The Problem with Poughkeepsie

摘要

In the late 1950s, progress was coming for Poughkeepsie.The small city of roughly 30,000,80 miles north of New York City, spills eastward from the Hudson River, its streets forming a network of tributaries that trickle out like an outstretched hand. Its cityscape typifies the architectural eclecticism of ascendant America: a Main Street of mid-rise, densely packed Italianate and cast-iron facades; neighborhoods of palatial Queen Anne and Second Empire mansions, and others full of more humble Federal and Victorian homes; and heavy red-brick factory buildings scattered about.