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Beach Shopping Center | 914-631-3131 | |||||||||||||
Beach Shopping Center is located at Route 6 and Dayton Lane, Peekskill, NY 10566 in Westchester County. This shopping center offers a Super Stop & Shop, CVS, fitness center, restaurants, fast food, clothing stores and more.
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Carjen Fence Company | 914-737-7700 | |||||||||
Carjen Fence Company specializes in the design and production of fine quality custom fencing of cedar, steel, wrought iron, aluminum and vinyl, offering unlimited styles of decorative picket, custom lattice, post & rail, privacy and boundary fencing, as well as elegant manual and motorized gates. In addition to ornamental styles of trellises, arbors, pergolas, lightposts and mailboxes, Carjen also offers custom outdoor furniture. Press blue button for more information.
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Century 21 - North Star Realty | 914-737-2223 | |||||||||
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Real Estate Agency 1831 Main Street Peekskill, NY 10566 Westchester County more . . .
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CVS Pharmacy - Peekskill, 1827 East Main St. | 914-737-3728 | |||||||||
CVS Pharmacy
1827 East Main Street Peekskill, NY 10566 Westchester County more . . .
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DMV - Department of Motor Vehicles - Peekskill | 718-477-4820 | |||||||||
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Peekskill Office - NYSDMV 1045 Park Street Peekskill, NY 10566 Westchester County Phone: 1-718-477-4820 website and more . . .
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First Hebrew Congregation - Conservative | 914-739-0500 | |||||||||
First Hebrew’s mission is to enrich our vibrant egalitarian Jewish Community though education, worship, charity and social interaction, and to support each person in their pursuit of Jewish learning, values and spirituality.
First Hebrew Congregation is a warm and welcoming participatory Jewish community. We celebrate Jewish practices with present-day meaning. Inspired by our heritage, we foster the ideals of contemporary Conservative Judaism through life-long learning, worship, charitable acts and social connection. We are devoted to our community and are committed to building for the future. We welcome all individuals and families, including interfaith families, people of all ages, races, sexual orientation and disabilities. website and more . . .
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Hendrick Hudson Free Library - Peekskill | 914-739-5654 | |||||||||||||||||
The Hendrick Hudson Free Library is located at 185 Kings Ferry Road, Montrose, NY 10548 in northern Westchester County. The library covers the towns of Buchanan, Verplanck, Crugers, Montrose, and parts of Cortlandt Manor, Croton, and the City of Peekskill.
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Hendrick Hudson School District - Peekskill | 914-736-5210 | |||||||||
The Hendrick Hudson School District is located at 61 Trolley Road, Montrose, NY 10548 in the Town of Cortlandt. The Hendrick Hudson School District is located in a scenic area along the Hudson River about 45 miles north of Manhattan. The District includes
Buchanan, Crugers, Montrose, Verplanck, and parts of Cortlandt Manor, Croton, and the City of Peekskill
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Hudson Valley Gateway, Chamber of Commerce | 914-737-3600 |
Key Food Marketplace | 914-737-2772 | |||||||||
Key Food Marketplace is located at 20 Welcher Ave., Peekskill, NY 10566 in Westchester County.
The words say it all. At Key Food, we’re different. We are your neighborhood marketplace, where you can buy a few groceries on your way home, or you can shop for the whole week. We’re just around the corner, and a few steps from your office. From fresh meat for the barbecue this weekend, to cold ice cream for that late night treat. It’s all here. Everything you need, right where you need it to be. website and more . . .
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Little Orphan Animals Rescue | 914-734-2989 | |||||||||
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Peekskill, NY 10566northern Westchester County website and more . . .
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MTA Metro-North Railroad, Peekskill | 800-638-7646 | |||||||||
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300 Railroad Ave Peekskill, NY, 10566-4412 41.2 miles to Grand Central Terminal website and more . . .
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Municipality - City of Peekskill | 914-737-3400 | |||||||||
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Peekskill City Hall 840 Main Street Peekskill, NY 10566 Westchester County (914) 737-3400 City of Peekskill The City of Peekskill has a total area of 5.5 square miles and is located in northern Westchester, New York. The city borders the Hudson River to its west and the Town of Cortlandt on its northern, eastern, and southern borders. Peekskill City Hall is approximately 45.1 miles to midtown Manhattan (measured to Rockefeller Plaza). Peekskill is one of the Rivertowns of Westchester and the Hudson River Valley.
Peekskill is one of the Hudson River Towns. Westchester River Towns Peekskill is one of the Westchester River Towns. Westchester County Demographics Demographics for City of Peekskill - Zip Code 10566 MTA Train Station to Grand Central in Manhattan MTA Train Station in Peekskill
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Peekskill Business Improvement District | 914-737-2780 | |||||||||
Peekskill Business Improvement District is located at 16 South Division Street, Peekskill, NY 10566 in Westchester County.
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Peekskill City School District | 914-737-3300 | |||||||||
The Peekskill City School District is located at 1031 Elm Street, Peekskill, NY 10566 in Westchester County. The Peekskill City School District is comprised of the following schools:
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Peekskill City Website | 914-737-3400 | |||||||||
Peekskill City Hall is located at 840 Main Street, Peekskill, NY 10566 in the northwestern corner of Westchester County.
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Peekskill Field Library | 914-737-1212 | |||||||||||||||||
The Field Library, located several blocks from the Hudson River at 4 Nelson Avenue, is Peekskill's major information resource. As a full scale public library serving a population of approximately 22,000 Peekskill residents and 35,000 Town of Cortlandt residents, The Field Library boasts a collection of 80,000 books, over 300 different magazine and newspaper titles, and a wide variety of audiocassettes, compact discs and videocassettes.
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Peekskill History | 914-788-0100 | |||||||||
Peekskill's Origins, Development and Highlights
Peekskill is located in the northwestern part of Westchester County, NY along the Hudson River. The riverfront of the City of Peekskill was historically one of intense commercial and industrial activity for most of the last century. The City's Waterfront served as a port for the shipping and receiving of raw materials and finished goods. The City's river port thrived and provided an economic engine for the City and a region as a whole. website and more . . .
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Peekskill Post Office | 914-737-6437 | |||||||||
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Peekskill Post Office 738 South Street Peekskill, NY 10566 website and more . . .
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Police Department, Peekskill Police | 914-737-8000 | |||||||||
Police Station Address City of Peekskill Police Department 2 Nelson Ave Peekskill NY, 10566 website and more . . .
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Rite Aid - Peekskill, 1107 Main Street | 914-737-0154 | |||||||||
Rite Aid Pharmacy
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ShopRite Supermarket of Peekskill | 914-737-4335 | |||||||||
ShopRite of Peekskill is located at 2094 East Main Street, Cortlandt Manor NY 10567, Westchester County in the Hudson Valley. Shoprite stores have implemented policies, procedures and initiatives to reduce our environmental impact . . . learn more about ShopRite online.
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St. Peter's Church - Episcopal | 914-737-6312 | |||||||||
St. Peter's Church is located at 137 North Division Street, Peekskill, NY. Our Mission at St. Peter's Church is to love God with all our heart, soul, mind and being, to love ourselves as Christ loves us, and to love our neighbor as ourselves. Through the grace and guidance of the Holy Spirit we will work to equip, support, and affirm all people for this ministry of Christ's love. Press blue button to explore our website.
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Stop & Shop Supermarket - Peekskill | 914-739-3356 | |||||||||
Stop & Shop - Peekskill, is located at 1831 East Main Street, Peekskill NY 10566, Westchester County.
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For weather related school closings, cancellations, and delays in Westchester County, select one of the following links.
