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Listen to What Hudson Valley Magazine is Saying About Hoosick Falls!
Quoted From Hudson Valley Magazine, "10 Terrific Home Towns":
THE NAME HAS AN IDYLLIC RING of bygone times, but Hoosick Falls is the real thing - an old-time village tucked away near the
Vermont border, far from the hustle and bustle. Downtown Hoosick Falls - population 6,000 - features tree-lined streets and
graceful Victorian-style homes, as well as restaurants, antiques stores, auctions, and long-established local businesses such
as a hard-ware store and family market. It also has a lovely Victorian gazebo, where the Community Band has been giving summer
concerts since 1873.
Retired teacher William Gaillard, who moved to Hoosick Falls from Rockland County, now leads the 55-member band. "I've
been here for nearly 40 years," says Gaillard. "Its a nice, folksy community where everybody knows each other.
The kids are good kids, and there aren't any real problems in the schools."
Hoosick Falls is a place where you can still get a starter home for about $60,000, says Gaillard, while $200,000 will
buy you "a Taj Mahal", he adds. The village has a library, farmers' market, and a nifty Community Warehouse, a
non-profit "re-use center" where residents can donate goods ranging from computers to couches to sell. For recreation,
there's a community pool, skating rink, tennis court, and golf course. The region's past comes alive at the Historical Society's
museum. Beloved artist Grandma Moses has a link to the village - she lived for years in the nearby hamlet of Eagle Bridge,
and displayed some of her early paintings at a Hoosick Falls drug store, where they were spotted by the New York collector
who helped to launch her career. The artist is buried in the village's Upper Maple Grove Cementary.
Just outside the village are rolling hills, dairy farms, the Walloomsac and Hoosick Rivers, and plenty of unspoiled spots
to canoe, hike, go fishing, and picnic. Tibbitts State Forest, not far away, contains more than 600 acres of woodland.
Residents often take the 20-minute jaunt to Bennington, Vermont, with its fine regional museum and restaurants, or head
17 miles to Williamstown, Massachusetts, and its myriad cultural offerings. Many work in Albany or Troy, about 30 miles south
of town. Gaillard sums it up simply: "Hoosick Falls is a real nice place."
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