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Associated Press
14 hours ago
- General
- Associated Press
$150,000 KeyBank Gift Supports Teen Mental Health and Wellness Throughout Hudson Valley
A $150,000 gift from KeyBank Foundation will support teen mental health and wellness initiatives over the next three years as part of Family Services' Youth Programming. Funds will be used to develop innovative, enhanced after-school programming aimed at fostering healthy connections and preventing behavioral health challenges. 'Everyone needs a little help from time to time, especially the youth in our communities,' said John Manginelli, Hudson Valley/Metro NY President, KeyBank. 'To support this program with Family Services, which provides teens with the resources they need in a way they will be receptive to receiving them, is a great way to promote KeyBank's commitment to help people live well and thrive.' 'KeyBank Foundation is committed to supporting organizations and programs that prepare individuals for thriving futures. Family Services' enhanced youth programming does just this. It is a transformative approach to teen behavioral health that helps kids realize their promise and aligns perfectly with our philanthropic priorities of neighbors, education and workforce,' said Eric Fiala, CEO, KeyBank Foundation. According to a 2023 article by the US Center for Disease Control, in the 10 years leading up to the pandemic, feelings of persistent sadness and hopelessness in young people—as well as suicidal thoughts and behaviors—increased approximately 40% percent. In the Hudson Valley, the percentage of children with serious emotional disability grew from 15% to 38%. Additionally, the City of Poughkeepsie continues to face gun violence; in 2024,16 people were shot, 6 of whom were teenagers. When youth face exposure to trauma such as community violence and other adverse childhood experiences, it can lead to significant behavioral health needs, poor social outcomes, health disparities and educational deficiencies if left unaddressed. 'At Family Services our north star is ensuring everyone has the right to thrive. For the youth we serve, that includes meeting increasing behavioral health needs,' said Leah Feldman, CEO, Family Services. 'We're grateful for KeyBank's continued support and commitment to help us deliver on our reimagined model for improving mental health outcomes for teens so they can reach their fullest potential.' Family Services is planning to welcome their first participants in the summer of 2025. Recruitment for the new program will occur in several ways, including outreach to youth and parents involved in Family Services' Teen Resource Activity Center programming, referrals from Poughkeepsie City School District, referrals from Family Services partner agencies within the Poughkeepsie Children's Cabinet and community outreach. For more information, visit the Family Services website at or call 845-452-1110 x3192. Visit 3BL Media to see more multimedia and stories from KeyBank
Vogue
2 days ago
- Business
- Vogue
Rhinebeck Welcomes Little Goat, a Charming All-Day Café and Bakery With Nancy Meyers-Inspired Interiors
Not much is ever truly new in Rhinebeck. 'The businesses there have been around for a long time—it seems like forever,' Hudson Valley resident and Inness hotelier Tavo Sommer says of the historic town. Which is why when a store in a restored 18th-century townhouse finally did become available on Main Street, it wasn't even a question that he'd sign a lease. The only question was whether someone else would beat him to it. Sommer prevailed. On May 28, he and longtime collaborator Erin Winters open Little Goat: a bakery, pantry, and all-day café that epitomizes that low-key countryside chic that the Hudson Valley is known for. 'We're calling it a cafe, a bakery, and a pantry because we want to hit all these different aspects of what we think the town needs,' Sommer says. Photo: Kate Sears What does that look like, exactly? There's bread from nearby Sparrow Bakery, cheeses from Talbott & Arding, and balsamic vinegars from Flamingo Estate. On an entry table, abundant flower arrangements come courtesy of famed florist Ariel Dearie. (Some of her repeat customers? Sofia Coppola, Marc Jacobs, and Annie Leibovitz.) Grab-and-go food, including rotisserie chicken, are ready for the taking. In the back, waiters serve Mediterranean-inspired dishes like flatbread with broccoli rabe, stracciatella, and Calabrian chili, as well as grilled Hudson Valley steelhead trout from a menu by executive chef Brian Paragas (previously of Blackberry Farm and Zahav).
Wall Street Journal
2 days ago
- Business
- Wall Street Journal
Facebook Co-Founder Chris Hughes Lists Historic Hudson Valley Estate for $9.995 Million
Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes is listing his historic estate in New York's Hudson Valley for $9.995 million, making it one of the most expensive on the market in the area. Hughes and his husband, political activist Sean Eldridge, paid roughly $6 million for the estate in 2011. The couple spent millions upgrading it, said Hughes, adding that they are 'big hikers' who have been coming to the Hudson Valley for roughly 15 years. The couple got married on the property in 2012 and lived there full time for several years before moving back to Manhattan, using the Hudson Valley property for weekends and vacations, Hughes said. They have two children.
