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36-481: The General Precision Equipment Corporation was a major manufacturing company involved in the defense and space industries as well educational products and control devices for consumer goods. General Precision, Inc. , was the principal operating subsidiary of General Precision Equipment Corp. headquartered in Tarrytown, New York . Librascope , founded in 1937 by Lewis W. Imm to build and operate theater equipment,

72-437: A blue-ribbon panel that would explore the pros and cons of an intermunicipal agreement. The two villages have shared a school district for 55 years. The villages already shared some services, as well, to lower their expenses, but the greatest reductions, especially in school and property taxes, would come from merging the two villages. However, each village has its own assessment roll. Zegarelli, who led an unsuccessful attempt in

108-566: A "public and common general highway" along the same route, starting in Kingsbridge, Bronx and ending at a ferry landing in present-day Rensselaer . It was called the Queen's Road, after Queen Anne . The King's Bridge was built as a toll bridge in 1693, by Frederick Philipse, a wealthy merchant and major landholder in the Bronx and Westchester. The bridge, the first connecting Manhattan with

144-584: A large Jewish community, which encompasses all major denominations. Temple Beth Abraham, located on Leroy Avenue, services both the Reform and Conservative communities. The DoubleTree Inn features a Glatt Kosher kitchen, as well as an Orthodox prayer service (minyan) on the Jewish sabbath (Shabbat). The local Jewish Community Center, JCC on the Hudson, features family programs, camps, and educational opportunities from

180-451: A non-denominational approach. Notable current and former residents of Tarrytown include: Albany Post Road The Post Road followed the original Wickquasgeck Trail, carved into the brush of Manhattan by its Native American inhabitants. This trail originally snaked through swamps and rocks along the length of Manhattan Island. Upon the arrival of the Dutch , the trail soon became

216-399: A piece of paper matching the color of the driveway, a path used by Archbold when going to or from his home by automobile. The bomb was later defused by police. The Christ Episcopal Church , First Baptist Church of Tarrytown , Foster Memorial AME Zion Church , Washington Irving High School , North Grove Street Historic District , Patriot's Park , and Tarrytown Music Hall are listed on

252-641: Is a major stop on the Hudson Line due to a large number of commuters crossing the Tappan Zee Bridge on Hudson Link buses from Rockland County to catch express service to Manhattan . Bee-Line Bus System service is also provided within Tarrytown: Tarrytown was home to Marymount College , an independent women's college established in 1907. Amid financial struggle, Marymount was taken over by Fordham University in 2002, but

288-611: Is located on the eastern bank of the Hudson River , approximately 25 miles (40 km) north of Midtown Manhattan in New York City , and is served by a stop on the Metro-North Hudson Line . To the north of Tarrytown is the village of Sleepy Hollow (formerly "North Tarrytown"), to the south the village of Irvington and to the east unincorporated parts of Greenburgh. The Tappan Zee Bridge crosses

324-480: Is served by Episcopalian, Baptist, Catholic, Christian Science, Methodist, Reformed, and Korean churches. The Foster Memorial AME Zion Church on Wildey Street is the oldest black church in Westchester County. Tarrytown's single largest religious denomination is Roman Catholicism, with over 60% of residents of Tarrytown and Sleepy Hollow identifying as Catholics. Three Roman Catholic churches (Church of

360-727: The Hudson at Tarrytown, carrying the New York State Thruway (Interstates 87 and 287 ) to South Nyack , Rockland County and points in Upstate New York . The population was 11,860 at the 2020 census. The Native American Weckquaesgeek tribe, who were closely related to the Wappinger Confederacy and further related to the Mohicans , lived in the area prior to European settlement. They fished

396-534: The Hudson River for shad , oysters and other shellfish. Their principal settlement was at what is now the foot of Church Street near the Hudson River shore, between the current location of Losee Park and the Tappan Zee Bridge , at a place they called Alipconk , or the "Place of Elms". The first European settlers of Tarrytown were Dutch farmers, fur trappers, and fishermen. Records show that

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432-656: The National Register of Historic Places . Lyndhurst and Sunnyside are listed as National Historic Landmarks . The General Motors car manufacturing plant North Tarrytown Assembly was located in North Tarrytown until 1996. Today's Metro-North Railroad 's Hudson Line runs through the abandoned property. Sleepy Hollow Mayor Philip Zegarelli, in March 2007, met with Tarrytown Mayor Drew Fixell and district superintendent Howard Smith to discuss forming

