An acquaintance of mine saw the conflict as between angels and demons. “I was in Japan,” says Pat, Marjorie’s husband, who served during the Korean War. [6] Joseph F. Loehr, then Mayor of Yonkers, was opposed to the merger, despite Jacobs' argument that such a maneuver would cause a rise in real estate prices and increase quality of transit. The layering of new arrivals has created a curious kind of nostalgia. David Black is a prize-winning novelist, journalist, screenwriter, and television producer. In 2011, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg referred to the city's waterfrontand waterways a… Dad tells Oskar that the Sixth Borough was an island separated from Manhattan by a thin body of water, whose narrowest crossing equaled the world’s long jump record. Or you can buy new books and locally brewed beers at the Spotty Dog, where you could see a troubadour playing her guitar to a packed room or a community Trivial Pursuit game in progress. The term sixth borough is used to describe any of a number of places that have been metaphorically called a part of New York City because of their geographic location, demographics (they include large numbers of former New Yorkers), special affiliation, or cosmopolitan character. Methven says growing an island in the New York harbor between Manhattan, Brooklyn and Governor's Island could be New York City's sixth borough or … I grew up on picket lines and identified then (and still do) with factory workers, people who—as one politician recently said—get their hands dirty at work. ", "Commercial Property / The Jersey Riverfront; On the Hudson's West Bank, Optimistic Developers", "In Stamford, a Plan to Rebuild an Area and Build an Advantage", "The Sixth Borough A good look at Hoboken", "Bergen County's Fort Lee: Town With a View", "Fort Lee grapples with questions on future development", "Living In Fort Lee, N.J. Close to the City, but With a Life of Its Own", "Transportation for Greater New York (1920)", "The New Jersey Commuter in New York Subway", No 7 Secaucus Extension Feasibility Analysis Final Report, "Plan to extend No. Helsinki started in Great Barrington. Geographically, this borough is located north of Manhattan over the Harlem River. [19] Land fill has been used to expand Manhattan before, most notably in the creation of Battery Park City, which utilized material from the construction of the original World Trade Center. By 2010, rents in the greater New York City area had climbed so high that Hudson was hit with a third wave—after the antique dealers and those afraid of terrorism—of bohemians. Economic ups and downs came and went until Prohibition, when Hudson, ideally situated to transfer bootleg liquor from Canada to the north and Massachusetts to the east, again flourished. For addicts, he explains, “We don’t have holding facilities. During a recent cold snap, Bruce said, “Linda and I looked at each other and said, ‘Where’s Mama Rose’s?’ ” where they could “sit around the stove.” Of course, “they wanted you out by 9 PM.” They talk about how young people in Hudson are “more likely to ride a bicycle, more likely to think of what they eat,” their tone tinged with anticipated regret. Stresses in Hudson also include the divide between the large poor black community and immigrants from Bangladesh and the West Indies. Not far from the Spotty Dog is Moto, which sports a 1962 Ducati 350 in the window, and where the bulletin board recently advertised Mass MOCA, a High Mud Comedy Fest, Sadhana Breathworks Circle, Playdates for Pets, and Boeing, Boeing by the Ghent Playhouse, a theater that presents a traditional English pantomime every Christmas. I’m an ex-hippie. Under orders from Governor Dewey, state troopers broke down the brothel doors with sledgehammers. The young who remained found work as gardeners and house-sitters. [48] UConn also sells a T-shirt making this claim. Eighteen-year-old Tanzillo and her friends watched wide-eyed as the troopers arrested hookers and johns—including Hudson cops, the chief of police, and the mayor. These weekend rich would transform the Hudson area with restaurants that the old-timers couldn’t afford. When they arrived in Hudson, it was like the old Brooklyn that Nelson knew. Finally, in 2005, New York secretary of state Randy Daniels refused to approve the plant because (among other reasons) it would pollute the area, and its 40-foot smokestack and two-mile-long riverside conveyor belt would blight the beauty of the county and discourage the growing tourist industry. The Tugster blog covers the sixth – the great harbor and the network of waterways that separate and also bind together the great city of New York. Influences to the south include the early-twentieth-century art colony in Woodstock. “I was at the movies with some friends . When it moved to Hudson, it took up quarters in a garage, where—rumor has it—in the old days you could go to get a taxi and an introduction to one of the nearby brothels. Among the young, Mussmann sees “too much conformity . [50], Hypothetical, fictional, or satirical political division of New York City, Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, "Sixth Borough Yonkers, Scarsdale, Fort Lee, Jersey City, Hoboken, Nassau County, Rockland County, S", "The 32 Sixth Boroughs of New York City, According to the 'Times,' in Order from Worst to Best", "ADDING OF YONKERS TO CITY IS SOUGHT; Alderman Jacobs Says He Will Present Bill Seeking Merger as a Sixth Borough. The city has seen booms and busts ever since Henry Hudson sailed by in the Half Moon in 1609. Two fundamental divides separate current residents. “For the first time in 13 years,” current mayor Tiffany Martin Hamilton, a Democrat, said, “the school system is not designated [by the state] as segregated.” And the immigrants enrich the city (one of the best and least-known restaurants in Hudson is the Taste of the Caribbean, which offers a limited menu, only two or three dishes a day, like goat or oxtail stew). “She learned that I ate fire,” Nelson said, “and whenever the work was slow I’d show her how.” When the city got too expensive, they moved to Hudson. [3], A 2011 proposal by Vishaan Chakrabarti, a professor at Columbia University's Center for Urban Real Estate, suggested using land fill to connect lower Manhattan and Governors Island, so creating a new neighborhood referred to as "LoLo". The various cultures don’t always mesh well. Drug users need help, not punishment, he says. While the results of the 1894 vote were positive elsewhere, including in several other adjacent sections of Westchester, which were then annexed to the city and which thus became part of the new borough of the Bronx, the returns were so negative in Yonkers and Mount Vernon that those two areas were not included in the consolidated city and remained independent municipalities. “I remember Hudson when it was covered in cement dust,” he says. [45], Foreign countries, such as China, have also been referred to as a "sixth borough." His leap was always flawless until one year, his toe skimmed the water. It might just as easily be called the sixth borough of New York City. Top Photo: Once a manufacturing center, Hudson has found a second life as an arts and tourism destination. [11][12][13][1] In the 1920s, soon after the creation of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey there were calls to integrate the rail and subway system in New York and Northern New Jersey by expanding the New York City Subway. If you didn’t believe that the cement plant was evil—and the word “evil” was sometimes used—you were ostracized by Hudson’s leftist leisure class, which had chosen the area as its new Eden. It refers to the high number of New Yorkers who retire to the county. If New York had to pick a 6th borough (or find. The soccer great brought hope and victory to a depressed city, as sports superstars can do. 1. Up the hill from the train station, at Hudson City Books on Warren Street, you might find a first edition of Tik-Tok of Oz, bound 1940s copies of Esquire, or a leather-bound set of Dr. Johnson’s Shakespeare. Friendships sundered. The loss of manufacturing jobs, the growth of a service economy, the disappearance of the middle class—Hudson was a mirror of our times. Hudson factories made high-end pocketbooks and men’s clothing. The data also show the rate of people given a molecular test during the most recent seven days. On another night, Nellie McKay or Rosanne Cash might be singing. He ended up in a neo-Marxist collective in pre-gentrified Williamsburg, Brooklyn. The death and rebirth of American cities is happening right here.” So are the tensions—between social classes, values, and visions for the future—that roil American politics today. We’ve got ours. Or Jim Dale might be trying out the one-man show that he would later bring to New York City, or Deborah McDowell—owner Marc Schafler’s wife and partner—huskily delivering a torch song. . Local giveaway magazines advertise attractions within a one-hour radius: the state capitol in Albany; Williams and Bennington Colleges to the north; Bard and Vassar Colleges to the south; the Tanglewood Music Festival; the Williamstown Theater Festival, the Berkshire Theater, the Berkshire Theater Lab, and Jacob’s Pillow to the east; Andy Appel’s Four Nations concerts; Ken Winokur’s Psychedelic Cinema; Aromatherapy and Energetic Healing; local bourbons and wines; Etsy (the crunchy-granola Amazon); and workshops (“How to Build an Insect Hotel”) or a life-drawing class at Hudson Opera House. and outside, there was this commotion,” said Marjorie. In 1980, former New Yorker film critic Jacob Brackman (who wrote, among other things, the Bob Rafelson–Jack Nicholson movie The King of Marvin Gardens, produced Terrence Malick’s Days of Heaven, and was lyricist for many Carly Simon hits) bought a house on the top of a hill outside Hudson, not far from Olana, the home of Hudson River School painter Frederic Edwin Church and across the river from Hudson River School founder Thomas Cole. Jun 11 trending. The adult version has included a fully dressed balloon-bondage routine and a profane sword-swallowing act. “Ten years from now,” he says, “I don’t think you’ll recognize the town.”