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Welcome to the Peekskill Home page. The Peekskill Home page provides as much information as possible on Peekskill. Knowing Peekskill’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Peekskill’s Home page, you will also find Peekskill’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

Peekskill has a population of 24111. 47.7% of Peekskill’s inhabitants are Male, and 52.3 are female. 39.8% of Peekskill is married and 49.6% own their own home. The Average Home price is $287,467, and the average rent is $1,524. Household median income in Peekskill is $66,067, and the individual median income is $33,733. Peekskill’s Ethnic is the following: Hispanic(44.1%), White(39.3%), Other(26.1%), Black(23.1%), Multiple(9%), Asian(2%), Native(0.4%).


Peekskill is a city in northwestern Westchester County, New York, United States, 50 miles (80 km) from New York City. Established as a village in 1816, it was incorporated as a city in 1940. It lies on a bay along the east side of the Hudson River, across from Jones Point in Rockland County. The population was 25,431 at the 2020 US census, an increase over 23,583 during the 2010 census.


It is the third largest municipality in northern Westchester County, after the towns of Cortlandt and Yorktown. The area was an early American industrial center, primarily for iron plow and stove products. The Binney & Smith Company, now named Crayola LLC and makers of Crayola products, is linked to the Peekskill Chemical Company founded by Joseph Binney at Annsville in 1864, and succeeded by a partnership by his son Edwin and nephew Harold Smith in 1885.


The well-publicized Peekskill Riots of 1949 involved attacks and a lynching-in-effigy occasioned by Paul Robeson's benefit concerts for the Civil Rights Congress, although the main assault following the September concert properly took place in nearby Van Cortlandtville. Nevertheless, the city of Peekskill has since had multiple African American mayors since 1984.


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