Beginning on Saturday, February 21, a special exhibit, Treason of the Blackest Dye: The True Story of Arnold, André, and Three Honest Militiamen, will open at the Irvington Historical Society at McVickar House on the village’s Main Street where it will run thr... More »
By Elizabeth Tucker– For the entirety of the 2026 tourist season, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund will pause the popular tours of the historic Kykuit mansion as it completes renovations to the Pocantico Center campus. Until this year, Historic Hudson Valley (HHV... More »
By W.B. King– It’s been said that if one waits long enough, life comes full circle. This is the case for the vibrant Tarrytown Music Hall at 11 Main Street that recently celebrated its 140th anniversary. Two blocks down the road stands the Veteran Memorial Bui... More »
By Jeff Wilson– On August 27, thanks to a chance encounter, the Historical Society of Sleepy Hollow and Tarrytown acquired a trove of antique sterling silver pieces that once belonged to Ambrose Kingsland, the nineteenth-century oil tycoon, New York City mayor... More »
By Barrett Seaman– It was on April 23rd, 17 years ago when fire swept through the three-story building across Beekman Avenue from the W.L. Morse School. According to a contemporaneous report by News12, some 150 firefighters fought for more than three hours but... More »
This story has been updated By Barrett Seaman— A week after the Tarrytown Lighthouse at Sleepy Hollow was trashed and lit on fire, all four young men caught on surveillance camera were arraigned separately in village and county courts, after the fourth suspe... More »
By Barrett Seaman– Had the four young men (teenagers by the look of them) known that the Tarrytown Lighthouse at Sleepy Hollow had surveillance cameras covering the 100-ft. bridge to the shore, they might have been less brazen in their mindless middle-of-the-n... More »
By Barrett Seaman– Once upon a time, villages in the rivertowns had their own newspapers. Shortly after the turn of the century (the 1899-to-1900 one), several sprang up: the Dobbs Ferry Register, the Ardsley Tribune, the Hastings News—all weeklies, and the Ta... More »
By Barrett Seaman– His actual birthday was on April 3rd, but Saturday, April 5th was more convenient for a party where dozens of his admirers gathered in Christ Church San Marcos in Tarrytown to honor Washington Irving, considered America’s most renowned 19th ... More »
By Barrett Seaman– The Village of Dobbs Ferry got some “very exciting news” this week from New York Forward, the state‘s dispenser of community grants: $4.5 million earmarked for municipal improvements designed to “invigorate and enliven downtowns” throughout ... More »
By Rick Pezzullo— Time is running out for sponsors and artists to register to participate in what has become a much- anticipated annual tradition in Irvington. The Bulldog Gallery, a public art installation along Main Street in the village, is returning for a ... More »
By Rick Pezzullo— For the first time since 2020, the historic Tarrytown Lighthouse in Sleepy Hollow will be open for free public tours. Listed on the National Register of Historic Place, the Tarrytown Lighthouse was built in 1883 in response to pleas by local ... More »
By Barrett Seaman– Two hundred forty-four years to the day, September 25, local historians, elected officials and American history buffs gathered in the cavernous “car barn” on the Rockefeller estate in Pocantico Hills to examine and admire a display focused o... More »
By Sue Treiman– Few people associate Vernon Jordan, Cab Calloway, Roy Campanella, “Moms” Mabley and Gordon Parks with Westchester County and Greenburgh Township. That’s about to change. A new African-American History Museum is the goal, but as an incremental s... More »
By Rick Pezzullo— The Great Jack O’Lantern Blaze at Van Cortlandt Manor is kicking off its 20th anniversary on Friday the 13th. The Blaze, which features thousands of intricately carved Jack O’Lanterns in dozens of creative displays, will light up the historic... More »
By Barrett Seaman– In January, after the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) transferred ownership of the Ardsley-on-Hudson train station to Yonkers developer John-Michael DeGennaro, Irvington resident Chet Kerr, a board member writing on behalf of the... More »
By W.B. King– Billing itself as a “welcoming parish,” Church of the Magdalene, located in Pocantico Hills, is hosting several worship events this summer and fall in recognition and celebration of its founding in 1894. “Where some churches are closing and/or me... More »
By Barrett Seaman– Scores of friends, family and officials gathered under iffy skies Saturday morning, July 13th, to honor Sleepy Hollow’s favorite son, Armando “Chick” Galella. A stone bearing a plaque was placed near the gazebo at the corner of RiverWalk—not... More »
By Barrett Seaman– One of the more ambitious Juneteenth events this year took place in Irvington on the Saturday following the day that in 1865 marked the emancipation of enslaved African-Americans at the end of the Civil War. Irvington had an advantage in bei... More »
By Barrett Seaman– In 1853, the good folk of Tarrytown sought out a place in the village where they could erect a monument to the patriot militiamen who captured the British spy, Major John Andre and learned of the treachery of General Benedict Arnold. A coupl... More »
