Lyndhurst Unveils Paula Hayes Garden Surrounding Restored Hudson River Overlook

Lyndhurst Mansion in Tarrytown has unveiled the Paula Hayes Garden, a permanent land-art installation by sculptor and land artist Paula Hayes, enveloping a Hudson River overlook terrace, which explores issues of sustainability […] Read more »

$10M in County Bonds Issued for Teatown’s $23M Reboot

Teatown Lake Reservation has received financing through more than $10 million in tax-exempt bonds issued by the Westchester County Local Development Corporation to support the nearly $23 million campus renovation underway.  The […] Read more »

Rockefeller Brothers Fund Names New CEO

The Rockefeller Brothers Fund, which operates the Pocantico Center on the former Rockefeller estate in Tarrytown, has appointed Ian H. Solomon as the fund’s eighth president and CEO.   Solomon, currently the dean of the Frank Batten School […] Read more »

Seeking Deeper Consciousness at a Cortlandt Retreat

A steep, narrow road winds uphill from Quaker Bridge Road in Cortlandt to a century-old estate modeled after a quaint European farmstead.   A towering archway opens onto a cobblestone courtyard surrounded by […] Read more »

Renaissance Briarcliff Developer Eyes 2027 Launch

The developer of the proposed Renaissance Briarcliff estimated his project to build 110 luxury townhouses and five single-family homes on the former Pace campus could start in mid-to-late 2027 subject to final approvals.   Leonard […] Read more »

Tarrytown’s Jazz Forum Swings to a New Beat

How do you replace the founders of a popular free summer concert series and an acclaimed jazz venue when they’re living literally on top of you? For Jazz Forum Arts’ […] Read more »

Repairs Coming to Route 9A in Briarcliff, Hawthorne

Work is expected to begin this summer to repair badly damaged sections of Route 9A stretching from just south of North State Road in Briarcliff Manor to the Westchester County […] Read more »

The Strand Theatre’s Past Meets Its Future

A booth hidden in a corner of Sleepy Hollow’s Strand Theatre holds a pair of 35 mm movie projectors, decaying film and empty reels from the 110-year-old building’s heyday.   Weathered wood flooring stretching the length of the building’s cavernous upstairs recalls a short stint as a roller […] Read more »

Teatown’s New Addition: Pond, Brook, Forest

Teatown Lake Reservation has purchased 21 acres adjacent to its preserve on Blinn Road in Ossining, an acquisition the nonprofit hailed as a milestone in securing critical habitat, wetlands and forest.    The […] Read more »
The stone mansion built in 1898 by Walter Law, the industrialist who would later incorporate the village of Briarcliff Manor. Photo: Craig Killer from Digital Homes

The Gilded Age Glory of Walter Law’s $2M Estate

A visit to the eight-acre estate once owned by the business titan who founded the Village of Briarcliff Manor is like stepping back in time to the Gilded Age.  The 15,000-square-foot stone mansion built by industrialist Walter Law in […] Read more »