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Pelham / Harrison / Mamaroneck / Larchmont (Westchester Apartments) Neighborhood Information for Apartment Renters
- Pelham
- The train station is centrally located on Pelham's main business street, Wolf's Lane. You can walk nearly everywhere in town since it's only 2 miles long. That's good, because parking is tight if you don't own a house. Pelhamers take great pride in the non-industrial nature of their town and fight any introduction of large-scale businesses or housing complexes. The schools are quite good, where over 90% of the students go on to higher education and there's active parental involvement. There's a lot of civic pride in this small town.
- Harrison
- John Harrison, in 1696, was the founder and much of the area was often called "Harrison's Purchase". To this day, a section of Harrison is called Purchase, a very exclusive enclave. Harrison is the home of scores of major corporations whose offices are located along the "Platinum Mile" which runs along Route 287. The town has eight parks and five recreation centers featuring swimming pools, tennis, paddle tennis, pedal-boating and fishing. The High School offers, in addition to college preparatory, courses in business and an unusually comprehensive program in industrial arts.
- Mamaroneck
- This town has a long history of boat building and sailing, and its 9-mile shoreline on Long Island Sound has one of the largest natural small-boat harbors in the U.S. Boat building attracted Portuguese, Chinese, and American craftsmen, and later German and Italian immigrants came when the railroads were built. Today, Mamaroneck is economically diverse as well as residentially diverse: you can find mansions in exclusive Edgewater point to overcrowded apartments downtown. There are 16 beach clubs to take advantage of the shoreline. Children attend either the Rye Neck District or the Mamaroneck Union Free School District; both feature arts programs. Between 85 - 90% of students go on to higher education.
- Larchmont
- Named by Peter Jay Munro after the larch trees he planted along his property to absorb the noise from the Boston Post Road (U.S. Route 1, which runs from Boston to Key West, Florida). There are two shopping areas - one on Boston Post Road and the other on Palmer Ave. - that feature specialty stores and restaurants. The streets are named for trees (appropriate, in a town named for a tree). Most of the housing was built between 1880 - 1910 in the Victorian style.
Demographics
- Singles / Families
- In all of these communities, roughly: 26% of households are single, 74% are families.
- Typical Price Range
- Studios: $950—$1250, 1 Bedroom: $1000—$1950, 2 Bedrooms: from $2000
- Transportation to Midtown/Downtown
- All of these communities have stations on the Metro North New Haven Line. Westchester's public bus service is called the Bee Line.
Complete demographic information on these neighborhoods is available here.
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