sleepy hollow

     

Just 25 miles N. of Manhattan, this "Sleepy" village is the place "where the Headless Horseman rode"

Trivia about sleepy hollow

  • Police constable Ichabod Crane
  • The NYC suburb of North Tarrytown has renamed itself this, the subject of a Washington Irving legend
  • Policeman Ichabod Crane is sent to a small town to investigate a series of decapitations
  • 1999:Hessian Horseman, an antagonist
  • Hey, Mr. Irving! A chair of the mid-19th c. with a concave seat & high back shares its name with this town
  • Brom Bones tells the story of the Headless Horseman in "The Legend of" this place
  • "The Legend of" this place is set in "Greensburgh... which is more generally" known as Tarry Town
  • Emerson, Thoreau & of course Washington Irving are all buried in cemeteries with this name
  • It's the drowsy valley along the Hudson River where you'll find Katrina van Tassel