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History of the City of Peekskill
"European-style settlement took place slowly in the early 1700s. By the time of the American Revolution, the tiny community was an important manufacturing center from its various mills along the several creeks and streams. These industrial activities were attractive to the Continental Army in establishing its headquarters here in 1776. "Though Peekskill's terrain and mills were beneficial to the Patriot cause, they also made tempting targets for British raids. The most damaging attack took place in early spring of 1777, when an invasion force of a dozen vessels led by a warship and supported by infantry overwhelmed the American defenders. Another British operation in October 1777 led to further destruction of industrial apparatus. As a result, the Hudson Valley command for the Continental Army moved from Peekskill to West Point, where it stayed for remainder of that war. "Hawley Green, a resident of Peekskill during the Civil War era, was an African American citizen who voted, ran a downtown barber business, and owned several properties with his wife Harriet. Mr. Green was credited before and during the war with "helping many a slave brother on his way to Canada." Active assistance given by AME Zion Church members, Reverend Beecher, local Quakers and the Greens was part of the famous "underground railroad" of freedom in Peekskill during the 1800s.
"Peekskill's first legal incorporation of 1816 was reactivated in 1826 when Village elections took place. The Village was further incorporated within the Town of Cortlandt in 1849 and remained so until separating as a city in 1940."
Art District in the City of Peekskill
"The city wanted to turn its unused downtown spaces into something useful. Similar to Lowell, MA’s strategy, in order to have a vibrant downtown area one must have a population living there, so that the activity does not only happen from nine to five. In creating spaces where artists both live and work, the city created a situation in which there would always be people downtown, 24 hours a day. ". . . Peekskill took an active role in pursuing displaced artists by taking out advertisements in So Ho art magazines and offering them low interest rates. This helped artists buy buildings and convert them into useful spaces. Once a few artists had moved to Peekskill, a buzz was created and more artists made the move north.
Today, the City of Peekskill has 80 artist/live work lofts. This includes the Peekskill Art Lofts opened in 2002. The Peekskill Art Lofts are an affordable 28-unit limited equity cooperative apartment complex built for qualified artists."
History And Antiquities, Compiled 1841
"Peeksville Village was incorporated in 1826. It is situated 12 miles north of Sing Sing, and immediately south of the southern termination of the highlands. An old engraving of Peekskill shows: The old Dutch Reformed and the Episcopal church are visible on the right; the Methodist and the Presbyterian church, having a small tower, are on the left. The elevated spire of the new Dutch Reformed church is in the central part of the view. Hudson River, with the towering highlands, is seen in the distance. The village represented is situated on an elevation 200 feet above the level of the river, half a mile from the landing, on both sides of a deep ravine. There are in the village a bank, 2 printing offices, 2 large iron foundries, etc. There is an academy, a large edifice, situated on a commanding eminence at the south. The village contains upwards of 200 dwellings and 2 churches for Friends, besides those mention above. There is a steamboat ferry at this place to Caldwell's landing, on the opposite side of the Hudson, two miles distant. Verplank's point an Continental village, places distinguished in the revolutionary ware, are within the limits of this town. This latter place, which had barracks for 2,000 men, was burnt by the British in October, 1777."
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"Historical Collections of the State of New York
, Published by S. Tuttle, 194 Chatham-Square, 1841
History of Pelham, Published 1900
"Thus Stophanus Van Cortlandt became the proprietor of nearly the whole of Westchester County along the Hudson from Crotoii Bay to the Highlands. In the interior his bounds, both at the north and the south, ran due east twenty miles to the Connecticut border (which border was, by the interprovincial agreement between Connecticut and New York, considered to be at a distance of twenty miles from the Hudson). But there were two strips of land above Verplauck's Point of which neither Van Cortlandt nor his heirs ever obtained the ownership. One was the so-called Ryke's patent, a tract called by the Indians Sachus or Sackhoes, embracing about eighteen hundred acres between Verplanck's and Peekskill Creek, whereon a large portion of the village of Peekskill has been built. This tract was bought from the Indians, April 21, 1685, by Richard Abramseu, Jacob Abramsen, Tennis Dekey (or DeKay), Seba, Jacob, and John Harxse, and soon afterward was patented to them for a quit-rent of " ten bushels of good winter merchantable wheat yearly." The name of Ryke's patent is Dutch for Richard's patent, so called after Richard Abramsen, the principal patentee, who later assumed the English name of Lent. Substantially the whole tract passed to Hercules Lent, Richard's son, about 1730. The second of the two strips on the liudson which always remained independent of the Van Cortlandt estate was a three-hundred-acre parcel fronting on the inner and upper part of Peekskill Bay, which was deeded, on April 25, 1685, to Jacobus DeKay " for the value of four hundred guilders, seawant," and which ultimately became the property of John Krankhyte (ancestor of the Cronkhites). Upon this strip is the Peekskill State Camp of Military Instruction."
