Dobbs Ferry is a village in Westchester County, New York, United States. The population was 10,875 according to the 2010 United States Census. In 2019, its population rose to an estimated 11,027. The village of Dobbs Ferry is located in, and is a allowance of, the town of Greenburgh. The village ZIP code is 10522. Most of the village falls within the boundaries of the Dobbs Ferry Union Free School District.

Dobbs Ferry was ranked seventh in the list of the top 10 places to stir in New York State for 2014, according to the national online real estate brokerage Movoto. Dobbs Ferry is then the first village in New York State ascribed as a Climate Sharp Community and was established in 2014 the highest level unqualified out in the state.

Multiple groups of original peoples lived in what is now known as Dobbs Ferry in the past at least 4500BC. The most recent tribe who claimed territory of the Place are the Wecquaesgeek, maintaining villages occurring until the 1600’s. Numerous artifacts from the tribe continue to be found along Wicker’s Creek in oyster middens.

Dobbs Ferry was named after Jeremiah Dobbs, a descendant of William Dobbs, of Swedish and Dutch ancestry whose family ran a ferry service that traversed the Hudson River at this location. Dobbs was a fisherman and settled near the southern ration of what is now Dobbs Ferry, and he “added to his meager pension by ferriage of occasional travelers across the Hudson. He used a style of ship known at that morning as a periauger, a canoe hollowed out of a sound log. . . From this primitive ferry the village took its name.”