Port Chester is a village in the U.S. state of New York and the largest ration of the town of Rye in Westchester County by population. At the 2010 U.S. census, the village of Port Chester had a population of 28,967 and was the fifth-most populous village in New York State. In 2019, its population grew to a census-estimated 29,342 residents. Located in southeast Westchester, Port Chester forms part of the New York City metropolitan statistical area. Port Chester borders the state of Connecticut and the town of Greenwich to the east. Port Chester is one of solitary 12 villages in New York yet incorporated below a charter; other villages either incorporated or reincorporated under the provisions of Village Law.

The village of Port Chester is nicknamed the “Gateway to New England” and serves as a transportation hub amid New England states and New York. Its economy is primarily stimulated by small businesses, the local government, and several national chain stores, including Stop & Shop, Marshalls, Target, T-Mobile and Metro by T-Mobile, Verizon, Boost Mobile, Staples, and Walgreens.

The land on which the village was founded was originally known as Haseco by the Wappinger people, meaning “marshy land” or “marshy hassock”. Upon colonial settlement, the Place became known as Saw Pit (or Sawpits) for the motto pits in use during the time. Logs were clip in holes in the arena for wood to be used for homesteading. The herald Saw Pit was used for the first epoch in 1732. The village eventually outgrew this reveal and became Port Chester by incorporating as a village in 1868.

In 1660, three settlers from Greenwidge (now Greenwich, Connecticut) — Thomas Studwell, John Coe, and Peter Disbrow — arranged to purchase Manursing Island and the land near the Byram River from the Native Americans. This First Purchase upon Peningo Neck comprised the degrade part of the present town of Rye, on the east side of Blind Brook. Over the course of the adjacent decade, additional purchases filled in the shoreline from Rye to Greenwich, made via home agreements taking into consideration the Native Americans in the area at that time. The tribal affiliation of these Native Americans has been a source of considerable debate. They may have been small, independent families or tribes, or they may have been sub-groups of larger tribes in the area. What is known, and documented, is the names of the natives who signed estate agreements. Their names were written by the English, using their semi-skilled interpretation of the phonetics. In bad feeling of the English phonetic variations, the land records nevertheless existent were clearly signed by the same individuals: