City of Poughkeepsie officials marked the official reopening of a vastly improved Malcolm X Park on Thursday, June 8.

Mayor Marc Nelson announced this week more than $470,000 in funding to community organizations through the Youth Activities & Opportunities grant program.

Black Excellence Community Inc, was established to unify, uplift and celebrate the community within the City of Poughkeepsie and its surrounding areas. With the help of community organizations and corporate businesses, their goal is to provide academic scholarships to Poughkeepsie High School seniors attending a 2 or 4 year College/University. This year based on the overwhelming support of the Annual Black Excellence Community (BEC) Gala fundraiser, the 2023 BEC Scholarship Program will be awarding three $1,000 academic scholarships.

Thanks to a great team of Vassar's environmental thinkers, an Ecological Restoration Grant from Partners for Climate Action Hudson Valley has been secured for a watershed restoration project at the Preserve at Vassar.

Exciting news... a Repair Cafe is coming to Poughkeepsie! This free community event is an opportunity for anyone to get their broken but beloved items fixed with the help of volunteer repair coaches, allowing us all to divert waste from landfills and work to transform our throw-away economy.

City officials have released the first draft of amendments to its zoning code that would streamline the number of districts and modernize the regulations to address development trends.

In partnership with Dutchess County Workforce Investment Board (DCWIB) and Dutchess One-Stop, The Art Effect is in search of young adult applicants to join the GVP Level Up Employment Program. 

If you’ve been past the intersection of Parker Avenue and Garden Street lately, you’ve probably wondered — and if you haven’t spotted it yet, you probably will. What’s that yellow all about?

City officials are making improvements to Malcolm X Park, and the park will be closed while renovations are under way. 

New homes are coming to the neighborhood! Three-bedroom, two bath homes with three-bedroom, two bath units that you can rent out for added income. Brand-new, high quality, energy-efficient construction. Don’t think you’ll qualify? Hudson River Housing can help! As a nonprofit, certified housing counselors are available to help you achieve the dream of homeownership.

Youth Leadership is an innovative, leadership development program designed to develop the academic, social and life skills of area youth. Students will have opportunities for substantive interaction with his or her peers, community based service organizations, institutions of higher education, and professionals from local industry. The program is open to incoming high school sophomore and junior students, and home school students, from Dutchess County.

The Poughkeepsie Community Action Collaborative (PCAC) successfully advocated on behalf of Poughkeepsie youth and families to increase the city's budget for youth programs to over $1,000,000. The PCAC is asking that you raise your voice again, this time by taking a short survey regarding your concerns and ideas for youth programs and services. 

In observance of MLK Day 2022, the United Way of Dutchess-Orange Region has arranged the following volunteer opportunities and activities.

New York City has the Highline. Atlanta has the BeltLine. Now, Poughkeepsie could join this contingent of former rail-lines-turned-greenways with a new initiative to create its own Urban Rail Trail Project.

When complete, the project will create a trail network through the City of Poughkeepsie, repurposing railroads formerly used by the CSX rail transportation services company. Plans call for a trail network that would connect pedestrians and cyclists in the city and town to the Dutchess Rail Trail, Marist College, the Walkway Over the Hudson, the riverfront and other key points of interest. Its northern tip would stretch to the under-construction Hudson Heritage development in the town, theoretically giving residents an alternate route to the ShopRite there and other services.

The city’s proposed budget gives less than 0.5% to youth services and programming, with a total yearly investment of only $54.65 per resident under the age of 18 to be spent directly on programs that would benefit them. This number needs to be drastically increased if a sense of opportunity and hope is to become real for those who need it most.

Dutchess County recently unveiled a new website, www.the-you.org, which provides County residents with updates about the forthcoming “Youth Opportunity Union,” formerly known to as the Youth Opportunity Center and referred to moving forward as “the YOU,” the state-of-the-art facility that will serve communities throughout the county and be located in the heart of the City of Poughkeepsie.

The City has unveiled a user-friendly website that includes expanded options and provides easy access and ways to get the latest news, events, meetings, agendas and much more.

On Tuesday, the mayor announced a $4 million investment into the city’s parks, which will come out of the city’s $20.7 million total allotment from the American Rescue Plan.

In the shadow of the Walkway Over the Hudson sits a plain white shipping container. It looks like overflow storage for the Poughkeepsie restaurant Farmers & Chefs.

The pandemic has slowed but not stopped the Queen City’s economic resurgence.

Raise a tall glass (of water) to Poughkeepsie! Erin Brockovitch's new book, "Superman's Not Coming," calls for everyday citizens to speak up on community and environmental issues, including clean water.

Taking important strides to create safer and more inviting places for residents of the city’s Northside to enjoy recreation and spend time outdoors, the City of Poughkeepsie has invested in improving the neighborhood’s two parks.

Crows flock to Poughkeepsie by the thousands each fall, a ritual that’s been recurring in the area for at least four decades. The Poughkeepsie crow roost is the largest for hundreds of miles.