![]() ![]() In fact, after the village of North Tarrytown lost its General Motors assembly plant in 1996, it actually changed its name to Sleepy Hollow to increase tourism, and the new TV series has furthered that goal. What witches are to Massachusetts, the Headless Horseman is to New York State The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is New York’s ultimate Halloween story. His fictional characters Rip Van Winkle and Ichabod Crane are recognizable to most of us today through various adaptations of their stories (some having very little relationship to the originals, as with the current Fox series Sleepy Hollow, a surprise hit just renewed for a second season). The man who coined the nicknames Gotham for New York City, and Knickerbocker for New Yorker also enshrined the Hudson River village of Sleepy Hollow (formerly North Tarrytown) and the Catskill Mountains in the collective American memory. John Quidor: Headless Horseman Pursuing Ichabod Crane (Smithsonian)ĭespite the fact that he spent many of his productive years abroad, Washington Irving (1783-1859) was a quintessential New Yorker. ![]()
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