New York day trips

Travel America, July-August, 2005

* NY Waterway Sightseeing Cruises offers several Hudson River Valley day trips from Manhattan. The "Lyndhurst Cruise" ($49) to Tarrytown features the Gothic Revival "castle" and gardens of railroad magnate/robber baron Jay Gould. The "Sleepy Hollow Cruise" ($46) visits Philipsburg Manor, a working Dutch Colonial farm in Sleepy Hollow, and Sunnyside, the Tarrytown riverfront home of Washington Irving, author of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.

Tours operate on weekends through November 6. Contact: NY Waterway Sightseeing Cruises, (800) 533-3779;www.nywaterway.com.