A Weekend in the Hudson Valley. New York’s Hudson River Valley has fast become Perth’s “Sister Worst” thanks to Bartender’s Skills with a Manhatten. The place does have some awesome worsts, but this is unfortunately undercut by the rotting beauty of the place. Just makes me want to buy a collapsing mansion and live there.
Twilight of the Thunderbird, private estate, Millbrook.
In Germantown the current owner of the historic Rockefeller family home has found a prosaic use for the New York State Landmark sign on the front lawn.
Another wonderful rotting mansion Pine Plains.
Update to Halcyon Hall in aristocratic Millbrook: one of the front gables has collapsed and Town Security now patrols the grounds. How sad to see this amazing place collapsing in slow motion from afar Bartender.
How do you deal with a fire hydrant on your front lawn? In Valatie, you deal with it like this!
And to show that junk shops look the same and carry the same stock worldwide… Maybe there can be an exchange program with Guildford.
Junk shop....near Millbrook.
The Worst of Perth 
Looks like somewhere Thurston Howell would have lived pre Island. BTW anyone know the name of the type of hat Thurston used to wear? Love that dude’s hat.
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A vastly inferior whacking hat, but. All form, no function.
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He wore a few, but I presume you’re referring to his straw pork pie.
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Is the collapsing mansion for sale? Or just being left to rot?
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I’m sure there are plenty for sale.
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Yes, sister city deal with Guildford ASAP.
Like in Guildford, I bet the beverage sign Costa lot.
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Our antique chisels and wood planes are walking out the door!
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After inspecting the Wikipedia page for the Hudson Valley, I can confirm it is exactly like the Swan Valley, except they have far more beaver pelts.
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I’d love to get the Guildford/Hudson comparison price for a toby jug or antique saw.
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Well of course ours is going to be costlier: there’s a boom on.
Meanwhile they’re selling homes in Detroit for about $6 per sq m.
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The collapsing mansion is tied up in so much legal and zoning red tape that nobody is left who knows who even owns it anymore or what anybody could possibly do with it.
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It’s been said before, but I think most of us would kill for architectural “worsts” such as these.
The rotting mansion brings to mind a somehow similar house on the Boulevard of Broken Worsts. Photo to follow shortly TLA, as part of my “Goodbye Dianella” photo essay. Yes, I’m moving, and believe me I have saved the worst for last.
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But perhaps more interesting is how you don’t mention the new address. Postcode please.
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6053 as I understand it, and there’s no shame in that.
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Some of ’53 is magnificent. Some not so.
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The good part – nearer Bedford than Embleton.
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damn fine postcode nf1, welcome to the ‘hood.
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Thanks vegan – look forward to seeing you at either Swallow or down at the sports bar at the Baysie.
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i’ve seen that fence detail here around water meters. when done in masonry, effecting a dogleg in the wall, it’s pretty goddam worst.
barkeep, thank you for such poignant worsting.
i want that mansion. perhaps we could all kick in and use it as a twop holiday home.
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Thanks! There’s 150 miles more where this came from….
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So how far is all this from manhatt? is it a short drive to the suburbs, or miles away?
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BSWAM – you better have your own blog, This stuff is magnificent.
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Both. The valley technically includes the west side of Manhattan and continues up through the city of Albany, about 150 miles north. The river itself is 315 miles long, much of the upper portion passing through the Adirondacks National Park. Most of what I’ve been sending you is from the Mid-Hudson, between the city of Poughkeepsie and the city of Hudson, but the social and architectural topography is much the same further south, plus or minus a few hundred thousand ultra-rich Edwardian-era commuter suburbs.
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excellent, i’m looking forward to it.
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The yard sale is pure worsting.
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The hydrant treatment is certainly familiar, but here in Perth there would also be a sign saying ‘Fire Hydrant – ENTRY PROHIBITED’.
I think Halcyon Hall would make a fine TWOP dacha. Superb Worsting, Barkeep.
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Wouldn’t the hydrant also have graffiti on it turning it into some kind of cock?
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An opportunity to advertise perfume missed.
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We need to initiate some “cultural exchange program(me)” with these folks.
Before too long, there’ll be disembodied cock graffiti scrawled all over Perth Amboy, as is in Perth.
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I want to fix up that house and live there when im older, Also Id eat that Icecream if it was real (LAUGHS).
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millbrook,_New_York#Residents_of_note
SIgourney Weaver!
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I was born a Vanderbilt man…
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wheres that?
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Track 4 on Paul McCartney and Wings’ Band On The Run.
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No Aliens 5 but.
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Alien claims she feels like Danny Green, too old for rematch..
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Not to mention Daryl Hall and Ric Okasec. Imagine the open mic at the local. Yacht Rock anyone?
“…don’t even think about it, say no go…”
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Meryl Streep too…
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Junk shops & necklace/bracelet sellers TLA. Must be some kind of global franchise. Here’s a hippy with a blanket covered in beads & shit. Am I in fremantle or Helsinki?
Lovely worsts bartender.
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I hope the Bartender escapes unscathed from the hurricane, although I suspect Halcyon Hall may not fare so well.
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