendent Howard Smith to discuss forming a blue-ribbon panel that would explore the pros and cons of an intermunicipal agreement. The two villages have shared a school district for 55 years. The villages already shared some services, as well, to lower their expenses, but the greatest reductions, especially in school and property taxes, would come from merging the two villages. However, each village has its own assessment roll. Zegarelli, who led an unsuccessful attempt in the mid-1970s to disaffiliate Sleepy Hollow from the town of Mount Pleasant, continues to advocate for secession – Sleepy Hollow from Mount Pleasant and Tarrytown from Greenburgh – as another way to save money. "If the idea is to save money, why have two levels of government?" he asked. The town of Mount Pleasant blocked Sleepy Hollow's effort to secede, largely because it did not want to lose tax revenue from General Motors, Zegarelli said.

In 2014, Tarrytown was ranked second in the list of the top 10 places to live in New York, according to the national online real estate brokerage Movoto.

Geography and climate
According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 5.7 sqmi, of which 3.0 sqmi is land and 2.7 sqmi (47.54%) is water.

Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there were 11,090 people, 4,533 households, and 2,765 families residing in the village. The population density was 3,724.7 PD/sqmi. There were 4,688 housing units at an average density of 1,574.5 /sqmi. The racial makeup of the village was 77.44% White, 7.04% African American, 0.22% Native American, 6.49% Asian, 0.05% Pacific Islander, 5.29% from other races, and 3.47% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 16.17% of the population.

There were 4,533 households, out of which 26.6% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 48.5% were married couples living together, 9.6% had a female householder with no husband present, and 39.0% were non-families. 31.2% of all households were made up of individuals, and 9.7% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.33 and the average family size was 2.95. In the village, the population was spread out, with 19.7% under the age of 18, 8.6% from 18 to 24, 34.8% from 25 to 44, 22.5% from 45 to 64, and 14.4% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 37 years. For every 100 females, there were 82.5 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 77.8 males. The median income for a household in the village was $68,762, and the median income for a family was $82,445. Males had a median income of $61,699 versus $41,054 for females. The per capita income for the village was $39,472. About 1.8% of families and 4.7% of the population were below the poverty line, including 5.4% of those under age 18 and 4.6% of those age 65 or over.

Transportation
Tarrytown has access to highways I-87 and I-287, and is the site of the eastern end of the New York State Thruway's Tappan Zee Bridge. I-87 continues south to New York City, while I-287 heads east across Westchester to link up with the Saw Mill River Parkway, the Sprain Brook Parkway, the Merritt Parkway/Hutchinson River Parkway and I-95.

Tarrytown railway station is served by Metro-North Railroad commuter service. Metro-North trains go to New York City's Grand Central Terminal, and also go as far north as Poughkeepsie. Tarrytown is a major stop on the Hudson Line due to a large number of commuters crossing the Tappan Zee Bridge on Hudson Link buses from Rockland County to catch express service to Manhattan.

Bee-Line Bus System service is also provided within Tarrytown:
 * BL1T: Tarrytown Railroad Station, Getty Square intermodal transit hub in Yonkers, or IRT 242nd Street Station, Bronx
 * BL1W: White Plains, Getty Square intermodal transit hub in Yonkers, or IRT 242nd Street Station, Bronx (via NY 119)
 * BL13/BL13B: Ossining Railroad Station or Port Chester

Points of interest

 * Lyndhurst, a Gothic Revival mansion formerly owned by Jay Gould
 * Sunnyside, historic home of author Washington Irving
 * Tarrytown Music Hall, one of the oldest surviving theaters in Westchester County; one of 6% in the US built before 1900
 * Tappan Z Gallery Contemporary and Fine Art Gallery in the heart of Main Street
 * Marymount campus of Fordham University
 * Reformed Church of the Tarrytowns
 * Foster Memorial AME Zion Church
 * Hackley School
 * Historical Society Serving Sleepy Hollow and Tarrytown
 * Carrollcliffe
 * Tarrytown Reservoir
 * Tarrytown Lighthouse
 * Washington Irving High School

Education
Tarrytown was home to Marymount College, an independent women's college established in 1907. Amid financial struggle, Marymount was taken over by Fordham University in 2002, but the effort was unsuccessful: the last graduates of "Marymount College of Fordham University" received diplomas in 2007. The historic hilltop campus was sold to the Swiss firm EF and became a branch of its foreign exchange secondary school, the EF International Academy.

Local public schools are operated in concert with the neighboring village of Sleepy Hollow. A joint association, Public Schools of the Tarrytowns, supervises four separate K-8 schools, as well as Sleepy Hollow High School. A Roman Catholic elementary, the Transfiguration School, was established in 1949 and is maintained by the local parish.

Tarrytown is also home to the Hackley School, a private K–12 college preparatory. Situated on Castle Ridge, the school first opened in 1899.

The Westchester Library System has its headquarters just outside Tarrytown in an unincorporated area of Greenburgh.

Culture
In 2018 Brooke Lea Foster of The New York Times stated that it was one of several "Rivertowns" in New York State, which she described as among the "least suburban of suburbs, each one celebrated by buyers there for its culture and hip factor, as much as the housing stock and sophisticated post-city life." Of those, Foster stated that Irvington was "the most charming".

Religion
Tarrytown's churches (many of which are located on Broadway, the village's largest thoroughfare) cover all major denominations. Tarrytown is served by Episcopalian, Baptist, Catholic, Christian Science, Methodist, Reformed, and Korean churches. The Foster Memorial AME Zion Church on Wildey Street is the oldest black church in Westchester County. Tarrytown's single largest religious denomination is Roman Catholicism, with over 60% of residents of Tarrytown and Sleepy Hollow identifying as Catholics. Three Roman Catholic churches (Church of the Transfiguration, Immaculate Conception Church, and St. Theresa's) serve the community's Catholics and provide numerous social services including the Transfiguration School. Tarrytown is also the home of the motherhouse of the Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary, a Catholic woman's religious order that founded and staffed the now-defunct Marymount College (now EF School).

Tarrytown also has a large Jewish community, which encompasses all major denominations. Temple Beth Abraham, located on Leroy Avenue, services both the Reform and Conservative communities. The DoubleTree Inn features a Glatt Kosher kitchen, as well as an Orthodox prayer service (minyan) on the Jewish sabbath (Shabbat). The local Jewish Community Center, JCC on the Hudson, features family programs, camps, and educational opportunities from a non-denominational approach.

Notable people
Notable current and former residents of Tarrytown include:
 * Louis Klopsch, world famous Christian philanthropist and editor of the Christian Herald, buried in the Tarrytown Cemetery
 * Jacob M. Appel, author
 * Adam Badeau, Union Army brevet brigadier general and author
 * J. David Bleich (born 1936), rabbi and authority on Jewish law and ethics
 * Tim Maia, Brazilian singer, a.k.a. "Jimmy the Brazilian", lived in Tarrytown for a time during the late 1950s and early 1960s (1959-1963) before being arrested in Miami and deported back to his South American home country after a stint of six months in jail.
 * Cabell "Cab" Calloway, III (December 25, 1907 – November 18, 1994), jazz singer and bandleader
 * Greg Fitzsimmons, comedian
 * Stuart W. Frost, entomologist, author, and professor at Pennsylvania State University
 * Barbara Bel Geddes, actress in Dallas
 * Eric Gaffney, former band member of Sebadoh
 * Charles Griffes, composer and educator
 * Milo Hastings, early 20th century science fiction writer and health food advocate
 * Washington Irving, writer and diplomat
 * Caitlyn Jenner, Olympian athlete
 * Bill Kerr, professional football player
 * Moon Kook-jin, founder of Kahr Arms
 * Carolyn Ringer Lepre, academic administrator
 * Kevin Meaney, stand-up comedian and actor
 * Norman Mingo, illustrator
 * Sylvia Nasar, author recognized for A Beautiful Mind
 * Florence Oberle, actress
 * Moses F. Odell, congressman
 * Clara Claiborne Park (1923–2010), author who raised awareness of autism
 * Brett Pesce, professional hockey player for the New Jersey Devils
 * William Prince, actor
 * Joe Queenan, writer
 * Jenifer Rajkumar, politician
 * David Sanborn, musician
 * Jerome David Salinger, writer
 * Jesse Lee Soffer, actor
 * Sam Tanenhaus, American historian, biographer, editor of The New York Times Book Review and Week in Review, and journalist
 * Mark Twain, writer
 * Mark Whipple, football coach
 * Vanessa L. Williams, actress
 * Rockwell Kent, artist, illustrator

Films

 * The 1962 release of The Brain That Wouldn't Die was shot in and around Tarrytown in 1959
 * In the movie On the Waterfront, Edie mentions that St. Ann's, the Catholic college where she is studying to be a teacher, is in Tarrytown, out in the country.
 * Main character in the movie The Commuter (2018) lives in Tarrytown.
 * The 2000 festive movie The Family Man was filmed in and around Tarrytown.

Music

 * The Frankie Valli song "Patch of Blue" (1970) references the town.
 * The Vampire Weekend song "Finger Back" (2013) references the town.

Literature

 * Washington Irving's story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is set in and around Tarrytown. The name "Sleepy Hollow" comes from a secluded glen located north of Tarrytown. In 1996, the residents of North Tarrytown (a village north of Tarrytown around the area of Sleepy Hollow) voted to formally change the village's name to Sleepy Hollow.
 * Jessica Verday's young adult novel The Hollow is a modern interpretation of the events of Irving's story, and is likewise set in the Tarrytown and Sleepy Hollow area.
 * The Ellery Queen novel The Dragon's Teeth is set primarily in Tarrytown.
 * Gabrielle Zevin's young adult novel Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac is set primarily in the Tarrytown/Sleepy Hollow area.
 * Judy Blume's children's novel Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great is mostly set in Tarrytown, where the title character and her family spend their summer vacation.
 * In F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Beautiful and Damned, millionaire Adam Patch's estate is said to be in Tarrytown.

