2020: how the New York Times reports the Hudson Valley

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.”

Looking at Art

“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.”

‘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.”

The Most Popular Properties of March

“$325,000 | 125-127 South Grand Ave., Poughkeepsie, N.Y.”

‘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.”

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…”

With $440 Million, a New Arts Foundation Spreads the Wealth

“The Women’s Studio Workshop in Rosendale, N.Y., will receive $10,000 in the first round of grants.”

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.”

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.”

Glamping for First-Timers

“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.”

Welcome to Homeownership

“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.”

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.”

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