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===Notable past residents=== Notable past residents of Irvington include: [[John Jacob Astor III]], the wealthiest man in America at the time; [[Amzi Lorenzo Barber]], the asphalt king;<ref name=acc /> [[Albert Bierstadt]], a noted landscape painter;<ref name=cook>{{cite book|author=Cook, Joel|url=https://archive.org/details/briefsummerramb00cookgoog|page=[https://archive.org/details/briefsummerramb00cookgoog/page/n114 109]|title= Brief Summer Rambles Near Philadelphia|publisher=J.B. Lippincott & Company|date=1882}}</ref> [[Samuel Colman]], a landscape painter of the [[Hudson River School]], lived in Irvington in the 1860s<ref name=google /> and made a number of paintings featuring the countryside around the village. While there, he had [[Louis Comfort Tiffany]] as one of his students;<ref>{{Cite book|title = Louis Comfort Tiffany|last = Baal-Teshuva|first = Jacob|publisher = [[Taschen]]|pages = 12–14}}</ref> [[Chauncey M. Depew]], president of the [[New York Central Railroad]] and a [[United States Senate|United States senator]]; Composer [[George Drumm]] lived in Irvington's Half Moon apartment complex in his later life;<ref>{{Cite web |title=Irvington Gazette 2 October 1958 — HRVH Historical Newspapers |url=https://news.hrvh.org/veridian/cgi-bin/senylrc?a=d&d=firv19581002.1.2 |access-date=2025-03-31 |website=news.hrvh.org |at=George Drumm, musician and arranger, famous half a century ago, celebrated his 84th birthday at his home in the Half Moon apartments on Sunday...}}</ref> [[Cyrus W. Field]], who laid the first [[transatlantic telegraph cable]], who once owned {{convert|800|acre|ha}} in the area– now known as Ardsley Park – and whose {{convert|8,000|sqft|m2}} house "Inanda" – meaning "pleasant place" in [[Zulu language|Zulu]]<ref name="gilded">{{Cite web |last=Higgons |first=Jenny |title=Irvington Victorian regains Gilded Age grandeur |url=https://www.lohud.com/story/money/real-estate/homes/2016/06/14/victorian-house-irvington-splendor/83963050/ |access-date=2025-03-31 |website=The Journal News |language=en-US}}</ref> – he built in 1875 for one of his daughter and her husband went on the market in 2016 for $2.95 million.,<ref>Frank, John N. (March 8, 2016) [http://www.realtor.com/news/unique-homes/inanda-for-sale-in-irvington-new-york/ "Intriguing Inanda: A Historic Mansion in New York Is Listed for $3M"] Realtor.com</ref> later reduced to $2.85 million;<ref name=gilded /> [[Frank Jay Gould]], the philanthropist son of [[Jay Gould]];<ref name=acc /> and [[Frederick W. Guiteau]] and [[David Dows]], who made their millions in grain commissions and railroads. [[James Alexander Hamilton]], the son of [[Alexander Hamilton]] and onetime acting secretary of State of New York, had his estate "Nevis" in Irvington. He died there on September 24, 1878.<ref>{{cite book |last=Adams |first=Arthur G. |title=The Hudson River Guidebook |page=128 |location=New York |publisher=Fordham University Press |year=1999 }}</ref> The Reverend [[Sun Myung Moon]], head of the [[Unification Church]], had a residence in Irvington at the time of his death;<ref name="greenburgh_gis"/> [[Lillian Nordica]], a noted opera singer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries;<ref name=gilded/> [[Charles Lewis Tiffany]] the founder of [[Tiffany & Co.]], whose son, [[Louis Comfort Tiffany]], designed the [[Tiffany glass]] which can be seen in the clock tower and lighting fixtures in the Town Hall and the [[stained glass]] windows in the Presbyterian Church; [[Madam C. J. Walker]] (see "Villa Lewaro" in [[#Points of interest|Points of Interest]] above);<ref name=guidebook /> and [[Justine Ward|Justine Bayard Cutting Ward]], who developed the Ward method of music education.