Nussbaum, 54, and I are chatting in the law office in suburban Westchester where she works.

He has given up his tiny barber shop in suburban Westchester to seek a new life.

In May 1983, with the growth of suburban Westchester, the Guard unit moved to Stewart International Airport to the north near Newburgh.

"The Rockefellers could have easily turned this area into much of what suburban Westchester now looks like," he said.

In some respects, Mount Vernon seems to share more with New York City than with suburban Westchester.

His bedroom at his parents' home in suburban Westchester is a blacked-out cocoon, the windows padded with foam packing material.

Downtown residents like the Yerkeses are rare in suburban Westchester, county planners say.

When living over the store is an image deeply imbedded in the American consciousness, it is a faded vision in modern, suburban Westchester.

This is not the way suburban Westchester is supposed to be.

But Mr. Friedman, who grew up in suburban Westchester, was sufficiently intrigued to stick around.