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When Hillary Clinton moved to New York, she conspicuously purchased a residence north of the Tappen Zee Bridge (barely) which is considered upstate.
Matthew Yglesias » Harold Ford Goes Negative . . . on Eleanor Roosevelt 2010
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But finding funding for a new Tappen Zee Bridge remains a problem.
New Bridge Set on Fast Track Andrew Grossman 2011
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When I lived in Rochester, anything north of the Tappen Zee Bridge was considered upstate.
Matthew Yglesias » Harold Ford Goes Negative . . . on Eleanor Roosevelt 2010
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The body of Jennifer Hagar, a seventeen-year-old student at Saint Opportuna High, was found right here late last night, near Tappen Beach.
Sleepless Thomas Fahy 2009
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Too bad the plane didn't come in a little bit higher or a little bit further upriver -- the contrast between the Hudson at the Tappen Zee (almost three miles wide with relatively low sloping shorelines) and the Hudson at Bear Mountain Bridge 15 miles to the north (about than a quarter-mile wide with sheer cliff on both sides of the river) is a pretty striking image.
Flying over the Hudson River. Ann Althouse 2008
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The area around the Tappen Zee would be similar, I'm guessing.
Flying over the Hudson River. Ann Althouse 2008
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But, there was one boy there, in Tappen Buick, a boy in there, and he had a bum leg, limped all the time, he was shot himself.
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Miss Lyons, writer of this sketch, has always kept in touch with some of her former classmates, with one, a member of the Tappen family, well-known in abolition days, she has maintained permanent close relations.
Homespun Heroines and Other Women of Distinction Compiled and edited by Hallie Q. Brown 250 p., ill. Hallie Quinn 1864
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I worked here 13 years under Presidents Tappen and
A slave's adventures toward freedom : not fiction, but the true story of a struggle 1845
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He operates a registered Gelbvieh cow-calf operation near Tappen.
unknown title 2009
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