<ref name=acc>{{cite web|url=http://www.ardsleycc.org/Default.aspx?p=DynamicModule&pageid=34&ssid=100045&vnf=1|title=Club History|website=Ardsley Country Club|access-date=October 31, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170813014114/http://www.ardsleycc.org/Default.aspx?p=DynamicModule&pageid=34&ssid=100045&vnf=1|archive-date=August 13, 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref> Jazz saxophonist [[Stan Getz]] lived in Irvington – his estate, "Shadowbrook", is less than a mile from Washington Irving's home, at the intersection of Broadway and West Sunnyside Lane;<ref>{{cite news|author=Margolick, David|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/11/26/nyregion/ex-wife-of-stan-getz-testing-a-divorce-law.html?pagewanted=all |title=Ex-Wife of Stan Getz Testing a Divorce Law|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=November 20, 1990}}</ref><ref name="living2004">{{Cite news |last=Brenner |first=Elsa |date=2004-05-23 |title=If You're Thinking of Living In/Irvington; Riverfront Vistas and Unassuming Charm |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/23/realestate/if-you-re-thinking-of-living-in-irvington-riverfront-vistas-and-unassuming-charm.html |access-date=2025-03-31 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> Getz' ex-wife, Monica still resides in the village (see [[#Notable current residents|below]]). Stan Getz's contemporary, jazz drummer and bandleader [[Mel Lewis]] (né Melvin Sokoloff) also lived in Irvington.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Smith |first=Chris |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=q94ZBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA108 |title=The View from the Back of the Band: The Life and Music of Mel Lewis |date=2014-10-15 |publisher=University of North Texas Press |isbn=978-1-57441-574-2 |pages=108 |language=en |quote=One Sunday afternoon I called Mel up out of the blue.... Well to my surprise he was at home with his family; they lived up in Irvington, New York at the time.}}</ref> [[Silent film]] and [[Broadway theater]] actor [[William Black (actor)|William Black]] was born in Irvington,<ref>{{cite web|website=IMDb|url=http://imdb.com/name/nm0085559/ |title=William Black (I)}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://ibdb.com/Person/View/32171 |title=William Black|website=[[Internet Broadway Database]]}}</ref> as was [[Julianna Rose Mauriello]], the star of the children's television series ''[[LazyTown]]''. Actress [[Joan Blondell]] lived in Irvington for a time, in the late 1940s and early 1950s, with her husband – movie producer [[Mike Todd]]<ref name=living1992 /> – and Blondell's children, including [[Norman S. Powell]] (the adopted son of [[Dick Powell]]), who went to Irvington's public schools. In the 1970s, actors [[Jack Cassidy]] and [[Shirley Jones]], who were married, lived for a time in Irvington, along with their son [[Shaun Cassidy]] – but not [[David Cassidy]], who no longer lived with the family by then. Shaun attended the Irvington Public Schools for a short time.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Cassidy, David |author-link1=David Cassidy |author2=Deffaa, Chip |date=1994|title=C'mon, Get Happy ... Fear and Loathing on the Partridge Family Bus| location= New York|publisher= Warner Books|page=35|isbn=0-446-39531-5}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|author=Higgins, Jenny|url= http://www.davidcassidy.com/fansite/InPrintPages/Web2013Feb01.html |title=David Cassidy brings the '70s back to Tarrytown|website= Lohud.com |date=February 1, 2013}}</ref> Actress and filmmaker [[Penny Peyser]] – whose father, [[Peter A. Peyser]] was the mayor of the village for eight years, and later a three-term Congressman – grew up in Irvington and attended the public schools there, graduating in 1969.