It’s Fish vs. Dams, and the Dams Are Winning
“Dr. Jackman has identified the Quassaick Creek, an 18-mile river in Orange County, about 60 miles north of New York City, as ripe for dam removal.”
$1.2 Million Homes in New York, California and Florida
“Built on spec on vacant land in Hudson’s first gated community (dating to the turn of the 20th century), this home is one of several stately houses in the area.”
The Designer Making Surprisingly Humanoid Sculptural Ceramics
“In his off-hours, though, he began to invest more in his pottery practice, a creative outlet since he was in high school, and for the past several years has spent most weekends in the ceramics studio he and Hendifar built in the backyard of their Rhinebeck, N.Y., country house.”
The Rich Have a Coronavirus Cure: Escape From New York
“In Woodstock, N.Y., Allison Siegel, who runs a market, was simply encouraging all of her local friends to get gas ‘before the New Yorkers get here.'”
“Sidonia and Oscar Isenberg, 4, take in Robert Smithson’s “Leaning Mirror” at Dia:Beacon.”
At a Murder Mystery Weekend, Whodunit? Everyone
“Mohonk, a 259-room resort perched beside a glacial lake atop the Shawangunk Ridge in upstate New York (think of ‘The Shining,’ East Coast edition), claims to have invented the murder mystery weekend in 1977.”
The Wealthy Flee Coronavirus. Vacation Towns Respond: Stay Away.
“The expletive-filled commentary on a Catskills Facebook page was less subtle. ‘The only cases in Greene County were brought here from downstate people so stay down there,’ one man wrote.”
‘We Are the Silent First Responders’: The Workers Who Make America Work
“We are also thinking about making little packets of gloves and masks to give to people in need. We have a sizable homeless population in Poughkeepsie, and if they come into the store and we see that they would benefit from it, we would just give it to them.”
Did New Yorkers Who Fled to Second Homes Bring the Virus?
“In Greene County, N.Y., home to the Catskill Mountains, the first four confirmed coronavirus cases were all people from New York City.”
Widow Walks Into Wall, Finds Hope
“In 2000, he retired from his position as director of international sales, and I left my teaching job at the City University, and we settled in Woodstock, in our vacation house, where we built a life, made friends, worked, volunteered.”
The Most Popular Properties of March
“$325,000 | 125-127 South Grand Ave., Poughkeepsie, N.Y.”
What Is the Waldorf School Method?
“When she found a Waldorf school in Woodstock, N.Y., she said, she ‘felt like we’d landed in heaven.'”
‘Playing Russian Roulette’: Nursing Homes Told to Take the Infected
“He said the virus had not spread from those initial four patients in Poughkeepsie to anyone else in the building.”
Upstate Will Be First to Test New York’s Arts Appetite
“For Dia:Beacon, a 300,000-square-foot facility that was once a Nabisco box-printing facility, social distancing should be manageable.”
Barber Defied Rules and Cut Hair From Home. Now He Has the Virus.
“‘This kind of flouting of the rules is unacceptable, and it puts lives in danger,’ said Patrick K. Ryan, the Ulster county executive. ‘We are taking it very seriously.'”
Where New Yorkers Moved to Escape Coronavirus
“Metropolitan area: Kingston, N.Y. | Mail-forwarding requests: 963”
Pandemic Lockdown Halts Hudson Valley’s Booming Film Industry
“Mary Stuart Masterson, the actress and founder of Upriver Studios, hoped to turn 104,000 square feet in three bays of a light-industrial complex off the New York Thruway in Saugerties into a state-of-the art film studio.”
The Most Popular Properties of April
“$325,000 | 125-127 South Grand Ave., Poughkeepsie, N.Y.”
$3 Million Homes in New York, Texas, and Massachusetts
“The home is set back from the main road, two and a half miles northeast of the town of Rhinebeck, and four and a half miles northeast of the Amtrak station in Rhinecliff, N.Y.”
A Black Man Is Killed by a Trooper, His Family Wants Answers
“Mr. Gordon moved from Jamaica to Poughkeepsie, N.Y., at 19, joining several half-siblings who lived in the area.”
How Black Lives Matter Reached Every Corner of America
“… Beacon, … Carmel, … Goshen, … Hudson, … Kingston, … Middletown, Millerton, … Monroe, … New Paltz, … Newburgh, … Poughkeepsie, Rhinebeck, … Wallkill, Warwick…”
“In Sullivan, Ulster, Greene and Delaware Counties, urbanites with the wherewithal to venture beyond the city are snapping up primary and weekend houses, many in what real estate sales agents say is a financial sweet spot from $200,00 to $450,000.”
