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==In popular culture== Sleepy Hollow has been used as a setting or filming location for numerous media works, including films, games, literature, motion pictures, and television productions, including:[[File:Washington_Irving's_headstone_Sleepy_Hollow_Cemetery.jpg|alt=Headstone with an American Flag to the left|thumb|Washington Irving's headstone in [[Sleepy Hollow Cemetery]]]] ;Literature * Sleepy Hollow is the setting of Washington Irving's short story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" (1820), its many adaptations in other media, and its major characters, Ichabod Crane and The Headless Horseman. ; ;Films * ''[[The Curse of the Cat People]]'' (1944) * The second segment of [[Walt Disney]]'s ''[[The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad]]'' (1949) * ''[[The Scarlet Coat]]'' (1955), partially about American Revolutionary War general Benedict Arnold's associate John Andre's pivotal real-life capture in the village * the adaptation of the ''[[Dark Shadows]]'' television series, ''[[House of Dark Shadows]]'' (1970) * [[Woody Allen]]'s ''[[Mighty Aphrodite]]'' (1995) * [[Sidney Lumet]]'s ''[[Gloria (1999 American film)|Gloria]]'' remake (1999) * ''[[The Thomas Crown Affair (1999 film)|The Thomas Crown Affair]]'' remake (1999) * [[Tim Burton]]'s ''[[Sleepy Hollow (film)|Sleepy Hollow]]'' (1999), shot primarily in England * ''[[The Family Man]]'' (2000) * ''[[Super Troopers]]'' (2001) * ''[[Lord of War]]'' (2005) * [[Robert De Niro]]'s ''[[The Good Shepherd (film)|The Good Shepherd]]'' (2006) * ''[[Why Stop Now (film)|Why Stop Now]]'' (2012) * ''[[The English Teacher (film)|The English Teacher]]'' (2013) * the [[Stephen King]] adaptation ''[[A Good Marriage (film)|A Good Marriage]]'' (2014)<ref>{{cite web|title=Stephen King's 'A Good Marriage' Filming in Sleepy Hollow, NY This Month|url=http://www.onlocationvacations.com/2013/05/20/stephen-kings-a-good-marriage-filming-in-sleepy-hollow-ny-this-month/|website=OnLocationVacations.com|date=May 20, 2013|access-date=September 4, 2015|archive-date=September 24, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924073648/http://www.onlocationvacations.com/2013/05/20/stephen-kings-a-good-marriage-filming-in-sleepy-hollow-ny-this-month/|url-status=dead}}</ref> * the adaptation of ''[[The Girl on the Train (2016 film)|The Girl on the Train]]'' (2016) * ''[[The Meyerowitz Stories]]'' (2017), filmed primarily in and around [[Northwell Health]]'s [[Phelps Memorial Hospital|Phelps Memorial Hospital Center]] * ''[[Wonderstruck (film)|Wonderstruck]]'' (2017) * The [[Netflix]] [[Halloween]] film ''[[The Curse of Bridge Hollow]]'' (2022), which substitutes the Headless Horseman legend with the lore of [[Stingy Jack]] in a thinly-veiled contemporary Sleepy Hollow, references the "safest small city in America" distinction. ; ;Games * One of the locations in ''[[Magicland Dizzy]]'' is [[AMC (TV channel)|named]] after the village (1990). * Sleepy Hollow is a location in the game ''[[Assassin's Creed Rogue]]'' (2014). ; ;Television * [[The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1980 film)|''The Legend of Sleepy Hollow'']] (1980), TV movie starring [[Jeff Goldblum]], [[Paul Sand]], and [[Meg Foster]]. * The four-season [[Fox Broadcasting Company|Fox]] series ''[[Sleepy Hollow (TV series)|Sleepy Hollow]]'', though set in and around the village through the centuries, greatly expanded its population to 144,000, as indicated by a sign at the beginning of the pilot episode. Most of the series was filmed in [[North Carolina]] and [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]], though several aerial shots of the actual village and surrounding region are incorporated into the series. * Television personality and retired [[Olympic Games|Olympic]] [[Decathlon|decathlete]] [[Caitlyn Jenner]], who attended [[Sleepy Hollow High School (New York)|Sleepy Hollow High School]], led TV journalist [[Diane Sawyer]] on a tour of the village and neighboring Tarrytown during her landmark coming-out interview on ''[[20/20 (U.S. TV series)|20/20]]'' in 2015. Television shot on location in Sleepy Hollow includes: * the "Tale of the Midnight Ride" episode of the [[Nickelodeon]] series ''[[Are You Afraid of the Dark?]]'' * an episode of the [[HGTV]] series ''[[Property Brothers]]'' during its Westchester-dedicated season * the [[HBO]] series ''[[Divorce (TV series)|Divorce]]'' starring [[Sarah Jessica Parker]] * the "Two Boats and a Helicopter" episode of the HBO series ''[[The Leftovers (TV series)|The Leftovers]]'' * the [[Amazon Prime Video]] series ''[[Sneaky Pete]]'' * the [[Hulu]] series [[The Path (TV series)|''The Path'']] * an episode of the [[Travel Channel]]/[[Food Channel]] series ''[[Man v. Food]]''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lohud.com/story/life/food/2017/08/15/hit-series-man-vs-food-takes-westchester/567973001/|title=Hit series 'Man v. Food' takes on Westchester|website=Lohud.com|access-date=October 14, 2017|archive-date=November 26, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201126044530/https://www.lohud.com/story/life/food/2017/08/15/hit-series-man-vs-food-takes-westchester/567973001/|url-status=live}}</ref> * the [[Showtime (TV network)|Showtime]] miniseries ''[[Escape at Dannemora]]'' * the [[FX (TV channel)|FX]] series ''[[Pose (TV series)|Pose]]'' * the Netflix revival of the series ''[[Tales of the City (2019 miniseries)|Tales of the City]]'' * an episode of the [[CBS]] series ''[[The Blacklist]]'' * an episode of the [[AMC (TV channel)|AMC]] series [[Turn: Washington's Spies|''TURN: Washington's Spies'']] * the Netflix series ''[[Zero Day (TV series)|Zero Day]]'' starring [[Robert De Niro]]
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