{"id":1068,"date":"2025-12-14T14:25:57","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T19:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/?p=1068"},"modified":"2025-12-14T17:07:47","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T22:07:47","slug":"hudson-valley-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/2025\/12\/14\/hudson-valley-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"Hudson Valley Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/bigmap\/outoftown\/hudsonvalley\/dutchesscounty\/hydepark\/franklindrooseveltnationalhistoricsite\/index.htm\">Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site<\/a> in Hyde Park:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/bigmap\/outoftown\/hudsonvalley\/dutchesscounty\/hydepark\/franklindrooseveltnationalhistoricsite\/1310-16-22.jpg\" alt=\"Oval Office Desk, Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum, Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site, Hyde Park, New York, October 16, 2022\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/bigmap\/outoftown\/hudsonvalley\/dutchesscounty\/hydepark\/franklindrooseveltnationalhistoricsite\/1110-16-22.jpg\" alt=\"Pearl Harbor Message to Congress Draft, Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum, Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site, Hyde Park, New York, October 16, 2022\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/bigmap\/outoftown\/hudsonvalley\/dutchesscounty\/hydepark\/franklindrooseveltnationalhistoricsite\/2610-16-22.jpg\" alt=\"Springwood, Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site, Hyde Park, New York, October 16, 2022\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/bigmap\/outoftown\/hudsonvalley\/dutchesscounty\/hydepark\/franklindrooseveltnationalhistoricsite\/3010-16-22.jpg\" alt=\"Springwood, Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site, Hyde Park, New York, October 16, 2022\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/bigmap\/outoftown\/hudsonvalley\/dutchesscounty\/hydepark\/franklindrooseveltnationalhistoricsite\/3810-16-22.jpg\" alt=\"Library, Springwood, Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site, Hyde Park, New York, October 16, 2022\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/bigmap\/outoftown\/hudsonvalley\/dutchesscounty\/hydepark\/franklindrooseveltnationalhistoricsite\/5710-16-22.jpg\" alt=\"Hudson Valley From Springwood, Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site, Hyde Park, New York, October 16, 2022\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/bigmap\/outoftown\/hudsonvalley\/dutchesscounty\/hydepark\/franklindrooseveltnationalhistoricsite\/6210-16-22.jpg\" alt=\"Burial Site of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site, Hyde Park, New York, October 16, 2022\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On <a href=\"\/bigmap\/outoftown\/hudsonvalley\/dutchesscounty\/rhinebeck\/marketstreet\/index.htm\">Market Street<\/a> in Rhinebeck, this . . .<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/bigmap\/outoftown\/hudsonvalley\/dutchesscounty\/rhinebeck\/marketstreet\/0105-28-11.jpg\" alt=\"A.L. Stickle, 13 East Market Street, Rhinebeck, New York, May 28, 2011\" \/><\/p>\n<p>. . . is now this:<\/p>\n<p>\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/bigmap\/outoftown\/hudsonvalley\/dutchesscounty\/rhinebeck\/12-16-24\/0612-16-24.jpg\" alt=\"Upstate Down, 13 East Market Street, Rhinebeck, New York, December 16, 2024\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We visited <a href=\"\/bigmap\/outoftown\/hudsonvalley\/dutchesscounty\/beacon\/diabeacon\/index.htm\">Dia Beacon<\/a> back in September 2021. I thought I already had pictures of Dia, having visited there sometime in the aughts, so I let our then-seven-year-old have fun with my phone. He ended up spamming like 200-plus images. I straightened the orientation but for the most part otherwise mostly preserved the compositions (I did this one other time <a href=\"\/bigmap\/manhattan\/uws\/amnh\/08-02-16\/index.htm\">at the Natural History Museum back in 2016<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>Some images looked just like this:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/bigmap\/outoftown\/hudsonvalley\/dutchesscounty\/beacon\/diabeacon\/09-26-21\/03409-26-21.jpg\" alt=\"Dia Beacon, Beacon, New York, September 26, 2021\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Or this:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/bigmap\/outoftown\/hudsonvalley\/dutchesscounty\/beacon\/diabeacon\/09-26-21\/04309-26-21.jpg\" alt=\"Dia Beacon, Beacon, New York, September 26, 2021\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And they were all portrait