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Stony Point

American  

noun

  1. a village in SE New York, on the Hudson: site of a strategic fort in the Revolutionary War.


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Mr. Rivera owned a $780,000 home with a heated swimming pool and waterfall in Stony Point, N.Y., and another house in the Poconos.

From New York Times • Feb. 7, 2022

Among the many highlights of John Cage: A Mycological Foray are William Gedney’s candid photographs of Cage on a foraging expedition in the woods around Stony Point in 1967.

From The Guardian • Aug. 19, 2020

But it opened at Brancato’s Penguin Rep Theatre in Stony Point, N.Y., in 2000 and has been traveling to regional theaters ever since.

From Washington Post • Aug. 23, 2017

Richards, who taught literature and drama, abandoned her husband for another faculty member, the composer David Tudor; together with Cage and others, they soon established the fabled commune the Land in Stony Point, New York.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 6, 2015

Past Yonkers, called "Younkers" in the old Dutch days, they sailed again, passing Dobb's Ferry, where they had visited the day before, and so on to Stony Point.

From The Little Washingtons' Travels by Roy, Lillian Elizabeth

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