There’s no downtown or Main Street in Garrison, so almost the entirety of the hamlet’s civic life is located at Garrison’s Landing, a small riverside plaza. (The lone outlier is the Desmond-Fish library, just up the hill, which is what your standard small-town library would be like if it had enough pull to get Salman Rushdie and Lesley Stahl to give talks.) Fifty years ago, this site stood in for Yonkers in the film version of Hello Dolly!Today, there’s still plenty of song and dance to be had at the Philipstown Depot Theater, in addition to plays and film screenings in the building that stood in for the Yonkers Train Station (the actual Metro-North train station is just steps away).
If you prefer your art to be silent and standing still, it’s a 10-second walk to the Garrison Art Center, with gallery showings and art education classes for kids and adults throughout the year. Just beyond that is the Hudson itself, festooned with grand old weeping willow trees at its edges, and a regal view of West Point. If you must roam, head back out to Route 9D for a grand tour of Boscobel House, a rebuilt neoclassical manor that in the summer serves as the home of the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, or Manitoga, the former home of designer Russel Wright, now home to a museum and immaculate hiking trails.
THE FOLLOWING DATA IS FOR YEAR OVER YEAR OF THE PREVIOUS MONTH
The industry considers Median Sales Price a more accurate look at home prices than average because it eliminates the outliers that can skew data.
Low inventory (new & active listings) can lead to a sellers market, especially if pending & sold listings are up. The opposite, high inventory and low sales will lead to a buyers market.
Months of inventory reflects an estimate of the amount of time it would take to sell all of the current listings in a given area. Six months is considered a ‘balanced’ market. Anything under 6 months is considered a sellers market and anything above is a buyers market.
