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Peekskill
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city in Westchester County, New York, United States
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Place details
- Locality
- City of Peekskill
- Region
- New York
- Country
- United States
- Population
- 24,043
- Timezone
- America/New_York
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- New York
- County
- Westchester
- Incorporated village
- 1816 ; 210 years ago ( 1816 )
- Incorporated city
- 1940 ; 86 years ago ( 1940 )
- Type
- Council-Manager
- Mayor
- Vivian C. McKenzie ( D )
- City manager
- Matthew Alexander
- Common council
- Members' List • Patricia Riley ( D ) Deputy Mayor • Kathleen Talbot ( D ) • Robert Scott ( D ) • Dwight H. Douglas ( D ) • Ramon A. Fernandez ( D ) • Brian Fassett ( D )
- Total
- 5.57 sq mi (14.43 km )
- Land
- 4.34 sq mi (11.25 km )
- Water
- 1.23 sq mi (3.18 km )
- Elevation
- 128 ft (39 m)
- Density
- 5,854/sq mi (2,260.3/km )
- Time zone
- UTC-5 ( Eastern (EST) )
- Summer dst
- UTC-4 (EDT)
- Fips code
- 36-56979
- Gnis feature id
- 0960097
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Peekskill
- Population
- 25431
- Area
- 14.498129
- Elevation
- 39
- Official website
- www.cityofpeekskill.com
- Image
- Division and Park, Peekskill, NY.jpg
- Households
- 9679
- Dialing code
- 914
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- Commons category
- Peekskill, New York
- postal code
- 10566
- inception
- 1816-00-00
- water as percent of area
- 21.9767
- per capita income
- 34300
- P12749
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Travel guide
Do
Blue Mountain Reservation, Welcher Ave, +1 914 862-5275. Parking fee. Ride the mountain bike trails. Helmet required, trail map is available online or at Blue Mountain Reservation office. Seven miles of trails in 1,600 acre county park. Trails are marked for level of experience.
Buy
Two used-book stores around the corner from each other.
Go next
Once you exhaust the supply of used books in Peekskill, there are plenty more in the southern Westchester County village of Hastings-on-Hudson.
Travel guide from Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Article
Peekskill is a city in northwestern Westchester County, New York, United States, 35 miles (56 km) north of New York City. Established as a village in 1816, it was incorporated as a city in 1940. It lies on a bay along the east side of the Hudson River, across from Jones Point in Rockland County. The population was 25,431 at the 2020 U.S. census, up from 23,583 at the 2010 census. It is the third-largest municipality in northern Westchester County, after Cortlandt and Yorktown.
The area was an early American industrial center, primarily for iron plow and stove products. The Binney & Smith Company, now named Crayola LLC and makers of Crayola products, is linked to the Peekskill Chemical Company founded by Joseph Binney at Annsville in 1864, and succeeded by a partnership by his son Edwin and nephew Harold Smith in 1885.
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