Ben Folds Puts His Live-Work Sanctuary in Hudson on the Market
“Then, in 2015, his friend the musician and performance artist Amanda Palmer tipped him off to the 1890s brick building on the main drag in Hudson.”
‘A Slap in the Face’: N.Y. Town Rejects Black Lives Matter Painting
“And in Catskill, on the western banks of the Hudson River, the debate over whether to allow a Black Lives Matter painting directly on Main Street has only exacerbated racial tensions in a village where just over a fifth of the population is Black.”
Turning a Second Home Into a Primary Home
“Still, despite the challenges, Ms. Smith would rather be in Newburgh than in Manhattan, where her family would be squeezed into an apartment and isolating would be harder.”
5 New Yorkers Escaped the City for Fresh Air and Space. Was It Worth It?
“We ended up staying in Garrison, N.Y., at the home of a woman I serve on the board with at the Brooklyn Children’s Museum.”
Road Trips are Great. Except for the Driving.
“A few days later, relaxed and revived, I got back into the car (this time I had wisely left the windows open overnight) and headed north to the Catskills, an easy hour’s drive that took me past the bucolic farms of Dutchess County and into the Hudson Valley.”
‘Hidden Gem’ Made Popular by TikTok Is Shut to Keep Out-of-Towners Away
“Greene County, home to Kaaterskill Falls, is over 96 percent white. But Daryl Legg, the town supervisor of Hunter, where the falls are, rejected the idea that race had any part to play in the complaints.”
The Little Fraught Schoolhouse
“At small-town schools in the Hamptons or the Hudson Valley, children tend to be cut off from the racial, economic, and cultural diversity of city schools, not to the mention the museums and other cultural institutions that help round out their education.”
A New Style of Country House Takes Root
“Mr. Brown, and other developers like him, have drawn inspiration — and in at least one case, actual house plans — from Hudson Woods, a development two hours from Manhattan in the Ulster County town of Kerhonkson.”
Kingston: A City Remade by the Coronavirus
“It forces me to turn the lens on myself, as I sit on my rebuilt back deck, reaping the benefits of my own move only a few years ago: did we really care about the gentrifying forces we were a part of then, or have we been so buffered by our privilege that ‘caring’ was merely a costume we donned for visits to one of the less affluent neighborhood’s playgrounds?”
“The view was scenic as the single tent sat in the middle of an old apple orchard.”
The T List: Five Things We Recommend This Week
“Eastwind, a hotel set in the hills of Windham, N.Y., has offered several two-person A-frame cabins from the luxury camping developer Lushna since it opened in 2018, but its four-person cabin suites are a recent addition.”
I traveled to 52 Places. Then I Discovered N.Y. on My Bike
“We passed through New Paltz and laughed at how shocked we were by the Labor Day crowds.”
Live from Sag Harbor and Charity T-shirts
“I spent the majority of the time in Woodstock in upstate New York, in a magical little house on the side of a mountain in a forest out of Brothers Grimm.”
The Fashion Photographer Who Traded Film for Flour
“So in 2014, he walked away from his career, moving into a modern barn in the Hudson Valley town of Taghkanic, N.Y.”
“In April, the couple closed on a two-bedroom home in a remote section of Mount Tremper, N.Y., near Woodstock, which was built in 1973. The soonest they can get their boiler serviced is January 2021, a scheduling setback that was unexpected.”
Rapper Casanova is Accused of Conspiring in ‘Terrible Acts of Violence’
“Mr. Senior, who records for Jay-Z’s Roc Nation label, was not charged in the single most violent crime in the indictment: the September killing of a 15-year-old in Poughkeepsie, N.Y.”
Newburgh, N.Y.: Onetime Jewel of the Hudson River
“People from the immediate area who have feared and shunned Newburgh are starting to look past the years of bad press — a reputation, residents say, that is a decade behind the reality.”
The T List: Six Things We Recommend This Week
“Since the Maker Hotel opened its doors in Hudson, N.Y., in August, it’s become a wish-list destination for locals and New York City dwellers alike.”
Feeling Socially Awkward? Even Extroverts Are a Little Rusty
“Cece Cord, a loquacious socialite and designer, hosted a small luncheon over the summer graced with flowers from the garden at her hillside cottage in Millbrook, N.Y.”
$700,000 Homes in New York, Rhode Island and Indiana
“Catskill, N.Y. | $699,000
A newly built cedar-sided house, with two bedrooms and two bathrooms, on a 5.07-acre wooded lot.”
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