Poughkeepsie, New York "Poughkeepsie"
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Poughkeepsie, New York Flag of Poughkeepsie, New York Flag Official seal of Poughkeepsie, New York Location of Poughkeepsie, New York Location of Poughkeepsie, New York State New York Poughkeepsie /p k psi/ (p -kip-see), officially the City of Poughkeepsie, is a town/city in the state of New York, United States, which is the governmental center of county of Dutchess County.
As of the 2010 census it had a populace of 32,736. Poughkeepsie is in the Hudson Valley midway between New York City and Albany, and is part of the New York urbane area. The name derives from a word in the Wappinger language, roughly U-puku-ipi-sing, meaning "the reed-covered lodge by the little-water place," referring to a spring or stream feeding into the Hudson River south of the present downtown area. Poughkeepsie is known[by whom?] as "The Queen City of the Hudson".
Major bridges in the town/city include the Walkway over the Hudson, a former barns bridge (originally called the Poughkeepsie Bridge), which re-opened as a enhance walkway on October 3, 2009; and the Mid-Hudson Bridge, a primary thoroughfare assembled in 1930 that carries U.S.
The town/city of Poughkeepsie lies in New York's 18th congressional district. Poughkeepsie Bridge ca.
The site of Poughkeepsie was purchased from the Indians in 1686 by Robert Sanders, an Englishman, and Myndert Harmense Van Den Bogaerdt, a New Netherland-born Dutchman.
The settlement interval quickly, and the Reformed Church of Poughkeepsie was established by 1720.
The improve was set off from the town of Poughkeepsie when it became an incorporated village on 27 March 1799. The town/city of Poughkeepsie was chartered on 28 March 1854. Outside of municipal designations, the town/city and town of Poughkeepsie are generally viewed as a single place and are generally referred to collectively as "Poughkeepsie", with a combined populace of approximately 75,000.
Spared from battle amid the American Revolution, Poughkeepsie became the second capital of New York.
In 1788, the Ratification Convention for New York State, which encompassed Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and George Clinton, assembled at the courthouse on Market Street, debated, and ratified the United States Constitution.
With its ratification, New York entered the new union as the eleventh of the initial thirteen colonies to join together as the United States of America.
In 1799, a new seal was created for Poughkeepsie.
Early on, Poughkeepsie was a primary center for whale rendering, and amid the 19th century trade flourished through shipping, hatteries, paper mills, and a several breweries along the Hudson River, including some owned by Matthew Vassar, founder of Vassar College.
Due to the area's natural beauty and adjacency to New York City, families such as the Astors, Rogers, and Vanderbilts assembled palatial weekend homes nearby.
The Vanderbilt mansion, positioned several miles up the Hudson from Poughkeepsie in the town of Hyde Park, is registered as a National Historic Site; it is considered to be a sterling example of the mansions assembled by American industrialists amid the late 19th century.
View of Poughkeepsie from the walkway The town/city is on the edge of Dutchess County, bordered by the Hudson River on the west and by the town of Poughkeepsie on the north, east and south.
There are two crossings of the Hudson River in Poughkeepsie: the Mid-Hudson Bridge for motor vehicles and pedestrians, and the pedestrian "Walkway over the Hudson".
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has an region of 5.7 square miles (14.8 km2).
It is about 75 miles (121 km) north of New York City and is in southeastern New York State. Poughkeepsie has a humid continental climate (Koppen Dfa) with mostly hot summers and cold winters.
Due to its inland location, Poughkeepsie can be very cold amid the winter, with temperatures dropping below zero a several times per year.
Poughkeepsie can also be hit by powerful nor'easters, but usually receives decidedly less snow or precipitation from these storms compared to locations to the south and east.
Climate data for Poughkeepsie, New York See also: Poughkeepsie plan The Poughkeepsie City School District is the enhance K-12 school fitness serving approximately 5,000 students.
It is the earliest college preliminary school in New York State.
Poughkeepsie Day School, also outside the city, is a progressive co-ed pre-K-through-12 day school serving 300 students established in 1934 by small-town families and members of the Vassar College faculty.
