Briarcliff Manor
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| Foundation : | 1902 |
| State : | United States |
| State : | new York |
| County : | Westchester County |
| Coordinates : | 41 ° 9 ′ N , 73 ° 51 ′ W |
| Time zone : | Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 ) |
| Residents : | 7,867 (as of 2010) |
| Population density : | 524.5 inhabitants per km 2 |
| Area : | 17 km 2 (approx. 7 mi 2 ) of which 15 km 2 (approx. 6 mi 2 ) are land |
| Postal code : | 10510 |
| Area code : | +1 914 |
| FIPS : | 36-08103 |
| GNIS ID : | 2391558 |
| Website : | Village of Briarcliff Manor |
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Briarcliff Manor is a small town in Westchester County , right on the Hudson River about 30 miles north of New York City in the northeastern United States . The place is part of the Towns of Ossining and Mount Pleasant . According to the last census from 2010, around 7,867 people live in this community.
Personalities
Sons and daughters of the town:
- Jerrier Haddad (1922-2017), computer engineer
- Joseph Ruben (* 1950), film director and screenwriter
Other personalities associated with the city:
- William Rockefeller (1841–1922), business tycoon
- Carrie Chapman Catt (1859–1947), a campaigner for women's suffrage
- William John Burns (1861-1932), investigator
- Brooke Astor (1902-2007), philanthropist
- John Cheever (1912-1982), writer
- John Hersey (1914-1993), writer
- Gertrude Neumark (1927–2010), physicist and pioneer in the development of LEDs
- Brice Marden (born 1938), artist
supporting documents
- ^ Mary Cheever: The Changing Landscape: A History of Briarcliff Manor-Scarborough . Phoenix Publishing, West Kennebunk, Maine 1990, ISBN 0-914659-49-9 .
Web links
Commons : Briarcliff Manor, New York - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files
- Briarcliff Manor Official Website