HUDSON VALLEY PICTURES

I thought it might be cool to include some pictures taken here in the Hudson Valley. So that's what I've done. I'll add more as I get them.

Hudson River, looking north from Yonkers, circa 1944. New York Central Railroad tracks at lower right. Note absence of Tappan Zee Bridge.

This view was taken 1/2 block east of where the station's studios are located today.

The Phillipse Manor Hall, built in 1682, is the second oldest building in the United States. The City of Yonkers was considering demolishing it sometime in the late '60's or early '70's to build, as I remember,a parking lot. Somehow it didn't happen. The Carnegie Library was not quite so lucky.

The famous Poughkeepsie Railroad Bridge. Damaged in a fire on 8 May 1972, the tracks were never repaired. After decades of disuse, it was taken over by a nonprofit in order to transform it into a walkway. This has been blocked by the Ulster County Town of Lloyd. The future of this magnificent example of 19th century engineering is uncertain.

 316 Main Street, Poughkeepsie, New York, 12601

The Carnegie Library, Yonkers.

Imagine! A philanthropist so committed to improving educational opportunities for the masses that he built scores of public libraries across the country! (I even discovered one in Cleburne, Texas in my travels a few years ago) Nothing would do, of course, but that the city would tear it down. You really can't blame them, however: they needed to make two streets meet, and to preserve the library they would have had to demolish some beautiful 1960's vintage one storey glass and aluminum store fronts. Would that all choices in life could be so wisely made. Yes, this was the same Carnegie who built Carnegie Hall. Sometime around the Sixties, the library found found it's way into a movie who's name I cannot recall.