Tappan Zee
The tale is set in the vicinity of Tarrytown , in the area near Irving's own home at Sunnyside . In Frederik Pohl's 1977 Hugo award-winning novel Gateway , the main character Robinette Broadhead has "a summer apartment overlooking the Tappan Sea and The Palisades Dam" . 
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