Spackenkill Union Free School District, comprising generally the southern part of the town of Poughkeepsie, consists of Hagan Elementary School, Nassau Elementary School, Orville A.
See also: Poughkeepsie Newburgh Middletown urbane region Colleges and universities Two establishments of higher learning operate campuses inside the city: Adelphi University's Hudson Valley Center and the Ridley-Lowell Business and Technical Institute.
The Culinary Institute of America's chief campus is positioned the suburb of Hyde Park, north of the City of Poughkeepsie.
Dutchess Community College, Marist College, and Vassar College are all positioned in the encircling town of Poughkeepsie.
Walkway over the Hudson in Poughkeepsie Local bus transit in the town/city of Poughkeepsie Poughkeepsie sits at the junction of the north-south US 9 and east-west US 44 and NY 55 highways.
Rail commuter service to New York City is provided at the Poughkeepsie Metro-North station by the MTA's Metro-North Railroad.
Poughkeepsie is the northern end of Metro-North's Hudson Line.
Amtrak also serves the station, along the Hudson River south to New York City's Pennsylvania Station and north along the river to Albany-Rensselaer station and points further north and west.
Amtrak trains serving Poughkeepsie are the Adirondack, Empire Service, the Ethan Allen Express, and the Maple Leaf.
The Mid-Hudson Bridge, opened in 1930, carries US 44 and NY 55 athwart the Hudson River from Poughkeepsie to Highland.
The Poughkeepsie Bridge opened in 1888 to carry barns traffic athwart the Hudson, but all usage of the bridge came to an end when a 1974 fire damaged its decking.
The walkway opened on October 3, 2009, coinciding with the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson's first exploration of the river titled for him. The bridge is now open for pedestrian and bicycle use and is a state historic park.
Highways and barns tracks in Poughkeepsie The nearest primary airport to Poughkeepsie is Stewart International Airport about 25 miles (40 km) south in Newburgh.
Other close-by airports include Albany International Airport approximately 85 miles (137 km) north and the three primary urbane airports for New York City: John F.
Within Poughkeepsie there are two transit bus services: City of Poughkeepsie Transit, directed by the city, has five mostly unidirectional loop routes throughout the city, town, and into Hyde Park.
Dutchess County LOOP, directed by Dutchess County, travels throughout Dutchess County and also serves as the chief link to the Route 9 corridor including Poughkeepsie Galleria and South Hills Mall.
The town/city is protected by the longterm position firefighters in the City of Poughkeepsie Fire Department.
The PFD operates out of three fire stations, positioned throughout the city, and operates and maintains a fire apparatus fleet of four engines, including one reserve engine; two trucks; one rescue vehicle, cross-staffed as needed; and one fireboat.
The Arlington Fire District, Fairview Fire District, and New Hamburg Fire Department cover the encircling town of Poughkeepsie.
Police protection to the town/city is provided by the City of Poughkeepsie Police Department (CPPD).
The Dutchess County Sheriff Station is based in Poughkeepsie and is adjoining to the Dutchess County Jail, which homes around 275 300 inmates maximum capacity at any time.
The City of Poughkeepsie is home to Vassar Brothers Medical Center (VBMC), a large 365-bed hospital situated next to U.S.
VBMC is home to the only cardiothoracic surgery in New York State between Albany and New York City, as well as an advanced birthing center.
Emergency medical services are provided by Mobile Life Support Services (MLSS), who are contracted to furnish full-time ambulance coverage to the town/city of Poughkeepsie.
MLSS provides paramedic level service, including Advanced life support (ALS) and has ambulances stationed in the town/city on Cottage Street.
MLSS also has a staff of specially trained paramedics that furnish tactical EMS support to the town/city police amid ESU/SWAT operations, as well as emergency rehabilitation to town/city firefighters via their Special Operations Response Team.
They also furnish ALS ambulance service to multiple other agencies and municipalities in Dutchess, Ulster, and Orange counties, and their command posts building is positioned in New Windsor in Orange County.
