Warwick, New York is located 55 miles from New York City. The Town of Warwick has a distinctly rural character with rolling hills and farmland dotted with red barns and gracious old farmhouses. The Town of Warwick spans one hundred four square miles and includes three villages: Florida, Greenwood Lake, and Warwick and five hamlets: Amity, Bellvale, Edenville, New Milford and Pine Island.
Pine Island and Florida's fertile black dirt produces twenty-five percent of the nation's onion crop as well as organic vegetables, sod, and flower crops. This rich farmland, formed twelve thousand years ago by a glacial lake, was cleared by hand in the 1880's by the Germans and Polish farmers and is farmed today by many of their descendants.
Warwick's natural beauty extends beyond its farmland to mountains, rivers, streams and lakes. Greenwood Lake, the closest lake to New York City large enough to accommodate water sports, has long been a popular summer resort of such famous entertainment and sports figures as Babe Ruth. The ten-mile-long lake straddles the New York / New Jersey border.
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