Tibbetts Brook Park

Tibbetts Brook Park is a 161-acre park located in the Lincoln Park section of Yonkers in Westchester County, New York. Opened in 1927, it was one of the first developed parks in Westchester County and is accessible only to County residents, with activities that include swimming, hiking, sports, nature watching and fishing.

Photo: wengs, CC BY 2.0.

Type: Park
Description: Park in Yonkers, New York, U.S.
Also known as: “Tibbet’s Brook Park”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Lincoln High School and Hillview Reservoir.

Lincoln High School

School

Lincoln High School is located in Yonkers, New York. It is one of the seven public high schools in the city and has an enrollment of about 1200 students.

Hillview Reservoir

Reservoir

The Hillview Reservoir is a 90-acre, and water from the reservoir is sent through New York City Water Tunnels No. 1 and No. 2. The plan for the New York City Water Tunnel No.

Yonkers Raceway & Empire City Casino

Sports venue

Photo: EmpireCity1, CC0.

Yonkers Raceway & Empire City Casino is a one-half-mile standardbred harness racing dirt track and slots racino in Yonkers, New York, United States. Founded in 1899 as the Empire City Race Track, the complex is located at the intersection of Central Park Avenue and Yonkers Avenue near the New York City border.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Yonkers and Woodlawn.

Yonkers

Photo: Famartin, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Yonkers is a city of 211,569 people in Westchester County. The third most populous city in New York state, Yonkers is a suburb of New York City and borders the Borough of the Bronx.

Woodlawn

Neighborhood

Photo: DanTD, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Woodlawn Heights, also known as Woodlawn, is a predominantly Irish-American working class neighborhood at the very north end of the borough of the Bronx in New York City. Woodlawn is situated 1½ miles south of Tibbetts Brook Park.

Riverdale

Neighborhood

Photo: Jim.henderson, Public domain.

Riverdale is a residential neighborhood in the northwestern portion of the New York City borough of the Bronx. Riverdale, which had a population of 47,850 as of the 2000 United States census, contains the city's northernmost point at the University of Mount Saint Vincent. Riverdale is situated 2 miles southwest of Tibbetts Brook Park.

Tibbetts Brook Park

Categories: urban park and recreation area
Location: Westchester County, Downstate New York, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude

40.9214° or 40° 55′ 17″ north

Longitude

-73.8779° or 73° 52′ 40″ west

Elevation

79 feet (24 metres)

Open location code

87G8W4CC+HR

OpenStreetMap ID

way 258841257

OpenStreetMap feature

leisure=park

GeoNames ID

5140982

Wikidata ID

Q7800329

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In Other Languages

“Tibbetts Brook Park” goes by many names.

Cebuano: “Tibbetts Brook Park”

Localities in the Area

Explore places such as Dunwoodie Heights and Park Hill.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Boating Lake and Tibbetts Brook Park West.

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