THE COMMUNITY
Harrison New York, a land locked haven, was founded in 1696 and today spans 22 square miles, with a population of approximately 25,000 people. Its boarders stretch from White Plains to Mamaroneck, and from Rye to Scarsdale. Harrison is located 23 miles northeast of New York City and allows its residents to enjoy a 36-minute express train ride into Manhattan. Harrison is home to numerous multinational corporations, including Texaco,
PepsiCo and IBM. It is also home to five private country clubs, a college and one University. Unique to Harrison even today is its residential zoning, with most residential land zoned for a minimum of 1 to 2 acres, enabling Harrison to preserve a rural atmosphere while offering residents every possible modern convenience. Downtown Harrison
New York real estate offers a shopping area edged by tree lined streets with stores that meet your every need as well as an array of restraints.
THE SCHOOLS
The Harrison Central School District boasts four elementary schools, The Harrison Avenue School, Parsons Memorial School, Purchase School, and
Samuel J. Preston School, that have twice been the recipient of the United States of Education Excellence Award, an award designed for schools proven to be in the 99th percentile of all elementary schools in the nation. Once graduated from Elementary school, the students begin their 6-8-grade journey at the Louis M. Kline Middle School. This middle school then feeds into the Harrison High School whose four-acre campus also provides superior educational programs. Harrison High School boasts an 80% average of their students advancing to some of the country¹s most prestigious private and public universities.
WHAT TO DO IN HARRISON
As a resident of Harrison New York there are a number of activities that will keep a family busy. Harrison¹s Recreation Commission maintains and operates recreation facilities that cover some eighty acres in the towns¹ eight parks. Harrison offers both in door and out door facilities that in total consist of three out door pools, fourteen tennis courts, basketball courts, a number of well equipped
Playgrounds. There are also a number of supervised programs for both adults and children in everything from yoga and exercise classes to bodybuilding and skating. The Silver Lake area of Harrison offers swimming, boating, camping and picnicking areas and the Silver lake preserve offers many beautiful hiking trails. There is even a mini-zoo in West Harrison's Memorial Park.
The town runs four day camps for children for six weeks during the summer months and preschool program in July and August where the children can combine arts and crafts with nature walks and sports. Harrison is also home to a public stable that offers private lessons as well as family trail rides.
If you are coming from a major city Harrison's tremendous arts programs will make you feel right at home. The Donald M. Kendall Sculpture garden located on the grounds of
PepsiCo offers forty dazzling pieces of twentieth century sculpture amidst 140 landscaped acres by the famed British garden designer
Russell Page. Just across the street from PepsiCo is SUNY Purchase. A New
York State University that specializes in the arts. The University's center for the arts hosts performances by world renowned ballet troupes, famous orchestras, theater companies and famous comedians. The Campus is also the sight of the Neuberger Museum which houses a collection of 20th century American,
European, and African Art.
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