Built by a famed African American business owner, the 10-foot-wide home has a long and rich history in Westchester County.
The Van Tassels. The Jays. The Purdys. The Meads. These are the clans who settled our history-rich county—but where are they now?
Though thoroughly ravaged by the war’s end, Westchester and the surrounding areas played a significant role in the American Revolution, serving as host to several notable battles, major military figures, and more.
Look around you. How much of the land, the views, and even the art can be traced back to one family? Here, how the Rockefellers forever left their mark on Westchester.
Mount Vernon’s Harry Sandler has snapped a wide range of musicians, from Bob Dylan to Lady Antebellum, and he shares his photos with Westchester Magazine.
How the notorious serial killer David Berkowitz forever left his mark on the City of Yonkers, Westchester County, and America.
Westchester Magazine breaks down what really happened in that Cross River home on what should have been a routine day in 2011.
Cecil Suwal goes from tabloid fodder to personal-growth expert.
Markers of our past; memorials to our forebears
Bradley Walz, 13, of Ardsley remembers his father, a New York City Fireman who died during his 9/11 rescue efforts. Bradley Walz, 13, has two photographs on his bedside table, across the room from his ...
In 1999, after 40 years spent living in East Harlem apartments, Sharon Balkcom found her dream house: a $240,000 condo in Winding Ridge, a brand-new development off Route 119 in White Plains. “She was so ...
On the village green in Rye, next to the Free Reading Room and a stone’s throw away from the monuments to the fallen of World War II, Korea, and Vietnam, sits a lovely gazebo. Dedicated ...
On a sultry summer weekday at Irvington’s waterfront park, the only sounds you’re likely to hear are the call of seagulls, Metro-North trains rumbling by, and the bouncing of a basketball on the park’s state-of-the-art ...
Westchester Magazine interviews the families of 5 Westchester County 9/11 victims on the 10-year anniversary of the September 11 attacks.
We answer your burning questions about county history, local legends, and some of the weird and wacky things that make Westchester home.
The truth behind the dam’s namesake, an abandoned factory, and a guy named Farragut.
You, too, can have the suburban life of Don and Betty Draper.
A candid look at three generations of the middle-class African American experience in Westchester, and how the work is far from over.
The reckless and doomed embezzlement scheme that created Hanspeter Walder's famous home.
