Fourth Annual Firehouse Tango on the Hudson - Saturday, August 30, 2008

Flash – Mother Nature has kindly agreed to provide a full moon August 30 especially for Firehouse Tango

Join us at the magnificent Alpine Pavilion, where Firehouse Tango will dance under the stars on August 30.  It is a magnificent stone, open air structure built in the 1930’s by the WPA, nestled in the forested Palisades directly on the Hudson River, with a huge wood floor made for dancing.  Its protective roof, picnic tables and matchless ambiance make it perfect for eating and dancing rain or shine. 

 Alpine Picnic Area

This area was known throughout the nineteenth century as "Closter Landing," "Upper Closter Landing," "the Closter Dock," or simply "Under the Closter Mountain." It was part of the settlement of fishing villages known as "Undercliff." Of the dozen or more houses at Closter Landing, only the Kearney House remains.

In the early part of the twentieth century, the Palisades Interstate Park operated a bathing beach here, and the stone picnic pavilion used to have lockers on the lower floor. Most bathers came on the Yonkers Ferry, which landed at the south end of the Alpine Area. The ferry service was discontinued in 1957, after the completion of the Tappan Zee Bridge.

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