Condé Nast Traveler
6 days ago
- Condé Nast Traveler
11 Best Wineries Near New York City for a Vineyard Getaway
Just beyond New York City, a different pace takes hold—one where vineyard rows stretch into the horizon and tasting rooms hum with warmth and character. The wine regions surrounding the city are rich and varied, from the breezy North Fork of Long Island to the lush, rolling hills of the Hudson Valley and the quiet calm of Connecticut farmland. These escapes are close enough for a weekend getaway, yet feel worlds away. New Yorkers who have yet to plan an East Coast wine outing might not know just how many options are in their (extended) backyard: You can find standout vineyards like Macari with its sustainable edge, Millbrook and Rose Hill with their Hudson Valley roots, and Paradise Hills in Connecticut, where wholesome and charming countryside meets modern winemaking. These regions, a stone's throw away from NYC, are dotted with wineries offering everything from elevated Chardonnay and earthy Cab Franc to pét-nats and skin-contact blends. Whether you're sipping on a sunlit patio or cozying up fireside with a flight, these vineyards deliver a mix of sensory pleasure and scenic calm. Read on for 11 wineries near NYC that make a lovely backdrop for a wine-soaked weekend out of the city, all reachable by car or train in three hours or less. Plus, where to stay nearby to make a weekend trip out of it. Hudson Valley Millbrook Vineyards & Winery Where: Millbrook, New York Millbrook Vineyards and Winery is nestled in the Hudson Valley, and is one of the region's flagship award-winning wineries. While the menu rotates monthly, the winery produces up to 15,000 cases of wine annually, so that guests can guarantee delightful sips on high-rated varietals of Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, Cabernet France, Tocai Friulan, Riesling, and more. The 130-acre property is an old dairy farm converted into an estate, now part of the Dutchess Country Wine Trail. It includes a 30 acre vineyard and walking trails through orchards, woodlands, and farms. Visitors can expect regular events with food trucks and live music, as well as outdoor wine tastings on the weekends from May to October. Otherwise, indoor tastings are offered daily year-round. (For groups of 10 or more, call the tasting room to schedule a wine tasting.) To make a day—or perhaps a weekend—of it, visit Clinton Vineyards and Milea Estate Vineyard too; each a 15-minute drive away. Get there and around: The winery offers a transportation service called the Vineyard Express. The $25 shuttle meets those coming in from NYC's Grand Central station via the Hudson Line at Poughkeepsie train station. (Be sure to make a reservation as space is limited, especially during the warmer months.) Otherwise, the drive from NYC falls anywhere between 1.5 to 2 hours. Where to stay nearby: For a romantic storybook stay: The Millbrook Inn For a lovingly restored country-home feel: Troutbeck The cheery outside seating area at Hudson Chatham Winery in Ghent, New York Hudson-Chatham Winery Where: Ghent, New York
The Guardian
22-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
‘Quite an upgrade from our porta-potties!' Storm King sculpture park's sublime $53m rebirth
Unless they have been signed by a mischievous surrealist, it is not often that toilets qualify as works of art. But at the Storm King Art Center, an outdoor sculpture park that rolls across 200 edenic hectares of New York's Hudson Valley, visitors are now treated to a sublime restroom experience worthy of the spectacular sculptures on show. 'It's quite an upgrade from our porta-potties,' says Nora Lawrence, director of the centre, which has just reopened after a $53m (£39.7m) expansion. She is standing outside the new loos, housed in a sleek wooden pavilion that opens out on to the woodland landscape, framing views of the red maple swamp beyond. A new ticket office stands across a tree-lined 'outdoor lobby', while elegant lampposts line the route to an open-air welcome pavilion, sheltering lockers and phone charging points. Storm King had none of these things before. Founded in 1960, on a ravaged landscape of gravel pits left by neighbouring highway construction, the sculpture park never had the facilities you would expect from such a popular visitor attraction, which draws crowds of 200,000 each year. Named after a local mountain, the art centre began as a small museum of local landscape paintings, housed in a 1930s Normandy-style chateau on a hill here in Mountainville, surrounded by 23 acres. Its founders, Ralph E Ogden, and his son-in-law, H Peter Stern, who co-ran the family business manufacturing steel bolts, soon acquired a taste for outsized sculpture, and, as a consequence, an appetite for more land. Their holdings eventually grew to include 800 hectares of the adjacent Schunnemunk mountain – which Ogden bought to preserve the woodland backdrop, then donated to become a state park. Storm King now boasts one of the world's greatest collections of outdoor sculpture, with more than 100 works by 20th-century greats, but it has always lacked electricity, piped water, and most of