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About Yorktown NY 10598

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Real Estate Broker/Owner with Keller Williams - Putnam, Westchester Real Estate

The picturesque and bustling Town of Yorktown is located about 20 miles north of White Plains and Manhattan is about 35 miles from it's center.

The most prominent highway connecting the town with lower Westchester County and New York City is the Taconic State Parkway. Rt9, I84 and I684 are other major access routes enveloping it's boundaries while connecting the area with Upstate New York and neighboring Danbury, Connecticut.

Many Yorktown residents commute daily to New York City, White Plains or other places throughout the Tri-State area via car, bus or train. TheWestchester County Bee-Line Bus System offers a commuter coach (line 10) to the Croton-Harmon Train Station on the Metro North Hudson Line, and bus lines (line 12 and 15) which connect it with nearby Peekskill, Mt. Kisco, Purchase, White Plains and the Westchester County Airport

The town itself is made up of it's hub, Yorktown Heights, and the surrounding villages and hamlets of Mohegan LakeShrub OakJefferson Valley,CrompondHuntersville and Kitchawan, occupying about 40 square miles of rolling greens and heavily wooded hills traversed by small streams feeding various lakes and ponds.

The largest body of water is the tremendeous Croton Reservoir which can hold 19 billion gallons of water at full capacity. It is the collecting point for water from all reservoirs in the Croton Watershed. The original reservoir was called "Croton Lake", and was New York City's first source of water not located in the city itself, being completed in 1842 by damming the Croton River, a tributary of the Hudson River. Around the turn of the last century, the City of New York enlarged the reservoir by constructing the New Croton Dam to supply the city with more water.

Yorktown offers extensive recreational facilities with over 1400 acres of town and state parks; five miles of the 22-mile North County Trail Way bike and pedestrian path; one of the county's largest nature preserves at Teatown Lake Reservation; and two challenging 18-hole public golf courses. The Parks and Recreation Department provides diversified programs and activities of all sorts for all age groups. AYSO Soccer and Little League Baseball are also very active. 

Four Public School Districts serve the town: 
Croton-Harmon School DistrictLakeland Central School DistrictOssining Union Free District, and the Yorktown Central School District, and a number of parochial and private schools. Furthermore there is also a cultural and community center offering a 600-seat theater, a senior citizen gathering place, a gymnasium and a historical museum. The J.C. Hart Library is located in Shrub Oak together with a teen center. 

Yorktown has a rich historical heritage beginning with the earliest known inhabitants - the Mohegan, Osceola, Amwalk, Kitchawan and Mohansic tribes - now lending their names to many local places. The Mohegans of the Algonquin Nation maintained habitations within the borders of Yorktown. During Colonial times it was part of a land grant known as Hanover which was deeded to Stephanus Van Cortlandt. Later, around 1788, it was renamed in honor of the famous battle waged at Yorktown, Virginia. The Yorktown Museum offers a number of interesting large scale exhibits and holds also much information on the areas history.

 

Housing options within Yorktown are plentiful and varied, ranging from urban apartments, well appointed condos and spacious town houses, from romantic lake side hideaways and comfortable neigborhood homes, to scenic mountain retreats and extraordinary multi-million Dollar estates. See also Yorktown Real Estate Statistics & Trends compiled by Trulia.

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