Friend of mine owns a house up there. I stayed a couple of weekends to help fix it up. He split with his boyfriend so he wanted to sell it. Thinking he'd get $40K he went to the realtor and they told him it was worth $140k. So he kept it as a rental.
Not far from Hunter Mountain. On 10/26/05, Jim Davis wrote: > It was mad for a while... there were people in town selling cases of beer > for upwards of $200. > > > I took the Monday off so I was one of the last few to leave, lots of > > tents left because they were dirty. I think the mud being so deep was > > what delayed the cleanup, many things were just left buried. Town > > looked fine from the bus as I left. > > Well... that's a surprise. It usually looks like a shithole. ;^P > > Actually that's one reason the Boy Scouts offered to clean up - they got to > keep anything they found. Lots of tents, camping gear, tarps, etc. > > I'm not sure if you know the history there. It's a little ironic. > > You see that whole area (the field) was on the short list for a NY State > "mega dump" landfill designed to serve three counties. Although the site > was the least centralized it was also in the one of the poorest areas in the > poorest county. > > As you might imagine Saugerties and Woodstock didn't think much of having a > giant landfill be the first thing you saw as you exited the Thruway. > (Saugerties businesses cater to the skiers on their way to North Mountain - > lots of antique shops and such - a big landfill, it was thought, would make > people less willing to explore.) > > The idea was that Woodstock II would somehow "legitimize" that land. There > was even some talk that the concert would be so big that the land could be > turned into some sort of tourist attraction in its own right. > > Of course the irony is that a landfill may have actually ended up less > destructive to the land than the concert was. ;^) > > I think in the end, however, the plans for the "megadump" just fizzled out > anyway. > > Jim Davis > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Find out how CFTicket can increase your company's customer support efficiency by 100% http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=49 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:178465 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
