Peerskill, a village in the town of Cortland, Westchester co., New York, on the E. bank of the Hudson river, 43 m. above New York city; pop. in 1870, 6,560. There are frequent trains on the Hudson River railroad to New York, and in summer steamers to and from that city touch here. The village is the market centre of an extensive farming country, but the chief business is the manufacture and working of iron. There are six iron founderies, producing chiefly stoves, and a large blast furnace. At Verplanck's Point, just below, bricks are extensively manufactured. Peekskill has two large public schools; several private institutions of learning, of which the principal are the Peekskill academy, the New York scientific school, and St. Gabriel's school (Episcopal) and the semiDary of Our Lady of Angels (Roman Catholic) for young ladies. There are a national bank, a savings institution, two weekly newspapers, and 11 churches, viz.: Baptist, Episcopal, Friends' (2), Methodist (2), Presbyterian (2), Reformed, Roman Catholic, and one for colored people.

Peekskill was incorporated in 1816.