. Wurlitzer, a novelist (The Drop Edge of Yonder, Nog) and scriptwriter (the cult classic Two Lane Blacktop, Bernardo Bertolucci’s Little Buddha, Sam Peckinpah’s Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid), had pals like Philip Glass, Bob Dylan (who played a part in Pat Garrett), Patti Smith, and other postmodern moderns. Like ... 1,600-Foot Office And Hotel Tower Planned Next To Grand Central New York Construction & … 2021 Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, Inc. All rights reserved. His parents taught at Andover and Northfield–Mount Hermon. Philadelphians occasionally refer to their city -- somewhat deprecatingly -- as the "sixth borough" of New York, and with almost 8,000 commuters … Jersey City and Hoboken in Hudson County are sometimes referred to as the sixth borough, given their proximity and connections by PATH trains. Chakrabarti and others have pointed out challenges to the proposal, which include cost, the strict regulations surrounding building with land fill, and the potential environmental effects of the project. Mussmann and Bruce recall when Hudson had only a few places to hang out. Every year, the long jumper made the leap, and there is a huge party. The Westchester County cities of Yonkers and Mount Vernon directly border the northern part of the Bronx and share much of that borough's heavily urbanized character. These residents were generally left-progressive, had settled in Hudson and the surrounding area because of its pastoral splendor, and didn’t want the area to change. The tensions were dramatically illustrated in a dispute over the building of a new cement plant—a battle that raged, in one form or another, from 1998 to 2005, when St. Lawrence Cement finally gave up. At Hampshire College, Nelson studied “anarchist theory” and traded a bottle of cheap whiskey for lessons in how to eat fire. A quarterly magazine of urban affairs, published by the Manhattan Institute, edited by Brian C. Anderson. Nelson grew up in Massachusetts and North Carolina. The term sixth borough is used to describe any of a number of places that are not politically within the borders of any of the five boroughs of New York City that have instead been referred to as a metaphorical part of the city by virtue of their geographic location, demographic composition, special affiliation with New York City, or cosmopolitan character. “I’d get broadband. The economic foundation of Hudson’s middle class disintegrated. Around the same time, however, artists, actors, writers, and musicians started arriving in Columbia County—and they’ve kept coming. Many other cities and counties and even countries have been called "New York's sixth borough," such as Fort Lee (NJ), Jersey City (NJ), Nassau County (NY), and Rockland County (NY). The same thing is happening in Hudson.”. I hope this information was very helpful. They have included adjacent cities and counties in the New York metropolitan area as well as in other states, U.S. territories, and foreign countries. With its galleries, coffeehouses, and open-kitchen restaurants attracting hipsters, writers, artists, and movie stars, Hudson has been called the Un-Hamptons, New York’s Upstate Downtown, and Brooklyn North. On a twilit mid-December evening, three art galleries held openings. By February of the following year, then-senator Hillary Clinton said that the cement plant would be “a big step backward” for the area. Actors Daniel Craig, Liev Schreiber, Naomi Watts, Richard Dreyfuss, Ashley Judd, Griffin Dunne, Matthew Modine, and Chloe Sevigny have been spotted in town. Each of New York’s five boroughs has something different to offer. 7 subway from NYC to New Jersey could be back on track", "Report: Extending NY No. The bars that had lined Front Street across from the train station closed. “Maybe 50 cars—patrol cars and unmarked cop cars. By the 1970s, Hudson was dying. The Cirkus—performed in both adult and family-friendly versions—is a mix of vaudeville, burlesque, and performance art. Malls had hollowed out what was left of the city center. Not long after Brackman arrived, his friend Rudy Wurlitzer followed.