468-705: The Transfiguration School (of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York ), was established in 1949 and is maintained by the local parish. Tarrytown is also home to the Hackley School , a private K–12 college preparatory . Situated on Castle Ridge, the school first opened in 1899. The Westchester Library System has its headquarters just outside Tarrytown in an unincorporated area of Greenburgh . In 2018 Brooke Lea Foster of The New York Times stated that it

504-583: The Transfiguration, Immaculate Conception Church, and St. Theresa's) serve the community's Catholics and provide numerous social services including the Transfiguration School. Tarrytown is also the home of the motherhouse of the Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary, a Catholic woman's religious order that founded and staffed the now-defunct Marymount College (now EF School). Tarrytown also has

540-529: The World (IWW) radicals as a protest against the execution of IWW member Joe Hill in Salt Lake City . The bomb was discovered by a gardener, John Walquist, who found four sticks of dynamite, weighing a pound each, half hidden in a rut in a driveway 50 feet from the front entrance of the residence. The dynamite sticks were bound together by a length of wire, fitted with percussion caps, and wrapped with

576-405: The average family size was 2.95. In the village, the population was spread out, with 19.7% under the age of 18, 8.6% from 18 to 24, 34.8% from 25 to 44, 22.5% from 45 to 64, and 14.4% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 37 years. For every 100 females, there were 82.5 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 77.8 males. The median income for a household in the village

612-466: The colony's two most important settlements at the time. It was little more than a narrow path in many places, following old trails used by the Wiccoppe and Wappinger tribes. Stagecoaches headed north originally started from Cortlandt Street in lower Manhattan ; later the starting point was moved up to Broadway and Twenty-first Street. In 1703, the legislative body provided for the postal road to be

648-704: The eastern end of the New York State Thruway 's Tappan Zee Bridge . I-87 continues south to New York City , while I-287 heads east across Westchester to link up with the Saw Mill River Parkway , the Sprain Brook Parkway , the Merritt Parkway / Hutchinson River Parkway and I-95 . Tarrytown railway station is served by Metro-North Railroad commuter service. Metro-North trains go to New York City's Grand Central Terminal , and also go as far north as Poughkeepsie . Tarrytown

684-815: The effort was unsuccessful: the last graduates of "Marymount College of Fordham University" received diplomas in 2007. The historic hilltop campus was sold to the Swiss firm EF and became a branch of its foreign exchange secondary school, the EF International Academy . Tarrytown is divided between two school districts : Union Free School District of the Tarrytowns and Irvington Union Free School District . The former school district also includes most of Sleepy Hollow . The Tarrytown school district supervises four separate K-8 schools , as well as Sleepy Hollow High School . A Roman Catholic elementary,

720-407: The end of the U.S. Civil War . Tarrytown later became a favorite residence for many rich New Yorkers, including John D. Rockefeller , who first moved to Tarrytown in 1893. Kykuit , Rockefeller's elaborate mansion, was completed in 1906. In 1914, Kykuit became the site of numerous labor protests by radical anarchists , which protests were broken up by police in a series of violent clashes. Kykuit

756-709: The estate of Cyrus W. Field , who owned 780 acres (3.2 km2) of land lying between Broadway ( Dobbs Ferry ) and the Sprain Brook ( Greenburgh ) named Ardsley Park. He had named Ardsley Park after the English birthplace of his immigrant ancestor, Zechariah Field (East Ardsley, West Riding of Yorkshire, England), who immigrated to the U.S. Just north of Washington Irving 's Sunnyside is the Old Dutch Church of Sleepy Hollow featured in his " The Legend of Sleepy Hollow " (1820). Running concurrent with U.S. Route 9,

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792-592: The first Dutch residence in Tarrytown was built in 1645; however, the exact location of this residence is not known. Tarrytown sits within the lands of the former Dutch Colony of New Netherland which fell under English rule in 1674 with the signing of the Treaty of Westminster . The name may come from the Dutch tarwe , meaning "wheat". In 1780, in a famous American Revolutionary War incident, British Major John André

828-546: The main road through the island from Nieuw Amsterdam at the southern tip. The Dutch explorer and entrepreneur David Pietersz. de Vries gives the first mention of it in his journal for the year 1642 ("the Wickquasgeck Road over which the Indians passed daily"). The Dutch named the road " Heerestraat ". In 1669, the provincial government of New York designated a postal route between New York City and Albany ,

864-543: The mainland, spanned the former Spuyten Duyvil Creek at what today is Kingsbridge Avenue. At Kingsbridge the Post Road split with the eastern spur heading to Boston, and the northern branch heading to Albany. The Albany Post Road, still called "Broadway", continues to Van Cortlandt Park , through what was once called the "Vale of Yonkers", and passes Greystone, the former estate of Samuel J. Tilden , now part of Untermyer Park . The village of Ardsley takes its name from

