Living In Snedens Landing, Palisades, N.Y.: Wildflowers, Artists and Celebrities

A small enclave with a big personality, the riverside neighborhood is a “live-and-let-live kind of place.”

201 ROUTE 9W | The Big House, a four-bedroom, four-bathroom house with a wing probably dating to the 17th century, on 4.4 acres, listed for $2.25 million. 914-393-0438 Credit: Stefano Ukmar for The New York Times

In 1937, the writer E.B. White described Snedens Landing as “steeped in Hudson Valley mists and memories — people make their own wine, stamp out their own copperhead snakes, go picking Dutchman’s breeches in the spring. On summer evenings, you can hear the trains across the river, grumbling. There is a good deal of talk about shad.”

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