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The United States Military Academy at West Point (also known as USMA, West Point, or Army) is a four-year coeducational federal service academy located at West Point, New York. Established in 1802, USMA is the oldest of the United States's five service academies. The military garrison at West Point was occupied in 1778 and played a key role in the Revolutionary War. The academy sits on scenic high ground overlooking the Hudson River, 50 miles (80 km) north of New York City.

The entire central campus is a national landmark and home to scores of historic sites, buildings, and monuments. The majority of the campus's neogothic buildings are constructed from gray and black granite. The campus is a popular tourist destination complete with a large visitor center and the oldest museum in the United States Army. It was the first American college to have class rings, and its technical curriculum was a model for later engineering schools. USMA's alumni and students are collectively referred to as "The Long Gray Line" and include two Presidents of the United States, numerous famous generals, and seventy-four Medal of Honor recipients.

• ... that Chapel Hill Bible Church (pictured) was moved from midtown Manhattan to a farm in Marlborough, New York, almost 50 years after it was built?
• ... that hikers can take a commuter train from Grand Central Terminal in New York City to two request stops near trailheads in Hudson Highlands State Park?
• ... that in 2005 the Pearl River, New York, post office was officially renamed in memory of a local Marine whose remains were returned from Vietnam that year?

John A. Degnan (born 1960) is an American politician. He was elected to one term as Mayor of Brewster, New York serving from 2005 to 2007. He has been involved in issues regarding illegal immigration in New York, as well environmental policy, having been called to testify in April of 2008 before the United States House of Representatives Infrastructure Subcommittee on Water Resources and the Environment discussing Superfund sites before members of Congress at the invitation of Congressman John Hall. Degnan graduated from Fordham University with a degree in economics, and studied Construction Management and Finance at New York University. He was a real estate contractor before beginning his political career serving four terms as a Brewster Village Trustee. Brewster is a community of about 2,000 people, with an undocumented day-laborer population estimated to be as many as 600 to 1,000.