Anne Craig

1 month ago | chronogram.com | Anne Craig

When Mayor Lee Kyriacou was first elected to the Beacon City Council in 1993, just a year after moving to Beacon, he found a comprehensive plan that assumed that the answer for its struggling Main Street involved high-rise buildings up to 13 stories tall, feeder roads, and a pedestrian mall. "But the city was such an unattractive investment that the high rises never got built," he says.

2 months ago | chronogram.com | Anne Craig |Brian Mahoney

[{ "name": "Newsletter Mailchimp Signup - Inline Content", "insertPoint": "3", "component": "20934832", "requiredCountToDisplay": "3", "parentWrapperClass": "" }] Pretty Nearly All Natural Genie Abrams Finishing Line Press, 2024, $17.99 Close observers know that nature isn't in the least tame or sentimental, and Abrams—a born and raised Newburgher who served as the city's poet laureate from 2022 to 2024—is a close observer and lifelong lover who's not afraid of the scars and thorns of any...

2 months ago | chronogram.com | Anne Craig

[{ "name": "Newsletter Mailchimp Signup - Inline Content", "insertPoint": "3", "component": "20934832", "requiredCountToDisplay": "3", "parentWrapperClass": "" }] In the 1950s, Newburgh's Water Street was one of the finest shopping thoroughfares north of Manhattan. New York Central Railroad's West Shore line stopped here on its route from Weehawken to Albany; travelers could hop on an electric trolley up the hill to the city center or board the ferry to Beacon.

2 months ago | chronogram.com | Anne Craig |Brian Mahoney

Pretty Nearly All Natural Genie Abrams Finishing Line Press, 2024, $17.99 Close observers know that nature isn't in the least tame or sentimental, and Abrams—a born and raised Newburgher who served as the city's poet laureate from 2022 to 2024—is a close observer and lifelong lover who's not afraid of the scars and thorns of any flora or fauna on the planet, human and otherwise. Her poetry is flowing, lucid and often hilarious.

2 months ago | chronogram.com | Anne Craig

Ever since tourists have been venturing up the Hudson River, farms have been part of the draw. In the late 1800s, farm boarding houses were an escape from the city heat; in the 1930s and 40s, farms were a haven in stressful times. In midcentury, a wave of farm nostalgia gave rise to farm-adjacent petting zoos and dude ranches, and by the `80s, bed-and-breakfasts sprouted as the latest twist on farm boarding.