Editing Mount Vernon, New York (section)

====Downtown====
Downtown Mount Vernon features the Gramatan Avenue and Fourth Avenue shopping district (known as "The Avenue" by locals<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.loopnet.com/Listing/19046880/Gramatan-Avenue-at-Lincoln-Avenue-Mount-Vernon-NY/|title=Gramatan Avenue at Lincoln Avenue, Mount Vernon, NY, 10550 - Office Building Property For Sale on LoopNet.com|website=LoopNet|language=en|access-date=October 7, 2018|archive-date=October 7, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181007223226/http://www.loopnet.com/Listing/19046880/Gramatan-Avenue-at-Lincoln-Avenue-Mount-Vernon-NY/|url-status=live}}</ref>) and the Petrillo Plaza transit hub, and houses the city's central government.

Downtown is in the same condition it was 40 years ago. It features the same mid-century architecture and format. Former mayor Clinton Young vowed to make Mount Vernon a new epicenter with a new central business district. His failed plans included establishing commercial office space and rezoning to allow high density development in the downtown, as well as affordable and market rate housing.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Garcia|first=Ernie|date=August 3, 2019|url=https://eu.lohud.com/story/news/local/westchester/mount-vernon/2018/08/03/mount-vernon-must-pay-more-than-3-million-grocer/874246002/|title=Mount Vernon must pay more than $3 million to grocer|work=lohud.com|access-date=October 7, 2018|language=en|archive-date=October 2, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231002000422/https://www.lohud.com/story/news/local/westchester/mount-vernon/2018/08/03/mount-vernon-must-pay-more-than-3-million-grocer/874246002/|url-status=live}}</ref>