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Tarrytown

New York, United States
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Tarrytown, village in Greenburgh town (township), Westchester county, southeastern New York, U.S. A northern suburb of New York City, it is just northwest of White Plains, where the Hudson River widens to form the Tappan Zee (there bridged by the Governor Thomas E. Dewey Thruway). With Irvington and Sleepy Hollow (formerly until 1996 North Tarrytown), it comprises the “Sleepy Hollow country” made famous by the author Washington Irving, whose home Sunnyside is a national historic...

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