Television

 * In the TV series Divorce, Frances Dufresne lives in nearby Hastings and opens an art gallery on Main Street in Tarrytown.
 * In the TV series Forever, episode 21 takes place in Tarrytown.
 * In the TV series Mad Men, Betty Draper plans to take her children on an antiquing trip to Tarrytown (Season 3, Episode 2), and her and Don's third child, Eugene Scott Draper, is born here.
 * In 1970s sitcom Rhoda, Marion, the ex-wife of Rhoda's husband Joe, lives in Tarrytown.
 * In season 3 episode 25 (Sons and Lovers, Part 2) of the TV series "Will & Grace", Karen Walker says that she can imagine her friend Grace Adler living in Tarrytown.
 * The children's TV series Jay Jay the Jet Plane centered on aircraft that live in Tarrytown.

Theater

 * The Tarrytown Widow, farcical comedy written by Charles T. Dazey, 1897.
 * Tarrytown, a chamber musical by Adam Wachter which premiered in 2017.

Video games

 * In The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, Tarrey Town and its founder Hudson are named after Tarrytown and the nearby Hudson River.
 * Tarrytown is going to be included as a playable location in the upcoming Penny Blood video game (spiritual successor of the Shadow Hearts series of games, a franchise well known for its usage of places which exist, or existed before, in real life).

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Thornwood, New York

Thornwood is a hamlet (unincorporated community), census-designated place (CDP), and postal designation (with zip code 10594) in the town of Mount Pleasant in Westchester County, New York. The population was 3,759 at the 2010 census.

History
In 1891, Lewis Smadback started a very successful development at what is now Thornwood. The village of Sherman Park was incorporated in 1906 and the name was changed to Hillside in 1909. The village was dissolved in 1914, when Thornwood took its current name and became a hamlet within the Town of Mount Pleasant. It is possible that Thornwood is a derivative of "Hawthorne's Woods," since Hawthorne is an adjacent hamlet. Another possibility is Thornwood is named after an area in Glasgow, Scotland.

Thornwood once had a large and thriving Westchester marble quarry near its heart, the intersection of Route 141 and Kensico Road (known as Four Corners). Dating back to 1845, the quarry supplied white marble which helped build St. Patrick's Cathedral (hence the name of Marble Avenue which runs through the hamlet). The quarry pit was filled in during the mid-1980s, and the Town Center shopping mall was constructed over it.

Thornwood once had a station on the Harlem Line of the Metro-North Railroad and was approximately a 48-minute ride to Grand Central Terminal. The station building remains on Commerce Street, but the stop was eliminated when the up-starter Harlem Line (north of North White Plains) was electrified in the mid-1980s. Thornwood was the only stop eliminated as a result of the electrification process. While the station could accommodate diesel trains, the curvature of the tracks as proceeding north to Pleasantville made the construction at Thornwood of an elevated platform, necessary for electric trains, impractical.

The death of baby Kristie Fischer took place in 1991.

Geography
Thornwood is located at 41.12167°N, -73.77694°W (41.121557, -73.777071). According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the hamlet has a total area of 2.9 km2, all land.

Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there were 5,980 people, 1,886 households, and 1,559 families residing in the hamlet. The population density was 1,760.9 PD/sqmi. There were 1,921 housing units at an average density of 565.7 /sqmi. The racial makeup of the hamlet was 90.97% White, 2.36% African American, 0.03% Native American, 4.00% Asian, 0.07% Pacific Islander, 1.39% from other races, and 1.19% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 5.80% of the population.

There were 1,886 households, out of which 40.7% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 72.5% were married couples living together, 7.2% had a female householder with no husband present, and 17.3% were non-families. 14.8% of all households were made up of individuals, and 6.9% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 3.06 and the average family size was 3.39.

The population is spread out with 28.3% under the age of 18, 6.3% from 18 to 24, 28.3% from 25 to 44, 23.9% from 45 to 64, and 13.3% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 38 years. For every 100 females, there were 97.8 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 95.7 males.

The median income for a household in the hamlet was $88,971, and the median income for a family was $98,313. Males had a median income of $73,438 versus $40,365 for females. The per capita income for the hamlet was $36,254. About 2.2% of families and 4.0% of the population were below the poverty line, including 2.6% of those under age 18 and 3.9% of those age 65 or over.

Economy
Thornwood is the home to the North American headquarters for the Carl Zeiss Corporation, a multinational German manufacturer of optical systems, industrial measurements and medical devices.

Religious institutes
The Legion of Christ, a Roman Catholic religious institute, operates the Our Lady of Thornwood Conference, Education and Training Center on the site of a former IBM facility on Columbus Avenue. The seminarians studying here for the Catholic priesthood usually major in philosophy at the Thornwood Conference Center. However, due to a lack of vocations and private funds—partly due to the abuse scandal caused by the order's founder, Father Marcial Maciel Degollado, which resulted in a Vatican investigation and revision—the entire course of Seminary studies will now be taken at the Legionaries' Seminary in Rome, Italy and the building will be sold.

Emergency services
Thornwood's residents are served by the Mt. Pleasant Police Department and the volunteer Thornwood Fire Department. The fire department serves approximately 5,000 residents in a 5 sqmi suburban area. Its equipment includes:
 * Engine 88 - 2010 Sutphen Monarch pumper(supply & mutual aid engine)
 * Engine 89 - 2017 Sutphen Monarch pumper (initial attack engine)
 * Rescue 75 - 2005 Pierce Dash (rescue pumper)
 * Tower Ladder 1 - 1998 Sutphen 95' ladder
 * Utility 55 - 2020 Chevrolet Silverado 2500 HD
 * Mini Attack 19 - Polaris Utility Body 6x6
 * 2471, 2472, 2473 - Chief cars

Thornwood is under the jurisdiction of Pleasantville Volunteer Ambulance Corps. The Pleasantville VAC fleet consists of 7601, 7602, 7603, Rehab 7605, and Captains Car 7611. They are located at 30 Gramercy Place in Thornwood across from the town center.

Education
Thornwood is part of the Mt. Pleasant Central School District, which includes the Hawthorne Elementary, Columbus Elementary School, Westlake Middle School and Westlake High School. The former Thornwood Elementary School was closed and converted to condominiums in the 1980s, and the former Thornwood Junior High School later became Columbus Elementary School.

Notable people

 * Rob Astorino, politician and former Westchester County Executive
 * Carmen Carrozza, accordionist

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Tuckahoe (village), New York

Tuckahoe is a village in Westchester County, New York, United States. One-and-a-half miles long and three-quarters of a mile wide, with the Bronx River serving as its western boundary, the Village of Tuckahoe is approximately sixteen miles north of midtown Manhattan in Southern Westchester County. As of the 2010 census, the village's population was 6,486.

The village can be reached by the Metro-North railroad system. The Tuckahoe and Crestwood stations are 32 minutes and 34 minutes from New York City's Grand Central Terminal, respectively.

Industry and growth

The name “Tuckahoe," meaning “it is globular," was a general term used by the Native Americans of the region when describing various bulbous roots which were used as food. Throughout the 1700s and 1800s, Tuckahoe was a rural, minor community which was part of the larger town of Eastchester. It wasn't until the early nineteenth century that Tuckahoe first became a semi-prominent part of the New York Metropolitan Area upon the discovery of vast, high-quality, white marble deposits near the Bronx River by Scottish businessman Alexander Masterson. Through the use of his financial wealth and influence, Masterson started Tuckahoe's marble industry, its first quarry in 1812. The high quality of "Tuckahoe Marble" was in great demand, quickly transforming the once quiet village into the "marble capital of the world". In the 1840s, to serve quarry owners who transported marble to the city, the New York and Harlem Railroad opened two train depots in Tuckahoe. The booming industry drew succeeding waves of German, Irish and Italian immigrant workers, and, after the Civil War, African-Americans who migrated from the South. The Tuckahoe quarries produced heavily for almost a century before supplies dwindled and the industry ended. The village's Church of the Immaculate Conception was constructed for the predominantly Catholic population using Tuckahoe Marble.

During the 1920s Burroughs Wellcome (now part of GlaxoSmithKline) established research and manufacturing facilities on Scarsdale Road on land acquired from the Hodgman Rubber Company,  and for many years was a leading industry in Tuckahoe until the company moved to Research Triangle Park in North Carolina in 1971. The Nobel Prize winning scientists Gertrude B. Elion and George H. Hitchings worked there and invented drugs still used many years later, such as the cancer and autoimmune disease suppressant mercaptopurine.

Geography
Tuckahoe village is located at 40.95306°N, -73.82361°W (40.953110, -73.823609), which is the lower, central section of Westchester County. Tuckahoe is bordered by the village of Bronxville to its south and the unincorporated portion of the town of Eastchester to the north and east. The Bronx River separates it from the Crestwood section of Yonkers to its west. Easily accessible roadways include the Bronx River Parkway, White Plains Road (Route 22), the Major Deegan Expressway (I-87), the Hutchinson River Parkway, and the Cross County Parkway.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 0.6 sqmi, all land.

Demographics
As of the census of 2010, there were 6,486 people, 2,855 households, and 1,657 families residing in the village. There were 3,122 housing units. The racial makeup of the village was 67.5% White, 10.2% African American, 12.1% Hispanic or Latin of any race, 8.2% Asian, 1.7% from two or more races, 0.2% from other races, and 0.1% Native American.

There were 2,627 households, out of which 29.4% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 42.0% were married couples living together, 12.7% had a female householder with no husband present, and 42.0% were non-families. In total, 37.3% of all households were made up of individuals, and 27.9% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.27 and the average family size was 3.04.

In the village, the population was spread out, with 23.7% under the age of 20, 4.7% from 20 to 24, 29.3% from 25 to 44, 18.9% from 45 to 64, and 15.3% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 40 years. The male population represented 46.4% of the population whereas females accounted for 53.6% of the population.

The median and mean incomes for a household in the village was $68,648 and $129,406, respectively, and the median income for a family was $92,250. Approximately 14.7% of the village population earned income of $200,000 or more and the per capita income for the village was $56,057. About 1.1% of families and 3.9% of the population were below the poverty line, including 0.0% of those under age 18 and 2.9% of those age 65 or over.