900-475: The mid-1970s to disaffiliate Sleepy Hollow from the town of Mount Pleasant , continues to advocate for secession – Sleepy Hollow from Mount Pleasant and Tarrytown from Greenburgh – as another way to save money. "If the idea is to save money, why have two levels of government?" he asked. The town of Mount Pleasant blocked Sleepy Hollow's effort to secede, largely because it did not want to lose tax revenue from General Motors , Zegarelli said. In 2014, Tarrytown

936-405: The population. There were 4,533 households, out of which 26.6% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 48.5% were married couples living together, 9.6% had a female householder with no husband present, and 39.0% were non-families. 31.2% of all households were made up of individuals, and 9.7% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.33 and

972-463: The protection of St. Nicholas when they crossed, there lies a small market town or rural port which by some is called Greenburgh, but which is more generally and properly known by the name of Tarry Town. This name was given, we are told, in former days, by the good housewives of the adjacent country, from the inveterate propensity of their husbands to linger about the village tavern on market days." The Underground Railroad ran through Tarrytown prior to

1008-455: The village. The population density was 3,724.7 inhabitants per square mile (1,438.1/km ). There were 4,688 housing units at an average density of 1,574.5 units per square mile (607.9 units/km ). The racial makeup of the village was 77.44% White , 7.04% African American , 0.22% Native American , 6.49% Asian , 0.05% Pacific Islander , 5.29% from other races , and 3.47% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 16.17% of

1044-404: Was $ 68,762, and the median income for a family was $ 82,445. Males had a median income of $ 61,699 versus $ 41,054 for females. The per capita income for the village was $ 39,472. About 1.8% of families and 4.7% of the population were below the poverty line , including 5.4% of those under age 18 and 4.6% of those age 65 or over. Tarrytown has access to highways I-87 and I-287 , and is the site of

1080-629: Was acquired by General Precision in 1941. During World War II it worked on improving aircraft load balancing. In the mid-1950s it went on to become an early digital computer manufacturer. In 1954 GPE purchased Griscom-Russell . In 1955 GPE Corporation purchased the Kearfott Company . In 1968 GPE Corporation was purchased by the Singer Company . In 1987 Kearfott was split, the Kearfott Guidance & Navigation Corporation

1116-507: Was arrested in Tarrytown, which exposed the plans of American defector Benedict Arnold . André was traveling south through the village on the Albany Post Road when he was stopped and searched by three local militiamen David Williams , John Paulding , and Isaac Van Wart . When suspicious papers were found in his boot, he was arrested as a spy, and later convicted and hanged. A circumstantial account of André's capture by militiamen

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1152-514: Was one of several "Rivertowns" in New York State, which she described as among the "least suburban of suburbs, each one celebrated by buyers there for its culture and hip factor, as much as the housing stock and sophisticated post-city life." Of those, Foster stated that Irvington was "the most charming". Tarrytown's churches (many of which are located on Broadway, the village's largest thoroughfare) cover all major denominations. Tarrytown

1188-595: Was ranked second in the list of the top 10 places to live in New York, according to the national online real estate brokerage Movoto. According to the United States Census Bureau , the village has a total area of 5.7 square miles (15 km ), of which 3.0 square miles (7.8 km ) is land and 2.7 square miles (7.0 km ) (47.54%) is water. As of the census of 2000, there were 11,090 people, 4,533 households, and 2,765 families residing in

1224-652: Was sold to the Astronautics Corporation of America in 1988 and the Electronic Systems Division was purchased by GEC-Marconi in 1990 and renamed GEC-Marconi Electronic Systems. This United States manufacturing company–related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Tarrytown, New York Tarrytown is a village in the town of Greenburgh in Westchester County, New York . It

1260-476: Was the intended target of at least two bombing attacks planned by anarchists associated with the radical journalists Alexander Berkman and Luigi Galleani . On November 19, 1915, a powerful dynamite bomb was discovered at Cedar Cliff, the Tarrytown estate of John D. Archbold , President of the Standard Oil Company . Police theorized the bomb was planted by anarchists and Industrial Workers of

1296-590: Was written in 1903 by the owner and publisher of the Tarrytown Argus , Marcius D. Raymond . The writer Washington Irving described Tarrytown in " The Legend of Sleepy Hollow " (1820). Irving began his story, "In the bosom of one of those spacious coves which indent the eastern shore of the Hudson, at that broad expansion of the river denominated by the ancient Dutch navigators of the Tappan Zee , and where they always prudently shortened sail and implored

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