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== Geography == The village has a total area of {{convert|4.0|sqmi}},<ref name="censusfact">{{cite web| url=http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/SAFFFacts?_county=Irvington+village&_cityTown=Irvington+village&_state=04000US36| title=Fact Sheet: Irvington village, New York| year=2000| publisher=U.S. Census Bureau| access-date=May 14, 2009| archive-url=https://archive.today/20200212042519/http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/SAFFFacts?_county=Irvington+village&_cityTown=Irvington+village&_state=04000US36| archive-date=February 12, 2020| url-status=dead}}</ref> of which {{convert|2.8|sqmi}} or about {{convert|1850|acre|ha}}<ref name=roost>Graff and Graff, inside front wing of dust jacket</ref> is land and {{convert|1.2|sqmi}}, or 30.94%, is water.<ref name="censusfact" /> [[File:Croton Aqueduct Tower 18 Irvington New York.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Ventilator #16 on the [[Old Croton Aqueduct Trailway]]]] The village's main thoroughfare is Broadway ([[U.S. Route 9 in New York|Route 9]]) originally an Indian footpath which gradually became a horse track and then a dirt road. It came to be called the "King's Highway" around the time that it reached [[Albany, New York|Albany]]. Later, it was called the "Queen's Highway", after [[Anne, Queen of Great Britain|Queen Anne]], the "Highland Turnpike" after 1800 – a name still preserved in the nearby town of [[Ossining (town), New York|Ossining]] – the "[[Albany Post Road]]" and, after 1850, "Broadway".<ref name=foundation /> The stretch that runs through Irvington was completed by 1723.<ref name="chrono" /> During his tenure as [[United States Postmaster General|Postmaster General]], [[Benjamin Franklin]] had {{convert|3|ft|m|adj=mid|-high}} sandstone milestone markers placed along the Broadway, inscribed with the distance from [[New York City]]. Milestone #27 is still in place in Irvington, near the driveway to 30 South Broadway.<ref name=foundation /> Broadway runs north-south parallel to the river, and connects Irvington to [[Dobbs Ferry, New York|Dobbs Ferry]] in the south and [[Tarrytown, New York|Tarrytown]] in the north. All of the village's major streets, including Main Street, extend east and west from Broadway, and are designated as such. Broadway is designated "North Broadway" above Main Street, and "South Broadway" below it. Main Street begins at the Metro-North train station, just off the [[Hudson River]], and travels uphill to Broadway. Side streets off of Main, which were originally designated A Street, B Street, C Street, etc. when the village grid was laid out, now have names, most of which come from local history: Astor, Buckhout, Cottenet, Dutcher, Ecker, Ferris and Grinnell. The southbound [[Saw Mill River Parkway]] can be reached via Harriman Road/Cyrus Field Road, past the village reservoir, or East Sunnyside Lane/Mountain Road through [[East Irvington, New York|East Irvington]]. The northbound Saw Mill and the [[New York State Thruway]] are accessible via [[Ardsley, New York|Ardsley]], and the [[Tappan Zee Bridge (2017–present)|Mario Cuomo Bridge]] is nearby in Tarrytown. Commuter train service to [[New York City]] is available at the [[Irvington (Metro-North station)|Irvington]] and [[Ardsley-on-Hudson (Metro-North station)|Ardsley-on-Hudson]] train stations, served by the [[Metro-North Railroad]] of the [[Metropolitan Transportation Authority|MTA]]. Bus service is provided on Broadway by the Westchester County Beeline Bus System via route #1T (The Bronx-Yonkers-Tarrytown) and #1W (The Bronx-Yonkers-White Plains). As with all river communities in Westchester, Irvington is traversed by a stretch of the old [[Croton Aqueduct]], about {{convert|3|mi|km}} long, which is now part of the [[Old Croton Trailway]] State Park. The Aqueduct is a [[National Historic Landmark]].
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