Notable people

 * Al Carapella, football player
 * Robert Creamer, sportswriter
 * Tom Creavy, golfer, winner of 1931 PGA Championship
 * Connie Kay, drummer
 * Eric Naposki, National Football League player
 * David Osit, documentary filmmaker
 * Robert Seguso, professional tennis player

In popular culture
The village was fictionally represented as the setting of the CBS sitcom Maude from 1972 to 1978.

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Valhalla, New York

Valhalla is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) within the town of Mount Pleasant, in Westchester County, New York, United States, in the New York City metropolitan area. Its population was 3,162 at the 2010 U.S. Census. The name was inspired by a fan of the composer Richard Wagner, and the hamlet is known both as the home of the primary hospital campus of Westchester Medical Center and New York Medical College and as the burial place of numerous noted people. Valhalla is the realm of the gods in Norse mythology.

Kensico Cemetery
The Kensico Cemetery was founded in 1889 in Valhalla at a time when many of the cemeteries in the city of New York were filling up, and several rural cemeteries were founded near the railroads that served the metropolis. Initially 250 acre in size, the cemetery was expanded to 600 acre in 1905, but reduced to 460 acre in 1912, when a portion of its land was sold to the neighboring Gate of Heaven Cemetery.

The Kensico Cemetery is the final resting place of numerous famous people, including legendary New York Yankees star Lou Gehrig; virtuoso pianist, composer, and conductor Sergei Rachmaninoff; the author Ayn Rand; and NBC founder David Sarnoff.

Valhalla and neighboring Hawthorne are fairly densely packed with cemeteries, albeit not as densely as Colma, California.

Recent events
On July 12, 2006, the Westchester tornado, an F2 event, touched down in nearby Hawthorne and proceeded to move into Valhalla, causing much destruction in the Stonegate section of the community. This was one of the strongest tornadoes the area had ever seen, as tornadoes of this magnitude are mostly in the Midwest. Power lines were knocked down, and hundreds of trees were uprooted. There were no deaths, but much of Valhalla changed as a result.

On September 11, 2006, The Rising memorial to September 11 victims was dedicated at the Kensico Dam by Westchester County and the Westchester County September 11 Memorial Committee. The Rising honors the 109 county residents who were killed in the terrorist attacks.

In July 2007, Valhalla hosted the opening ceremony of the 2007 Empire State Games. The ceremony was held at the Kensico Dam honoring the athletes and their families and was attended by Governor Eliot Spitzer among other politicians. ESPN's Jeremy Schaap was a keynote speaker.

On February 3, 2015, in the Valhalla train crash, a Metro-North train crashed into a Mercedes-Benz SUV that was stuck on the tracks at Commerce Street near the Taconic State Parkway. The crash caused six deaths and 15 injuries, including seven serious.

Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the hamlet has a total area of 2.1 km2, all land.

Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there were 5,379 people, 1,847 households, and 1,470 families residing in the hamlet. The population density was 2,010.6 PD/sqmi. There were 1,886 housing units at an average density of 704.9 /sqmi. The racial makeup of the hamlet was 95.85% White, 0.76% African American, 0.07% Native American, 2.12% Asian, 0.02% Pacific Islander, 0.30% from other races, and 0.87% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 3.36% of the population.

Valhalla has a large Italian-American population. As of the 2000 U.S. Census, 34.2% of residents were of Italian ancestry, the 28th highest number of Italian-Americans per capita of all communities in the United States.

There were 1,847 households, out of which 33.5% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 69.2% were married couples living together, 7.8% had a female householder with no husband present, and 20.4% were non-families. 16.9% of all households were made up of individuals, and 7.7% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.83 and the average family size was 3.20.

In the hamlet the population was spread out, with 23.3% under the age of 18, 5.9% from 18 to 24, 28.1% from 25 to 44, 24.9% from 45 to 64, and 17.8% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 41 years. For every 100 females, there were 94.5 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 89.6 males.

The median income for a household in the hamlet was $76,003, and the median income for a family was $91,205. Males had a median income of $60,814 versus $38,608 for females. The per capita income for the hamlet was $33,939. About 0.6% of families and 1.7% of the population were below the poverty line, including 1.7% of those under age 18 and 1.4% of those age 65 or over.

As noted above, Valhalla's population was 3,162 at the 2010 U.S. Census, an apparent decline of 2,217 that may reflect the impact of the 2006 tornado, but more likely due to redrawing of CDP borders, which can change from one census to the next.

Economy and institutions
Valhalla is the location of Westchester Medical Center, New York Medical College, Westchester Community College of the State University of New York, and the Westchester County jail.

In April 2017, Westchester County officials unveiled plans for an 80-acre, 3 million square-foot biotechnology hub to be built with US$1.2 billion in private investment on vacant land adjacent to Westchester Medical Center in Valhalla; the bioscience center, a public-private partnership, is anticipated to create 12,000 new jobs and include over 2.25 million square feet of biotechnology research space.

Highlights
Valhalla is the location of the Mount Pleasant Town Hall as well as the Mount Pleasant Town Pool and Community Center. The main street in Valhalla is Columbus Avenue, which runs the length of the hamlet. Along this road is the Valhalla train station. The Valhalla train station is located right off the Taconic State Parkway, across from the hamlet's commercial center. The train station is the next major stop of Metro-North Railroad after North White Plains, when proceeding northbound from New York City.

Columbus Avenue also contains the Kensico Dam, and Holy Name of Jesus Church, as well as shops and restaurants. The Valhalla ZIP Code (10595) includes portions of the towns of Mount Pleasant, Greenburgh, and North Castle. The hamlet is bordered by the North White Plains area of North Castle, the northernmost portion of the town of Greenburgh, and the hamlets of Thornwood and Hawthorne, both within Mount Pleasant. The Valhalla School District, comprising parts of the three towns, is served by the Virginia Road Elementary School, located in the southernmost part of the hamlet in Greenburgh, and the Kensico School and Valhalla Middle and High Schools, all located along Columbus Avenue in Mount Pleasant. Some residents with Valhalla addresses are in the Mount Pleasant Central School District, served by Westlake High School in Thornwood. The John A. Hartford House was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977 as a National Historic Landmark. It serves as administrative offices of SUNY Westchester Community College.

Education
Public education in Valhalla is provided by the Valhalla Union Free School District, which operates four schools: Virginia Road School, Kensico School, Valhalla Middle School, and Valhalla High School.

Some areas of Valhalla are served by Westlake High School, located in nearby Thornwood.

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York previously operated a Catholic school in Valhalla, Holy Name of Jesus School, which closed in 2013.

Notable people

 * Kevin Meaney (1956–2016), actor and comedian
 * Dalmazio Santini (1923–2001), composer
 * Sal Yvars (1924–2008), Major League Baseball player

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Verplanck, New York

Verplanck is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) in the town of Cortlandt, Westchester County, New York, United States. As of the 2010 census it had a population of 1,729. Both the hamlet and Verplanck's Point derive their name from the activities of the Verplanck family, established in New Amsterdam by Abraham Isaacsen Verplanck in the 1630s.

History

Verplanck lies on a small peninsula in the extreme northwest of the town of Cortlandt. Tucked along the east bank of the Hudson River, it is bordered by Cortlandt's village of Buchanan and hamlet of Montrose.

Verplanck's Point
Verplanck's Point lies at Verplanck's southernmost end. The Continental Army of General George Washington encamped at Verplanck's Point during the Revolutionary War, as a staging area for crossing the Hudson at adjacent Kings Ferry, lying between the Point and Montrose. Pursued by the army of British General William Howe, it crossed to Stony Point on the west bank, en route to Fort Lee, New Jersey. From there it continued south to Yorktown, Virginia, where Washington received the surrender of General Charles Cornwallis on October 19, 1781.

A year later, in September 1782, Verplanck's Point, an alluvial plain and natural place for an encampment during the inherent bottleneck of an arduous and slow ferrying of men and materiel across the river, again became the site of the Continental Army's bivouac upon crossing the Hudson.

John Trumbull painted a full-length oil portrait of Washington at Verplanck's Point, and gifted it to Martha Washington. Based on its success he produced a much larger work scaled up to nearly four times its size for the City of New York, George Washington, substituting Evacuation Day of New York City in 1783 as its backdrop for departing French commander-in-chief General Rochambeau's review of Washington's Continental Army troops on September 14, 1782.

Geography
Verplanck is located at 41.25306°N, -73.95972°W (41.252930, -73.959664).

According to the United States Census Bureau, the hamlet has a total area of 0.8 sqmi, of which 0.7 sqmi is land and 0.1 sqmi, or 11.54%, is water.

Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there were 777 people, 300 households, and 204 families residing in the hamlet. The population density was 1,121.1 PD/sqmi. There were 311 housing units at an average density of 448.7 /sqmi. The racial makeup of the hamlet was 95.88% White, 0.26% Asian, 2.19% from other races, and 1.67% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 6.82% of the population.

There were 300 households, out of which 33.7% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 50.7% were married couples living together, 12.7% had a female householder with no husband present, and 32.0% were non-families. 28.7% of all households were made up of individuals, and 14.0% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.58 and the average family size was 3.17.

In the hamlet the population was spread out, with 26.1% under the age of 18, 5.9% from 18 to 24, 31.0% from 25 to 44, 23.0% from 45 to 64, and 13.9% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 37 years. For every 100 females, there were 88.1 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 90.7 males.

The median income for a household in the hamlet was $36,548, and the median income for a family was $51,375. Males had a median income of $50,526 versus $27,250 for females. The per capita income for the hamlet was $19,842. About 20.2% of families and 21.9% of the population were below the poverty line, including 17.8% of those under age 18 and 38.0% of those age 65 or over.

Half Moon
Verplanck is the home of a replica of the ship the Half Moon, with which Henry Hudson explored the Hudson River.

The Market on The River
From May through October, The Market on the River is hosted on Sunday at the Cortlandt Waterfront Park. Vendors include farmers, coffee roasters, food purveyors, and craft makers.

