Portal:Hudson Valley

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Introduction

The Hudson Valley (also known as the Hudson River Valley) comprises the valley of the Hudson River and its adjacent communities in the U.S. state of New York. The region stretches from the Capital District including Albany and Troy south to Yonkers in Westchester County, bordering New York City.

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The Hudson Valley Rail Trail is a paved 4-mile (6.4 km) east–west rail trail in the town of Lloyd in Ulster County, New York, stretching from the Poughkeepsie Bridge through the hamlet of Highland. Operated by a variety of railroads, the rail corridor formed the western portion of the Poughkeepsie Bridge Route. It eventually became part of Conrail, which discontinued rail traffic along the corridor and sold it in 1984 to a convicted felon. The land was seized by Ulster County in 1991 and converted to a trail by 1997. The trail was extended east to the Poughkeepsie Bridge in 2010. It intersects U.S. Route 9W and U.S. Route 44 (concurrent with State Route 55). To the west, the trail passes through a wetlands complex and is being extended to New Paltz, where it will border State Route 299.

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... that All Saints' Chapel (pictured), now a public library in Rosendale, New York, is faced in locally-produced Rosendale cement?
... that between its 1960 closing and its current use as a museum, District School No. 14 in Pine Hill, New York, was a coat factory and a furniture repair shop?
... that the Kingston–Port Ewen Suspension Bridge opened in 1921 to complete U.S. Route 9W, was built in part by a female welder?

Gregory R. Ball (born September 16, 1977) is an American business executive, former active duty Air Force officer and member of the New York State Assembly. Ball focused on illegal immigration during his tenure in office, and was named a Chairman of Lawmakers for Legal Immigration, an immigration reform group. He is a resident of Carmel, New York. Assemblyman Ball serves as the ranking member on the Veteran's Affairs committee, and is also a member of the Election Law, Energy, Housing, and Social Services committees. He represents New York's 99th assembly district, which comprises the towns Patterson, Mahopac, Carmel, Southeast, Putnam Lake and Brewster, in Putnam County; Yorktown, Mohegan Lake, Somers, and North Salem in Westchester County; and Pawling in Duchess County.

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Here are some tasks awaiting attention:

Assess : Review all unassessed articles for quality.
Cleanup : Expand and improve Hudson Valley.
Expand : Kingston, New York has a long and storied history that needs to be written. The same goes for Poughkeepsie, New York. And there are many articles about painters in the Hudson River School that need to be improved, such as Thomas Cole and Frederic Edwin Church.
Infobox : Watch for articles missing relevant infoboxes, including Pleasant Valley (town), New York.
NPOV : Help give Gregory R. Ball a more neutral tone.
Orphans : Find articles that can link to Sneha Anne Philip.
Stubs : State road articles, including New York State Route 113, New York State Route 301, and New York State Route 403. Mountain articles such as History of the Catskill Mountains and Thomas Cole Mountain could also use work.
Wikify : Add links to the Hudson Valley portal where appropriate.
Other : Add {{WikiProject Hudson Valley}} to the tops of talk pages for Hudson Valley articles.