Kingston Mourns Loss of Mayor Who Breathed Life Into City
“For nearly a decade, the youthful mayor (his initials stand for Thomas Robert) had come to personify the resurgence of this city of 24,000 about 50 miles south of Albany. A Kingston native, he was first elected mayor in 1993 at age 33, presumably to be the city’s last mayor before it hired a city manager.”
Poughkeepsie: Adopted Child Goes Home
“A Poughkeepsie woman and her adopted Vietnamese daughter returned home Tuesday night, after a nearly two-month delay in which the Immigration and Naturalization Service questioned whether the 4-month-old baby had been properly put up for adoption.”
A Tough Time To Talk of Peace; Buddhists Find Nonviolence Out of Fashion After Sept. 11
“Some Buddhists are already finding ways to help. At the Karma Triyana Dharmachakra monastery and study center in Woodstock, N.Y., Lois DePiesse, the organization’s secretary, said that people who lived near ground zero had been coming for short retreats in greater numbers, ‘needing to find time out of New York City, looking for a quiet place to settle their fears and re-evaluate their lives.'”
On 1.3 Acres, a Little Sweden-on-Hudson
“During the week, Ms. Thorsen, 57, works as a commercial real estate broker in Manhattan. On weekends in Columbia County, two hours north of Manhattan, she becomes her own carpenter, upholsterer, painter, landscape architect and general contractor.”
In Woodstock, a Nonschool With Nonteachers
“In Woodstock, nearly 100 parents, many of them artists and practitioners of holistic health, gathered recently to hear more about Sudbury schools from Jeff Collins, who first suggested opening one here in Ulster County.”
“Still jumpy from living in the terror-war target zone — my apartment in Battery Park City is across the street from the World Trade Center site — I escaped to High Falls, where residents scan the winter sky for woodpeckers, not aircraft.”
“‘I call Newburgh green beret training for city managers,’ he said in a telephone interview from his home, which he is leaving for a rented house in Long Beach. ‘After you’ve done Newburgh, you can do anything, because it’s such a caustic political place.'”
Building an Audience for Live Jazz and Blues
“‘We in Westchester benefit from being close to the blues musical hub of Poughkeepsie,’ said Mr. Schwartz.”
“The women were drawn to the brick and Victorian buildings, left over from Saugerties’s industrial heyday, as well as a large used-book store, a theater built in the 1890’s where tickets to first-run films were $6, and a swimming beach on a creek off the Hudson.”
9/11, a Man Went to Work. His Fate Is a Mystery.
“Juan Lafuente, a laconic Cuban immigrant, lived in the shadow of his prominent wife, Colette, mayor of the city of Poughkeepsie.”
“In Westchester, about 10 percent of residents rely on private wells, while farther north in Putnam about 85 percent of residents have private wells. In Dutchess, about 60 percent have private wells.”
‘Watery Graves’ Was No Figure Of Speech; A Receding City Reservoir Reveals a Turbulent Past
“In their place lies the Ashokan Reservoir, a luminous basin surrounded by the deep green folds of the Catskill Mountains, a watery monument to the lost world of the Esopus Valley.”
In Poughkeepsie, for One of the Last Outdoor Picture Shows
“Where once there were dozens; there are now no drive-ins left in Westchester, Putnam, New York City, Long Island or New Jersey. But there’s still the Overlook, in Poughkeepsie.”
Pros and Cons of Rodeo Roping and Riding
“Ms. Camputaro, a co-owner of the Double R World Championship Rodeo in Catskill, sat last month with her husband and a small group of other animal act supporters at a public hearing where Greenburgh officials eventually voted to ban shows like theirs.”
“Q. Our family of 18 will be attending a wedding near Woodstock, N.Y. in June 2003. We would like to have a weeklong reunion afterward. Where could we stay?”
Mark McDonald: Mr. Modernism Leaves Town
“Having opened a small gallery, 330, in nearby Hudson in November, Mr. McDonald said he plans to spend less time in his small Manhattan apartment and more at his new base of operations.”
“The news of a summer in Millbrook, no less than in any resort of the ultrarich, is of real estate and servants and marriages and breakups and horses with colic and bird dogs that won’t hunt and whether the woman with a knack for shooting sporting clays will set her sights on the married millionaire with a fortune derived from fast-food franchises in several Midwestern states.”
Tilting at Windmills, Only This One’s a Bridge: Walkway Over Hudson Is One Man’s Fixation
“‘He had that dream, and he infected people with it,’ said Robert Shepard, town supervisor in Lloyd, N.Y., on the bridge’s western side. ‘I believed in it.'”
Poughkeepsie: Teenager Gets Jail In D.W.I.
“The accused, Christopher Smith, 18, of Red Hook, Brooklyn, had a blood-alcohol level over the legal limit during the Aug. 1 crash, the district attorney’s office said.”
Ignoring the Call of the Catskills (Not to Mention the Hamptons)
“My friends near Woodstock — everyone I know who has bought a place north of the Bronx announces that they have taken a place ‘near Woodstock’ — promised a day of antiquing, a movie and dinner on Saturday night.”
“The fight is between those who say this little village on the Hudson in Greene County is poised for a revival as a tourist mecca — largely because of its Victorian Main Street, which remains nearly intact — and those who see the area as blighted and crime-infested.”
Albany No Longer a Secret In High-Tech Chip World
“And then, too, there was that talk of ‘Tech Valley,’ and the grain of truth behind it. I.B.M. is nearing completion of a $2.5 billion microchip plant in Dutchess County.”
Where Daylight’s a Risk, Dark Is a Time to Shine
“The camp is intended to give a high-energy, outdoor camp experience to those with a rare genetic disorder, xeroderma pigmentosum, which makes them unable to tolerate ultraviolet light.”