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White Plains, New York

White Plains is a city and the county seat of Westchester County, New York, United States. It is the 29th-largest municipality in the state of New York, an inner suburb of New York City, and a commercial hub of Westchester County, a densely populated suburban county that is home to about one million people. White Plains is located in south-central Westchester County. Its downtown (Mamaroneck Avenue) is 25 mi north of Midtown Manhattan.

The city's total population was 59,599 in the 2020 census, up from 53,077 at the 2010 census. According to the city government, the daytime weekday population is estimated at 250,000.

Early history
At the time of the Dutch settlement of Manhattan in the early 17th century, the region had been used as farmland by the Weckquaeskeck tribe, a Wappinger people, and was called "Quarropas". To early traders it was known as "the White Plains", either from the white balsam (Gnaphalium polycephalum) which was said to have covered it, or from the heavy mist that local tradition suggests hovered over the swamplands near the Bronx River. The first non-native settlement came in November 1683, when a party of Connecticut Puritans moved westward from an earlier settlement in Rye and bought about 4400 acre, presumably from the Weckquaeskeck. However, John Richbell of Mamaroneck claimed to have earlier title to much of the territory through his purchase of a far larger plot extending 20 mi inland, perhaps from a different tribe. The matter was not settled until 1721, when a Royal Patent for White Plains was granted by King George II.

In 1758, White Plains became the seat of Westchester County when the colonial government for the county left West Chester, which was located in what is now the northern part of the borough of the Bronx, in New York City. The unincorporated village remained part of the Town of Rye until 1788 when the town of White Plains was created.

On July 9, 1776, a copy of the Declaration of Independence was delivered to the New York Provincial Congress, which was meeting in the county courthouse. The delegates quickly adopted a resolution approving the Declaration, thus declaring both the colony's independence and the formation of the State of New York. The Declaration itself was first publicly read from the steps of the courthouse on July 11.

During September and October 1776, troops led by George Washington took up positions in the hills of the village, hotly pursued by the British under General Sir William Howe, who attacked on October 28. The Battle of White Plains took place primarily on Chatterton Hill, (later known as "Battle Hill," and located just west of what was then a swamp but is now the downtown area) and the Bronx River. Howe's force of 4,000–6,000 British and Hessian soldiers required three attacks before the Continentals, numbering about 1,600 under the command of Generals Alexander McDougall and Israel Putnam, retreated, joining Washington's main force, which did not take part in the battle. Howe's forces had suffered 250 casualties, a severe loss, and he made no attempt to pursue the Continentals, whose casualties were about 125 dead and wounded. Three days after the battle, Washington withdrew north of the village, which was then occupied by Howe's forces. But after several inconclusive skirmishes over the next week, Howe withdrew on November 5, leaving White Plains to the Continentals. Ironically, one of Washington's subordinates, Major John Austin, who was probably drunk after having celebrated the enemy's withdrawal, reentered the village with his detachment and proceeded to burn it down. Although he was court-martialed and convicted for this action, he escaped punishment.

The first United States Census, conducted in 1790, listed the White Plains population at 505, of whom 46 were slaves. (New York City's population at that time was about 33,000.) By 1800, the population stood at 575 and in 1830, 830. By 1870, 26 years after the arrival of the New York Central Railroad, it had swollen to 2,630 and by 1890 to 4,508. In the decades that followed the count grew to 7,899 (1900) and 26,425 (1910). White Plains was incorporated as a village in 1866 and as a city in 1916.

Modern history
After World War II, White Plains' downtown area developed into a shopping district featuring branches of many famous New York-based department and specialty stores. Some of these retail locations were the first large-scale suburban stores built in the United States. In 1949, Macy's launched a grand White Plains store on Main Street across from City Hall. Other prestigious stores followed, such as B. Altman and Co., Rogers Peet, Saks Fifth Avenue, Lord & Taylor, Alexander's, Wallachs, and a short-lived branch of Bergdorf Goodman, which was converted to sister chain Neiman Marcus in 1981. Construction of nearby parkways and expressways in the 1940s through the 1970s brought shoppers from elsewhere.

During the late 1960s, the city of White Plains developed an extensive urban renewal plan for residential, commercial and mixed-use redevelopment that called for the demolition of its entire central business district from the Bronx River Parkway east to Mamaroneck Avenue. By 1978, the urban renewal program centered around the construction of the Westchester County Courthouse (1974), the Westchester One office building (1975), the Galleria at White Plains mall (1978), and a number of other office towers, retail centers and smaller commercial buildings. At the time of its construction, the Westchester One building was the largest office building between New York City and Albany, and east to Hartford.

Beginning in the 1950s, many major corporations based in New York City moved operations to White Plains and other suburban locations. These included General Foods, PepsiCo, Hitachi USA, IBM, Nestlé, Snapple, and Heineken USA. In the 1980s, at least 50 Fortune 500 corporations had their headquarters in Westchester County and nearby Fairfield County, Connecticut, but with the corporate mergers and downsizing of the 1990s, many of these companies reduced their operations in White Plains or left the area completely.

White Plains is home to the Arts Exchange Building, which serves as the headquarters of the Westchester Arts Council. Since March 1999, visual and performing artists, emerging cultural organizations and new creative businesses have had studios and offices in the building. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

The construction of the Galleria at White Plains mall in the 1970s ushered in a new era of downtown retail and office development, but by the early 1990s, economic development had stagnated, hampered by a deep recession and the overbuilding of the commercial real estate markets. For a time, White Plains had one of the highest office vacancy rates in the northeastern United States. Consolidation within the retail industry led to the closing of many of downtown's department and specialty stores. After its bankruptcy, the B. Altman store closed in 1989 and was demolished to make way for The Westchester, an upscale mall that opened in 1995 with anchors Nordstrom and Neiman Marcus. A freestanding branch of Macy's, one of downtown's original retail anchor stores, was moved two blocks away to The Galleria mall by its parent company, Federated Department Stores, replacing sister retailer Abraham & Straus when these two store divisions were merged in 1995

A new courthouse for the Southern District of New York was opened in 1998 and several large-scale office properties in and near downtown, including the former General Foods headquarters building, were retrofitted and leased to accommodate smaller businesses. The Macy's store on Main Street remained vacant for several years until it was also later demolished to make way for the massive City Center at White Plains complex. This large mixed-use development features two 35-story apartment and condominium towers, 600000 sqft of retail, restaurant and entertainment space and new parking facilities.

Beginning in 2000, the city's permanent population experienced a growth spurt as additional apartment buildings were constructed. The city is 31 minutes by express train from Midtown Manhattan, and this has attracted new residents who commute to New York City for work. In early 2003, the Saks Fifth Avenue location was closed and demolished; it was replaced in 2004 with the large retail complex called The Source at White Plains. In 2007, construction was completed on Renaissance Square, a downtown parcel that includes the luxury Ritz-Carlton hotel.

Geography and cityscape
White Plains is bordered to the north by the town of North Castle, to the north and east by the town/village of Harrison, to the south by the town/village of Scarsdale, and to the west by the town of Greenburgh. The city is about 7 mi east of the Hudson River and 7 mi northwest of the Long Island Sound. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, White Plains has a land area of 9.77 sqmi, and a population density of 5,820.3 PD/sqmi.

Climate
White Plains has a humid continental climate, with four distinct seasons. Winter is cold and wet, with occasional snow and an average January temperature of 29.8 °F, and summer is hot and humid, with a mean July temperature of 74.0 °F. In spring and fall, temperatures can fluctuate from cool to hot, but are usually mild and comfortable. Precipitation is plentiful in all months of the year. The city receives about 229 clear or partly cloudy days per annum, with July typically being the sunniest month, averaging more than 70 percent of possible sunshine.

The lowest temperature ever recorded in White Plains since record-keeping began in 1948 was −10 °F on January 19, 1977, and the highest ever was 102 °F on July 6, 2010. Over the course of a typical year, there are 18 days of at least 90 F temperatures, and seven days when temperatures do not rise above the freezing point.

Neighborhoods
The City of White Plains includes various neighborhoods of differing characters and sizes, some of which contain multiple subsections:

 * Battle Hill

 * Carhart

 * Colonial Corners

 * Dekalb

 * Downtown White Plains

 * East White Plains

 * Eastview

 * Ferris Avenue

 * Fisher Hill

 * Fulton Street

 * Gedney (Gedney Circle, Gedney Farm Gardens, Gedney Farms, Gedney Manor, Gedney Meadows, Gedney Park)

 * Green Acres

 * Haviland Manor

 * Highland Park

 * Highlands (Lower Highlands, Upper Highlands)

 * Hillair

 * Holbrooke

 * Idle Forest

 * North Broadway

 * North Street (Club Pointe, Country Club Ridge, The Fairways, The Greens)

 * North White Plains

 * Old Mamaroneck Road

 * Old Oak Ridge

 * Prospect Park

 * Reynal Park

 * Rocky Dell

 * Rosedale (Brook Hills, Cobblefield, Rosedale Estates, Rosedale Gardens, Rosedale Manor, Rosedale Park, Rosedale Woods)

 * Saxon Woods

 * Soundview

 * Westminster Ridge

 * Woodcrest Heights

Parks and recreation

 * Ebersole Ice Rink
 * Maple Moor Golf Course
 * Saxon Woods Park provides a range of recreational amenities, including trails, a standard and miniature golf course, and the largest swimming pool in Westchester.
 * Silver Lake Preserve
 * Westchester Golf Range

Private clubs

 * Knollwood Country Club
 * Metropolis Country Club
 * Westchester Hills Golf Club

Economy
The economy of White Plains revolves around large companies that have moved to the city such as ITT, Xylem, Bunge, and Combe. Other companies based in White Plains include Alliance Bernstein, PURE Insurance, Dannon, the New York Power Authority, New York-Presbyterian Hospital, Krasdale Foods (which supplies products for the C-Town supermarket chain), Nine West, and AboveNet, as well as the U.S. headquarters of Heineken International. At the turn of the second millennium, there was a boom in commercial businesses and residential living.