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History of Westchester County, New York: From Its Earliest Settlement to the Year 1900,
History of Peekskill, Compiled 1940
"The city takes its name from Peek's Kill, the creek along its northern boundary named for Jan Peek, a Dutch trader who settled on its bank in 1665. During the early years of the Revolution," American Revolution in Peekskill", staff officers and troops moved back and forth through the settlement on their way between the river landing and their points of duty. Thee was little industrial development until the latte part of the nineteenth centruy. The Standard Brands plant, manufacturing yeast and alcohol, among other products, provides employment for about 2,500 people. Chauncey M. Depew Park, in the center of the village, contains a statue of Depew, who was born in Peekskill in 1834 and was a lifelong resident. When Depew was 32 years old he was the attorney for Cornelius Vanderbilt's Hudson River & Harlem Railroad; . . . Unlike most men occupying his position as counsel and confidential adviser, he was fond of appearing in public and gained a wide reputation or oratory. His bon mots are still quoted, though he died in 1928. The Peekskill Military Academy, on Oak Hill, a broad plateau overlooking the Hudson, was founded in 1833 and now has an enrollment of 400. The Gallows Oak Tree, from which the Revolutionary spy, Daniel Strange, was hanged, still stands on the campus. The First Presbyterian Church, South St. east of Washington St., erected in 1846, is a handsome Greek Revival building. The front has flush boarding and the sides are clapboarded; heavy Doric pilasters frame the lower portion of the facade and tower.
In the hamlet is St. Peter's Church, an exceedingly simple structure built by the Van Cortlandts for the use of their tenants and opened in 1767. The straight-backed pew set aside for the family of the lord of the manor is unchanged; everyone else sat on rough-hewn benches. Left from the hamlet 0.5 m. and across the creek to Gallow Hill, where Edward Palmer, a Tory spy, was hanged in 1777 by order of General Israel Putnam. Beyond Gallows Hill, at 1.5 m. is the Site of Continental Village, a supply base that had barracks for 1,500 men. The barracks were burned by the British in 1777 and the site was not reoccupied until 1781.
Peekskill to Eastern Junction
with State 17; 20.7 m. US 6
This section of US 6 crosses the Hudson, offering magnificent views of the river valley, and cuts across the northern area of Bear Mountain Section. West of Peekskill, 0 m., the road swings R. and L. on the Bear Mountain Bridge approach, a three-mile stretch carved through the rock directly above the Hudson River and affording splendid views of the Highlands; there are several parking spaces. At 1.7 m. is the junction with Camp Smith Road.
Source: Excerpts from "New York, A Guide to the Empire State" , Compiled by workers of the Writer's Program of the Work Projects Administration in the State of New York, 1940 Albany
About Peekskill Today
Children love going to the park and to the delight of kids and parents, the City of Peekskill offers several local parks for the kids and family. Select one of several terrific parks in Peekskill and enjoy watching the kids in the playground, or on a nature walk, or just relax and read a book. When dining out, select from one of many excellent restaurants in Peekskill City, New York. Peekskill, New York offers beautiful homes and excellent areas in which to live. Learn more about buying a home in Peekskill, New York, Westchester County. |