orientation, lol, so it *looked* like the perspective of a seven-year-old, with everything at the top half of the frame:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/bigmap\/outoftown\/hudsonvalley\/dutchesscounty\/beacon\/diabeacon\/09-26-21\/00709-26-21.jpg\" alt=\"Dia Beacon, Beacon, New York, September 26, 2021\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/bigmap\/outoftown\/hudsonvalley\/dutchesscounty\/beacon\/diabeacon\/09-26-21\/00909-26-21.jpg\" alt=\"Dia Beacon, Beacon, New York, September 26, 2021\" \/><\/p>\n<p>But sometimes that top-half composition looked surprisingly, I don&#8217;t know, composed:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/bigmap\/outoftown\/hudsonvalley\/dutchesscounty\/beacon\/diabeacon\/09-26-21\/03509-26-21.jpg\" alt=\"Dia Beacon, Beacon, New York, September 26, 2021\" \/><\/p>\n<p>He kept circling back to the Richard Serra pieces for some reason:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/bigmap\/outoftown\/hudsonvalley\/dutchesscounty\/beacon\/diabeacon\/09-26-21\/04709-26-21.jpg\" alt=\"Dia Beacon, Beacon, New York, September 26, 2021\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And there were some fun unexpected compositions that surfaced from that:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/bigmap\/outoftown\/hudsonvalley\/dutchesscounty\/beacon\/diabeacon\/09-26-21\/05009-26-21.jpg\" alt=\"Dia Beacon, Beacon, New York, September 26, 2021\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/bigmap\/outoftown\/hudsonvalley\/dutchesscounty\/beacon\/diabeacon\/09-26-21\/05809-26-21.jpg\" alt=\"Dia Beacon, Beacon, New York, September 26, 2021\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/bigmap\/outoftown\/hudsonvalley\/dutchesscounty\/beacon\/diabeacon\/09-26-21\/08709-26-21.jpg\" alt=\"Dia Beacon, Beacon, New York, September 26, 2021\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This day I think I only took these, by the way:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/bigmap\/outoftown\/hudsonvalley\/dutchesscounty\/beacon\/diabeacon\/09-26-21\/10109-26-21.jpg\" alt=\"Dia Beacon, Beacon, New York, September 26, 2021\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/bigmap\/outoftown\/hudsonvalley\/dutchesscounty\/beacon\/diabeacon\/09-26-21\/10209-26-21.jpg\" alt=\"Dia Beacon, Beacon, New York, September 26, 2021\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/bigmap\/outoftown\/hudsonvalley\/dutchesscounty\/beacon\/diabeacon\/09-26-21\/12809-26-21.jpg\" alt=\"Dia Beacon, Beacon, New York, September 26, 2021\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So hilariously I came to realize that I actually *don&#8217;t* have any pictures of Dia from when we visited before &#8212; as I suspected, <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20051104064113\/http:\/\/www.diaart.org\/dia\/visitor\/index.html\">you used to not be able to take pictures inside the galleries<\/a> (nowadays it seems you can take pictures everywhere because social media I guess &#8212; they&#8217;ll even let you take a picture of the curtain call at a Broadway show). Anyway, thus the Dia Beacon pics.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/bigmap\/outoftown\/hudsonvalley\/harrimanstatepark\/beaverpondcampground\/index.htm\">Beaver Pond Campground<\/a> in Harriman State Park:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/bigmap\/outoftown\/hudsonvalley\/harrimanstatepark\/beaverpondcampground\/1106-23-24.jpg\" alt=\"Beaver Pond Campground, Harriman State Park, New York, June 23, 2024\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/bigmap\/outoftown\/hudsonvalley\/harrimanstatepark\/beaverpondcampground\/0406-22-24.jpg\" alt=\"Lake Welch, Beaver Pond Campground, Harriman State Park, New York, June 22, 2024\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/bigmap\/outoftown\/hudsonvalley\/hudsonline\/index.htm\">Metro-North Hudson Line<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/bigmap\/outoftown\/hudsonvalley\/hudsonline\/0611-01-24.jpg\" alt=\"Bear Mountain Bridge From Metro-North Hudson Line, Hudson Valley, New York, November 1, 2024\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site in Hyde Park: On Market Street in Rhinebeck, this . . . . . . is now this: We visited Dia Beacon back in September 2021. I thought I already had pictures of Dia, having visited there sometime in the aughts, so I let our then-seven-year-old have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-out_of_town"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1068"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1072,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068\/revisions\/1072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}