In 2000, Prodigy moved its headquarters from White Plains Plaza in White Plains to Austin, Texas. White Plains continues to attract regional and national business as well as international headquarters such as Nine West Group, Allegiance Financial, ITT Corporation, Nokia, Heineken USA, Alliance Bernstein, AT&T and Verizon.

Public schools
The White Plains Public School System, with a 2006 enrollment of more than 6,000 students, maintains five elementary schools (grades K–5), two middle schools (Eastview for grade 6, Highlands for grades 7–8) and one high school (9–12), as well as auxiliary facilities, including a pre-kindergarten program, a community school (grades 7–12), adult and continuing education, and a program for school-age patients at New York-Presbyterian Hospital, whose campus is located in the city.

Since 1988 the district has operated under a Controlled Parents' Choice Program, whereby the parents of elementary school children can select the school which their child attends based on factors other than proximity to the school.

The five elementary schools, in addition to teaching core competencies, have different educational focuses including science and technology, communication arts and global understanding. Two of the elementary schools offer bilingual education where children are taught in both English and Spanish. Both English speaking and Spanish speaking families can choose to be entered into a lottery for a place in the bilingual classes.

White Plains High School, built in the late 1950s (when it moved from The Highlands School) on a 72 acre campus (formerly James Cash Penney's 72-acre Westchester Estate, until he moved to Westport, Connecticut in the 1940s), serves public school students in grades 9–12. The school has a swimming pool that overlooks a small valley that holds the track and football field. The White Plains Recreation Department works with the schools to offer programs.

The district is governed by a seven-member Board of Education, elected at-large for staggered three-year terms. A school superintendent reports to the Board.

Parochial or private schools

 * Archbishop Stepinac High School on Mamaroneck Avenue in the Gedney area
 * Good Counsel Academy, an all-girls Catholic high school for more than a century operated by the Sisters of the Divine Compassion on North Broadway, and Good Counsel Elementary (Pre-K through Grade 8, coeducational) located on the same campus close to the Pace Law School, have both closed, due to declining enrollments, and the aging and increased medical costs for the nuns of the order.,
 * Our Lady of Sorrows Elementary School in the Gedney area
 * German School New York on Partridge Road
 * Solomon Schechter School of Westchester Lower School (Grades K-5)
 * Windward School (for children with language-based learning disabilities)

Colleges and universities

 * Fordham University Westchester Campus is home to Fordham's Graduate Schools of Business Administration, Education, Social Service, and Religion and Religious Education.
 * Pace University The Pace University School of Law is located on North Broadway in White Plains.  This campus originally belonged to Good Counsel College, later named the College of White Plains (1972–1976). The College of White Plains merged with Pace University in 1976.  Pace formerly had a Graduate School campus in an office building on Martine Avenue in downtown White Plains.  That location has closed.
 * The College of Westchester, formerly known as the Westchester Business Institute
 * Berkeley College (closed 2021)
 * Mercy College

Demographics
As of the 2020 United States census, there were 59,559 people residing in the city. The racial makeup of the city was 46.4% white, 11.9% Black, .1% Native American, 8% Asian, <.1% Pacific Islander, .3% from some other race, and 2.7% from two or more races. 32.4% were Hispanic or Latino of any race.

As of the 2010 United States census, there were 56,853 people residing in the city. The racial makeup of the city was 48.9% white, 13.2% Black, .1% Native American, 6.3% Asian, <.1% Pacific Islander, .3% from some other race and 1.5% from two or more races. 29.6% were Hispanic or Latino of any race.

As of the census of 2000, there were 53,077 people, 20,921 households, and 12,704 families residing in the city. The population density was 5,415.5 PD/sqmi. There were 21,576 housing units at an average density of 2,201.4 /sqmi. The racial makeup of the city was 64.93% white, 15.91% African American, 4.5% Asian, .34% Native American, .07% Pacific Islander, 10.37% from other races, and 3.88% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 23.51% of the population. In 2010, Businessweek Magazine named White Plains one of the fastest-growing cities in the United States.

There were 20,921 households, out of which 26.9% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 45.7% were married couples living together, 11.3% had a female householder with no husband present, and 39.3% were non-families. 33.4% of all households were made up of individuals, and 11.8% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.47 and the average family size was 3.14.

In the city, the population was spread out, with 21.2% under the age of 18, 7.5% from 18 to 24, 32.5% from 25 to 44, 23.6% from 45 to 64, and 15.2% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 38 years. For every 100 females, there were 89.8 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 85.7 males.

The median income for a household in the city was $58,545, and the median income for a family was $71,891 (these figures had risen to $73,744 and $92,215 respectively as of a 2007 estimate). Males had a median income of $47,742 versus $36,917 for females. The per capita income for the city was $33,825. About 9.2% of families and 12.4% of the population were below the poverty line, including 12.2% of those under age 18 and 7.2% of those age 65 or over.

10605
The 10605 zip code, spanning the southern portion of the city, encompasses much of White Plains' residential neighborhoods and is primarily composed of single-family housing. As of the 2020 United States Census, there were 19,438 people residing in 10605. The median income for a household in the zip code was $140,262. As of 2024, the average home value in 10605 was $914,020.

Film
Several popular films and TV series have been filmed in White Plains, including The Departed, Across The Universe, Eighth Grade, Alex Strangelove, The Beaver, The Americans, and Sisters. The animated television series Big Mouth also plays a basketball game against the White Plains Tigers. White Plains was also selected as the original filming destination for Larry Charles' Borat, but Sacha Baron Cohen insisted the film be shot in New York City.

Performing arts
The White Plains Performing Arts Center, which can seat up to 410 people, serves as a venue for a variety of events, such as Broadway theatre and concerts.

White Plains is home to the Westchester Philharmonic, the sole professional symphony orchestra in Westchester County. The Philharmonic performs at SUNY Purchase's Performing Arts Center.

Tourism
The White Plains Farmers' Market operates year-round in the city, setting up Downtown at 255 Main Street from May to November, and in the Westchester County Center the rest of the year. In addition to the various food products sold, there is often also live music at the Market.

Sports
White Plains is home to the United States Tennis Association USTA B team.

Westchester County Center is home to the Westchester Knicks of the NBA G League, which began play in the 2014–2015 season. It was also the primary home of the New York Liberty of the Women's National Basketball Association from 2018 to 2020.

The city is also home to USA Rugby League franchise the White Plains Wombats. and North American Rugby League franchise New York Freedom.

Highways
The Cross-Westchester Expressway, or I-287, runs through White Plains, connecting Tarrytown to Rye. On its eastern end, I-287 meets I-95, the major commercial route along the East Coast. At its western end, I-287 meets I-87 and the New York State Thruway on its approach to the Tappan Zee Bridge, which crosses the Hudson River into Rockland County. The bridge allows connections to Rockland, points upstate, and parts of northern New Jersey. Current highway works include pedestrian walkways over the highway, an extra lane on either side, and on/off ramps to help motor traffic and pedestrians. Vegetation removals have upset some in the community but it is reported that the area will be fixed and trees will be replanted when work on the highway comes to an end. The Bronx River Parkway, which runs north–south through White Plains, provides access south to New York City or north to the Kensico Circle in North Castle.

Air
Westchester County Airport is located in Harrison, about 7 mi northeast of downtown White Plains. Often the airlines and traveling public refer to Westchester County Airport as "White Plains." It serves as a minor hub for JetBlue Airways, which offer regularly scheduled flights to several destinations in Florida. In addition, JetBlue began service from Westchester to Nassau, Bahamas in November 2011. White Plains is also located within an hour's drive of two major New York City airports.

Rail
Two Metro-North Railroad stations – the White Plains station, located downtown at Main Street and the Bronx River, and the North White Plains station, provide daily train service to Grand Central Terminal in Midtown Manhattan. Both stations are on the Harlem Line.

Bus
Bee Line is Westchester County's public bus system and several routes pass through White Plains offering local service to many surrounding communities. A few routes serve the Bronx and connect with the New York City subway. The main Bee Line hub in White Plains is the Trans-Center, adjacent to the Metro-North station. Other regional bus services that serve White Plains include the Hudson Link to Rockland County; Leprechaun Lines to Poughkeepsie; CT Transit's I-Bus to Stamford, Connecticut; as well as Greyhound, Trailways and Coach USA service to upstate New York and Long Island.

Fire department
The city of White Plains is protected by professional firefighters of the City of White Plains Fire Bureau, part of the Department of Public Safety, but commonly referred to as the "fire department" (WPFD). The White Plains Fire Department is currently the seventh-largest fire department in the state of New York. The WPFD currently operates out of five fire stations located throughout the city, with each shift commanded by a deputy chief. The WPFD also operates a frontline fire apparatus fleet of five engines, three ladders, one rescue, and numerous other special, support, and reserve units.

Newspaper
The Journal News, the major daily newspaper for the Lower Hudson Valley region, is based in White Plains. The current paper, owned by the Gannett Company, was formed in 1998 by the merger of eleven local papers in Westchester and Rockland counties.

Radio

 * WFAS/1230 is licensed to serve White Plains. It airs a conservative talk radio format.

In television
White Plains is also referenced in season 6, episode 11 of Friends as the location of where Rachel bought an apothecary table that was shipped from Pottery Barn's White Plains location.

