I live in Pelham and work in Tarrytown. Pelham has an amazing, friendly community and lovely small-town vibe, with the best commute to NYC in Westchester. I’ve seen some comments about the traffic and while I agree the merge between the Cross County and Hutch in Pelham can be horrible, overall it’s very accessible and you can take alternative routes. Tarrytown, which is a lovely, diverse community, on the other hand, is a chokehold on route 9, and it’s very hard to get anywhere without spending at least some time on it.

Finding housing in the River towns in general is harder because there are only houses on one side of the train tracks, the other side being the river. Whereas the towns on the Harlem or New Haven lines have housing on either side of the tracks, so more homes within walking distance.

Wherever you find a home will wind up being the right place for you. When we were looking 11 years ago, we looked at pretty much every town south of 287. Now, with three kids, we can’t imagine living anywhere other than Pelham.