Editing Briarcliff Manor, New York (section)

==== Village Center ====
The central business district, also known as the Village Center, is located on Briarcliff Manor's main street on Pleasantville Road and continues on North State Road.<ref name="Patio"/> The area has numerous businesses lining Pleasantville Road, a large expansion from the three stores that existed there in 1906.<ref name="Changing Landscape"/>{{rp|page=67}} The business district is home to the village hall and a [[pocket park]], and has brick sidewalks, period street lighting, and free parking.<ref name="2007MitigationPlan"/><ref name="BlueStar"/> Farther south along the road is the Walter W. Law Memorial Park, and further east along the road are the three schools of the [[Briarcliff Manor Union Free School District]]. The Village Center contains a number of pre-Revolutionary War houses, including the Whitson House, built during the 1770s and the former home of Richard Whitson (one of the Whitson brothers, after whom Whitson's Corners was named); Buckhout House, also dating to the 1770s and named for the family who lived there for over a century and the oldest, Century Homestead, dating to about 1767 and first owned by Reuben Whitson.<ref name="pamphlet"/> The Washburn House, another pre-Revolutionary house, was sold by the New York State Commission on Forfeiture to Joseph Washburn in 1775.<ref name="1952history"/>{{rp|page=7}}