Westvale is a suburban community (and census-designated place) in Onondaga County, New York, United States.

[4] According to the United States Census Bureau, Westvale has a total area of 1.4 square miles (3.6 km2), all land.

Farther west was Fairmount, which developed earlier than most of Westvale, where the land was held off the market.

The core of Westvale was farmland retained by a major landowning family of New York State, the Schuylers.

After World War II, development was rapid, and most houses of Westvale now date from the later twentieth century.

Westvale Plaza, one of the earliest suburban "malls" of the region, appeared in the Avery Tract shortly after World War II.

Its interior pedestrian concourse was roofed over about 1967, making it the first indoor, climate-controlled shopping mall in Central New York.

[citation needed] The stretch of West Genesee Street between the Avery Tract and Fairmout was spared commercial development through the political activism of the Westvale-Avery Club, a men's organization.