This Month’s Featured Articles…

By Christine Bates | info@mainstreetmag.com Two hours from New York’s Grand Central Station, the hamlet of Wassaic in the Town of Amenia is the end of the line on the Harlem Valley Metro North railroad. On the other side of the tracks, on Route 22, is the exclusive Silo Ridge Field Club. Fifteen years in the making, Silo Ridge, our area’s first luxury gated community, the Tuxedo Park of the 21st century, is becoming a reality. Will it alter the character of northeastern Dutchess County? Will [...]

By Mary B. O’Neill, Ph.D. | info@mainstreetmag.com Physical activity and fundraising go together like peanut butter and jelly. Walks, runs, swims, triathlons, bike rides, and golf events to raise funds for local non-profits can accomplish several objectives. They promote activity, collective action, cause recognition, and increased donations for a worthy cause. In our tri-state area, you can hardly drive a mile without seeing event signs lining the road at well-travelled intersections. These small markers sprout from the ground like flowers to announce upcoming athletic activities [...]

By John Torsiello | info@mainstreetmag.com It strikes you as you drive down a entryway at Bard College in Annandale-on-the-Hudson, NY. At first impression, it appears an otherworldly building, perhaps a hobbit dwelling from Lord of the Rings, or maybe a forest cottage from the fairy tale Hansel and Gretel… What is it? It’s the Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts, built over a four-year period and opened in 2003. Unlike a simple hobbit dwelling or cottage, the Center cost a whopping $62 million to [...]

By John Torsiello |info@mainstreetmag.com When one views the renovated Hudson Opera Hall, now formally known as Hudson Hall at the Historic Hudson Opera House in the center of this chic town located along, quite appropriately, the slow rolling Hudson River, it is difficult to imagine the structure was once in a state of serious decay. “The building sat vacant for around 30 years,” explained Executive Director of the Hall for the past 19 years, Gary Schiro, as he stood in the performance room where workers [...]

By Christine Bates |info@mainstreetmag.com Hudson has always been a city of visionary entrepreneurs from its founding as a safe deep water port for whaling ships in 1783. Originally a small stopping point on the Hudson River called Claverack Landing, it became Hudson when a group of entrepreneurial Quaker businessmen from Nantucket established it as a harbor and the first planned city in America with neatly gridded streets. Hudson thrived and the population swelled as its reputation spread. By the middle of the next century Hudson’s [...]