Sentences with phrase «hudson river towns»

Another option would be to see what's happening on Long Island, or along the Hudson River towns.

Future plans include broadening the organization's scope to include more mountaintop preservation projects while maintaining a rigorous line of protection against imprudent development practices in the Hudson River towns of New Baltimore, Coxsackie, Athens and Catskill.

At noon, state and local Hudson River towns elected officials and environmental advocates call on the U.S. Coast Guard to reject the proposed Hudson River anchorage grounds for commercial vessels, Long Dock Park Pier, Long Dock Road, Beacon.

With no viable alternatives to driving and paying soon - to - be double digit (no one knows how high) tolls, we need a solution to preserve growth and economic development that makes historic Hudson River towns like Haverstraw more attractive to those seeking downtown living in the Hudson Valley.

Not exact matches

The list also includes two expensive projects in the president's home town, New York City, a major subway extension and new rail tunnels under the Hudson River.

Our towns should participate more fully in the exciting energy and economic opportunities that are now flowing in the Hudson River Valley and Catskills.

We are fortunate to live in a place that is marked by its proximity to the majestic Hudson River, its green rolling hills, and extraordinary history: from our place on the National Historic Register for many of the incredible old homes and other structures in our town, to our amazing agricultural and rural back story over the centuries which may be best exemplified by the annual New Baltimore Agfest.

The Stony Point Seals» Polar Plunge founder John Fox and his buddies to start the town's annual fling into the frigid surf off the town's Hudson River coastline 19 years ago.

Skartados» 104th District straddles both sides of the Hudson River, the only district whose cities and towns all border the rRiver, the only district whose cities and towns all border the riverriver.

The governor said that he shared in our frustration with the situation caused by the Hudson River flooding and ice jam and assured both towns that his office would do everything possible to reopen the bridge.

Some of these towns are situated along the Hudson River, or in the mountains, near skiing and hiking and farms.

Walkway Over the Hudson spans the river between the Town of Lloyd in Ulster County and the City of Poughkeepsie, in Dutchess County.

The plan has drawn significant criticism from elected officials and environmental groups up and down the Hudson River, including Molinaro, Ulster County Executive Michael Hein, the Ulster County Legislature, Kingston Mayor Steve Noble, the Kingston Common Council and supervisors of towns on both sides of the rRiver, including Molinaro, Ulster County Executive Michael Hein, the Ulster County Legislature, Kingston Mayor Steve Noble, the Kingston Common Council and supervisors of towns on both sides of the riverriver.

The plan has drawn significant criticism from elected officials and environmental groups up and down the Hudson River, including Ulster County Executive Michael Hein, the Ulster County Legislature, Kingston Mayor Steve Noble, the Kingston Common Council and supervisors of towns on both sides of the rRiver, including Ulster County Executive Michael Hein, the Ulster County Legislature, Kingston Mayor Steve Noble, the Kingston Common Council and supervisors of towns on both sides of the riverriver.

TOWN OF POUGHKEEPSIE, NY (06/08/2011)(readMedia)-- Members of CSEA and PEF will join with Dutchess - area community activists this Thursday, June 9, 2011 from 4 to 6 p.m. outside the former Hudson River Psychiatric Center Campus on Route 9 for a rally to protect the vital state mental health services that will be lost in the Mid-Hudson Valley community due to Gov. Andrew Cuomo's shortsighted plan to close HRPC.

«We are disappointed that DEC did not take the strong recommendation of more than two dozen towns and counties, up and down the Hudson River Valley, to be the sole lead agency,» stated Kate Hudson, director of cross-watershed initiatives for Riverkeeper.

Gibson, 48, is a lifelong New Yorker and a talented campaigner with an appealing personal story, especially for a district that includes newly gentrified river towns like Hudson * but also covers a wide swath of depressed rural territory: He's a former Army colonel who served four tours in Iraq and was awarded a Purple Heart.

WAMC's David Guistina talks with Mike Spain about a Montgomery County Town giving its endorsement of a proposed casino in the region and the construction of a new Tappan Zee bridge over New York's Hudson River.

Glens Falls is a city located in the southeast corner of Warren County, surrounded by the town of Queensbury to the north, east, and west, and by the Hudson River and Saratoga County to the south.

WAMC's David Guistina talks with Mike Spain of the Times Union about whether the dredging of the Hudson River is over and a local town that is taking down all of its religious holiday signs.

Esopus officials say they are also concerned because the town already has railroad lines that carry hazardous materials through the town, as well as being bordered by the Hudson River, which carries oil barge traffic.

Due to pollution of the Hudson River caused by GE's PCB dredging operations, Saratoga County had to move its plant to the town of Moreau, in the northern portion of the county.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP)-- Rising sea levels could threaten the towns far from the shore — those along the Hudson River.

In the town of Verplank, nestled in the Hudson River Valley, everybody got a new Yugo in the mid-1980s, when the Eastern European auto company was testing its product in America.

For more than 20 years, New York City hipsters and Hamptons refugees have been repopulating the sleepy, often derelict 18th - and 19th - century towns along the Hudson River.

From the hick towns of upstate New York to the rampant, muggy forests of the Hudson River Valley, Clint and company match wits with America's worst young minds.

