** The Tappan Zee Bridge in New York opens to traffic.

* July 20 – The Mercantile Agency ( ancestor of Dun & Bradstreet is founded in New York City by Lewis Tappan.

* October 2 – American Revolutionary War: In Tappan, New York, British spy John André is hanged by American forces.

* Rockland County, New York — west, water boundary only, across the Hudson River, with bridge access at the Tappan Zee Bridge and Bear Mountain Bridge

That same year the county seat was transferred from Tappan to New City, where a new courthouse was built.

In 1955, the Tappan Zee Bridge opened ( connecting Tarrytown in Westchester County with Nyack in Rockland County ), increasing traffic into the community and making access to New York City easier for the local population.

The opening of the New York State Thruway ( Interstate 87 / 287 ), the Tappan Zee Bridge, and the Palisades Interstate Parkway in the 1950s helped improve the quality of life of the area, ushering in decades of population growth and real estate development, including the construction of the Nanuet Mall and local shopping centers.

Additionally, Transport of Rockland ( TOR ) Bus # 92 offers service to Artopee Way in Nyack and to the Spring Valley Transit Center, and TOR Bus # 97 offers service from Orangeburg Road and New York State Route 303 to Oak Tree Road in Tappan and to the Park and Ride on Highway 9W in Stony Point.

* Lake Tappan – A reservoir running north to south, roughly bisecting the town, and entering New Jersey at the south town line.

Old Tappan ( ) is a borough in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States.

Old Tappan was incorporated as a borough by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on October 18, 1894, from portions of Harrington Township, at the height of the " Boroughitis " phenomenon sweeping through Bergen County, based on the results of a referendum held two days earlier.

One of only four confluence points in New Jersey, the 41 ° N 74 ° W crossing, is in Old Tappan on watershed property owned by United Water ( see link below ).

Old Tappan is bordered to the north by the hamlet of Tappan in the town of Orangetown, New York.

Old Tappan is governed under the Borough form of New Jersey municipal government.

Old Tappan is in the 5th Congressional district and is part of New Jersey's 39th state legislative district.

Officers of the Old Tappan Police Department are members of Pascack Valley Local 206 of the New Jersey State Policemen's Benevolent Association, Inc.

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In 1969, Gigante was indicted in New Jersey on a charge of conspiracy to bribe the entire five-member Old Tappan police force to alert him to surveillance operations by law enforcement agencies.

He maintained a residence in Old Tappan, New Jersey with his wife Olympia Grippa who he married in 1950 and their five children, Andrew Gigante, Salvatore, Yolanda, Roseann and Rita.

Category: People from Old Tappan, New Jersey

In the fall of 1778, he was assigned to the 3rd Continental Light Dragoons, severely mauled in a surprise attack on the night of September 27 at Old Tappan, New Jersey, by a force of British light infantry.

* Paolo Arduini ( 1987 ), Simon and Schuster's Guide to Fossils ( Old Tappan, New Jersey: Fireside ), 320 pages.

The colonial Dutch referred to the Lenape Indian peoples whom they encountered in this mid-Atlantic region, along the lower Hudson and northern New Jersey areas, as the Hackensack, Tappan, Nyack, and Minsi ; these were the Dutch-derived names from the Lenape words for the bands, who took the names associated with geographic places.

The Dutch allocated land from the Tappan Patent in the Hackensack Valley ; it crossed what became the border between New York and New Jersey.

* Tappan Zee High School, a public high school in Orangeburg, New York, United States

The prisoner was at first detained at Sands Mill in Armonk, New York, before being taken to the headquarters of the American Army at Tappan, and was held at the tavern The Old ' 76 House.

On 2 October 1879, a monument was unveiled on the place of his execution at Tappan until a member of the Order of Socialists in New York City named Hendrix blew it up three years later.

Portrait of Arthur Tappan from The Life of Arthur Tappan, by Lewis Tappan, New York, Hurd and Houghton, 1870.

In early July 1834, Lewis Tappan ’ s New York home was sacked by a mob, who threw his furniture into the street and burned it.

James Gordon Bennett, Sr .’ s rival New York Morning Herald denounced “ the humbug doctrines of the abolitionists and the miserable fanatics who propagate them ,” particularly Lewis Tappan and The Journal of Commerce.

With the aid of Governor DeWitt Clinton and Arthur Tappan of the New York Manumission Society, and men from Princeton Theological Seminary, Wright was aided in his studies at the graduate seminary.

Although set in the fictitious town of Stuckeyville, Ohio, the majority of the series was actually shot in various towns in northern New Jersey including Montclair, Hillsdale, Haworth, Westfield, Cranford, Nutley, Ridgewood, Harrington Park, Allendale and Northvale and Rockland County, New York ( Tappan, Nyack ).

On a 2000 map of " Northern Approaches to New York City " ( part of Hagstrom's New York Road Map ), the entire river adjacent to Manhattan was labeled " Hudson River ( North River )", with just " Hudson River " ( no parenthetical ) appearing further north at Tappan Zee.

Junoon's roots stretch back to Tappan, New York, in the 1970s.

* Malcolm Wilson Bridge, a bridge in New York City, also known as the Tappan Zee Bridge

*** Tappan, New Jersey, New York

* Tappan – A hamlet in the southeast corner of the town.

Palisades, formerly known as Sneden's Landing, is a hamlet in the Town of Orangetown in Rockland County, New York, United States, located north of Rockleigh and Alpine, New Jersey ; east of Tappan ; south of Sparkill ; and west of the Hudson River.

Around this time, as the English began to colonize Nyack and Tappan, the Native Americans began to leave Rockland in search of undisturbed land further north.

Rockland remained semi-rural until the 1950s when the Palisades Interstate Parkway, Tappan Zee Bridge, and other major arteries were built.

The Tappan Zee Bridge is not far from the station, so the station sees some use by commuters from Rockland County.

I-287 joins the Thruway here, following I-87 west across the Hudson River into Rockland County on the Tappan Zee Bridge.

Upstream from the Oradell Reservoir are three other reservoirs: Woodcliff Lake Reservoir and Lake Tappan also in Bergen County and DeForest Lake in Rockland County, New York.

The play is named for a summit overlooking the Tappan Zee portion of New York's Hudson River, near where Anderson lived in Rockland County.