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Get to know Hastings-on-Hudson

Hastings is Brooklyn’s younger, smaller, ahead-of-the-trend sister, where canvas bags were toted to grocers and filled with organic heads of Hudson Valley lettuce long before the battle cry on plastic. Just a 30-minute ride from Grand Central and the 42nd Street bustle, it’s home to a slope of shops that’s an unblemished spectacle of small business, granting this colorful river town oasis status to tastemakers. History tangles with the charming conveniences of restaurants, wine shops and village-wide tag sales. Homes represent a medley of architectural styles—Victorians to Tudors, commuter apartments to Arts & Crafts bungalows—a speckling that perfectly matches the quirk of the downtown. Grab locally-roasted coffee while taking in New Jersey’s cascading Palisade cliffs in the distance, or spend the afternoon plucking through antiques for idiosyncratic interior touches for your home.

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Living in Westchester

Don’t call it upstate. This cosmopolitan county north of New York City is a collective of towns, hamlets and mid-sized cities that put virtually every lifestyle imaginable within an hour’s commute of Manhattan. It’s due north of the Bronx, next door to Connecticut, and the gateway to the Hudson Valley. Metro-North’s Harlem, Hudson and New Haven lines make for speedy service into Grand Central — an express ride from many down-county communities runs comparable to the F train from South Brooklyn, with a much sunnier view. Lower Westchester’s villages prioritize convenience, while the verdant horse country to the north is a favored destination for those looking to fade away in privacy. The Hudson and Long Island Sound form its two coasts, conspiring with an inland chain of lakes and reservoirs for unbeatable boating, fishing and other recreational endeavors. Chain stores are noticeably absent from many Main Streets, which run chockablock with character-filled indie shops.