the other hallmarks of civilisation. Alexander Calder's 17-metre tall The Arch stands in the middle of a meadow like some prized fowl, flaring out its curved black limbs with haughty pride. Mark di Suvero's trio of colossal steel structures march across the hills, rising on the horizon like abandoned oil derricks, mineshaft headframes or rusting contraptions once used to sculpt the land. Isamu Noguchi's 40-tonne granite peach nestles in a woodland clearing nearby, looking positively modest in comparison, while Andy Goldsworthy's drystone wall winds its way for 700 metres between the trees. But in between admiring these wonders, visitors were treated to the delights of portable plastic toilets and crowded parking lots. In true North American fashion, Storm King had a lot of asphalt. Swathes of parking and access roads sliced across the pristine meadows, and muscled into the foreground of the striking steel sculptures, undermining the intention of experiencing art against a backdrop of pure nature. 'The primary visitor experience was sitting in a long line of traffic and finding somewhere to park your car,' says Claire Weisz of WXY Studio, the architects that have led the project, with Irish firm Heneghan Peng, since 2017. 'We've tried to let the landscape take over again.' Working with New England landscape practice Reed Hilderbrand, and London firm Gustafson Porter + Bowman, the team have torn up over two hectares of asphalt, creating new fields for the display of art, and planted more than 650 trees and shrubs. They have opened up a previously culverted stream, revealing 100 metres of babbling brook, and restored the wetland landscape with sour gum, sweetgum and flowering dogwood, promising a ravishing show of scarlet foliage come the autumn. With much of the tarmac swept away, the colossal outdoor works shine like never before so the new architectural interventions take a back seat, letting the landscape be the real star of the show. Visitors arrive at the newly concentrated 580-space parking lot, where an elegant timber ticket office has been deftly tacked on to the end of a 19th-century stone cottage, shaded by a big projecting canopy. 'It replaces a 1950s garage extension,' says Róisín Heneghan, 'so we made the canopy look like a big open garage door, in a nod to the American garage sale tradition.' The outdoor lobby, framed by tall, shading sweetgum trees, leads to the new bathroom block, where top-lit wooden cubicles snake in a subtle S-curve, crowned with a floating roof that shelters a long open-air concrete sink. The roof appears to be supported by a row of swivelling wooden shutters, which can be closed in the cooler months, or swung open to connect you directly with the wooded wetland beyond. The architects say they were inspired by the outdoor washbasins of Japanese temples, and there is a similar sense of ritual ablution here, a spiritual cleansing in preparation for the aesthetic revelations that await. For once, the American term is fitting: these are restrooms where you might indeed want to rest awhile, take in the view, and enjoy the aroma of the allspice shrubs, planted, says Beka Sturges of Reed Hilderbrand, 'as a celebration of sanitation'. Sturges says her firm is often accused of being too deferential, but here that's exactly what was needed. Their work is almost invisible: few visitors will remember the previous nightmare of car parks, or realise that a long allée of dying maples has been replaced with more resilient tupelo trees, or that new ground-cover and perennials were selected for their climate resilience. 'We've tried to interlace a few southern species, where this would be the northern edge of their historic range,' says Sturges, 'just to try to get ahead of the terrifying change to climate.' There has also been a lot of work behind the scenes, which most visitors will never see. A new southern logistics entrance means that delivery trucks and maintenance vehicles no longer have to ply their way across the park, disturbing visitors' reverie. It leads to a new conservation, fabrication and maintenance building, conceived as a big black hangar, cut into a sloping hillside. Here, beneath the six-metre high ceilings, cooled by Big Ass Fans, sculptures can be repaired and repainted in a 15-metre long spray booth, before being wheeled out through full-height doors. It means that work that used to have to be outsourced, entailing more truck deliveries, can now be done on site, while the action can be surveyed from mezzanine offices overhead. It is where the big steel buttresses for a new temporary installation by Kevin Beasley were fabricated, which now stand on Tippet's Field – a prominent new space reclaimed from one of the bigger parking lots – forming a 30-metre long theatre arch of found fabrics suspended in resin. Beasley plans to activate the work with performances this summer, the first test of this grassy stage as a canvas for whatever the next generation of artists will dream up. As Lawrence puts it: 'It's quite unusual for an artist to be told, 'Here's a huge landscape, go to town!'' And that's where Storm King's magic lies – now with more potential than ever.
