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Main Street, Rhinebeck
Rhinebeck Farmer’s Market
Downtown Nyack
Nyack Street Fair
Rhinebeck
The village of Rhinebeck has long been seducing city dwellers into abandoning busy urban lives, even if just for the weekend. It is home to the oldest Inn in America — Beekman Arms — where grand figures from George Washington to Oprah Winfrey have been lulled to sleep. Trotting along its main streets (Montgomery,
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Market, and Mill) past an old-fashioned- style candy shop, a 50-year-old movie theater, and some of the best restaurants in the Valley, it is easy to understand the appeal. As such, home prices have been high for a long time, and like everywhere else around here, they have gone up recently.
According to realtor Laurel Kerr of Corcoran Country Living, “There are almost always bidding wars. A home in Rhinebeck listed at $900,000 could sell for well over a million. To get something between $350,000 and $450,000 you have to go to surrounding towns.”
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Sandi Park, a broker with Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices, reports that, “Rhinebeck is poised for saturation at the above-one-million mark.” She believes the ‘under the radars’ are the towns surrounding Rhinebeck, such as Millerton, Millbrook, Clinton, Stanford, North East, Milan, and Red Hook. Linda Lindsay of Corcoran Country Living says, “My favorite under-the-radar place is the town of Pine Plains.”
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If you want to be able to walk to that village bar, you’ll want to live in the village itself. Large condo complexes and luxury housing developments, like Pavion, can put you steps away from dozens of nightlife options, including restaurants, Maureen’s jazz club, a wine cellar, and several bars with live rock music. For a large Italianate home on a leafy lot along the river, look toward Upper Nyack, and for a colorful Victorian on a quiet, dead-end street, you’ll want to be in South Nyack.
You’ll pay for the artsy charm, however: According to Realtor.com, the median list price of homes in Nyack was $667,000 in October 2021, trending up 17.2% year- over-year.
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Rivertowns like Palisades, Piermont, Grandview, and Upper Grandview are also in high demand in the region. Also popular in the North Rockland area are hamlets like Stony Point, where “the price point of homes tends to be more affordable,” says Georgine Addeo of Ellis Sotheby’s International Realty. “In a town with a train, like Pearl River, prices may be a little higher since they are located near transportation. If a buyer is willing to go to West Nyack, the same house could be in their price range.”
Nyack
Nyack’s bohemian reputation is a strong lure — the town has been home to writers, actors, and artists for generations (the most famous being Edward Hopper). On a given night at a village bar, you might find a magazine illustrator for Rolling Stone in conversation with a singer and the mayor.
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