Historic Bridges of the Hudson Valley

12/21/2024

Voting is underway for the Bridgehunter Awards! Our very own is in the running for the "Bridge of the Year" for 2024 in its centennial year!
Please vote for the BMB by following the link in the post below. The Kingston Rondout/Wurts Street Bridge is also in the running for the "Best Example of a Restored Historic Bridge".
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Finally! 😅 Despite a lot of non-bridge related commitments that has been more than unusual this year, I’ve put together the voting ballot for this year’s Bridgehunter Awards. There are …

11/27/2024

One hundred years ago today the iconic opened to the public! Looking back over the years, we recognize the millions of travelers, hundreds of maintenance workers, toll collectors, and now bridge security workers, who are most responsible for the BMB's iconic status.
HBHV has worked for more than a decade to educate the public on the bridges of the York State Bridge Authority The culmination of our work premiered on Sunday, November 24th at the Paramount Theater in Peekskill with the showing of "Bear Mountain Bridge: the First 100 Years". Over 400 people attended the showing and a very informative panel discussion which followed the film.
Our mission is to ensure that these bridges, and most importantly, the essence and function of the Bridge Authority remains the same for the next many decades. The public, who utilize the bridges, must be the ones to ensure this most unique of public authorities continues to serve the Hudson Valley, providing the safest bridges at the lowest tolls possible for long span bridges!
We are working to make our documentary available for all to view. We will keep you posted!

11/02/2024

Announcing the Premiere of our documentary Bear Mountain Bridge: the First 100 Years! Mark your calendars for Sunday, November 24, 2024 at 3:00 at the Paramount Theater in Peekskill, NY. More information to come!
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10/10/2024

HBHV was delighted to provide a unique opportunity to Sunitha Howard's Applied Science Research students from Lincoln High School in at the in Eisenhower Hall at West Point Military Academy on Tuesday, October 9, 2024.
These students were incredibly professional in their manner and their interest in learning about attending professional conferences, learning about topics that enable bridge owners and operators from around the world to maintain and extend the life of some of our most important infrastructure, and in their one-on-one interactions with engineers who helped students learn how to create their own pathway to a STEM career!
ICSBOC 2024 was presented by the International Cable Supported Bridge Operators Assoc., hosted by NYSBA, and began here in the Hudson Valley by then Chief Engineer Bill Moreau of the NYS Bridge Authority more than three decades ago. ICSBOC is back in the Hudson Valley to celebrate the Centennial of our Bear Mountain Bridge.
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09/24/2024

Our 8th annual was a resounding success! Thank you to all visitors, the wonderful participating artists, the New York State Bridge Authority crew who, without their help, this event would not have happened. Thank you also to Create Council on the Arts and CGCC for joining us this year! These photos were taken in the early hours before we got busy!
We have so many photos to share we're doing two posts!
to Francis X. Driscoll. Thank you, Fran!

09/24/2024

Our 8th annual was a resounding success! Thank you to all visitors, the wonderful participating artists, the New York State Bridge Authority crew who, without their help, this event would not have happened. Thank you also to .council and for joining us this year! These photos were taken in the early hours before we got busy!
We have so many photos to share we're doing two posts!
to Francis X. Driscoll. Thank you, Fran!

09/19/2024

One of the most popular offerings at our enables visitors to try their hand, literally, at creating landscape art! While most of us are not real artists, Stasia Fernandez has been helping many event goers achieve a dream of painting the landscape of the Hudson River and the Rip Van Winkle Bridge! The experience is free, and this year we're also providing a painting opportunity for young children to create and frame their own landscape painting!
Join us Saturday, September 21st from 10AM to 4PM on the grounds of the Rip Van Winkle Bridge in Catskill, NY. Take home some incredible local art you can purchase from our participants AND take home a creation of your own! Have no fear - it's been said that Stasia can
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09/18/2024

This year we are joined by and .council Create
at our 8th annual event this Saturday, September 21st from 10AM to 4PM on the grounds of the in Catskill, NY.
As mentioned in our previous post, Luis Macia teaches art at CGCC. He will be joined by two faculty members from the Fine Arts Program and several students. Come watch as artists create en plein air!

09/17/2024

is this Saturday, September 21, 2024 from 10AM to 4PM on the grounds of the Rip Van Winkle Bridge in Catskill, NY.
We welcome back to this year's festival, Luis Macia, an accomplished artist originally from New York City. His studies began with the High School of Art and Design and continued with LaGuardia College, Queens College, The National Academy of Design, Arts Students League and Woodstock School of Art. Luis was an apprentice to both, the noted watercolorist Irwin Greenberg and social realist, Max Ginsburg.
Luis has exhibited in group and solo shows and was awarded first place in Juried Plein Air Landscape Painting Event sponsored by Athens Cultural Center and received an award from a Woodstock School of Art Show, juror Anna Goetz.
Luis received DEC Grants for "the Art of Music Project", 2018, "The Work Project", 2019, and an individual artist grant in 2020 for “History in Art” which was exhibited in 2021 at the Heermance Memorial Library. He has taught group drawing and painting classes at the Heermance Memorial Library and the Athens Cultural Center and is now teaching classes at Columbia-Greene Community College. Luis also teaches individual students on an ongoing basis.
Running painting groups, classes and drawing marathons enables Luis to share his expertise and add to the art culture of the Hudson Valley.