Editing Briarcliff Manor, New York (section)

== Infrastructure ==
[[File:Briarcliff Manor Village Hall 03.jpg|thumb|left|alt=A two-story brick firehouse|Briarcliff Manor Village Hall]]
[[File:Briarcliff Manor Post Office.jpg|thumb|left|alt=Single story post office building|Village post office]]
The Briarcliff Manor Police Department and the volunteer [[Briarcliff Manor Fire Department]] are stationed at the Briarcliff Manor Village Hall.<ref name="VBMPD"/><ref name="BMFD"/> The Police Department has 19 personnel—a chief, lieutenant, five sergeants, and twelve patrol officers—and one part-time civilian.<ref name="VillageOverview"/> The Briarcliff Manor Fire Department Ambulance Corps provides emergency medical transport with two ambulances.<ref name="BMA"/> The village is also serviced by two private [[Emergency medical services|EMS]] providers.<ref name="VillageOverview"/>

Briarcliff Manor has a post office in its central business district on Pleasantville Road and in Scarborough by the train station. The first post office opened in 1881 in the first train station; it was named for Whitson's Corners. The post office was renamed the Briarcliff Manor Post Office in 1897. When the station building was moved to [[Millwood, New York]], the post office was temporarily moved to a building near the new station. The following post office, a concrete building, was to its east on Pleasantville Road. It was demolished to make way for the Briarcliff-Peekskill Parkway. The post office then moved to an inn, and subsequently to John Whitson's house, the Crossways.<ref name="1952history"/>{{rp|page=57}} In 1933 a replacement building was constructed in the central business district, followed in 1953 by a new brick building next to the present-day village hall.<ref name="1953PO"/> The current post office was constructed at a cost of $500,000 (${{inflation|US|500000|1978|r=-2|fmt=c}} in {{Inflation-year|US}}{{Inflation-fn|US}}) and was completed in November 1978. The building is located just south of its prior location.<ref name="1978PO"/> Post office house-to-house delivery began on November 17, 1952.<ref name="Delivery"/>

[[Consolidated Edison]] provides electric power and natural gas to the village, and the Briarcliff Manor Department of Public Works supplies water from the [[Catskill Aqueduct]] to the village's water system.<ref name="2007MitigationPlan"/><ref name="Catskill"/> The department also maintains the sewer system, village vehicles, roads, and grounds, operates a recycling center, and removes snow.<ref name="PublicWorks"/> In 2016 the village recycled 53&nbsp;percent of its waste, about the same as the county average of 54&nbsp;percent.<ref name="Recycling"/> The department, primarily rooted in the 1941 sale of Walter Law's Briarcliff Table Water Company, began with a state-mandated street commissioner. The commissioner in 1914 was Arthur Brown; asked by village officials if he needed an automobile, Brown replied that he preferred a horse but would use an automobile if the village purchased it (it did not). The department has about thirty vehicles and employs twenty-nine people.<ref name="1977history"/>{{rp|page=87}}<ref name="WorksStaff"/>

The department operates the Long Hill Road water treatment plant and village pump stations. The Long Hill Road pump house is the primary water supply for the village with supply capacity exceeding 3.5 million gallons per day (MGD). Briarcliff Manor's average daily water supply demand is 1.45 MGD with a peak demand of 3.5 MGD. Briarcliff Manor has four water storage tanks (at Rosecliff, Farm Road, the former King's College, and the Edith Macy Conference Center) and two pump stations (the Long Hill Road pump house and the Dalmeny Road pump station).<ref name="2007MitigationPlan"/>

=== Transportation ===
[[File:Scarborough Train Station (4).jpg|thumb|alt=View of tracks and overpass from platform|The [[Scarborough (Metro-North station)|Scarborough Metro-North station]] platform, tracks, and overpass]]
[[File:BriarcliffOutlook5.jpg|thumb|alt=A single-story Tudor Revival railroad station|Law's Briarcliff Manor station (now part of the village library) in 1906]]
The village's transportation system includes highways, streets, and a rail line; its low population density favors automobiles. Briarcliff Manor is accessible by the [[controlled-access highway|controlled-access]] [[Taconic State Parkway]]; it can also be reached by [[U.S. Route 9 in New York|U.S. Route 9]], [[New York State Route 9A]] and [[New York State Route 100]], which traverse the village north to south. East-west travel is more difficult; Long Hill, Pine, Elm, and Scarborough roads are narrow, winding, and hilly.<ref name="2007Plan"/> Routes 9 and 9A are the most heavily traversed roadways in the village.<ref name="2007MitigationPlan"/>

According to the [[National Bridge Inventory]], Briarcliff Manor has 15 bridges, with estimated daily traffic at 204,000 vehicles.<ref name="Bridges"/> Briarcliff Manor has 64 roads, with a total length of {{convert|46.1|mi}}. Twelve are named after trees, eleven after local residents and eight after veterans, and most have the [[road type]] of "lane" or "avenue", while the only "street" in the village is Stafford Street.<ref name="BMSHSNews3"/> The village's oldest existing road is Washburn Road, on which is the oldest standing house in the village, Century Homestead. The longest road in the village, at {{convert|3|mi|sigfig=1}}, is Pleasantville Road; the shortest is Pine Court, {{convert|175|ft}}.<ref name="1952history"/>{{rp|page=9}} Around the time when the Briarcliff Lodge was active, Briarcliff Manor roadways were constructed of [[macadam]] and lined with concrete drains and stone fences.<ref name="LodgeBook"/> Early in Briarcliff Manor's history, the first person to own an automobile was Henry Law (son of Walter Law), who owned a [[buckboard]] with an engine.<ref name="Baldwin"/>

The [[Metro-North Railroad]] [[Hudson Line (Metro-North)|Hudson Line]]'s [[Scarborough (Metro-North station)|Scarborough station]] offers direct service to New York's [[Grand Central Terminal]], and is the primary public transport to the city. About 750 commuters board southbound trains during the morning rush hour, most driving to the station.<ref name="2007Plan"/> Westchester County's [[Bee-Line Bus System]] provides service to areas near the village center on routes 14, 15, and 19, and services the Scarborough neighborhood with routes 11 and 13.<ref name="BeeLine">{{cite web|title=System Map: the Bee-Line System|publisher=Westchester County Department of Public Works and Transportation|url=https://transportation.westchestergov.com/images/stories/pdfs/SysMapEng0518R.pdf|date=March 5, 2018|access-date=February 19, 2020}}</ref>

Rail transportation in the village began on December 13, 1880, with the small [[Millwood (NYCRR station)|Whitson's Station]] on the New York City & Northern Railroad (later the [[New York and Putnam Railroad]]). Before this time, residents would utilize the [[Ossining station]], built in 1848.<ref name="1952history"/>{{rp|page=20}} Walter Law replaced the 1880 station building in 1906 with a new structure in the style of his Briarcliff Lodge,<ref name=LodgeBook/> with [[Mission style furniture]] and rugs. The old station was moved to [[Millwood, New York]], around that time to become its station;<ref name="Changing Landscape"/>{{rp|page=39}} it fell out of use and was demolished May 9, 2012, although plans exist for the construction of a replica.<ref name="OldMillwood"/> Law's Briarcliff station became the public library in 1959.<ref name="Changing Landscape"/>{{rp|page=76}}