Historic sites

 * Jacob Purdy House (1721), used as General George Washington's headquarters in 1778 and possibly in 1776 during the Battle of White Plains in the American Revolutionary War. In the 1960s it was repaired and restored, and in 1973 the structure was moved to its present location. A further renovation was conducted around 1980, involving both professional craftsmen and local teenagers in an apprentice program.
 * Elijah Miller House (1738), is a historic home in North White Plains, town of North Castle, Westchester County, New York. The house is an 18th-century Rhode Island-style farmhouse that was occupied by General George Washington on three occasions, most notably as a headquarters command post during the Battle of White Plains. In 2010 the county legislature passed a $1.2 million bond issue to finance its restoration. County executive Robert Astorino, who had supported preserving the building five years earlier as a member of the legislature, vetoed the measure, saying it should be supported by private funds.
 * White Plains Armory (1910), erected on the site of the first Westchester County Courthouse. A monument in front of the building commemorates the first public reading in New York of the Declaration of Independence, on July 11, 1776.
 * White Plains Rural Cemetery, incorporated 1854, although in use as a cemetery from 1797. The cemetery office occupies the structure that was the first Methodist Church in White Plains (1795, rebuilt in 1797 after a fire on the day of its original dedication).
 * Percy Grainger Home and Studio, occupied by the composer from 1921 until his death in 1961, and by his widow, Ella Ström-Brandelius, until her death in 1979. It is now maintained as a museum by the International Percy Grainger Society.
 * In addition to the above, the Bar Building, Good Counsel Complex, Leo Friedlander Studio, Mapleton, Peoples National Bank and Trust Company Building, Presbyterian Rest for Convalescents, Soundview Manor, and Woman's Club of White Plains are also listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Notable people
(b) denotes that the person was born there.

 * Admiral Dot, real name Leopold Kahn, little person, lived in White Plains where he founded The Admiral Dot Hotel
 * Katrina Adams, former professional tennis player and former USTA president
 * Richard H. Anderson, World War II ace-in-a-day
 * Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, wife of John F. Kennedy, Jr., born in White Plains (b)
 * Adam Bradley, mayor of White Plains from 2010 to 2011
 * Hikaru Nakamura, five-time United States Chess Champion, and youngest American Grandmaster. Born in Japan and later moved to White Plains with his mother, brother and stepfather at the age of 2.
 * Brian Burton (Danger Mouse), musician, songwriter and producer (b)
 * Joseph Campbell, author and expert on myth and legend (b)
 * Frank Enea, musician and composer, was born in White Plains
 * Erin Cardillo, actress, was born in White Plains
 * Kenneth Chamberlain, Sr., resident killed by White Plains police after his medical alert necklace was accidentally triggered
 * Lynn Conway, computer scientist responsible for the Mead and Conway revolution in Very-large-scale integration design
 * Glenn Cooper, thriller writer and film producer
 * John Curran, financial journalist
 * Jennifer Damiano, Broadway actress, noted for her roles in Next to Normal and Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark
 * Dan Duryea, actor (b), was born in White Plains and graduated from White Plains High School in 1924
 * Johnny Farrell, golfer, 1928 U.S. Open champion, was born in White Plains
 * Noah Fleiss, actor, was born in White Plains
 * Drew "Dru-Ha" Friedman, hip-hop record executive of Duck Down Music Inc., born and raised in White Plains
 * Channing Frye, NBA forward (b)
 * Percy Grainger, Australian-born U.S. composer, pianist and conductor
 * Shelley Hack, actress and supermodel (b)
 * David Harbour, actor (b)
 * Ellen Holly, actress
 * Eric Holtz, Head Coach of the Israel National Baseball Team
 * Bob Hyland, NFL lineman and candidate for mayor
 * Deacon Jones, MLB infielder, born in White Plains
 * Nancy Kissinger, wife of Henry Kissinger
 * Jonathan Larson, writer of musical Rent (b)
 * Harry Lauter, character actor
 * Alison Lurie, Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist, grew up in White Plains
 * Joseph Magaletti, convicted murderer and suspected serial killer, was born in White Plains
 * Matisyahu, American Jewish reggae artist
 * Jesse McCartney, singer-songwriter and actor, lived in White Plains
 * Mike McGlone, actor
 * John Mara, co-owner and president of the New York Giants
 * Emily McLaughlin, soap opera actress
 * Boyd Melson, boxer
 * Art Monk, NFL Hall of Famer (wide receiver) played football for White Plains High School
 * Chris Murphy, United States Senator (b)
 * Tommy O'Sullivan, rower at Row America Rye, philanthropist, poet
 * Garrick Ohlsson, classical pianist
 * Joseph Polchinski, theoretical physicist and string theorist (b)
 * Scott Reiniger, actor, and, as "Prince of Ghor", a hereditary prince (b)
 * JD Roberto, game show host and writer best known for hosting Shop 'Til You Drop from 2003 to 2005, replacing former host Pat Finn. (b)
 * Jimmy Roberts, journalist and broadcaster
 * Vanessa Rousso, professional poker player (b)
 * Bhaskar Sunkara, political writer
 * Andrew S. Tanenbaum, computer scientist and professor
 * Micah Townshend, Secretary of State of Vermont
 * Ralph Waite, actor who played John Walton in The Waltons television series (b)
 * Chris Watson, American-Israeli basketball player
 * James Whitmore, actor known for such films as The Asphalt Jungle and The Shawshank Redemption (b)
 * Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook (b)

title: White Plains, New York


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Yorktown, New York

Yorktown is a town on the northern border of Westchester County, New York, United States. A suburb of the New York City metropolitan area, it is approximately 38 mi north of midtown Manhattan. The population was 36,569 at the 2020 U.S. Census.

History
Yorktown has a rich historical heritage. It was originally inhabited by one or more bands of Wappinger people, including the Kitchawank. Most of Yorktown was part of the Manor of Cortlandt, a Royal Manor granted by King William III for the Van Cortlandt family.

The Croton River, which runs through the southern part of Yorktown, was dammed by the New York City water supply system to provide the city with its first major source of clean and reliable water. The first Croton Dam was located in Yorktown and broke in 1842, causing significant damage to property and major loss of life.

During the American Revolution, Yorktown saw limited action. Late in the war, the Pines Bridge crossing of the Croton River was guarded by the 1st Rhode Island Regiment made up of White, African American, and Native American soldiers. Several of the soldiers were killed, including the regiment's commander, Colonel Christopher Greene, on May 14, 1781, at the Battle of Pine's Bridge in Croton Heights. A memorial was erected at the Presbyterian Church in Crompond, New York. Major John André, a British officer who communicated with Benedict Arnold, ate his final breakfast at the Underhill House at 370 Underhill Avenue on Hanover Street just before his capture and eventual hanging as a spy.

In 1788, the township was officially incorporated as Yorktown, commemorating the Revolutionary War victory of the Franco-American siege of Yorktown, near Yorktown, Virginia, on October 19, 1781. The area had previously been known as Hanover, with a now unwanted association with King George III.

Moving north after the battle of Yorktown, the French army camped at the site of today's French Hill Elementary School, where cannonballs and other relics have been found. Although rumors claim that George Washington passed through Yorktown, no factual records confirm this.

A Bicentennial Committee in 1988 reviewed the town's remaining historic sites and determined which should be preserved.

Geography
The town's northern border is the Town of Putnam Valley in Putnam County. Its eastern border is the Town of Somers. Its southern border is the Town of New Castle. Its western border is the Town of Cortlandt.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 39.3 sqmi, of which 36.8 sqmi is land and 2.6 sqmi, or 6.57%, is water.

Demographics
As of the United States Census of 2000, there were 36,318 people, 12,556 households, and 9,831 families residing in the town. The population density was 989.7 PD/sqmi. There were 12,852 housing units at an average density of 350.2 /sqmi. The racial makeup of the town was 90.64% White, 3.04% African American, 0.14% Native American, 3.44% Asian, 0.01% Pacific Islander, 1.30% from other races and 1.43% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 5.82% of the population.

There were 12,556 households, out of which 40.9% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 69.1% were married couples living together, 7.1% had a female householder with no husband present, and 21.7% were non-families. 19.0% of all households were made up of individuals, and 10.0% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.83 and the average family size was 3.26.

In the town, the population was spread out, with 27.6% under the age of 18, 5.4% from 18 to 24, 28.5% from 25 to 44, 25.2% from 45 to 64, and 13.3% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 39 years. For every 100 females, there were 93.0 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 88.9 males.

The median income for a household in the town was $133,819, and the median income for a family was $154,984 (these figures had risen to $137,253 and $159,413 respectively as of a 2014 estimate ). Males had a median income of $96,071 versus $75,899 for females. The per capita income for the town was $63,570. About 1.1% of families and 1.4% of the population were below the poverty line, including 3.3% of those under age 18 and 4.3% of those age 65 or over.

For the 2010 census, the results showed 87.9% White, 3.3% African-American, 0.1% American Indian, 4.7% Asian, 9.4% Latino.

Some of Yorktown's multiple ethnic groups, nationalities and religious communities are, for example, Italians, Mexicans and American Jews. There is an annual feast of San Gennaro represents the Italian community. Also there are Irish, Japanese and African-Americans, among others.

Government
Yorktown is governed by a five-member town board. It determines policy and is the branch of government that appropriates funds for governmental functions and services. The Board is composed of four Council members, who are elected for a four-year term, and the Supervisor who is elected for a two-year term. Terms are staggered. Two Council positions are elected at each biennial election.

Communities and locations in Yorktown
The town is made up of five business hamlets: Mohegan Lake, Shrub Oak, Jefferson Valley, Crompond, and Yorktown Heights, and twelve historical residential neighborhoods each with their own unique character and identity.

 * Hamlets
 * Lake Mohegan
 * Shrub Oak
 * Jefferson Valley-Yorktown
 * Crompond (partially in the town of Cortlandt)
 * Yorktown Heights

 * Historical Neighborhoods
 * Copper Beech/Oakside
 * Croton Heights
 * Manhattan Park
 * Crow Hill
 * Huntersville/Hunterbrook
 * Kitchawan/Pinesbridge
 * Mohansic Park aka Franklin D. Roosevelt State Park
 * Quarry/Stony Street
 * Sparkle Lake/Cottage Farms
 * Teatown (not completely in the town of Yorktown)
 * Turkey Hill/Underhill Heights
 * Yorkhill/Amawalk Nursery
 * Yorktown

Education
The Town of Yorktown is served by four school districts: Yorktown Central School District, Lakeland Central School District, Croton-Harmon Union Free School District, and Ossining Union Free School District.

The Yorktown School District encompasses a large part of the Town of Yorktown and small sections of Cortlandt and New Castle. The district includes two, grade K-3 elementary schools; one, grade 4-5 elementary school; one, grade 6-8 middle school; and one grade 9-12 high school.

