Its a nice town. I went there once to pay a ticket for my company as a trucker. The registration I was carrying, was for a different truck with a different VIN number. It happened at a DOT inspection checkpoint on the Thruway. Anyway it was like a kangaroo court. Everyone there was a truck driver, and the same state trooper who ticketed me was the guy you made the plea deal with, not a prosecutor. It was like a $50 dollar fine, and I had to drive 2 hours to get there. It was mandatory to appear. My company had to pay me for all that time though.
They have the Horse shows there in the summer HITS but as a horse owner they are the worst town to be in. The merchants dont really like the horse show or the people or care about it. Try to find a laundry place that will let you wash the horse blankets is impossible. They even post on the windows of laundromats no horse blankets......The reason the show moved from ellenville to saugerties was the owner was given a huge tax break to go there. He lives right down the road from the facility
Perhaps the HITS people should provide the laundry facilities for the horse blankets. People don't want to share the washing machines with smelly horse blankets. And if it's not a great experience for the horse owners, I'm sure they would stop attending and it would go away. I live in the general area and I personally am not bothered by it one way or the other. And I do agree that most towns play favoritism due to personal friendships and or business relationships. And it's not always fair.
Kindly Thank-you Patterson, NY Sunday Morning Travels = for reminding me of excellent experiences in Patterson, NY especially Patterson, NY Center Gym where I participated in bouts in ring and did refereeing as Mixed Martial Arts fighter under John Carlo School of Fighters.
I grew up in Beacon (now in my 70s). I now live in Florida. It was a quiet town. Climbed Mount Beacon when I was in my 20s. What a view !!!!!! Then there's the view of the Hudson River (now they made a park down there.....nice ) Now as of 2014 (there abouts ), The PRESENT-DAY Beacon is built up. Empty stores are now thriving businesses. It's still a nice place to live. I still love Beacon.
I can't get over how much my beautiful town has changed in the past 25 yrs, don't get me wrong, it has all been for the better, it's just that there were great memories in many of the places that have changed.
So green and beautiful I lived in the Adirondacks for 4 years I'm in San Diego now it's so completely different I do miss New York though. Got to do a drive in the peak fall colors
You could have made the video much more interesting if you could slow down (as the comment above suggests), even stop occasionally and let us read some of the signs. My grand-daughter lives in Amenia and I would have liked to see more of that community, but with your high speed driving ( I'll just forget it). We can see the same country anywhere in central and western New York
Sorry to hear that!! I wasnt born there, i was born in a different town in new york state, Nowhere, New York Nothing there either, just like here! Oh ya, high property taxes!
I grew up in Wassaic and spent a lot of time with the other kids in that town, hanging out around there. I was living in one of the houses close to the train tracks and remember when they brought in Metro again. We could be in the kitchen and see the faces of passangers on the train because we were that close. The red building that was at the Y sits right over top of that little creek. We fished off that bridge but my favorite was when that was a little store. The wooden floor had a knot that fell out. As a young kid we'd be on our hands and knees with our eye held to the floor watching the water flow under us. 😂 There are still so many historic buildings there and its been very unchanged in 30 years as far as removing or adding buildings. As a teenager, I worked at Four Brothers, then on to what was Grand Union. I was there through their changes from G.U. to Food Town and then Fresh Town. I graduated from Webutuck in 2003. It's s been a long time since I've been back but Wassaic/Amenia will always hold a special place in my memories. Thanks for taking the drive. I know those roads like the back of my hand and I didn't realize how much I missed seeing this scenery. ❤
What have you got against East Main Street? Always skips over the business section of East Main, but includes Smith Street! Also no Broad Street with post office, library and restaurant. Poor planning.
