Sustainable Sleepy Hollow

Hot off the presses:
Our lineup of Earth Month events, hosted in partnership with the Tarrytown Environmental Advisory Council. Save the date & sign up to volunteer–as the kids say, it’ll give you some good aura points 😉

Put the below Earth Month events on your calendar now, and click above for the full event lineup! April 5, 10am-12:30pm (Barnhardt Park): Horsemen Family Saturday Earth Month Festival. As part of the 2025 Earth Month Festival, the Village of Sleepy Hollow is sponsoring TUFSD’s Green Horsemen Family Saturday. All are welcome to join for a grab & go breakfast and activities including enviro crafts, pollinator friendly seed giveaway, face painting, and a bouncy castle. Sleepy Hollow residents: get a free tree for your property. Rain location: James F. Galgano Sleepy Hollow Senior Center. April 6, Noon start: Energy-Smart House Tour 28 Wildey St, Tarrytown. TEAC Co-Chair Dean Gallea will show a host of retrofits to his 140-year-old home that you can do as well. Clover Heating will be on hand to discuss energy assessments. April 12, 9am-12pm: Compost Giveback Day. Grab your empty bins and buckets, and join us to take home the compost that has been produced by the Tarrytown & Sleepy Hollow Food Scrap Recycling programs. Stop by before or after your trip to the TASH farmers market to take up to two large containers of free compost for your home garden. April 13, 10am–11am: First monthly RiverWalk Flash Clean Up and Horan’s Landing water quality testing. “Use Our Power, Speak for Our Planet” Earth Day listening sessions: Tuesday April 22, 7pm (Sleepy Hollow)  Commit to showing up at your village’s Board of Trustees meeting for a special session where Trustees will ask residents to speak briefly about our environmental priorities. Bring your own short list, or choose one or two from the below issues facing our community. Kids very welcome!   -Extend our gas leaf blower ordinances -Implement Complete streets priority projects for pedestrian & bike safety -Expand our village food scrap recycling (such as offering residential compost pickup) -What else do you want the Board of Trustees to prioritize for our environment? April 27, 9am: Morning Bird Walk with Yoni Rabino. Yoni Rabino is an experienced birder, bird walk leader, and ‘lister’ who is deeply embedded in the local and migratory birds of the east coast and has experience identifying both by sound and sight. Park at the Tarrytown Lakes Parking Lot; our group will follow the Andre Brook Trail which connects through Sleepy Hollow to the High School Parking Lot. We will have vehicles at the end point that can shuttle people back to cars parked at the Lakes after the walk. Please bring binoculars! April 27, 9am-5pm Village Free Day (Rain date: Sunday, May 4th). Sleepy Hollow & Tarrytown Residents are invited to put usable items they no longer want by their curb. Browse your neighborhood for treasures; if anything is left by your curb at the end of the day, please bring it back inside. May 3, 10am-1pm, Riverkeeper Sweep. From Losee Park to Kingsland Point Park, we will sweep plastic and other waste out of the riverfront and into the right place!

First up for Earth Month fun….

Safe Streets for All Public Meeting: Thursday, March 20th

The Villages of Sleepy Hollow and Tarrytown, along with the Public Schools of the Tarrytowns, are working to put together a Comprehensive Safety Action Plan to make our streets much safer.

The first of two public meetings on the project will take place on Thursday, March 20th from 6pm-8pm at the Tarrytown Senior Center.  Registration is recommended.  All ages welcome.  We hope to see you there!

Online Survey

To help identify what locations and intersections to address, and possible solutions to rectify problems, residents of Sleepy Hollow and Tarrytown are encouraged to take an online survey. Input from residents will be key to determining what changes to our streets happen. Please share the survey with others, too!

Report Suspected Cases of Pathogenic Avian Influenza in Wild Birds 

An online platform for the public to report suspected Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) outbreaks in wild birds was designed as part of an ongoing effort to monitor HPAI in New York.

Report an Observation

HPAI is widespread in wild birds and mammals, so not all reports will result in DEC retrieving the animals for testing and/or disposal. The public can help minimize risk and limit disease spread by preventing contact between domestic animals and wild birds.

If you encounter a live, sick bird or mammal, contact your Regional DEC office or a local wildlife rehabilitator for guidance. Call ahead to make sure there is a wildlife rehabilitator or veterinarian willing to accept the animal, as accepting these animals may put other animals in the facility at risk. Do not handle, transport, or euthanize any sick birds or other wildlife yourself.

Urge Congress: Protect NOAA funding for the Hudson The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has invested in the Hudson River estuary for over four decades, providing approximately $800,000 annually to support scientific research, conservation efforts, and public education. NOAA’s National Weather Service field offices in Albany and NYC also provide essential weather information for free to the public. However, potential federal funding reductions and reckless staff cuts threaten these critical programs. Losing NOAA support would weaken pollution tracking, halt wetland restoration, potentially reduce safe navigation of the Hudson, and jeopardize fisheries conservation — undermining climate resilience efforts and putting public health and local economies at risk. We must urge Congress to maintain and expand NOAA funding to ensure the Hudson River remains a thriving ecosystem and vital resource for future generations.