Meetings and Events in the Week Ahead

Surprising as it may seem, we are coming to the end of January. There is not much happening in terms of meetings this week, but here's what there is.

• On Monday, January 27, the Common Council ad hoc Truck Route Committee meets at 6:00 p.m. The meeting is a hybrid, taking place in person at City Hall and on Microsoft Zoom. Click here to join the meeting remotely.

• Also on Monday, January 27, the Town of Stuyvesant Planning Board meets at 7:00 p.m. It is expected that the Planning Board will tonight make a determination on the controversial "agritourism" project proposed for Sharptown Ridge. What the proposed project currently involves is a family residence with an attached guest residence, a horse arena, a greenhouse, garden beds, a distillery, ten accessory dwelling rental units, and 134 parking spaces. The meeting takes place in person only at Stuyvesant Town Hall, 5 Sunset Drive, in Stuyvesant.
• On Tuesday, January 28, the Common Council ad hoc Parking Study Committee meets at 6:00 p.m. The meeting is a hybrid, taking place in person at City Hall and on Microsoft Teams. Click here for the link to join the meeting remotely. 
• On Sunday, February 2, at 2:00 p.m., the African American Archives of Columbia County and the Hudson Area Library host a presentation about the Jan Van Hoesen house by Fergus Bordewich and Ed Klingler: "If This Old House Could Talk."

It is now thought that the early 18th-century house, one of the most significant historic sites in Columbia County, located on Route 66 beside the Dutch Village Mobile Home Park, was once the home of Quaker abolitionist Charles Marriott and was a station on the Underground Railroad. The Van Hoesen house is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. In the nomination for the listing, respected local historian Ruth Piwonka wrote: "The Jan Van Hoesen house is one of approximately seven brick dwellings that survive from the first half of the 18th century and that represent a colonial architectural style unique to the Dutch community of old Albany County during that period.” Sunday's event examines specifically the house's ties to the Underground Railroad movement.

The event takes place in person only in the Community Room at the Hudson Area Library, 51 North Fifth Street. For more information, click here. To register for the event, click here.

Update: This event has been rescheduled for Sunday, March 9. 

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