PRESERVE HUDSON RIVER ACCESS FOR ALL, AND PREVENT EMINENT DOMAIN ABUSE

The NYS Department of Transportation wants to permanently close Ferry Road in the Town of Stuyvesant. They say the RR crossing is too dangerous, even though no one has been hurt there in over 150 years!

Make your voice heard- come to the Public Hearing at the Town of Stuyvesant Town Hall, 5 Sunset Drive, Stuyvesant, NY 12173 on Wednesday, May 12, 2010, at 9:30 AM. Anyone can speak!

Tell the State how you feel about losing river access, and seeing your tax dollars used to take away & tear down peoples’ homes.

People in Stuyvesant, Stockport, Kinderhook, and from all over Columbia County have been coming to Ferry Road for generations to fish, kayak, picnic, hike to the Ice House, or just hang out and enjoy the sunset. Stuyvesant has 9 miles of Hudson River shoreline, but only 2 places to access the River. The railroad and inaccessible State lands cut off recreational enjoyment for miles and miles along Columbia County’s Hudson

River shoreline, and now the State wants to deny excellent Hudson River access to hard-working tax payers, instead of using some American creativity and know-how to make the RR crossing safe. And if they close Ferry Road, the State will take 5 homes by eminent domain, and tear them down! And 2 of the homes are on the NYS and National Registers of Historic Places!