| 5 Reason to Love Mount Vernon | Houlihan Lawrence Real Estate ... Apr 26th 2012, 15:57 Home to nearly 70,000 residents, Mount Vernon is a bustling urban center surrounded by suburban, residential neighborhoods in southern Westchester that borders Bronxville. A 29 to 33 minute train ride will have you right in the heart of midtown Manhattan. - Known as the City of Happy Homes, Mount Vernon is a divided into four major sections: North Side, the South Side, Mount Vernon Heights and Downtown. A series of neighborhoods reside within each section, giving Mount Vernon with both great character and diversity.
- Mount Vernon offers a wide range of restaurants that suit every palate – Ristorante Buona Sera (Italian), Spring Asian (Asian), Galitos Restaurant (Portuguese), Ripe (Jamaican), and the infamous Lincoln Lounge, a long time favorite.
 - Mount Vernon's lineage of the famous and successful –icon Dick Clark, writers E. B. White and Linda Fairstein; the actors Art Carney, Denzel Washington, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee and Sidney Poitier; the musicians Sean "P. Diddy" Combs and Heavy D; and the athletes Ralph Branca, Ben Gordon and Floyd Patterson – speaks to the city motto "A City That Believes" in its people and their great potential.
- A tennis loving city, Mount Vernon's annual tennis tournaments held by its department of recreation dates back over 50 years.
- Mount Vernon features a number of city parks large and small. Wilson Woods Park, a 23-acre site that's one of the oldest in the county park system, offers residents a wave pool, water slides, a spray deck and water playground, an English Tudor style bathhouse and designated areas for picnicking and fishing. Hunt's Woods is a county preserve with hiking and nature trails.
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