Town residents enjoy nearly 1,500 acres of park land. They include a large Audubon Center, two islands on the Sound with beaches served by town ferries, and Greenwich Point with a beach, boating and picnic facilities and woodland walks. The town also owns and operates an 18-hole golf course, dozens of paddle and tennis courts, a skating rink and marinas. There are four private yacht clubs, eight golf clubs and a tennis and squash racquet club. Located at the edge of the New York Metropolitan area, Greenwich is just 29 miles from Times Square.
Express trains make the run to Manhattan in less than an hour.
All three major New York area airports can be reaches in 45 minutes to a little over an hour by car or scheduled limousine. Westchester Airport offers scheduled airline service to many U.S. cities is just 15 minutes from central Greenwich. Greenwich offers a unique mix of small New England town ambience with a metropolitan sophistication, office parks and attractive shipping areas with backcountry rural settings and some of Long Island Sound's most beautiful shorelines. Many executives has moved their headquarters from Wall Street, finding it just as easy to conduct business in Greenwich, enjoy a more casual lifestyle, and by avoiding the hour's commute have more time with their families. In fact, twice as many people today commute into Greenwich, long considered a bedroom area for New York, to work than the reverse.