Editing Tarrytown, New York (section)

==In popular culture==
===Films===
*The 1962 release of ''[[The Brain That Wouldn't Die]]'' was shot in and around Tarrytown in 1959
* In the movie ''[[On the Waterfront]]'', Edie mentions that St. Ann's, the Catholic college where she is studying to be a teacher, is in Tarrytown, out in the country.
*Main character in the movie ''[[The Commuter (film)|The Commuter]]'' (2018) lives in Tarrytown. 
*The 2000 festive movie The Family Man was filmed in and around Tarrytown.<ref>{{Cite web |date=December 14, 2011 |title=Movies Made Here: The Family Man (2000) |url=https://patch.com/new-york/tarrytown/movies-made-here-the-family-man-2000 |access-date=December 22, 2023 |website=Tarrytown-Sleepy Hollow, NY Patch |language=en}}</ref>

===Music===
* The Frankie Valli song "Patch of Blue" (1970) references the town.
* The Vampire Weekend song "Finger Back" (2013) references the town.

===Literature===
* Washington Irving's story "[[The Legend of Sleepy Hollow]]" is set in and around Tarrytown. The name "Sleepy Hollow" comes from a secluded glen located north of Tarrytown. In 1996, the residents of [[North Tarrytown]] (a village north of Tarrytown around the area of Sleepy Hollow) voted to formally change the village's name to Sleepy Hollow.
** Jessica Verday's young adult novel ''The Hollow'' is a modern interpretation of the events of Irving's story, and is likewise set in the Tarrytown and Sleepy Hollow area.
* The [[Ellery Queen]] novel ''[[The Dragon's Teeth]]'' is set primarily in Tarrytown.
* [[Gabrielle Zevin]]'s young adult novel ''Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac'' is set primarily in the Tarrytown/Sleepy Hollow area.
* [[Judy Blume]]'s children's novel ''[[Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great]]'' is mostly set in Tarrytown, where the title character and her family spend their summer vacation.
* In [[F. Scott Fitzgerald]]'s ''[[The Beautiful and Damned]]'', millionaire Adam Patch's estate is said to be in Tarrytown.

===Television===
* In the TV series ''[[Divorce]]'', Frances Dufresne lives in nearby Hastings and opens an art gallery on Main Street in Tarrytown.
* In the TV series ''[[Forever (2014 TV series)|Forever]]'', episode 21 takes place in Tarrytown.
* In the TV series ''[[Mad Men]]'', [[Betty Draper]] plans to take her children on an antiquing trip to Tarrytown (Season 3, Episode 2), and her and Don's third child, Eugene Scott Draper, is born here.
*In 1970s sitcom ''[[Rhoda]],'' Marion, the ex-wife of Rhoda's husband Joe, lives in Tarrytown.
* In season 3 episode 25 (''Sons and Lovers, Part 2'') of the TV series "[[Will & Grace]]", Karen Walker says that she can imagine her friend Grace Adler living in Tarrytown.
* The children's TV series ''[[Jay Jay the Jet Plane]]'' centered on aircraft that live in Tarrytown.

===Theater===
* ''The Tarrytown Widow'', farcical comedy written by Charles T. Dazey, 1897.<ref>{{Cite web |date=November 4, 1897 |title=The Cornell Daily Sun, Volume XVIII, Number 37, 4 November 1897 |url=https://cdsun.library.cornell.edu/?a=d&d=CDS18971104.2.17&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------- |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240316112913/https://cdsun.library.cornell.edu/?a=d&d=CDS18971104.2.17&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------- |archive-date=March 16, 2024 |access-date=March 16, 2024 |website=The Cornell Daily Sun}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=The Tarrytown Widow |url=https://dp.la/item/403aac59ac40cce4a47af08fc320b634 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240316113624/https://dp.la/item/403aac59ac40cce4a47af08fc320b634 |archive-date=March 16, 2024 |access-date=March 16, 2024 |website=Digital Public Library of America (DPLA)}}</ref>
* ''Tarrytown,'' a chamber musical by Adam Wachter which premiered in 2017.

===Video games===
* In ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild]]'' and ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom]]'', Tarrey Town and its founder Hudson are named after Tarrytown and the nearby Hudson River.
* Tarrytown is going to be included as a playable location in the upcoming ''[[Penny Blood]]'' video game (spiritual successor of the ''[[Shadow Hearts]]'' series of games, a franchise well known for its usage of places which exist, or existed before, in real life).