What the distance between Westchester New York and Manhattan New York?

Answer 1

Here's the thing: you know how Manhattan is shaped a little bit like a hand that is pointing upwards? There's that long, skinny finger sticking up at the north end?

Westchester is north of Manhattan. The two are separated by the borough of the Bronx, and the skinny river that separates Manhattan from the Bronx, which is called the Harlem River. Actually, you can even take the subway to Westchester, kind of. You take the Uptown 2 or 5 trains to the last stop in the Bronx, which is Wakefield 241st Street on the 2 train, and Nereid Avenue on the 5 train. Then you keep walking north for a couple of miles, and you'll be in Westchester.

But if you travel straight north from Manhattan on the east side (the side that doesn't have the finger-shaped extension) the distance will be much longer than if you travel straight north from the tip of the finger, on the west side (the Inwood neighborhood).

So, from the east side of Manhattan, the distance between Manhattan and Westchester is about 6 miles. From the Inwood neighborhood on the west side, the distance is a little over 1 mile.

Actually, the distance between the west side of Manhattan and the Bronx can technically be called 0 miles. The neighborhood directly north of the Inwood neighborhood, (the stretch of land that separates the west tip of Manhattan from Westchester) is geographically part of the Bronx, but it is considered to be part of Manhattan, because it actually once was! It's called the Marble Hill neighborhood, and the history of how the whole neighborhood was physically moved from Manhattan to the Bronx is very interesting. See the Related Question below.

Since Marble Hill is still officially a part of Manhattan, it can be said that Westchester and Manhattan share a border with each other, on the west side.

See the Related Link below for a New York City subway map, which shows you all the five boroughs, as well as the southern tip of Westchester. The rivers, including the Harlem River, are also labeled.

Answer 2

Approximately 45 road miles using I-495.