Send G Somewhere Sunday Photo Roll, Part 2

Tarrytown/Sleepy Hollow NY, 5/21/23

Two uniquely cool little side-by-side towns, one I lived in for about two years and the other that I spent a lot of time in and serviced some of the business there for work years ago.

There's a tangible, long-running, light Level 1 “feud" between the two towns, since 1996 when Sleepy Hollow broke away from Tarrytown and ‘officially’ assumed it's current name…which is mostly manifested by old timers from Tarrytown tenaciously clinging to calling it North Tarrytown. 😏

Sleepy Hollow is a lower middle class Hispanic neighborhood, not much different from where I live now. There was a massive General Motors plant there years ago and the town was almost 100% populated by it's employees. The plant closed down and left it a ghost town, but the lower rents from that eventually let it develop into the community it is now. Nice neighborhood & good people. If I was at the playground with my sons, and I was on one side with one of ‘em and the other fell off something on the other side, there'd be a “Mami" there picking him up before I even got there. Like that. 😉

Tarrytown's a cool, funky, artsy, sorta neo-bohemian village. Main Street's a row of bars, good restaurants, antique and art shops, etc. Didn't get to the waterfront this time, but I'll be back.

SLEEPY HOLLOW…

I wanna get this out of the way first. This used to be a Chinese restaurant when I lived in Sleepy Hollow. One time I went in there and ordered shrimp w/ lobster sauce, and when I got home I found big, fake-assed, imitation MF'ing shrimp in it! Closest I ever came to losing my shit on someone so bad I probably could've been arrested (Not for anything violent! 😉), and I am delighted that those culinary fraudsters went out of business. 😏

The Van Tassel Building, Beekman Ave., Sleepy Hollow NY. Best apartment I ever lived in. The building wraps around the whole block and the 2nd pic is through that archway and up some stairs showing the courtyard within.

Apparently the “Headless Horseman" brand has lost favor with the community. Used to be all over the place. This is the only place I could find that still used it, and it used to be the “Headless Horseman Diner". Probably should try this run again closer to Halloween. 😉

On this playground in the early 2000's, at age 5 or 6, one of my sons who shall remain unnamed emphatically and forever defined for himself what a “man” is for the first time ever, by slipping on that jungle gym apparatus and taking his first ever Level 5, straddling-a-metal-bar “Nut Shot"…like a champ. I witnessed the true face of discovery & realization that day. 😏

Memorial Day tribute set up in front of Sleepy Hollow High School (Home of the Horsemen! 😄)

TARRYTOWN

The Tarrytown Music Hall. Awesome ‘old school' 1000-seat venue, like The Capitol Theater in Port Chester. And I missed Blues Traveler just five nights ago! 😣

Local culinary legend, with the 3rd smallest bathroom in a restaurant I've ever been in. (That probably begs further explanation in a later post. 😆)

I almost involuntarily ended up in an alcohol-induced coma with a bunch of burly guys in kilts after a St. Patrick's Day Parade in this place once. (This should also be explained, but I doubt I could much. 😆)

And wrapping today's trip up with a Sweet Cream cone, made on the premises, at Main Street Sweets! 😁

Hope y'all had some sort of fun watching this day unfold. It WAS all your fault's. 🤪

And I'm absolutely looking forward to playing this “game” again next week, if the PCS Nation Family is in! 😃