Enjoying The Stars, On Screen And Off
“Three families from Dutchess County, N.Y., were playing host to children from low-income New York City neighborhoods, providing them with summer vacations and exposure to another way of life far from city streets. The families had chosen the drive-in as the setting for a Friendly Town picnic, a way to enjoy one another’s company amid other summer-night revelers.”
On a Harbor Cruise, Under a Rainbow
“Along the way the boat will dock in places like Newburgh and Poughkeepsie, although Mr. Gill said: ‘You’d be amazed by how few towns have docks. These towns that owe their very existence to the Hudson and there’s no place for a boat.'”
Adding Life and Color To a Once-Faded City
“But Mr. Max, who is still going strong, has set his sights on a building here to house his creative vision, and city leaders are hoping that he will do for Poughkeepsie what the Andy Warhol Museum did for Pittsburgh.”
Where Summer Just Isn’t What It Used to Be
“Now, a meandering drive through the Greene County hills in midsummer, once the height of the resort season, becomes a kind of archaeological expedition into the recreational habits of a distant civilization.”
Gilt by Association: Less Status, More Room
“Then there is Basalt. And Cathedral City, Saugerties, Hampton Bays and Stuart. Never heard of them?”
Suddenly, One House Isn’t Enough
“Today’s second-home buyers are looking for instant nostalgia: meadows and fireplaces and postal carriers to greet by name.”
Circus Truck Flips, but Elephants Just Walk Away
“Paula, 35, and Kristy, 22, never saw the curve in the road that forced their tractor trailer to overturn yesterday on Route 9 in Rhinebeck, N.Y. They were in the back of the trailer, eating hay.”
A Precarious Life Goes From Bad to Worse
“The dual impact of terrorism and recession has spread to places like Newburgh, a hilltop city of grand Victorian homes, faded row houses and crumbling factories overlooking the Hudson River, where Hispanics make up more than one-third of the population of 28,259.”
In Upstate Hills, Modish Replaces Moo
“Now a younger set of artists, architects, publishing and media people are beginning to demand the kind of cultivated creature comforts without which weekend sojourns can never be entirely satisfying: an indie film theater and imported coffee beans.”
In Classes, Acting Bug Bites Hard
“These teenagers were taking part in neither a specialized summer camp nor Off Off Off Broadway summer stock, but rather a distinctive hybrid known as the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival apprentice program, now in its seventh year.”
“A tidal lock, it opened onto Rondout Creek, where barges completed the journey to Kingston, on the Hudson, with its still-vibrant waterfront and maritime museum.”
A Humble River Town Acquires the Ambience of Art
“Down the hill, toward the Hudson River, Dia:Beacon is emerging in a din of whirring, grinding, sawing and polishing, as a former 1929 Nabisco box-printing factory becomes a stunning 292,000-square-foot Clean White Space, the perfect north-lighted container envisioned — and so named — by the Minimalists of the 60’s generation.”
Melee Upstate Is Sign of Urban Woes
“‘Newburgh is an inner-city atmosphere,’ Deputy Police Chief Michael D. Ferrara said. ‘Any problem that any city has, we have a smaller version.'”
Home With a Pool: For Settling Down, With Occasional Floating
“WHO — Gayle Burbank, a landscape designer, and Ken Cohen, a manufacturer of women’s clothing. WHAT — A Cape-style house with a cement pool. WHERE — Bearsville, N.Y.”
A Résumé of Surfing and Philosophy as Well as Art
“While in Woodstock, Mr. Hill attached himself to an artistic group of poets, performers and community activists, some of whom were connected to Woodstock Community Video, one of many government-financed, grass-roots community television organizations around the country that were immensely influential in the early days of video art.”
“Tall, dense trees abound in Garrison, hiding houses and people, and many outsiders, even New Yorkers, haven’t a clue where the hamlet is in the first place.”
The ‘Bhajan Belt’: Serenity in the Catskills
“As the Hamptons have become summer destinations for city people who spend weekends sailing, playing polo or maintaining an aggressive social agenda, the mid-Hudson Valley tends to attract those more at home with a yoga mat or a prayer wheel.”
New York Exports Mentally Ill, Shifting Burden to Other States
“Officials at Hudson River Psychiatric Center in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., told Susan Meyer that the Andover nursing home in rural Sussex County would be wonderful for her sister, Marcia Berger, who suffers from schizophrenia, Ms. Meyer said.”
Where the Powerful and Famous Nosh; Cafe Society in Jeans
“Actors and rock stars get hungry just like the rest of us, and at the Bear Cafe in Bearsville, they can grab a burger or an endive salad, reasonably confident that they will not be accosted. Nearby Woodstock, like Manhattan, is filled with people too cultured and cool to fawn openly over celebrities.”
For Second Homes, How Far to Go?
“One Manhattan psychiatrist who ended up buying in Ghent, N.Y., owns his feelings. ‘Two hours is my cutoff,” he said. ”Any more than that and I turn into ‘The Shining’ in our car.'”
Pushing the Laws Of Physics, and More
“‘I’d hate to see Sage shut down,’ said Alan Shapiro, a retired teacher, referring to Mr. Selby by one of his nicknames, ‘because he’s part of what makes Woodstock Woodstock. If he’s stopped, it’s whittling away at another piece of the spirit of this place, of what it really is.'”
“For all their drawbacks, churches have been converted in Rhinebeck, Barrytown and Tivoli, among other Hudson Valley places. Some are made into residences, but more often they are turned into gift or antiques shops, to take advantage of their location on heavily trafficked village streets.”
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