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Peekskill

American  
[peek-skil] / ˈpik skɪl /

noun

  1. a city in SE New York, on the Hudson.


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Other Dutch names survived, like Rensselaer and Peekskill, namesakes of Dutch settlers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026

The Metro-North Railroad restored service on Tuesday morning to two stations on its Hudson Line, Cortlandt and Peekskill, for the first time since Sunday afternoon.

From New York Times ● Jul. 11, 2023

And while this incident didn’t involve a house, a meteorite crashed into the trunk of a red Chevy Malibu in Peekskill, N.Y., in 1992, staining the space rock red.

From Scientific American ● May 25, 2023

Diana Baez of Peekskill said she attended because she wanted to support the values espoused by Mr. Cameron’s book.

From Washington Times ● Dec. 31, 2022

From North Salem to Peekskill was more than twenty miles.

From "My Brother Sam is Dead" by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier

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