Lakeland is a suburban school district located in the Northwest corner of Westchester County and includes parts of six towns: Yorktown, Cortlandt, and Somers in Westchester County; Carmel, Philipstown, and Putnam Valley in Putnam County. Lakeland includes five grade K-5 elementary schools, one grade 6-8 middle school, and two grade 9-12 high schools, as well as the Lakeland Alternative High School.

The Croton-Harmon School District encompasses parts of the towns of Cortlandt, Yorktown, and Ossining and includes the village of Croton-on-Hudson. The district population is approximately 15,000 with some 1,700 students attending Croton schools this year. The district includes one, grade K-4 elementary school; one, grade 5-8 middle school; and one, grade 9-12 high school.

The Ossining Union Free School District encompasses parts of the towns of Yorktown, New Castle, Briarcliff Manor, Ossining, and the Village of Ossining. The district includes the Park Early childhood center, which houses three programs: First Steps for Ossining families with children ages 0 to 4, Pre-Kindergarten for four year-olds and Kindergarten, one grade 1-2 elementary school, one, grade 3-4 elementary school, one grade 5 elementary school, one grade 6-8 middle school, and one grade 9-12 high school.

Business
The headquarters for Contractors Register is located in the Hamlet of Jefferson Valley. Contractors Register publishes The Blue Book of Building and Construction.

The main site of the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center is located in the Kitchawan part of Yorktown.

Regional bank PCSB Bank is headquartered in Yorktown Heights.

Commerce
Jefferson Valley Mall, the area's major shopping center, is located in Yorktown, in the hamlet of Jefferson Valley.

Parks
Parks in Yorktown includes several state parks: Donald J. Trump State Park (with north and south sections), sold to the state at a discount by Donald Trump, and Franklin D. Roosevelt State Park. There are also many local parks: Downing Park, Granite Knolls Park, Hilltop Hanover Farm & Environmental Center, Kitchawan Preserve, part of the North County Trailway (now also known as the Empire State Trailway), Patriot Park, Railroad Park, Sylvan Glen Park Preserve, Teatown Lake Reservation (partially in the towns of Cortlandt and New Castle), Turkey Mountain Nature Preserve, and Woodlands Legacy Fields Park.

Rail stops

Yorktown once had five stations along the New York and Putnam Railroad — Kitchawan, Croton Lake, Croton Heights, Yorktown Heights, and Amawalk. The railroad was purchased by the New York Central Railroad, and ran into the early 1960s, when changes in vacation patterns impacting the numerous resort hotels further upline in Lake Mahopac and the dominant car culture killed the rail service. The old right of way is now part of the North County Trailway, which runs north as far as Carmel, New York. There is currently no rail service in Yorktown, but there are multiple Metro-North Railroad stations nearby, in Katonah in the east on the Harlem Line and Peekskill on the Hudson Line.

One of the New York Central stations was restored and today serves as the centerpiece of a small town park.

Events

 * Feast of San Gennaro
 * Yorktown Grange Fair
 * Battle of Yorktown, a litter cleanup initiative held annually in April
 * Greasestock, a yearly festival showcasing alternative fuel vehicles.

Notable people

 * Roy Colsey, Major League Lacrosse player, grew up in Yorktown
 * Nargis Fakhri, Bollywood actress, owns a house in Yorktown
 * Susan Faludi, American feminist, journalist, author, and Pulitzer Prize winner grew up in Yorktown
 * Charlie Gasparino, American financial journalist
 * Robert Hannsen, convicted Russian spy, lived with his family in Yorktown in the mid-1980s
 * Margaret Illington, stage actress popular in the first decade of the 20th century, lived on her Dreamlake estate in Yorktown
 * Consuelo Kanaga, photographer and writer who became well known for her photographs of African-Americans
 * Andrew Kavovit, actor, grew up in Yorktown
 * Dave Matthews, singer/songwriter, lived with his family in Yorktown before he moved to Virginia
 * William Keepers Maxwell Jr., fiction editor for The New Yorker and novelist
 * Terrence Murphy, Former New York State Senator
 * Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Congresswoman, born in NYC, but moved to Yorktown when she was five and later attended Yorktown High School
 * Buster Olney, ESPN baseball analyst and former New York Yankees beat writer
 * Clifford A. Pickover, writer. In his book, The Mobius Strip, he models the fictional New Devonshire on Yorktown. Pickover also used the Jefferson Valley Mall as the locale for his book The Heaven Virus.
 * Al Roker, meteorologist, lived in Yorktown while he was married to the town clerk, Alice Bell
 * Anthony "Romeo" Santos, Dominican-American singer, songwriter, actor, record producer, and lead vocalist of the American bachata band Aventura who is the first Latino artist to sell out Yankee and MetLife Stadium
 * Matt Slater, American politician currently serving as a member of the New York State Assembly, representing the 94th district. Former Town Supervisor of Yorktown.
 * Lawrence Treat, mystery writer and pioneer of the genre of novels police procedurals
 * Halsey (H.W.) Wilson, founder of the H. W. Wilson Company, a publisher, lived in the Croton Heights section of Yorktown

title: Yorktown, New York


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Yorktown Heights, New York

Yorktown Heights is a census-designated place (CDP) in the town of Yorktown in Westchester County, New York, United States. The population was 1,781 at the 2010 census.

History
Yorktown Heights is in the town of Yorktown, New York, in northern Westchester County, 45 miles from New York City, with forty square miles of rolling hills, farmland, residential areas and light industry including the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center. First settled in 1683, Yorktown was of strategic importance during the American Revolution, with the Pines Bridge crossing of the Croton River guarded by the 1st Rhode Island Regiment, an integrated unit which included African Americans and Native Americans. Yorktown was incorporated in 1788 and named in commemoration of the Franco-American decisive victory at Yorktown, Virginia. The Yorktown Heights Railroad Station, which last had passenger service on the New York Central Railroad's Putnam Division in 1958, was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1981.

Geography
Yorktown Heights is at 41.27722°N, -73.78139°W (41.277347, −73.781290).

The Yorktown Heights Census-designated place (CDP) has a total area of 2.4 sqkm, all land.

Like much of northern Westchester County, Yorktown is largely hilly and wooded.

Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there were 7,972 people, 2,629 households, and 2,163 families residing in the CDP. The population density was 1,399.3/mi2 (540.0/km2). There were 2,661 housing units at an average density of 467.1/mi2 (180.2/km2). The racial makeup of the CDP was 90.49% White, 2.41% African American, 0.06% Native American, 4.69% Asian, 0.01% Pacific Islander, 0.85% from other races, and 1.48% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 5.59% of the population.

There were 2,629 households, out of which 44.6% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 73.0% were married couples living together, 7.2% had a female householder with no husband present, and 17.7% were non-families. 15.3% of all households were made up of individuals, and 9.0% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 3.02 and the average family size was 3.37.

In the CDP, the population was spread out, with 28.4% under the age of 18, 5.8% from 18 to 24, 27.1% from 25 to 44, 27.4% from 45 to 64, and 11.3% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 39 years. For every 100 females, there were 95.9 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 90.6 males.

The median income for a household in the CDP was $108,648, and the median income for a family was $137,580. Males had a median income of $91,365 versus $80,261 for females. The per capita income for the CDP was $41,349.

Landmarks
Yorktown Heights possesses many historical landmarks, specifically related to Colonial times and the Revolutionary War. They include the Hyatt House, Lanes Tavern, and one of the first Presbyterian churches in the region. Another landmark famous to the town is the former railroad station, which was built in 1905, and had been a stop on the New York and Putnam Railroad Line (also called the "Old Put"). A popular hiking destination is Turkey Mountain, maintained by the Yorktown Land Trust. The North County Trailway is a popular running and bike path that can be accessed from Yorktown Heights.

Transportation
U.S. Route 202 passes through Yorktown Heights. The Taconic State Parkway is nearby, to the west.

Yorktown Heights Railroad Station was closed in 1958, a year before passenger service was abandoned along the New York Central's Putnam Division.

Notable people

 * George Cehanovsky, baritone
 * Steve Cohen, magician
 * Roy Colsey, professional lacrosse player (Philadelphia Barrage)
 * Jonathan de Marte, Israeli-American baseball player
 * Susan Faludi, journalist and writer
 * Robert Hanssen, Russian Spies residency while in NY who was later arrested in 2001
 * Paul W. Jones, U.S. diplomat, Ambassador to Poland (since 2015), Ambassador to Malaysia (2010–2013)
 * Andrew Kavovit, actor
 * Biff Liff, Broadway theater producer
 * Dave Matthews, singer and musician, the Dave Matthews Band
 * Rebekah Mercer, director, Mercer Family Foundation
 * Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, U.S. Representative
 * Buster Olney, sportswriter
 * Karen Olsen Beck, Costa Rican diplomat, politician, and First Lady of Costa Rica (1954–1958, 1970–1974)
 * RoseMarie Panio, politician
 * Elisabeth Rethberg, soprano
 * Alex Robinson, comic book writer and artist
 * Mandy Rose, WWE wrestler
 * Dave Ross, radio talk show host
 * Rich Silverstein, advertising executive and creative director (Goodby, Silverstein & Partners)
 * George Yancopoulos, biomedical scientist

title: Yorktown Heights, New York


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Attica, New York

Attica is a town in Wyoming County, New York, United States. The population was 7,702 as of 2010.

The Town of Attica is on the northern boundary of the county and contains part of a village also named Attica (the northern part of the village is within the adjacent town of Alexander in Genesee County).

The Department of Corrections is a major employer, as both the maximum security Attica Correctional Facility and medium-security Wyoming Correctional Facility are located here.

History
The Town of Attica was established in western New York in 1802 from a part of the Town of Sheldon. In 1816, part of Attica was taken to organize the new Town of Orangeville.

Attica is the location of two state prisons: New York's maximum-security Attica Correctional Facility and medium-security Wyoming Correctional Facility, both located south of the Village of Attica. Since the 1930s Attica had been a prison town, and most correctional officers live here or nearby with their families.