Residencies of one week to two months are offered to poets, fiction writers, creative nonfiction writers, and translators from late March to early June and from mid-September through early November at Omi International Arts Center, situated on 300 acres in the Hudson River Valley town of Ghent, New York.

Just an hour from Manhattan by car or train (the Metro North from Grand Central station follows this route) was the tiny riverside town of Cold Spring, immortalised by 19th Century landscape painters from the Hudson River School, and as picture perfect a pastoral scene as those canvases make out.

The Saratoga & North Creek Railway connects two Adirondack towns on a 56 - mile ride along the Hudson River.

We're in Claverack, New York, a small town just east of the Hudson River.

Up River A Hudson River Expedition Artist: Marie Lorenz Curator: Diana Stevenson Expedition presentation: Thursday, May 6, 7:30 p.m. Tivoli Town Hall Marie Lorenz and Diana Stevenson will embark on a journey up the Hudson River in a small, homemade boat.

About fifteen miles uphill from the town of Catskill on the Hudson River, Kaaterskill creek drops dramatically over a precipice and into a basin that forms a hidden pool, then falls again over a second tier before continuing to tumble a bit more gently down towards the Hudson River.

The town, officially, Castleton - on - Hudson, lies along the river.

A new monograph, written by Martin Herbert and published by Thames & Hudson, lists 15 unrealized projects, including a colossal and lurid balloon of a human heart that was to hover over the Kent town of Folkestone to commemorate the 17th - century physician William Harvey, a life - size biblical ark to perch atop a mountain in northern Britain, and a proposal to the Aspen Art Museum to scatter 822,000 coins (worth $ 15,000) into Colorado's Roaring Fork River, in reference to Aspen's wealth and mining history.

Peter Williams grew up in Nyack, NY, a small town on the Hudson River.

In the mid-1960s, when it was widely assumed in this town that the fate of abstract painting lay pretty much in the hands of artists who resided between the East River and the Hudson, it is said that Frank Stella taught his very young daughter to say the phrase «French painting is bad painting.»

On my way back to the train after a lovely hike on Mount Taurus close to the town of Cold Spring in the Hudson River Valley, I saw this unique chair at a shop on Main Street.

Klaus Jacob, an earth scientist at Columbia University's Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory who pretty precisely projected the flooding a big hurricane surge could cause in New York City long before Hurricane Sandy hit, reflects in this video on the impacts on the region — including on his own storm - flooded home in Piermont, N.Y., a tiny town along the Hudson River a few miles north of the George Washington Bridge.

The company quickly gained the support of the Town and Village of Cornwall, as well as the established environmental organizations at the time: the Palisades Interstate Park Commission, the Hudson River Conservation Society.

Astonished that the Town of Lloyd, Ulster County, where he lives, is the only community along the Hudson that doesn't offer residents a place to connect with the river, Matt Smith did something about it.

As Yonkers goes with building heights, public spaces and river access, so will go every other city, town and village along the Hudson.

It is located on Sachigo Lake, which is part of the Sachigo River system and Hudson Bay drainage basin, approximately 425 kilometres (264 mi) north of the town of Sioux Lookout.

TOWN OF LLOYD (Ulster County)-- Scenic Hudson is pleased to announce that construction has begun at Franny Reese State Park to create exciting hiking opportunities and a magnificent overlook of the Hudson River and the City of Poughkeepsie.

Town of Cortlandt The town is negotiating final details for the purchase of 80 waterfront acres — one of the largest riverfront parcels available along this stretch of the Hudson — that feature a sandy river beach suitable for swimming as well as a large quarry lTown of Cortlandt The town is negotiating final details for the purchase of 80 waterfront acres — one of the largest riverfront parcels available along this stretch of the Hudson — that feature a sandy river beach suitable for swimming as well as a large quarry ltown is negotiating final details for the purchase of 80 waterfront acres — one of the largest riverfront parcels available along this stretch of the Hudson — that feature a sandy river beach suitable for swimming as well as a large quarry lake.

Town of Bethlehem Bethlehem is developing long - term plans for improving its parks and better connecting its community to the Hudson River.

HIGHLAND, Ulster County — A team of federal, state and nonprofit leaders lifted the first spikes out of the Poughkeepsie - Highland Railroad Bridge's rail - bed on Tuesday, May 27 symbolically sparking new life and a new role for the historic, but long - neglected bridge that spans the Hudson River between Poughkeepsie and the Town of Lloyd.

More recently she supported Scenic Hudson's efforts to halt harmful proposals such as a massive coal - fired St. Lawrence Cement plant proposed for the City of Hudson and Town of Greenport, practically on the doorstep of Olana, the home of Hudson River School painter Frederic Church.

About 150 decision - makers and influencers from cities, towns and villages dependent on the Hudson River attended Hudson River on the Rise: Waterfront Planning for Communities and Nature.

She has staunchly supported creation of a Hudson Valley welcome center in Hyde Park, a joint project of Scenic Hudson, the National Park Service, the Hudson River Valley National Heritage Area and the town.

The Danskammer Plant, located along the shore of the Hudson River in the town of Newburgh, New York, has been responsible for more toxic pollution than nearly all of the total 646 industrial sites in the state and numerous violations of federal air quality standards.