very nice.Jaybird said:Poughkeepsie looks nice!
They're trying to renew it, but there hasn't been that much progress made from what i've seen. I visit poughkeepsie every now and then to dig for records, though its a costly trip for me since I take the metro north there. I remember you saying you grew up in wappingers in another thread. that whole piece of the hudson is an interesting area, i've always wanted to buy a house or a loft in peekskill.Ron C said:I grew up just south of Poughkeepsie in Wappingers Falls in the late 60s and 70s, and Main St. was still one of the major shopping areas in the Mid-Hudson Valley then. I vividly remember the old-time feeling of the Luckey Platt department store which still had an elevator operator and creaky wooden floors. As part of his job, my dad used to frequent the Arax Photo shops (there were two of them on Main St., as I recall). And often we would eat at Coppola's Italian restaurant. Main St. was still pretty hopping then.
But the 70s and early 80s hit Poughkeepsie hard. The last time I visited Poughkeepsie in the late 90s (I haven't lived in the area since 1977), it looked as if all of the storefronts of the Main Mall were boarded up.
I understand that the Main Mall (the construction of which was blamed for much of the decline, though I suspect it was simply the times) has since been removed and Main St. reopened to traffic. Anyone know whether there has been much of a renewal of the downtown business district? I couldn't tell from the photos.
hehe, what i know from a friend of mine whos about to graduate is that they recently built some townhouses/brownstones somewhere directly around the campus.citygeek said:I don't know if this was cool with the locals, but some Vassar students called it "Po-town." And the Poughkeepsie Journal, similar to Providence's ProJo, is sometimes called the "PoJo." At least, my friend who interned there called it that...
Now someone take some current Vassar campus/area shots, so I can see if anything's changed there in the last three years. Not that I really care, since I hated that place.
That sounds like a good idea. There wasn't much (student-friendly) off-campus housing near to the college when I was there (I graduated in 2003); the college was 98% residential. It was a rather claustrophobic, inward-looking school -- unlike Marist and its lovely campus that fronted the Hudson. I'd think that more off-campus residences, like in the Raymond/ Collegeview/ Main St. area, would spur some more restaurants, bars, cafes, shops etc., and generally liven up the neighborhood. Hopefully at the expense of the college's extortionate dining center and bookstore!!Third of a kind said:hehe, what i know from a friend of mine whos about to graduate is that they recently built some townhouses/brownstones somewhere directly around the campus.
