Hudson Valley Towns Named Among NYC Area’s Best Places To Live

Bronxville was named as one of the best places to live in the New York City area for 2019, according to a new set of rankings released by Niche. Bronxville was ranked as the 18th best place to live in tri-state area.

The “Best Places to Live” rankings include cities, city neighborhoods and suburbs. Niche defines a place as a “non-rural town” with a population of 1,000 or more, including neighborhoods, suburbs and cities. Niche also separately ranked the best cities, neighborhoods and suburbs to live in.

Bronxville received an overall Niche grade of A+. Here’s how Niche graded Bronxville in the following categories:

• Public Schools: A+
• Crime & Safety: A+
• Housing: B
• Nightlife: A-
• Good for Families: A+
• Diversity: C+

Bronxville ranked ahead of Hell's Kitchen and NoHo and behind Prospect Heights and Brooklyn Heights for 2019.

Here are the Hudson Valley communities that landed a spot in the top 100 best places to live in the New York City area:

• 18. Bronxille
• 21. Chappaqua
• 25. Hartsdale
• 71. Scarsdale
• 85. Hastings-on-Hudson
• 92. Ardsley
• 99. Larchmont

Niche released its “Best Places to Live” rankings on Monday. The publication says its goal is to “provide accurate, comparable and thorough evaluations of places.” Using data from government and private sources, Niche grades the places evaluated for the rankings on factors like public schools, crime and safety and housing.

You can see the full Niche “Best Place to Live” rankings for 2019 here.

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