The Gossips of Rivertown
Monday, May 28, 2012

Spotted While Ogling Oriels

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While looking for oriels in the 800 block yesterday, I noticed this sign at the entrance to the parking lot next to Wasabi. While restaurant...
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Sunday, May 27, 2012

Ear to the Ground

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There's a rumor making the rounds, which isn't actually a rumor at all, that there is interest in using the former Kaz warehouse a...
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Parking Tonight

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If you're wondering on which side of the street to park your car tonight, the answer is . . .  whichever side you want.  Although the ...

Jane's Walk: Site 27

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Today we wind up our oriel ogling by looking at the oriels in the last three blocks of Warren Street. The search for oriels is not as reward...
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Preservation Pioneer

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Everett Ortner, who with his wife, Evelyn, was an early leader in the movement to restore 19th-century brownstones in Brooklyn, the founde...

Decoration Day

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Waterloo 1868 In May 1866, a year and a month after Robert E. Lee surrendered at Appomattox, a pharmacist named Henry Welles organized t...
Saturday, May 26, 2012

Jane's Walk: Site 26

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It was ten years ago today--May 26, 2002--that Cassandra Danz , a.k.a. Mrs Greenthumbs, died of breast cancer at the age of 55. Gossips pays...
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More About the B&B Reclassification

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Tom Casey's report on the reclassification of Hudson B&Bs, with quotes from GAR Associates vice president Cindy Baire and David Brow...
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Friday, May 25, 2012

Jane's Walk: Site 25

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Once upon a time, these five sister houses on the north side of the 600 block of Columbia Street all belonged to Elihu Gifford. Elihu Gi...
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This Morning at the HPC

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Although several people turned up this morning with the expectation that something more would happen, the Historic Preservation Commission s...
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Good to Go

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The environmental report on 25 Railroad Avenue commissioned by the United Public Service Employees Union indicates that "no immediate...
Thursday, May 24, 2012

Jane's Walk: Site 24

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We'll linger on the 500 block of Warren Street to ogle the oriels. Of all the blocks of Warren Street, the 500 block has the greatest nu...
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The Care and Keeping of Entrepreneurialism

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Small and home-based businesses were on the agenda at Wednesday night's Common Council Legal Committee meeting. Committee chair John Fri...
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There's Many a Slip . . .

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With a $10 million renovation proposed for the Columbia County courthouse, including handicapped access ramps along the front of the buildin...
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Venus Rising Again

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At Wednesday night's meeting of the Common Council Public Works Committee, DPW Superintendent Rob Perry reported on the possibility of r...
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Wednesday, May 23, 2012

How City Hall Works . . . or Doesn't

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On his blog, Sam Pratt recounts his experiences trying to obtain documents relevant to understanding how all the B&Bs got reclassified w...

Jane's Walk: Site 23

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The bank buildings in the 500 block of Warren Street deserve our attention. There are four of them, although only one is still used as a ban...
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Basilica Hudson Schedules June Screenings

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Basilica Hudson  has announced its schedule of June film screenings . The list includes some classics, some experimental films, some short...

The Offense of the Fence

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The fence around the vacant lot at the corner of Fifth and Warren has been up for a few weeks. It rarely goes unnoticed or uncommented upon,...
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Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Jane's Walk: Site 22

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In the latter part of the 19th century, this shop--535 Warren Street--was Hannah's Jewelry Store. It was the first shop in Hudson to dis...
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Carole Osterink
This blog takes its name from the 1848 novel by Hudson author Alice B. Neal. The original Gossips of Rivertown cast a gimlet eye on Hudson society in the mid-19th century. Two centuries later, the new Gossips carries on the spirit of the original, but in a different genre and with a different focus.
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