Peekskill, New York

Peekskill is a city in northwestern <a href="/facts/Westchester_County,_New_York/8NjUafq0">Westchester County, New York</a>, United States, 35 miles (56 km) north of <a href="/facts/New_York_City/YlyvFmVC">New York City</a>. 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 <a href="/facts/Hudson_River/dGgu7VFE">Hudson River</a>, across from <a href="/facts/Jones_Point,_New_York/h1xX8mbf">Jones Point</a> in <a href="/facts/Rockland_County,_New_York/EVqtkoM8">Rockland County</a>. The population was 25,431 at the <a href="/facts/2020_US_census/dTEm5TRr">2020 U.S. census</a>, up from 23,583 at the <a href="/facts/2010_US_census/RoYVI17A">2010 census</a>. It is the third-largest municipality in northern Westchester County, after <a href="/facts/Cortlandt,_New_York/rMsePWs9">Cortlandt</a> and <a href="/facts/Yorktown,_New_York/IbX5YoEl">Yorktown</a>.
The area was an early American industrial center, primarily for iron plow and stove products. The <a href="/facts/Crayola/FHEb5nYb">Binney & Smith Company</a>, now named Crayola LLC and makers of <a href="/facts/Crayola/FHEb5nYb">Crayola</a> 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 <a href="/facts/Peekskill_Riots/5Mau3bDK">Peekskill Riots</a> of 1949 involved attacks and a <a href="/facts/Lynching/e23NmEsn">lynching</a>-in-effigy occasioned by <a href="/facts/Paul_Robeson/sKxMhyyI">Paul Robeson</a>'s benefit concerts for the <a href="/facts/Civil_Rights_Congress/n7XAtJyP">Civil Rights Congress</a>, although the main assault following the September concert properly took place in nearby <a href="/facts/Van_Cortlandtville/rMsePWs9">Van Cortlandtville</a>. Nevertheless, the city of Peekskill has since had multiple African American mayors since 1984.

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