The Irvington Historical Society (IHS) asks for your help in chronicling the extraordinary circumstances we are living through as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. We are launching a new project that we are calling “Portrait of a Village in a Time of Crisis: ... More »
Non-profits, particularly those providing food delivery to low-income and elderly residents, need funding now more than ever. Here are ones in the rivertowns and elsewhere in Westchester that support those in need: The Westchester Community Foundation, which a... More »
By Tom Pedulla Members of the girls’ basketball team in Irvington, accustomed to shedding tears of joy in the postseason, blinked back tears of sadness after bowing to Putnam Valley, 52-49, in the Section 1 Class B final on March 7. The Bulldogs were coming of... More »
by Barrett Seaman – On a night when the Irvington Board of Trustees was poised to enact major zoning changes for the village’s North Broadway Corridor (see The Hudson Independent, February 2020 issue), a group of residents submitted petitions and followed the... More »
Rosa Ramirez, charged with the April 2018 stabbing death of Bonifacio Rodriguez, prep chef at Irvington’s River City Grille, pled guilty in State Supreme Court in White Plains to second-degree murder. Ramirez, 29, of New York City, is due back in court April 2... More »
by Shana Liebman What happens when a liberal female director embeds with Steve Bannon? On March 6, the Irvington Theater will screen the award-winning film, The Brink, a fascinating and complicated expose of Steve Bannon. Oddly enough, it was made by two liber... More »
by Tom Pedulla Irvington had overcome injuries to key performers Max Forte and Junnan Shimizu to easily outdistance runner-up Pawling and secure its first Section 1 Class C boys indoor track championship in 31 years. The 35 members of the Bulldogs who qualifie... More »
by Thomas Staudter – Fans of le jazz hot, with an emphasis on deep grooves and winning melodies, will want to make their way to the Irvington Theater on Saturday, February 15 to hear the Hudson Valley Electric Jazz Band, a sextet that brings together some vet... More »
by Barrett Seaman – Attempts by Bridge Street Properties in Irvington to win approval for additional parking spaces for tenants in the Trent Building on the village’s south side have been stymied for years because of opposition by nearby homeowners. Last mont... More »
by Barrett Seaman – The Irvington Board of Trustees appeared poised at month’s end to finalize its rezoning plan for the North Broadway corridor, a stretch of property from Strawberry Lane on the south to East Sunnyside Lane at the northern end of the village... More »
by Clara Firpo-Cappiello – On February 23rd (from 2 to 4 p.m.), the Irvington Theater will host “Build a Bigger Table,” a free event designed to offer audience members an opportunity to hear from neighbors who have personally experienced the presence of homel... More »
The managers of Tarrytown’s Music Hall and Irvington’s Town Hall Theater share the joys and challenges of running a small town theater. More »
by Paula Romanow Etzel – Noah Cornman is bringing it all back home. The 1992 Irvington High School graduate, who joyfully remembers “growing up on the stage of the Irvington Town Hall Theater,” returned in 2016 with his wife, Kerry, to raise their two childre... More »
by Barrett Seaman – For more than 70 years, Irvington’s signature waterfront recreation area, Matthiessen Park, has been restricted to village residents (and their guests). Even homeowners in East Irvington, an unincorporated part of Greenburgh whose children... More »
by Thomas Staudter – A folk music festival in Irvington—presented in the middle of the winter? Carter Smith, the indefatigable impresario behind the long-running Common Ground Community Concerts series, acknowledged the idea was “counterintuitive.” Nonetheles... More »
-by Shana Liebman On January 10, the Irvington Theater will screen the film, Roll Red Roll, a true-crime thriller about the famous 2012 Steubenville High School sexual assault case. Since premiering at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival, the documentary has screen... More »
by Paula Romanow Etzel – This year, Irvington was trick-or-treated to a double dose of musical festivities when the forecast for Halloween looked foreboding. Performances staged on front porches around the village have become an Irvington Halloween tradition. ... More »
By Barrett Seaman Pulitzer Prize-winning author and historian Robert K. Massie III died December 2nd of complications from Alzheimer’s Disease. He first moved to Irvington November 22, 1963, the day John F. Kennedy was assassinated, and spent much of his adult... More »
By Barrett Seaman Irvington Mayor Brian Smith announced that the Board of Trustees will hold a public hearing December 11 on the issue of whether to open the riverside Matthiessen Park, currently open only to village residents, to non-residents. A Point/Counte... More »
By Barrett Seaman For the second time in a matter of months, Irvington police officer Arcangelo Liberatore was given an award for his April 2018 intervention in a Pleasantville park, where, with his bare hands, he rescued a five-year-old girl who was being att... More »
