Scarsdale & Edgemont, NY
Scarsdale,
from above.
A guide to the village, its neighborhoods, its schools and the train into the city.
A village and a town with the same borders, twenty miles north of Midtown: a Tudor center around a Harlem Line station, five school neighborhoods, and Edgemont next door.
Scarsdale covers about six and a half square miles of Westchester County. The Village of Scarsdale and the Town of Scarsdale share one boundary and, since 1930, one elected board. Its 1922 zoning plan kept it a place of single-family houses, organized around five elementary schools. This guide, from The Angela Retelny Team at Compass, explains how it works, with a source for every figure.
01Neighborhoods
Five neighborhoods, named for their schools.
Ask where someone lives and you’ll hear a school: Fox Meadow, Greenacres, Quaker Ridge, Edgewood or Heathcote. Each is an attendance area of the Scarsdale Union Free School District, and the lines follow streets, not signs. They also trace the town’s growth, from Arthur Manor in 1891 to the post-war build-out of Quaker Ridge.
02Schools
Organized around its schools.
Scarsdale UFSD runs seven schools: five K–5 elementaries, one middle school and the high school, with 4,691 students in 2024–25 per NYSED. Edgemont has its own three-school district. The tax bill, not the ZIP code, tells you which.
Inside the schools →
03Commute
Grand Central, by the Harlem Line.
The station sits in the village, 18.5 miles from Grand Central: 32 to 52 minutes on the published schedule, $13.75 peak one-way, $271.50 a month. Resident parking at Freightway Garage is $1,100 a year, sold each September.
Plan the commute →04Taxes
Taxes, plainly.
Five lines on a Village bill: school, village, county, sewer and refuse, due in April, August and December, and September and January. School tax is about two-thirds of it.
Read the taxes guide →$28.89
Combined 2026–27 Village rate per $1,000 of assessed value (Bronx Valley sewer).
≈1.9%
Of market value a year, because the 2026 roll assesses at 66.91%.
05The Village
A Tudor village around a train.
Built in the 1920s beside the station. In 1915 residents voted 142 to 39 to become a village, to keep White Plains from annexing Greenacres. Today: 24 parks, a four-pool complex and a nature center.
The village today → The history →Ask a local.
A street, a school line, a tax bill? Angela Retelny and Jessica Retelny Shames, who both live in Scarsdale, will write back.
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