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.

Category: People from Westchester County, New York

Category: People from Westchester County, New York

Category: People from Westchester County, New York

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.

Category: People from Westchester County, New York

Falk attended Ossining High School in Westchester County, New York, where he was a star athlete and president of his senior class.

Category: People from Westchester County, New York

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.

* Sarah Lawrence College, a Liberal Arts college in Westchester County, New York

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.

The town of Somers, New York, located in Westchester County is named in his honor.

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.

He is interred at Westchester Hills Cemetery, Hastings-on-Hudson, New York.

Star Blazers is a heavily edited dubbed version for the US market produced by Westchester Film Corporation.

The basic concept of the X-Men is that under a cloud of increasing anti-mutant sentiment, Professor Xavier created a haven at his Westchester mansion to train young mutants to use their powers for the benefit of humanity, and to prove mutants can be heroes.

Munsee was spoken by the inhabitants of what is today known as Westchester County as well as those from Manhattan island.

Westchester County is located at the southeastern tip of New York State.

The closest point on the southern border of Westchester is just under from Columbus Circle in Manhattan ( the customary point for measuring distances from New York City ), where Pelham Manor meets Pelham Bay Park in the Bronx.

At over, Pelham Bay Park is the largest of New York City's parks, forming a substantial ' buffer ' between suburban Westchester and urban Bronx County.

The widest section across the Hudson River, at, is found between the Westchester and Rockland County shorelines immediately north of Croton Point in Croton-on-Hudson.

The Hudson River is tidal and brackish through Westchester and contains a small number of estuarine marshes.

The Hudson River waterfront in Westchester is in the midst of a renaissance, converting from primarily industrial uses to mixed residential, commercial, retail, and recreational uses.

The system is a series of interconnected reservoirs and lakes in northern Westchester and Putnam Counties that provides 10 % of New York City ’ s water under normal conditions and up to 30 % of the in-City consumption in times of drought.

Westchester is considered to be a prime suburb of New York.

The climate of Westchester County is somewhat colder than that of the city.

Snowfall is much more common in Westchester than in the city.

Westchester County Government is headed by County Executive Rob Astorino ( R ).

The Westchester County Board of Legislators is the legislative, policy-making branch of Westchester County.

Westchester County is served by the Westchester Library System which was established in 1958.

Western Putnam County is mainly served by hospitals in Dutchess or Westchester counties.

Reinhardt died in New York City in 1943 and is interred at Westchester Hills Cemetery in Hastings-on-Hudson, Westchester County, New York.

Westchester County was an original county of the Province of New York, one of twelve created by an act of the New York General Assembly in 1683.

During the 20th century, the primarily rural character of Westchester would yield to the suburban county known today.

Officially, the Westchester County Department of Planning divides the county into North, Central and South sub-regions.

The rocks, which compose the Island of Manhattan in New York City and underlie the county of Westchester, are chiefly gneiss and mica-schist, with layers of dolmitic marble and serpentine.

Similarly, in Westchester Magazine's 2005 rankings of public schools ( the most recent time the magazine ranked schools on any criteria other than income ), Edgemont was ranked first of 44 public schools in the county.

Yorktown Stage is regularly recognized as a fan favorite in the county for Community Theater, winning the honor of " Best in Family Entertainment " from Westchester Magazine.

The term " Bronx River Parkway " originally referred to the Bronx River Reservation, New York's first linear park, of which the road is a portion, from the Bronx – Westchester county line to Kensico Dam Plaza.

After the curves, the Bronx River Parkway crosses the county line into Westchester County at the McLean Avenue / Nereid Avenue overpass and leaves the Bronx.

Just north of the latter exit, the highway enters White Plains, the Westchester county seat.

However, Reference Route 907G is no longer listed in the NYSDOT traffic counts and the entirety of the parkway in the county is considered a county route by Westchester County.

As a charter member of the 38-member Westchester Library System, the Ossining Public Library can also offer its patrons access to the more than one million holdings of the other county libraries.

Five members, in addition to the Chairman and CEO, are directly nominated by the Governor of New York, with four recommended by New York City ’ s mayor, and one each by the county executives of Nassau, Suffolk and Westchester counties.

He was one of the commissioners appointed to build the state capitol 1874 ; in 1867 appointed clerk of Westchester County, but resigned after a short service ; made immigration commissioner by New York Legislature in 1870, but declined to serve ; member of boundary commission of the state of New York in 1875 ; had also been commissioner of quarantine and president of Court of Claims of New York City and commissioner of taxes and assessments for the city and county of New York ; defeated for Lieutenant Governor of New York on the Liberal Republican-Democratic ticket in 1872 ; candidate for U. S. Senator from New York in 1881, but withdrew after the 41st ballot ; declined nomination as a senator in 1885 ; but elected to the U. S. Senate in 1899, and re-elected in 1905, and served from March 4, 1899, to March 4, 1911 ; stumped the state of New York for John C. Frémont in 1856 and for Abraham Lincoln in 1860 ; delegate-at-large to Republican National conventions 1888-1904 and delegate to all following conventions, including 1928, being elected the day before he died ; made the nomination speeches for Harrison in 1892, Governor Morton in 1896, and Fairbanks in 1904 ; at the convention in 1888 received ninety-nine votes for the presidential nomination, and in 1892 declined an appointment as Secretary of State in Harrison's cabinet ; Adjutant of the 18th Regiment, New York National Guard, which served in the American Civil War, and later Colonel and Judge Advocate of the 5th Division, on the staff of Major General James W. Husted of the New York Guard, trustee of Peekskill Military Academy ; president of New York State Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, of the Pilgrims Society from 1918 until his death, of the St. Nicholas Society, and of the Union League for seven years ( member since 1868 and elected honorary life member at the close of his presidency ); an officer of the French Légion d ' honneur ; vice president of New York Chamber of Commerce 1904-08 ( member since 1885 ).

While other reference routes in the county carry a second digit of " 8 ", as Westchester County is located in region 8, the " 0 " in 907W is indicative of regions 10 and 11, containing Long Island and New York City, respectively.

Her district is located in the northern suburbs of New York City and includes most of Westchester County including New Rochelle, White Plains, Chappaqua, Greenburgh, Scarsdale, Tarrytown, Mamaroneck, Ossining, and part of Yonkers, as well as part of eastern Rockland County, including the county seat New City, Haverstraw, and Congers.

In August 2010, Westchester County, the owner and operator of Playland announced they would be sending out RFPs ( requests for proposals ) in order to solicit ideas for the possible redevelopment of Playland, in an effort save the county money.

Playland has been costing the county of Westchester anywhere between $ 3 million and $ 5 million annually to operate for the last decade.

Westchester County has affirmed their commitment to keeping the Playland site public park land and there will be " no condos " at Playland according to county executive Rob Astorino.

Officially, the Westchester County Department of Planning divides the county into North, Central and South geographical sub-regions.

Municipalities in Westchester are often referenced in connection to the geographical half of the county they are in ; either northern or southern.

During this time another governor, Nelson Rockefeller, proposed that management of the road be turned over to a new entity, the East Hudson Parkway Authority ( EHPA ), along with all the other Westchester parkways, since the debt the county had incurred building and maintaining them was becoming a financial burden to it.

DOT continued to remake the road in Westchester, where 90, 000 vehicles used the parkway on an average day, reconfiguring exits, widening the roadways and putting asphalt over the original concrete, to the point that most of the parkway in the county bore little resemblance to its original appearance.