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Ardsley, Dobbs Ferry On New List Of 'Best Places To Live In 2017'
20 Hudson Valley communities made it into New York's 100 Best Places to Live rankings by Niche.com.
ARDSLEY, NY — Twenty Hudson Valley communities made Niche.com’s list of the 2017 Best Places to Live in New York. Locally, that included Ardsley, Irvington, Hastings-on-Hudson and Dobbs Ferry. No New York community made it into the national Top 100. Carmel in Indiana was determined to be the best place to live in the United States, according to the rankings.
In the state list, Kensington, in Nassau County on Long Island, once again took the top spot in the state rankings.
Just one Orange County community made the list. There were three Rockland communities and the remainign 16 other communities all hail from Westchester County.
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Niche.com took into account local statistics on crime, public schools, cost of living, job opportunities, and local amenities to determine these rankings. Read more about the methodology here.
Here are the Hudson Valley towns that made the top 100 list in New York, along with their respective state rankings:
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7. Ardsley
9. Bronxville
11. Pelham Manor
12. Rye
24. Briarcliff Manor
27. Scarsdale
30. Irvington
32. Chappaqua
34. Hastings-on-Hudson
45. Croton-on-Hudson
51. Armonk
54. Hartsdale
70. Larchmont
88. Bardonia
91. Katonah
92. Dobbs Ferry
95. Suffern
96. South Nyack
97. Tarrytown
100. Woodbury
IMAGE: Ardsley via google maps
By Paige Mcatee. Lanning Taliaferro contributed to this report.
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