2021: how the New York Times reports the Hudson Valley

In Hudson, a Glass House for an Expanding Family

“‘All of the components that we used for this house were locally sourced, indigenous or something you could go to Home Depot and order,’ he said. ‘We weren’t using anything custom.'”

Church of Satan’s ‘Halloween House’ Gutted by Arsonist

“Friends said Mr. Mendillo helped attract some former Manhattanites and others to move to Poughkeepsie and join the Church of Satan. He is also said to have coined the term ‘Witchcraft District’ for an area that has also come to be known as the Haunted Hudson Valley.”

N.Y. Ski Conditions: A Snowslide, Few Lift Tickets, Beer in the Parking Lot

“‘What’s the positive?’ said Laszlo Vajtay, owner of Plattekill, a family owned mountain in the Catskills. ‘At least we are freaking open.’”

Work Will Never Be the Same

“These services can be cost-​prohibitive for pharmacies, especially independent ones like [Poughkeepsie’s] City Drug.”

$400,000 Homes in Ohio, Illinois and New York

“Kingston, N.Y. | $389,000
A circa-1880 wood-sided house with three bedrooms and one bathroom, on a 3,484-square-foot lot”

‘It’s Like Buying Bruce Springsteen Tickets’: The Hunt to Find a Vaccine Shot

“Ashok Shah, 77, a retired internal-medicine physician in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., tried to sign up. But failed again and again.”

A Designer Who Finds Beauty in Austerity

“(Daye also shares a Craftsman-style house in Germantown, N.Y., with her husband, Jesse Rowe, 46, a men’s wear designer.)”

Hudson Valley Real Estate Market Still Overheated

“Ms. McCann, 39, who grew up in Copake Falls, less than 10 minutes from the town of Hillsdale, where she currently rents with her fiancé, Joseph Walters, said she was preapproved for a $270,000 mortgage, but ‘it wasn’t enough.'”

The D.I.Y. Developers

“The pandemic has given rise to a lot of real estate fever dreams. People buying houses sight unseen. Die-hard New Yorkers moving to rural Vermont or Maine. One wonders if this is another.

How the Pandemic Did, and Didn’t, Change Where Americans Move

“And net in-migration increased most in 2020 in smaller metros around New York City, like those anchored by Hudson and Kingston in New York State; Torrington, Conn.; and Pittsfield, Mass.”

Arianna Huffington Binge-Watches TV on the Treadmill

“Where have you been sheltering? PETER PENNOYER: We have a house near Millbrook, N.Y. Our two eldest sons moved back from Los Angeles.”

Looking for a Weekend Excursion? Try Craft Shop Hopping

“Opening in mid-May, Creel and Gow’s 5,000-square-foot Millbrook space is filled with the traditional Tangier-made rattan settees, chairs, consoles and tables that Jamie Creel has long loved and wished he had room to sell.”

The Most Urban Counties in the U.S. Are Shrinking

“Five metros lost people in 2020 after growing in 2019: Worcester, Mass.; Poughkeepsie, N.Y.; Baltimore; New Orleans; and Lansing, Mich.”

The Strange New Life of Vaccine Sites

“Former JCPenney in Poughkeepsie Galleria, N.Y.”

Saugerties, N.Y.: A Congenial Place With a Colorful History

“‘We are in a crisis where we have almost 50 percent of residents of Saugerties living below the ALICE threshold,’ said Kevin Freeman, a New York transplant running for a seat on the town board, using an acronym describing vulnerable people who are asset limited and income constrained, yet employed.”

A Film Tries to Make A Difference for Domestic Violence Survivors

“One case that was considered a surefire test of the act was that of Nicole Addimando, a young mother of two in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., who in 2017 fatally shot Christopher Grover, her live-in boyfriend and the children’s father.”

Finding a Home in This Overheated Market

“A 1989 Tudor on three pastoral acres in the Dutchess County town of Milan, N.Y., has squatted on the market since December, with 11 price decreases from its original ask of $925,000. Why?”