On September 9, 1971, in the Attica Prison riot, more than 1200 inmates (of 2200) took over control of the prison. They sought to negotiate with authorities to improve living conditions. The state suppressed the uprising on September 13, 1971, with armed corrections officers, state police, and New York National Guard. Of the 43 men who died, law enforcement gunfire killed 10 hostages and 30 prisoners.

Geography
The town and county are located in western New York. The northern town line is the border of Genesee County.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 36.0 sqmi, of which 35.7 sqmi is land and 0.3 sqmi (0.83%) is water. Tonawanda Creek passes through the northwest part of the town.

NY-98 intersects NY-238 and NY-354 at the village of Attica.

Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there were 6,028 people, 1,497 households, and 1,053 families residing in the town. The population density was 168.8 PD/sqmi. There were 1,603 housing units at an average density of 44.9 /sqmi. The racial makeup of the town was 72.79% White, 21.07% African American, 0.33% Native American, 0.33% Asian, 5.18% from other races, and 0.30% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 9.16% of the population.

There were 1,497 households, out of which 33.9% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 56.5% were married couples living together, 10.2% had a female householder with no husband present, and 29.6% were non-families. 25.3% of all households were made up of individuals, and 10.0% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.58 and the average family size was 3.08.

In the town, the population was spread out, with 16.8% under the age of 18, 10.8% from 18 to 24, 44.2% from 25 to 44, 20.0% from 45 to 64, and 8.2% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 35 years. For every 100 females, there were 209.4 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 240.6 males.

The median income for a household in the town was $44,877, and the median income for a family was $49,375. Males had a median income of $32,060 versus $22,220 for females. The per capita income for the town was $17,817. About 3.7% of families and 6.3% of the population were below the poverty line, including 5.8% of those under age 18 and 5.6% of those age 65 or over.

Communities and locations in the Town of Attica

 * Attica – Part of the Village of Attica is in the north part of the town. The remainder is inside Genesee County.
 * Attica Correctional Facility – A New York state prison complex, south of Attica Village.
 * Attica Center – A hamlet southeast of Attica Village on Route 238.
 * Vernal Corners – A hamlet in the northeast corner of the town.

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Bennington, New York

Bennington is a town in Wyoming County, New York, United States. The population was 3,235 during the 2020 census. The town was named after Bennington, Vermont.

Geographically, the town of Bennington is the largest in Wyoming County, occupying a significant portion of the county's northwest corner.

History
The Town of Bennington was formed in 1818 from the Town of Sheldon. The Town of Bennington officially came into existence on March 6, 1818. The name came from Bennington, Vermont.

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"In 1802, the land of Bennington was part of the Town of Batavia, Genesee County. Then in 1808, the land was taken from the Town of Batavia, to form the Town of Sheldon. Finally, on March 6, 1818, the land of Bennington was taken from Sheldon to form the Town of Bennington.

In the summer of 1802, John Tolles settled in Bennington. He settled in the area known over the years as Hubbard's Corners, Danley's Corners and the "Beehive".

The first frame barn was erected in the township by Jacob Wright in 1805.

By 1806, over twenty families were located in the town. A tannery, shoe shop and blacksmith shop were erected. By 1807, the first school house was built. A sawmill was also built in the south part of the town near the Sheldon Town line. In 1806, Chauncey Loomis purchased large tracts of land in the third and fourth ranges of the township at the price of one dollar per acre, including all the land now known as Bennington Center. During 1807, a sawmill was built in Bennington Center and the first barn raised was built from lumber produced from the mill. Also in 1807, the road from Bennington to Sheldon was cut out.

Approximately nine years after the Loomis family settled in Bennington, Quartus Clapp set out to purchase his own land further west in the town. He selected a site four miles down Cayuga Creek near a waterfall and built a sawmill in 1816 or 1818. He purchased about a hundred acres, which covered more than half of the valley of the hamlet of Cowlesville. At that time it was known as Clapp's Mills.

During 1826, Quartus Clapp built a grist mill adjoining his sawmill. This grist mill was the first of its kind in this town.

In 1827, Gaius B. Rich came from Attica and established the first store in Clapp's Mills. A young man, Hiram Cowles, clerked in this store in 1831. It was at this store that mail came once a week for the local settlers to pick up. It is believed that Hiram Cowles had a great deal to do in establishing the Post Office at Clapp's Mills, for on March 11, 1831, he was appointed Postmaster. In his honor, the settlement received the name of [Cowlesville].

The hamlet of Folsomdale is three miles southwest of Bennington Center. John Fitch came to Folsomdale, built a house, set out an orchard and built a saw and grist mill, about 1823. Little is known about Fitch but his property was purchased in 1825 by David Scott. He began a mercantile and milling business in this area.

When David Scott owned the land Folsomdale is located on, the name of Scottsville was given to it. About 1831, Benjamin Folsom came to Scottsville to manage a store for Mr. Scott. In 1834-1835, Mr. Scott built a tavern. It was later owned and operated by Mr. Folsom and it was after that, the hamlet was named Folsomdale.

The first Bennington town meeting was held in home of David Farnham. The first supervisor for the town was George Loomis.

On January 23, 1875, a meeting was held in Cowlesville with the purpose of dividing the Township into two towns. A resolution was drawn up and presented to the Board of Supervisors. The board, with a vote of ten to five, approved the resolution to create a new town on February 25, 1875. The new township was to be "Elmont". When the request was sent to the Legislature of New York State, there was some error in proceedings and the proposal died in Albany.

Until the 1930s, town meetings were probably held in the schoolhouse at Bennington Center. In 1936, during Franklin D. Roosevelt's presidency, the Works Progress Administration, known as W.P.A., provided jobs in building projects for a long-range value. The Town of Bennington had their town hall built. The federal government furnished the cost of labor for the building. The building is still used for the Town meetings. Several other organizations also use it.

Bennington was mainly a farming community. The 1990 Wyoming County Dairy Princess was from the Town of Bennington.

The Town had several small schools. The last school to close its doors was District #17, located in Cowlesville.

The town of Bennington boasted of six covered bridges to span the Cayuga Creek. The last of the six, known as the Ellis-Chesbro covered bridge, was destroyed by fire on March 17, 1966. It was the last structure of its kind that existed in New York State west of the Finger Lakes. The Ellis-Chesbro Bridge was the location of scenes shot for MGM's motion picture "The Great Waltz".

Frances Folsom, the granddaughter of John B. Folsom, became the First Lady of the United States. She spent much time as a young girl in Folsomdale. Frances Folsom was married to President Grover Cleveland, June 2, 1886, at the White House in Washington, D.C.

The Town of Bennington has had several churches. The first Baptist Church in Bennington Center was erected in 1832, the second in 1857 and that was destroyed by fire in 1886. It was rebuilt in 1887. BY 1925, the membership had diminished to five. The church was sold to the Cowlesville Baptist Society. They dismantled it and rebuilt it as an addition to their church.

The United Church of Christ in Bennington Center was dedicated in 1844. The Sacred Heart Catholic Church was erected at Bennington Center in 1871. The East Bennington Evangelic and United Brethren Church dates back to the early 19th century. The Catholic Church, Our Lady Help of Christians, in East Bennington was built in 1855. The Cowlesville Baptist Church was built in 1872 and an addition was added in 1924 or 1925. Cowlesville also had a Universalist Church which was dedicated in 1845. In 1914, the building was sold to the I.O.O.F. Lodge. It was eventually dismantled. The German Baptist Church was erected in 1869 at Folsomdale. There also was a Free Will Baptist Church in Folsomdale dedicated in 1858. The building was torn down in the early 20th century.

Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 55.26 sqmi, of which 55.05 sqmi is land and 0.21 sqmi (0.40%) is water.

The western town line is the border of Erie County, and the northern town line is the boundary of Erie and Genesee counties.

New York State Route 77 and NYS 354 (Clinton Street) pass through the town. New York State Route 98 crosses the southeastern corner of the town.

2000 census
As of the 2000 United States Census there were 3,349 people, 1,208 households, and 966 families in the town. The population density was 60.9/sqmi (23.5/km2). There were 1,273 housing units at an average density of 23.1/sqmi (8.93/km2). The racial makeup of the town was 99.07% White, 0.06% African American, 0.12% Native American, 0.12% Asian, 0.03% from other races, and 0.60% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.27% of the population.

There were 1,208 households, out of which 34.4% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 70.6% were married couples living together, 6.0% had a female householder with no husband present, and 20.0% were non-families. 16.2% of all households were made up of individuals, and 6.0% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.77 and the average family size was 3.11.

The town population contained 24.9% under the age of 18, 6.6% from 18 to 24, 29.3% from 25 to 44, 27.8% from 45 to 64, and 11.4% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 39 years. For every 100 females, there were 107.1 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 106.2 males.

The median income for a household in the town was $45,448, and the median income for a family was $48,966. Males had a median income of $35,233 versus $28,292 for females. The per capita income for the town was $18,247. About 3.4% of families and 6.2% of the population were below the poverty line, including 9.2% of those under age 18 and 6.6% of those age 65 or over.

Notable people

 * George Gilbert Hoskins, former US Congressman and Lt. Governor of New York
 * Justin Rolph Loomis, second president of Bucknell University
 * Paul J. Smith, arts administrator
 * James D. Yeomans, former commissioner of the Interstate Commerce Commission

Communities and locations in Bennington

 * Bennington Center (or Bennington) – A hamlet at Routes 77 and 354.
 * Cowlesville – A hamlet in the northwest part of town on Route 354. (ZIP code 14037)
 * Folsomdale – A hamlet south of Route 354 on Folsomdale Road. Former home of Frances Folsom, First Lady and wife to Grover Cleveland.
 * Schoellkopf Scout Reservation – A camp south of Route 354 on Burrough Road owned by the Greater Niagara Frontier Council Boy Scouts of America.

A broadcast tower in the southwest corner of the town serves as the transmitter for WNYO-TV (licensed to Buffalo) and FM station WLOF (licensed to Elma).

title: Bennington, New York