<ref name= "Buck">{{cite news |last= Buck |first= Jerry |title= She Plays the New Mystery Woman... |work= [[The Free Lance–Star]] |location= Fredericksburg, Virginia |date= December 23, 1989 |url= https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1298&dat=19891223&id=aQNOAAAAIBAJ&sjid=TIwDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5305,4586594 |page= 3 |access-date= January 12, 2015}}</ref><ref name= "Jordan">{{cite journal |url= http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20070846,00.html |last= Windeler |first= Robert |title= Actor James Jordan Was Offered Blondes, But, to His Surprise, He Chose Penny Peyser Instead |journal= [[People (magazine)|People]] |location= United States |publisher= [[Time Inc.]] |volume= 9 |issue= 19 |date= May 15, 1978 |access-date= January 12, 2015}}</ref> [[Ted Mack (radio-TV host)|Ted Mack]], for many years the host of ''[[Ted Mack's Original Amateur Hour]]'' on television, was also a resident,<ref>{{Cite news |last=Illson |first=Aiurray |date=1976-07-14 |title=Ted Mack, Amateur Hour Host On TV for 22 Years, Dies at 72 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1976/07/14/archives/ted-mack-amateur-hour-host-on-tv-for-22-years-dies-at-72.html |access-date=2025-03-31 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331 |quote=Mr. Mack, who lived in Irvington, N.Y., had entered the hospital the day before suffering with complications from cancer, according to his aide, Stan Early.}}</ref> as was actress [[Patricia Neal]], who lived in Irvington for a while.{{when|date=November 2015}}{{citation needed|date=October 2015}} Oscar-winning cinematographer [[Wally Pfister]], noted for his work on ''[[Inception]]'' (2010) and [[Christopher Nolan]]'s ''[[Batman]]'' films, was raised in Irvington in the 1960s and 70s, and attended the local schools.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cameraguild.com/interviews/chat_pfister/pfister_bio.htm|title=Wally Pfister, ASC|access-date=August 5, 2009|publisher=Cameraguild|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080907165705/http://www.cameraguild.com/interviews/chat_pfister/pfister_bio.htm|archive-date=September 7, 2008}}</ref> The acting couple [[Debra Winger]] and [[Arliss Howard]] also lived in Irvington.<ref name="winger">{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/2015/dirt/real-estalker/debra-winger-lands-new-york-city-co-op-1201603069/|title=Debra Winger Lands New York City Co-op|last=David|first=Mark|date=September 29, 2015|work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|access-date=January 23, 2016}}</ref> Singer [[Julius La Rosa]] lived in Irvington for over 40 years, until November 2015.<ref name=living1992 /><ref name=living2004/><ref>{{Cite web |date=2016-05-15 |title=Singer Julius La Rosa, fired on Godfrey show, dies at 86 |url=https://www.nydailynews.com/2016/05/15/singer-julius-la-rosa-fired-on-godfrey-show-dies-at-86/ |access-date=2025-03-31 |website=New York Daily News |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=KARNOWSKI |first=STEVE |title=Singer Julius La Rosa, ex-Irvington resident fired on air, dies |url=https://www.lohud.com/story/news/local/westchester/2016/05/16/julius-la-rosa-obituary/84441478/ |access-date=2025-03-31 |website=The Journal News |language=en-US}}</ref> Poet [[Lucia Perillo]] – who received a [[MacArthur Fellows Program|MacArthur "Genius" grant]] in 2000, and died of [[multiple sclerosis]] in 2016 – grew up in Irvington in the 1960s.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Gates |first=Anita |date=2016-10-26 |title=Lucia Perillo, Whose Illness Shaped Her Poetry, Dies at 58 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/26/books/lucia-perillo-dead.html |access-date=2025-03-31 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331 |quote=Lucia Maria Perillo was born on Sept. 30, 1958, in Manhattan and grew up in suburban Irvington, N.Y.}}</ref> Historical author [[Robert K. Massie]] lived in Irvington for over 50 years, and died there in his home in 2019.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Martin |first=Douglas |date=2019-12-02 |title=Robert K. Massie, Narrator of Russian History, Is Dead at 90 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/02/books/robert-k-massie-dead.html |access-date=2025-03-31 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
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