Purchase

By car

From points south: Take the Hutchinson River Parkway and exit onto Lincoln Av.
From points west: Take the Cross-Westchester Expressway (I-287) and exit onto Anderson Hill Road.
From Connecticut: Take the Merritt Parkway, which becomes the Hutchinson River Parkway, and exit onto Lincoln Av., or take the Connecticut Turnpike.
From points due north (and inland from the Hudson River and the Long Island Sound), I-684 is a good road that seldom backs up.

By bus

Take the Bee-Line Westchester County #12 bus from the White Plains TransCenter, Lane B (across from the Metro North train station). Download a schedule from this page. Service ends early, with the last bus scheduled to leave the TransCenter at 6:10 PM on weekdays, 5:40 on Saturdays and 5:00 on Sundays.

By plane

Westchester County Airport (HPN) is right beyond the SUNY at Purchase campus, on the border with Connecticut.

To get around Purchase, unless you are just going from one building to another on an academic mall, will require at a minimum a bicycle and, more likely, a motorized vehicle. It is not very feasible to walk the long distances within Purchase or between Purchase and neighboring towns.

By bus

The Westchester County 12 bus stops at both SUNY at Purchase and Manhattanville College, connecting them with the Metro-North Train Station in White Plains, but it is not useful to travel to diners on Anderson Hill Road, etc.

By taxi

If you need a taxi, you have to call one. You will not be able to flag cabs down on the street. Ask the people wherever you are who you should call; everyone who's ever needed a cab is likely to know.

• Neuberger Museum of Art

  phone: +1 914-251-6100 (operator available M-F 8:30AM-5:30PM), +1 914-251-6117 (operator available S and Su 11AM-5PM)
  address: 735 Anderson Hill Rd
  Features modern, contemporary, and African art.

• Donald M Kendall Sculpture Gardens

  phone: +1 914 253-3433
  address: 700 Anderson Hill Rd
  Corporate collection of PepsiCo, comprising more than 40 major sculptures among 12 gardens. Reopened in March 2017 following renovations.

• SUNY at Purchase Performing Arts Center

  phone: +1 914 251-6200
  address: 735 Anderson Hill Rd
  The Performing Arts Center has a full season of professional performances in music, dance, and theater, and also screens movies. There are also some student performances in the PAC. SUNY at Purchase is generally considered the top undergraduate SUNY school for music, dance and theater, and also has graduate programs in music and dance, among other subjects.

Purchase does not have a wide variety of food options. However, there are a few (2 to 4) restaurants down Anderson Hill Road past Purchase Street. In addition, there are two colleges in Purchase (SUNY at Purchase and Manhattanville) which possess college food for students to eat.

If you need to sleep over at SUNY at Purchase or Manhattanville College and don't have a friend you can stay with, you may be able to pay for a room on campus overnight, or if you are a visiting lecturer, the university may put you up in one as part of your compensation. Otherwise, you might want to check accommodation options in nearby towns like those mentioned in "Go next."

Purchase is not far from the Long Island Sound, where there are several nearby well-to-do towns with charming houses, Sound views, and hills, including Greenwich, Connecticut; Rye; and Mamaroneck.
White Plains is much less picturesque, but it's where the nearest easily accessible Metro-North station lies, and from there, a train ride to Manhattan takes about 30-40 minutes.
Port Chester, the nearest town on the Long Island Sound, though not quite as charming as other towns on the Sound mentioned above, has another train station, on the New Haven Line, which connects New York City with New Haven, Connecticut.