Life was anything but easy growing up on Cutler Street during the early 1940s. At the time, the bustling street in Schenectady’s Mont Pleasant neighborhood was crowded with low-income and immigrant families. Poverty was common, and there was seldom time to do anything but work.
Hyde Park, Roosevelt's home town, offers abundance of attractions
White and blue flags that display images of FDR and his wife, Eleanor, flutter from utility poles in the small Dutchess County town on the Hudson River, reminders that the nation’s 32nd president was born in Hyde Park in 1882. Signs that welcome travelers feature Roosevelt in well-known profile, reading glasses at a slight downward angle, clenched cigarette holder jutting into the air. Posted on June 14, 2009.
Franklin D. Roosevelt’s famous silhouette profile — with reading glasses and cigarette holder prominently featured — is a familiar sight around Hyde Park, the town of his birth.
Spring flowers are in bloom at the Beatrix Farrand Gardens at Bellefield in Hyde Park — near the historic home of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Bellefield, a remodeled 18th century house which now serves as headquarters for the National Park Service, stands in the background
Margaret Nuccio, who helps manage the Hyde Park Antiques Center with her husband Joe, shows off some of the center’s collection. Unlike other tourist destinations in New York State, Hyde Park’s many places of interest are spread out throughout the town.
An odd — and interesting — feature at the Hyde Park Antiques Center is the clock room. More than 100 old time pieces tick and chime in the small room. “People come in here and stay for a while because they’re fascinated,” says Margaret Nuccio, who helps her husband Joe Nuccio run the center.
Culinary Institute of America professor Dieter Schorner holds class attention during his “Pastry Techniques” class at the Hyde Park landmark. Visitors to the C.I.A. are welcome to walk through halls and observe students and their teachers in kitchen classrooms.
Kevin S. McCann of Chittenango (outside Syracuse), a student at the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, watches the fire on a cut of steelhead trout in one of the institute’s restaurant kitchens.
Peter Jentsch of Rosendale, N.Y., watches Culinary Institute of America student Elizabeth Tinajero pour coffee inside the institute’s Ristorante Catarina de Medici, one of five campus restaurants staffed by student servers and chefs. Thousands of Hyde Park tourists interested in history — and food — visit each year.
