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Westchester County is served by the Westchester Library System, established in 1958. The system comprises 38 public libraries and 25 college and special libraries in the county. The Westchester Library Association is an organization which advocates on behalf of libraries and their personnel and support systems within Westchester County.
Map showing the different areas of Northern (blue) & Southern (red) Westchester. Map showing the different areas of Northern (blue) & Southern (red) Westchester In New York State, there are three types of political subdivisions (i.e. municipalities) of counties: cities, towns, and villages. While cities are incorporated entities, towns are not.
The history of Westchester County, a county in the state of New York, can be traced back to the founding of a settlement between the Hudson River and Long Island Sound in the 17th century. The area now known as Westchester County had seen human occupation since at least the Archaic period , but significant growth in the settlements that are now ...
Northern Westchester refers to the upper portion of Westchester County, New York, a suburban area north of New York City. Lying north of Interstate 287/Cross Westchester Expressway, these communities are distinguished by distance from New York City and their more rural character from those of Southern Westchester .
The Cross County Parkway (CCP) is a 4.46-mile (7.18 km) controlled-access parkway in lower Westchester County, New York, in the United States.The parkway is a critical east–west connection throughout Westchester, having full interchanges with every major north–south highway in southern Westchester with the exception of Interstate 95 (New England Thruway).
New York State Route 100 (NY 100) is a major north–south state highway in Westchester County, New York, in the United States.It begins parallel to Interstate 87 (I-87) at a junction with the Cross County Parkway in the city of Yonkers and runs through most of the length of the county up to U.S. Route 202 (US 202) in the town of Somers.
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.As of the 2020 census, Mount Vernon had a population of 73,893, [3] making it the 24th-largest municipality in the state and largest African-American majority city in the state.
New York State Route 117 (NY 117) is a 15.23-mile (24.51 km) state highway in Westchester County, New York, in the United States.The southern terminus of the route is at an intersection with U.S. Route 9 (US 9) north of the village of Sleepy Hollow.