Q: How can I get involved?

Thanks so much for your interest! We’d love to hear from you. We hope to make personal connections, build coalitions, and foster community. We know that the Northside Hub at 58 Parker Ave.’s long-term success depends on active involvement by Northside residents and partners like you. To learn more or get involved, send us an email!

Q: What are 58 Parker Ave's primary goals?

Create a space for Scenic Hudson’s offices and programs. Increase safe pedestrian and bike access to adjacent parks, trails, and city streets. Create a space for play and access to nature for Northside families and youth, as well as for visitors to the area. Encourage economic vitality in the neighborhood via increased foot traffic and visitation. Provide shared resources, like an auditorium space and open landscape, for use by the community. It is our hope that the Northside Hub at 58 Parker Ave. will help transform vacant spaces and abandoned buildings into sustainable community resources that engage youth and cultivate skilled workers, locally-grown food, and more.

Question 1

How can I get involved?

Accepted Answer

Thanks so much for your interest! We&#8217;d love to hear from you. We hope to make personal connections, build coalitions, and foster community. We know that the Northside Hub at 58 Parker Ave.’s long-term success depends on active involvement by Northside residents and partners like you. To learn more or get involved, send us an email!

Question 2

What are 58 Parker Ave's primary goals?

Accepted Answer

Create a space for Scenic Hudson&#8217;s offices and programs.
Increase safe pedestrian and bike access to adjacent parks, trails, and city streets.
Create a space for play and access to nature for Northside families and youth, as well as for visitors to the area.
Encourage economic vitality in the neighborhood via increased foot traffic and visitation.
Provide shared resources, like an auditorium space and open landscape, for use by the community.

It is our hope that the Northside Hub at 58 Parker Ave. will help transform vacant spaces and abandoned buildings into sustainable community resources that engage youth and cultivate skilled workers, locally-grown food, and more.

Question 3

How about opportunities for young people?

Accepted Answer

Youth programming is a key component of both the design process and future park activities. Potential partners include Nubian Directions, The Art Effect, the Boys & Girls Club of Poughkeepsie, and the Poughkeepsie City School District — to bring youth perspectives and ideas into the design and create community ownership over aspects of the project.

Question 4

What is Scenic Hudson’s role in the project?

Accepted Answer

Scenic Hudson owns the property and is raising funds to complete the project. Their office will be in the buildings, but much of the land around as well as functions within the building will be a space designed for and open to the public.

Question 5

How will this project impact local businesses?

Accepted Answer

We foresee attracting traffic to neighborhood businesses from people enjoying nearby trails as well as other organizations or commercial functions that could operate out of the space. The Northside Hub at 58 Parker Ave. is collaborating with the Northside Line project on street improvements that may include new crosswalks, landscaping, and measures to slow vehicles down and make streets safer for pedestrians and people on bicycles. New pedestrian and bike access routes will also make travel more convenient for residents, business owners, and visitors. In addition, this project will bring over 60 people to the Northside during the work week who will frequent local businesses.

Question 6

Will the Northside Hub at 58 Parker Ave make it easier to find parking?

Accepted Answer

Creative parking options for a variety of users are under consideration. The plan is to turn the property’s dirt lot into parking for Scenic Hudson on weekdays. It will be available for the community and Walkway Over the Hudson visitors nights and weekends.
*UPDATE 12/10/24: The lot across from 58 Parker Ave. is temporarily closed. When the lot RE-OPENS (FALL OF 2025) it will be available to everyone on weekends. This location is being utilized by construction teams who are making improvements to the old factory across the street (58 Parker Ave.) —­ which is transforming into a new community space, as well as work space for Scenic Hudson. Please see here for alternative parking options.

Question 7

How will you promote safety?

Accepted Answer

Scenic Hudson’s presence at the Northside Hub at 58 Parker Ave. five days a week should improve safety thanks to an increase in street activity and foot traffic. There will also be occasional programming and events, as well as community use of outdoor and indoor public space.

Northside Hub at 58 Parker Ave. (Scenic Hudson offices & Outdoor Community Space)

Un centro de industria y vida en Poughkeepsie

Una transformación notable

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