Ecstatically Written Prose from Corcoran Real Estate's Neighborhood Guides

Get to know Briarcliff Manor

Tucked between the towns of Mount Pleasant and Ossining, Briarcliff Manor is a leafy Northern Westchester village stretching from Scarborough hamlet, on-Hudson, to the hills above the Pocantico River. It’s an easy sprint from the city, on Metro-North, and a natural fit for nature-lovers: There’s 170 miles of parkland here, from a plethora of soccer fields and sandy baseball diamonds to Hardscrabble Wilderness Area, filled with miles of meandering trails. Emporiums of handcrafted home goods and gift baskets, plump with local provisions, dot the brick sidewalks of downtown, punctuated with planter boxes and bistro tables. Colonials cocooned in front porches coexist in intimate neighborhoods with geometrically-intriguing Mid-Mods, enlivening Briarcliff’s snail-shaped borders with personality. The paved 22-mile North County Trail cuts past the Tudor library, once a train station, and the fish-filled waters by the current one in Scarborough invite you to cast a line.

https://www.corcoran.com/neighborhoods/guide/westchester-county-ny/briarcliff-manor

Emporiums of handcrafted home goods and gift baskets, plump with local provisions, dot the brick sidewalks of downtown, punctuated with planter boxes and bistro tables.

https://www.corcoran.com/neighborhoods/guide/westchester-county-ny/tarrytown

Tarrytown is perhaps Westchester’s best-known river town, owing its notoriety in no small part to repeated appearances in popular culture across a span of more than four centuries. Washington Irving wrote volumes inspired by the surreal landscape of so-called “Sleepy Hollow country” from the comfort of his Sunnyside estate, today a popular attraction at the border with neighboring Irvington. Today’s Tarrytown is a live-and-let-live kind of place, with a sizable, pedestrian-friendly downtown by the river and an inland stretch of office parks and such heading towards Elmsford. You’ll find art galleries, eclectic design shops and specialty food stores to fill a canvas tote with everything from artisan-cured charcuterie to locally-roasted coffee. Whether catching a show at the ornate Music Hall or sojourning to the storied gardens of Lyndhurst, the Gothic manse a rosebud’s throw from Main Street, it’s a fine place to tarry awhile.

Travel writing I feel has always been something like this.

I used to write garbage like that for a boutique hotel company

It's missing 'veritable tapestry' and 'scintillating mosaic'

Thank you for your service

someone's gotta do it

lol, Corcoran is the location of a state prison here in California, and it's the only thing the town is known for.

you should write a lux description really

Get to know Chappaqua

We’re confident Horace Greeley, the prolific publisher who long lived here, would agree Chappaqua is a place to write home about. The household-name hamlet of the less-familiar town of New Castle, this Northern Westchester village is often compared to its Lower Westchester counterparts for its overall layout and feel. Its name, a Quaker remix on the Algonquian word “shah-pah-ka,” loosely translates to “the rustling land,” and the gentle brushing of windswept leaves still hums the ambient soundtrack in this wooded valley today. Since the Harlem Line rolled through in 1846, commuter trains have ushered city types and locals alike to enjoy its plentiful suburban spoils. Boutiques and edible-specialty shops tag-team with galleries and green space downtown, which stems off in all directions towards wooded neighborhoods of antique Colonials, crosshatch-windowed stone manors and the occasional mid-mod. Head to the old, stone train station for a trip into Manhattan, a minimal 38 miles away, or to simply enjoy farm-to-table fare at the depot café.

a Quaker remix on the Algonquian word “shah-pah-ka,” loosely translates to “the rustling land,”

https://static1.srcdn.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Alice-Cooper-Waynes-World-Cameo.jpg