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Cortlandt is a town in Westchester County, New York, United States, located at the northwestern edge of the county, at the eastern terminus of the Bear Mountain Bridge. As of the 2020 census, the population was 42,545. The town includes the villages of Buchanan and Croton-on-Hudson.
Westchester County has a wide array of emergency services and is the home to 58 municipal fire departments, one federal fire department, 42 ambulance services, three Haz-Mat teams, a volunteer technical rescue team, a fire academy and a fire investigations unit. Each department has career, volunteer or a combination of personnel.
The median household income in 2022 was $121,367, compared to the overall New York state median income of $82,095 [7] and the employment rate was 63.4%. [6] The average poverty rate was lower in Montrose during 2022, at 9.8%, which is 4.4% lower than the state average of 14.2%, while peopled aged 18 to 64 experienced the highest rate of poverty at 10.8%
Peekskill-Cortlandt Patch. 6 June 2011. The Town of Cortlandt Bicentennial History Committee (1988). History of the Town of Cortlandt. ISBN 0-9621119-0-2. "Bars $26,000 Fee in Will Contest" (PDF). The New York Times. 5 August 1919 "Town of Cortlant Master Plan - Chapter 9: Historic Preservation" (PDF). 9 July 2004.
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. [ 2 ] 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 ...
The Village was further incorporated within the Town of Cortlandt in 1849 and remained so until separating as a city in 1940. In 1859, Henry Ward Beecher bought a 36-acre farm at Peekskill. He made many improvements and established a summer home for his family. [17] In 1902, the locally prominent McFadden family bought the property.
Cortlandt Manor is a hamlet—an unincorporated section—of the town of Cortlandt in northern Westchester County, New York, roughly surrounding Peekskill, encompassing Corlandt Estates and lying east of three sections of the town of Cortlandt, Croton-on-Hudson, Crugers, and Montrose. It is a mostly residential area.
Buchanan is a village located in the town of Cortlandt in Westchester County, New York, United States. The population was 2,230 as of the 2010 census. [3] The now decommissioned Indian Point nuclear power facility is located in Buchanan. The 2000 Rockefeller Center Christmas tree also came from Buchanan. [4]