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The Kensico Dam plaza is a plaza located at the foot of the dam. Historically, Westchester County's Department of Parks has hosted several community-wide events at the plaza, including outdoor screenings throughout the summer and early autumn, and a Fourth of July celebration with fireworks, food trucks, and live music.
The Kensico Dam is at the southern end of the Kensico Reservoir, which holds 30.6 billion gallons at full capacity and was placed into service in 1915. The dam was completed in 1917 and is 307 ...
It was fed by the Fulton Brook, Manhattan Park Brook, Davis Brook, and Tompkins Brook. [5] With the construction of the Kensico Dam in 1885, however, the river was cut off from its natural headwaters and today a small tributary stream originating from the reservoir serves as its source.
Kensico was named after the Siwanoy Indian chief, Coken-se-co, a signatory of the deed for the city of White Plains. Prior to the town being flooded and removed from existence, Kensico was a stop on the Harlem Line out of Grand Central Terminal in New York City, shortly north of the White Plains stop. It was also one of three settlements in the ...
The dam, according to the Westchester County website, was built under the old dam that formed Lake Kensico, using stone taken from the adjacent Cranberry Lake Park. The dam was completed in 1917 ...
Most of the exits on the parkway, including the traffic light-controlled intersections in Westchester County, have interchange numbers. 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.
The Taconic State Parkway (often called the Taconic or the TSP) is a 104.12-mile (167.56 km) limited-access parkway between Kensico Dam and Chatham, the longest in the U.S. state of New York. It follows a generally north–south route midway between the Hudson River and the Connecticut and Massachusetts state lines, much of its upper section ...
The Rising is a memorial located in the Kensico Dam Plaza of Valhalla, Westchester County, New York, created by architect Frederic Schwartz.It stands against the backdrop of Kensico Dam, commemorating the September 11 attacks on America and remembering in a special way the men and women from Westchester County who were victims of those attacks.