Briarcliff Manor vs Pleasantville vs Chappaqua ?

[lackadaisical]

This is all weekday trains:

http://web.mta.info/mnr/html/plannin...pt_30_2018.pdf

[allanny13]

For Pound Ridge also consider commuting from New Canaan (CT).

[Moving2westchester1]

Thanks for the train schedules. Are poking around some more, I see that Croton on Hudson has an express train to the city. Can anyone provide info on how living in Croton compares with Ossining or Briarcliff and the general "vibe" of the town.

Thanks!

[LouisaHeron]

I think of Croton as an artistic community, with lots of creative people, pottery wheels and wind chimes. (Obviously not everyone is like this). There are some big estates and there have been several famous people who lived there. When I was a kid, Allen Funt from Candid Camera lived in Croton. His estate was later bought by Jessye Norman, the opera singer. There was a communist group living there in the early 1900s, which included John Reed and his girlfriend Louise Bryant (as was portrayed in the movie Reds.) . I would like living there but, to me, the only downside is that there's not much of a village-area. It seems like the downtown got wiped out by Route 9 and the train station.

I think of Croton(up in the hills) as prettier than Ossining, and Briarcliff as the most uniformly posh of the three. Croton and Ossining's school districts both have a much more mixed population than Briarcliff which I think is a positive thing.