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The Philipse Patent was a British royal patent for a large tract of land on the east bank of the Hudson River about 50 miles north of New York City. It was purchased in 1697 by Adolphus Philipse, a wealthy landowner of Dutch descent in the Province of New York, and in time became today's Putnam County . Philipse bought the roughly 250 sq mi ...
The Hudson Valley (also known as the Hudson River Valley) comprises the valley of the Hudson River and its adjacent communities in the U.S. state of New York. The region stretches from the Capital District including Albany and Troy south to Yonkers in Westchester County, bordering New York City. [1]
978-0-7432-0304-3. Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community is a 2000 nonfiction book by Robert D. Putnam. It was developed from his 1995 essay entitled " Bowling Alone: America's Declining Social Capital ". Putnam surveys the decline of social capital in the United States since 1950. He has described the reduction in all ...
The William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition, often abbreviated to Putnam Competition, is an annual mathematics competition for undergraduate college students enrolled at institutions of higher learning in the United States and Canada (regardless of the students' nationalities). It awards a scholarship and cash prizes ranging from $250 to ...
PCSB Bank is a bank based in Yorktown Heights, New York. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of PCSB Financial Corporation, a bank holding company. It has 15 branches. History. The bank was established in 1871 in Brewster, New York as the Putnam County Savings Bank. In April 2015, the bank acquired CMS Bancorp.
New York State Route 301. New York State Route 301 ( NY 301 ), also known as the Hudson River Turnpike, is an intra-county state highway stretching across three-quarters of Putnam County, New York, in the United States. The western terminus of NY 301 is at an intersection with NY 9D in Cold Spring. Its eastern terminus is at a junction with NY ...
Philipstown, New York. / 41.42278°N 73.95056°W / 41.42278; -73.95056. Philipstown is a town located in the western part of Putnam County, New York, United States. The population was 9,831 at the 2020 census.
Chuang Yen Monastery ( Chinese: 莊嚴寺; pinyin: Zhuāngyán sì) is a Buddhist temple situated on 225 acres (91 ha) in Carmel, Putnam County, New York, in the United States. The temple is home to the largest indoor statue of a Buddha ( Vairocana) in the Western Hemisphere. [1] The name "Chuang Yen" means "Majestically Adorned".