Potosek said Sullivan County is already experiencing a severe housing crisis. He said the state of emergency was created by "the imminent arrival" of the people from New York City "for the purpose of seeking housing." Shortly after noon, Potosek issued his emergency declaration. "Sullivan County will do what it needs to do − including availing itself of all rights and remedies provided by law − to oppose this ill-timed and poorly-planned process, while at the same time ensuring the safety of our residents and businesses, and those who come here," Doherty said.Īsked directly whether the county has or is planning to file a lawsuit in response to the arrival of the migrants, a county spokesperson would only say there would be "more to come" on the issue later Thursday. Robert Doherty, chair of the Sullivan County Legislature and a Republican, said in the statement issued Thursday morning that New York City told the county 80 social service clients would be sent Thursday from the city to the Knights Inn in Liberty.ĭoherty said the city gave the county less than 24 hours' notice to prepare for their arrival. Meanwhile, New York City is reportedly negotiating with a hotel in Dutchess County to bring some migrants there this weekend. The county, through the chair of its legislature, immediately issued a news release opposing the arrival of asylum seekers.Īnd shortly after noon, Sullivan County Manager Joshua Potosek declared a state of emergency because of the impending arrival of those migrants. Five hundred workers would spend the next two years building the 63,000-square foot (5,670 m²) structure….MONTICELLO - Sullivan County is the latest location New York City has chosen to send some of its migrants. Roosevelt laid the cornerstone himself at a dedication ceremony during celebrations of the 250th anniversary of Poughkeepsie’s settlement on October 13, 1937. Roosevelt personally ordered him to redesign it to his specifications and would not let construction proceed until it was. Architect Eric Kebbon followed the design but originally turned in a building that was to use granite. When Poughkeepsie’s turn came, Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau demanded that it be made of irregular fieldstone in the Dutch style, modeled after a demolished county courthouse that had been built in 1809. The simple and modest style of the stone houses built by all those early settlers regardless of wealth was, to him, an example that should be followed by everyone.Įarlier in the decade, nearby Beacon had gotten a new post office in local fieldstone designed by Gilbert Stanley Underwood. He had written in 1928 of his desire to preserve the stone buildings in the Hudson Valley built by early Dutch settlers of the region, including his ancestors, which he feared were disappearing. Roosevelt, a native of Hyde Park, took a close personal interest in the design. “The building was the second of five post offices in Dutchess County built during the New Deal… It was the first for which President Franklin D. The building was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.įDR took a keen interest in post offices near his family home in Hyde Park. The post office lobby contains exceptional murals depicting six scenes in local and state history (see accompanying mural page). The architecture is a kind of colonial revival done in the rough stone style of the Dutch settlers of the Hudson Valley. The magnificent Poughkeepsie post office was built by the Treasury Department as part of the New Deal in 1937-39.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |