aka MurdaVille aka Money Earnin' Vernon where stars are from...
Home of:
Phylicia Rashad (Bill Cosby's TV Wife),
Denzel Washington,
Sean 'P. Diddy' Combs,
Heavy D,
Al. B Sure,
Ben Gordon (on Chicago Bulls), Lynn From "Good Day NY" (Fox 5 Morning News),
Misa Hylton-Brim ,etc!!!
Borders the Bronx
Yes it's Ghetto, but has come up. Both rich and average class folks live there. Most hated on city in
Westchester County, and often imitiated..never duplicated. Yonkers, New Rochelle,etc can complain but MV has its history. If Mt. Vernon had as much economic support and land as the other cities, it would be even better!
Person 1: "I'm from Mount Vernon"
Person 2: "Where is it located?"
Person 3: "In Westchester...Next to the Bronx, New Rochelle & Yonkers"
- Mount Vernon Boys' Basketball Team: Successful State Champions several times in a row
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Mount Vernon High School students accepted in top schools such as
NYU,
Columbia University,
Cornell University,
UPenn,
Princeton,
Yale,etc often...so the education must be decent here.