Dreaming of Development

[IMGCAP(1)]Over Thanksgiving weekend, my husband, my daughter and I went back East to visit some family in the New York Hudson Valley area. On one of our more interesting-and more beautiful I might add-excursions, we walked across the “rail trail,” which is essentially a large pedestrian bridge that crosses over the Hudson River in Poughkeepsie.

Although the view looking up and down the river was quite beautiful on the rather dreary day, to get over my fear of heights, I focused on the real estate on either side of the bridge. On one side of the bridge stood what looked like Vanderbilt mansions and giant estates. On the other side, closest to us, stood run-down houses and abandoned warehouses.