Hudson Valley Towns Graded From A+ To C-: How Did Nyack and Its Neighbors Do?

NYACK, NY — This is one heck of a report card. Niche has come out with its new 2017 rankings of the "Best Places to Live" in New York, but it took a bit of a unique approach: The consumer rankings service assigned a grade, on an A+ to D- scale, to almost every city and town and many neighborhoods around the Empire state.

In the Hudson Valley, 24 of our Patch communities received A+ grades.

Only four received a grade less than a B-. One of the fascinating things is that in many cases, Niche actually separated out villages, cities or neighborhoods from their surrounding towns.

For example, New City got an A+ and Clarkstown got an A. The Nyacks are spread out while Piermont got an A+.

To arrive at the rankings, Niche.com took several factors into consideration, such as the quality of local schools, crime rates, housing trends, employment statistics and access to amenities. (Want to know more about those topics? Subscribe to Patch’s Daily Newsletter and Real Time News Alerts here.)

Niche created a standardized score for each factor, and after weighting each factor, an overall score was calculated, which was again given a new standardized score.

Finally, Niche.com created a numerical ranking and assigned grades for each place. Click here to read more about the methodology.

Check out these Hudson Valley Patch communities graded on Niche's report card. Don't see your community or your next door neighbor on this list? Look it up here!

A+

• Bardonia
• Briarcliff Manor
• Bronxville
• Chappaqua
• Croton-on-Hudson
• Dobbs Ferry
• Greenburgh
• Hartsdale
• Hastings-on-Hudson
• Irvington
• Katonah
• Larchmont
• Mamaroneck town
• New City
• New Paltz
• Pelham
• Pelham Manor
• Piermont
• Rye
• Rye Brook
• Scarsdale
• South Nyack
• Suffern
• Tarrytown
• Upper Nyack

A

• Bedford
• Clarkstown
• Cortlandt
• Eastchester
• Harrison
• Lake Mohegan
• Mamaroneck
• Mount Kisco
• Pleasantville
• Tuckahoe
• West Nyack
• White Plains
• Yorktown

A-

• Nanuet
• New Rochelle
• Nyack
• Ossining
• Pearl River
• Poughkeepsie town
• Southeast
• Tuxedo
• Warwick

B+

• Beacon
• Bedford Hills
• Buchanan
• Hyde Park
• Montrose
• Rhinebeck
• Rye town
• Shrub Oak
• Wappinger
• Wappingers Falls

B

• Kingston
• Newburgh town
• Pawling

B-

• Brewster
• Middletown
• Peekskill
• Port Chester

C+

• Mount Vernon
• Newburgh
• Poughkeepsie
• Verplanck

Do you agree with the grades? Tell us in the comments!

Story by Tom Davis, Patch Staff

Photo by guilherme jofili via Flickr