Westchester County

Westchester County is a county of New York State in the New York metro area. It lies to the immediate north of the New York City borough of the Bronx. A number of its villages and towns serve as bedroom communities for commuters to New York City, but Westchester itself is also open for business.

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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Yonkers and White Plains.

Yonkers

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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.

White Plains

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White Plains is a city of 60,000 people in Westchester County, New York. White Plains has several locations listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

New Rochelle

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New Rochelle is a city of about 80,000 people in Westchester County, New York. It is also the home of Iona College.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Mount Vernon and Peekskill.

Mount Vernon

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Mount Vernon is a city in Westchester County, New York, United States. It is an inner suburb of New York City, immediately to the north of the borough of the Bronx.

Peekskill

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Peekskill is a city in northwestern Westchester County, New York, United States, 35 miles north of New York City. Established as a village in 1816, it was incorporated as a city in 1940.

Sleepy Hollow

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Sleepy Hollow is a village in Westchester County in the state of New York. It was one of the settings for Washington Irving's short story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow".

Rye

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Rye is a coastal city in Westchester County of New York. Best known for being home to Rye Playland which was built in 1928, the only publicly-owned amusement park in the U.S.A, it has the feel of a charming, wealthy small town along the Long Island Sound.

Briarcliff Manor

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Briarcliff Manor is a charming village in Westchester County, New York situated on the Hudson River, and is home to 7,600 people. It has a very small and walkable downtown with a large density of shops and restaurants, and is very nature-oriented.

Scarsdale

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Scarsdale is a coterminous town and village in Westchester County, New York, United States, 19 miles north of New York City. It is on 6.683 square miles and is located inland within the Bronx River Valley.

Harrison

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Harrison is a town and village in Westchester County, New York, United States. It is a suburb of New York City, located approximately 11 miles northeast of Manhattan. The population was 28,218 at the 2020 census.

Tarrytown

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Tarrytown is a village in the town of Greenburgh in Westchester County, New York, United States, in the New York metropolitan area. It is located on the eastern bank of the Hudson River, approximately 25 miles north of Midtown Manhattan in New York City, and is served by a stop on the Metro-North Hudson Line.

Mount Kisco

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Mount Kisco is a village and town in Westchester County, New York, United States. The town of Mount Kisco is coterminous with the village. The population was 10,959 at the 2020 United States census.

Larchmont

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Larchmont is an affluent village located within the Town of Mamaroneck in Westchester County, New York. Larchmont is a suburb of New York City, located approximately 18 miles northeast of Midtown Manhattan.

Bronxville

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Bronxville is a village in Westchester County, New York, United States, located approximately 15 miles north of Midtown Manhattan. It is part of the town of Eastchester.

Port Chester

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Port Chester is a village in the U.S. state of New York and the largest part of the town of Rye in Westchester County by population. As of the 2020 census, Port Chester had a population of 31,693.

Chappaqua

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Chappaqua is a hamlet in the Town of New Castle in northern Westchester County, New York. Its most notable current residents are former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

Croton-on-Hudson

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Croton-on-Hudson is a village of 8,100 people in Westchester County, New York. In the first half of the 20th century, it was home to many artists, writers and communists.

Pleasantville

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Pleasantville is a village in Westchester County, New York. Downtown Pleasantville is very walkable, and has many independent restaurants, boutique shops, and grocery stores.

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Pelham

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Pelham is a town in Westchester County, New York. It contains villages called Pelham and Pelham Manor.

Hastings-on-Hudson

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Hastings-on-Hudson is a village in Westchester County located in the southwestern part of the town of Greenburgh in the state of New York, United States.

Dobbs Ferry

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Dobbs Ferry is a village in Westchester County in the state of New York in the United States of America.

Valhalla

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Valhalla is a hamlet and census-designated place within the town of Mount Pleasant, in Westchester County, New York, United States, in the New York City metropolitan area.

Elmsford

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Elmsford is a village in Westchester County in the state of New York in the United States of America.

Eastchester

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Eastchester is a town in New York. The town includes the villages of Bronxville and Tuckahoe, which are covered in separate articles.

Pound Ridge

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Pound Ridge is a town in Westchester County, New York, United States. The population was 5,082 at the 2020 census. The town is located toward the eastern end of the county, bordered clockwise to the north and east by Lewisboro, to the south by New Canaan, Connecticut and Stamford, Connecticut, and to the west by North Castle and Bedford.

Ossining

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Ossining is the name of both a village and a town in Westchester County in the state of New York in the United States of America.

Irvington

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Irvington is a village of 6,500 people in Westchester County in the state of New York. It takes its name from the author Washington Irving, who lived nearby.

Bedford

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Bedford is an incorporated town in Westchester County, New York, United States. The population was 17,309 at the 2020 census. Bedford is located in the northeastern part of Westchester County and contains the three hamlets of Bedford Hills, Bedford, and Katonah.

Yorktown

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Yorktown is a town in Westchester County in the state of New York in the United States of America. It contains quaint houses and IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center.

Rye Brook

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Rye Brook is a village in Westchester County, New York, United States, within the town of Rye. As of the 2020 census, Rye Brook had a population of 10,047.

Katonah

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Katonah is a hamlet in Westchester County in the state of New York. The hamlet of Katonah includes two National Historic Landmarks: Stepping Stones - Historic Home of Bill & Lois Wilson, where the respective cofounders of Alcoholics Anonymous and Al-Anon…

Tuckahoe

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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.