IBM has a large ground in the adjoining town of Poughkeepsie.
The RS/6000 SP2 family of computers, which came to fame after one of them won a chess match against world chess master Garry Kasparov, were also produced by IBM Poughkeepsie.
In October 2008, IBM's Poughkeepsie facility was titled "Assembly Plant of the Year 2008" by the editors of Assembly Magazine. Poughkeepsie remains IBM's major design and manufacturing center for its newest mainframes and high-end Power Architecture servers, and it is also one of IBM's primary software evolution centers for z/OS and for other products.
Until 1972, Poughkeepsie was home to the Smith Brothers cough drop factory.
The Poughkeepsie Journal is the third-oldest active journal in the United States, and has offices on Market Street in the City of Poughkeepsie. The team is a member of the New York Penn League, and play at Dutchess Stadium in the close-by town of Fishkill.
The team's home court was at Beacon High School, positioned approximately 16 miles south in the town/city of Beacon.
Poughkeepsie hosted a beginning member of the North Eastern Hockey League (NEHL) with the formation of the Poughkeepsie Panthers in 2003.
One of Poughkeepsie's most notable sports affairs was the annual Poughkeepsie Regatta of the Intercollegiate Rowing Association (IRA), which was held on the Hudson River from 1895 to 1949.
As part of the 400th anniversary celebration of Henry Hudson's trip up the Hudson River a recreation of the regatta was held with Marist College Crew as its host. The affairs encompassed a fireworks display, a large dinner, and the unveiling of the restored historic Cornell Boathouse, now property of Marist Crew.
Notably this was the first time women's crew squads were allowed to participate in the historic IRA Poughkeepsie Regatta.
Established British racing team Carlin Motorsport have chosen Poughkeepsie as their U.S.
Poughkeepsie has a number of notable establishments for arts and entertainment.
The Bardavon 1869 Opera House, positioned on Market Street just below Main Street, is a theater which has an array of music, drama, dance and film affairs and is the home of the Hudson Valley Philharmonic.
The Chance, positioned at 6 Crannell Street in downtown Poughkeepsie, hosts live modern concerts with small-town as well as primary artists.
For shopping and movie theater entertainment, the Poughkeepsie Galleria is positioned in the town of Poughkeepsie.
The Chance Theater and Mid-Hudson Civic Center ranked #4 and 5, in the order given, on a list of Poughkeepsie's most Instagrammed locations in 2016. Andrew Jackson Davis (1826 1920), known variously as the "Poughkeepsie Seer" or "The Seer of Poughkeepsie" Tibor Kalman, graphic designer, emigrated from Hungary to Poughkeepsie as a child Homer Augustus Nelson, lawyer, Representative, Secretary of State of New York and colonel in Union Army Major League Baseball players born in Poughkeepsie: Bands from Poughkeepsie: List of newspapers in New York in the 18th century: Poughkeepsie National Register of Historic Places listings in Poughkeepsie, New York a b "Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Poughkeepsie city, New York".
Gazetteer of New York, 1860 & 1861 Weather.com site for Poughkeepsie, August 2010 "Poughkeepsie" on Weatherbase.com, September 2011 Poughkeepsie Bridge - 'The bridge was Moving'.
"History of Poughkeepsie, New York".
"Upstate New York affairs jubilate 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson's voyage up the river".
"Regatta Evokes Poughkeepsie's Rowing Heyday".
"Poughkeepsie's 15 Most Instagrammed Places - Kingston Creative".
New Jersey Historical Society Library Retrieved December 1, 2013 Poughkeepsie Journal.
A digital tour of Poughkeepsie.
Poughkeepsie, NY: Vassar College.
Main Street to Mainframes: Landscape and Social Change in Poughkeepsie.
"Mexico comes to Main Street: Mexican immigration and urban revitalization in Poughkeepsie, NY".
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Poughkeepsie, New York.
City of Poughkeepsie official website Poughkeepsie travel guide from Wikivoyage Municipalities and communities of Dutchess County, New York, United States State of New York
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