Peter Saul Doesn’t Want Any Advice

“Next to a roadside barn in Germantown, N.Y., two and a half hours outside Manhattan, someone has set up an impressively elaborate ‘Trump 2024’ display made from red, white and blue cut paper. The artist Peter Saul, who lives a few minutes down the road, gets a kick out of it.”

What Happens When Your Waiter Can’t Afford Rent

“In Ulster County, slightly over 2,000 rooms and homes were listed as short-term rentals in May, according to AirDNA, a vacation rental data firm.”

How New Yorkers in One Small Town Became Allies Instead of Enemies

“In Ulster County, in New York, home to Woodstock, for example, the county executive, Pat Ryan, recently implemented a universal basic income program to deal with mounting poverty.”

Where Do Theater Artists Go to Ask Questions? Poughkeepsie.

“Audiences included some theater professionals but they did not bring with them the hothouse feeling that so often and unhelpfully hangs over developmental work in New York City.”

A Champion Swimmer Found a New Life On The Rocks

“Marciano reset his life when he abandoned the down-to-the-millisecond world of swimming to pursue something anonymous and ethereal: bouldering with friends in the Shawangunk Ridge here or other climbing meccas in the Northeast.”

Richard Nelson’s New Play Closes a Chapter of Theater History

“‘Rhinebeck is a complicated place, as all places are,’ said Nelson, who has lived in the Hudson Valley town since the early 1980s.”

Camp Here for Style

“The company aims to open its first location, named Hurley House, near Kingston, N.Y., with planned rates from $259 a night, in the coming months, but it intends to tow its custom trailers between different locations to support communities that expand and contract with the weather.”

Upstate Motels Make a Comeback, With an Aim to Captivate

“If all goes according to plan, the motel, which sits on eight acres in Ulster County, is expected to open next summer with 20 rooms, a pool club, outdoor events and possibly a spa and sauna. By 2023, they plan to add an indoor event space and restaurant.”

Rhinebeck, N.Y.: A Historical Community With Cultural Amenities

“Rhinebeck went from what Catherine A. Mondello, a local realtor, called ‘a laid-back country town, a Mayberry,’ to a popular destination for day-trippers up from New York City, as well as a community where retirees and younger urbanites choose to relocate.

Liliana Porter Finds Art in the Empty Spaces

“‘I always sold, because I was a printmaker in the beginning,’ said Ms. Porter, who was giving a tour of her packed studio, housed in an old barn here in the Hudson Valley.

The T List: Five Things We Recommend This Week

“Earlier this year, Hotel Kinsley, an ambitious project comprising four restored buildings in the buzzing Hudson Valley enclave of Kingston, N.Y., opened its ‘crown jewel,’ a three-story boutique hotel in an 18th-century Georgian house.”

How New York Just Took a Big Step Away From Fossil Fuels

“Both Newburgh and Astoria are considered environmental justice communities: areas with low-income or Black and Latino populations disproportionately affected by historical environmental damage, which the climate law requires the state to address.”

Anne Leibovitz, the Un-Fashion Photographer

“Then Covid-19 happened, and she found herself quarantined with her three daughters at her 200-acre farm in Rhinebeck, N. Y.”

A Visual Tour of New York’s 750-Mile Bicycle Route

“Much of the Kingston-to-Hudson stretch is on-road — a taste of what I would increasingly encounter.”

What the Infrastructure Bill Means for the New York Region

“In Newburgh, N.Y., a city of about 28,000 people 70 miles north of New York City, thousands of decades-old lead pipelines that deliver water to homes could be replaced.”

How to Ski Smarter in the Age of Multi-Mountain Passes

“West Virginia’s Snowshoe gives Washington, D.C.-area skiers an option 4.5 hours away and New York’s Windham Mountain is 3.5 hours from New York City.”

Kingston, N.Y.: A Historic Hudson City ‘Preparing for Better Opportunities’

“But its riverfront perch, mountain landscape and rich history that predates the United States (with plenty of surviving architecture) make Kingston more than Williamsburg North.”

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