Larchmont

Larchmont is a village in Westchester County, New York, United States. The population was 6,485 at the 2000 census. As a village, it is located within the town of Mamaroneck. It is located on the shore of the Long Island Sound, about eighteen miles from Midtown Manhattan. Larchmont is served by the New Haven Line of the Metro-North Railroad.

The village of Larchmont contains one of the six schools in the Mamaroneck School District, Chatsworth Avenue School, which was established in 1903. Two of the other schools are in the Village of Mamaroneck, and the other three (two elementary schools and the middle school) are in the unincorporated Town of Mamaroneck.

Famous residents of Larchmont have included: Alfred Joyce Kilmer, poet; Tommy Armour, golfer; Maurice Barrymore, patriarch of the Barrymore family of acting, and his wife Georgiana Drew, actress, Carl Paul Jennewein, sculptor; Douglas Fairbanks, actor; Mary Pickford, actress; Matt Dillon, actor who appeared in "Crash," "The Outsiders" and "There's something about Mary"; Kevin Dillon, actor who appeared in Platoon and HBO's Entourage; Ang Lee, director of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon," "The Hulk", and "Brokeback Mountain"; Marcus Camby, basketball player for the Denver Nuggets; contemporary artist and musician Jasun Martz (who recorded with Frank Zappa and Michael Jackson); David O. Russell, movie director; playwright Edward Albee, playwright, best known for "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"; Moss Hart award winning playwright and author of "Act One," his best selling biography; director D.W. Griffith; novelist Jean Kerr and her husband, the Pulitzer Prize winning theater critic Walter Kerr, Alton Tobey, artist; and Amelia Rosselli (1930-1996), one of the greatest Italian poets of the last century and daughter of Carlo Rosselli, one of the heroes of the Italian anti-Fascist resistance. Comedian Joan Rivers famously claimed to have grown up in Larchmont in her stand-up routines. In reality, her parents moved from Brooklyn to nearby New Rochelle when she was a teenager.

In July of 2005, CNN/Money and Money magazine ranked Larchmont 11th on its list of the 100 Best Places to Live in the United States.