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Westchester County has long been associated with " old money " and some of the country's wealthiest families for generations, along with other places such as Greenwich, Connecticut, and Long Island's Gold Coast and Five Towns.
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From there it looked across at Westchester County and the Hudson River where the manor houses, estates, and big farms of the original ( non-Indian ) landowners began.
This season the orchestra has already taken a step toward the suburbs in that it is giving six subscription concerts for the Orchestral Society of Westchester in the County Center in White Plains.
Perhaps best known for the portion that runs through the borough of Manhattan in New York City, it actually runs through Manhattan and The Bronx, exiting north from the city to run an additional through the municipalities of Yonkers, Hastings-On-Hudson, Dobbs Ferry, Irvington, Tarrytown and terminating north of Sleepy Hollow in Westchester County.
From the northern shore of Manhattan, Broadway crosses Spuyten Duyvil Creek via the Broadway Bridge and continues through Marble Hill ( a discontinuous portion of the borough of Manhattan ) and the Bronx into Westchester County.
Further north, Broadway follows the old Bloomingdale Road as the main spine of the Upper West Side, passing the campus of Columbia University at 116th Street in Morningside Heights, in part on the tract that housed the Bloomingdale ( Lunatic ) Asylum from 1808 until it moved to Westchester County in 1894.
For his actions on board Flight 93, Homer received many awards and citations posthumously, including honorary membership in the historic Tuskegee Airmen ; the Congress of Racial Equality's Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Award ; the Southern Christian Leadership Conference Drum Major for Justice Award ; and the Westchester County Trailblazer Award.
Falk attended Ossining High School in Westchester County, New York, where he was a star athlete and president of his senior class.
The historical record states that James Gordon Bennett established the Westchester Polo Club on 6 May 1876 and on 13 May 1876 the Jerome Park Racetrack in Westchester County was the site of the " first " American outdoor polo match.
Historically, the X-Men have been based in the Xavier Institute, near Salem Center, in north-east Westchester County, NY, and are often depicted as a family.
Boies owns a home in Westchester County, New York, a vineyard in Northern California, an oceangoing yacht, and a large wine collection.
On clear nights, the lights could be seen from over 60 miles away, visible in all of New York City and most of suburban Northern New Jersey and Long Island, Fairfield County, Connecticut, Westchester County, Orange County, New York and Rockland County, New York.
Westchester County ranks number two ( number one being New York County ) for wealthiest counties in New York State and the seventh wealthiest county nationally.
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Westchester covers an area of and has a population of 949, 113 according to the 2010 Census, residing in 45 municipalities.
The library of Loyola Marymount University, located in Los Angeles ( Westchester ), has an extensive collection of archival materials related to the Tongva and their history.
Kent is also home to a number of reservoirs that supply water to New York City and Westchester County, and consequently a large portion of the land has been purchased for conservation by New York City through the Watershed Preservation Program.
Eliot Weisman had already been convicted of skimming, the act of taking money before it has been accounted for taxation purposes, after a series of Sinatra performances at the Westchester Premier Theatre in 1976, eventually being sentenced to six years in prison for the offence.
The Westchester County Airport currently has twelve commercial airlines flying to fifteen destinations around the United States and the Bahamas.
The most recent concerns have to do with flight paths and traffic congestion ; the latter has been addressed by the County of Westchester with Bee-Line bus service to the airport and the encouragement of travelers to get rides to the airport.
He was remanded to the Westchester County Department of Corrections jail in Valhalla, New York, which has a section reserved for federal prisoners.
One component of the program is the Empowering Teachers Program, which was established in 1989 as a forum for the support of teachers and educational administrators, and has since expanded into a resource and network for more than 250 beginning and experienced professionals from 25 school districts in Westchester County and adjacent areas of New York, Connecticut and New Jersey.
Westchester County DOT has entered into an agreement with the MTA to pool revenue from the Metrocard fare system.
It is interesting to note that Ferncliff Cemetery has the only crematory in Westchester County, New York, and performs approximately 10 % of the cremations in New York State.
The MTA has the responsibility for developing and implementing a unified mass transportation policy for the New York metropolitan area, including all five boroughs of New York City and the suburban counties of Dutchess, Nassau, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Suffolk and Westchester, all of which together are the " Metropolitan Commuter Transportation District ( MCTD )".
The club has two facilities, the City House, located at 180 Central Park South, and Travers Island, the summer home, located in Westchester County.
With Loyola Marymount University and Otis only blocks from one another, Westchester has undergone a shift away from defense / aviation related industries ( which have declined significantly since the end of the Cold War ) and has become a college town.
The Westchester Senior Citizen Center has a 200-person auditorium, barbecue pits, a 20-person community room, a garden, a kitchen, picnic tables, and a stage.
In recent years, Westchester County has gone to great lengths to make amends to the survivors of the Riots by holding a commemorative ceremony, at which an apology was made for their treatment.
Eli Manning has for five years been the host of Guiding Eyes for the Blind's Golf Classic, the oldest and largest charity golf event in Westchester County, NY.
The JFJONY headlined The Kennedy Center's New Year's Eve performance in December 2010 ( available as a podcast on NPR's JazzSet ); the JFJONY has also performed at at the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia, the Performing Arts Center in Westchester, New York, the Newport Jazz Festival and other venues.
For over a decade, Jon Faddis has taught – and continues to teach – at The Conservatory of Music at Purchase College-SUNY, in Westchester, New York, where he teaches trumpet, classes, and an ensemble.
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