Mount Kisco, New York

Mount Kisco is a village and a town in Westchester County, New York, United States. The Town of Mount Kisco is coterminous with the village. The population was 10,877 at the 2010 census.

History

The Village of Mount Kisco was incorporated in 1875 and was partly in the towns of Bedford and New Castle. In 1978, the village chose to become a town in its own right and joined several villages in the state that have made a like choice.

According to the town's official web site, Kisco is derived from an Indian word –either kiskamenahook meaning “settlement near a brook” or cisqua meaning “a muddy place.” Mount comes from the 623-foot hill northwest of town.

The Mount Kisco Municipal Complex was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1997. Merestead, St. Mark's Cemetery, and the United Methodist Church and Parsonage are also listed.

Geography and climate

According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 3.1 square miles (8.1 km²), all of it land.

Mount Kisco (Metro-North station)

The Mount Kisco Metro-North Railroad station serves the residents of Mount Kisco, New York, USA via the Harlem Line. It is 36.5 miles (59 km) from Grand Central Terminal and the average travel time to Grand Central is 56 minutes.

It is located adjacent to downtown Mount Kisco. The old train station building still exists, but no longer serves the railroad. The other part is currently a café. This station is the first/last station in the Zone 6 Metro-North fare zone.

History

The New York and Harlem Railroad laid tracks through Mount Kisco during the 1840s, installing a station in the community as far back as February 1847. Long after being acquired by New York Central Railroad, the original passenger station was replaced by a second Richardson Romanesque-style depot in 1910. The station also contains two former freight houses, one of which is a wooden one from 1890, and is located at 105 Kisco Avenue. The other is made of brick and located in the vicinity of the existing station house. In 1968, New York Central merged with Pennsylvania Railroad, thereby transforming the station into a Penn Central Railroad station, however Penn Central's financial troubles two years later forced them to turn all regional passenger operations over to the MTA who converted it into part of Metro-North Railroad in 1983. Mile-markers noting the distance between Grand Central Terminal and the former northern terminus of the Harlem Line at Chatham Union Station can still be found on the station house to this day. The passenger station currently serves as an Italian restaurant, while the brick freighthouse survives as a local pizzeria.