Peekskill, New York

Peekskill, officially the City of Peekskill, is a city in the New York City metropolitan area, Westchester County, New York, in the United States. Peekskill is situated on a bay along the east side of the Hudson River, across from Jones Point. The population was 23,583 during the 2010 census.

This community was known to be an early American industrial center, primarily for its iron plow and stove products. The Binney & Smith Company, now makers of Crayola products, started as the Peekskill Chemical Company at Annsville in 1864. Peekskill's manufacturing base operated well into the late 20th century, with the Fleischmann Company making yeast by-products under the Standard Brands corporate name.

The well-publicized "Peekskill" Riots of 1949 involved attacks and a lynching-in-effigy occasioned by Paul Robeson's benefit concerts for the Civil Rights Congress, although the main assault following the September concert properly occurred in nearby Van Cortlandtville.

In October, 2015, Spectra Energy, a Texas-based energy corporation which profits from fracked gas, was given permission from Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino to begin construction on the extension of the Algonquin Pipeline. Despite protestations from Peekskill residents due to safety issues, Spectra and its contractors will begin clear-cutting Blue Mountain Reservation and using eminent domain loopholes to take over private homes before the end of 2015. The Algonquin Incremental Market (AIM) pipeline will bring pigging and compressor stations into residential areas as well as run a 42-inch pipeline containing volatile chemicals by Indian Point nuclear power plant, less than 50 miles away from Manhattan .