When Bryan Hinkle and Alexandra Glickman decided they were ready to be homeowners, they knew what they were looking for. “We wanted to be near everything, but able to step away,” Dr. Hinkle, 37, said.
He works as a pediatric dentist in Dutchess and Ulster Counties; Dr. Glickman, 35, is an oral and maxillofacial surgeon in Westchester. Years of commuting from New York City spurred a move to Dutchess, where, while living in a rental apartment, they began house hunting.
They landed in East Fishkill, on Dutchess County’s southern border, and in October 2018 paid $575,000 for a 4,568-square-foot, four-bedroom colonial, built in 1988 on 1.42 acres.
“We didn’t find anything anywhere else that offered the value we found here,” Dr. Hinkle said.
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The couple, who live with their rescue dogs, Sasha and Simone, also appreciate the tranquillity of their neighborhood. “We’re in a very residential part of town,” Dr. Glickman said. “We really like how spacious and peaceful it is.”
Able to step away: check. Near everything: check that, too.
About 65 miles north of Manhattan, the 56-square-mile town of East Fishkill is crisscrossed east-west by Interstate 84 and north-south by the Taconic State Parkway. It is halfway between Metro-North Railroad’s Hudson and Harlem lines and a half-hour drive from the Amtrak station in Poughkeepsie. “It’s easy to get anywhere,” Dr. Hinkle said.
With location one of East Fishkill’s biggest draws, many of its roughly 30,000 residents are, like Drs. Hinkle and Glickman, young, dual-income professionals. “We’re a bedroom community,” said Nicholas D’Alessandro, the town supervisor.
However, job opportunities in town are expanding, starting with iPark 84, just off Interstate 84. Once the East Campus of an IBM chip-manufacturing plant, the 300 sprawling acres are being repurposed by the Connecticut-based National Resources as a tech-slash-retail-slash-hotel-slash-residential complex. To date, the site is about a third filled; according to National Resources’s website, 2,500 jobs have already been created.
In addition, Mr. D’Alessandro said, negotiations are ongoing for the sale of an adjacent 160 acres, formerly IBM’s West Campus, for commercial and industrial use.
This growth, he said, “is sure to stabilize our economy and our tax base.”
East Fishkill’s commercial hub is at the center of Hopewell Junction, a half-mile-square hamlet in the middle of town. It is home to the Town Hall, East Fishkill Community Library and assorted shopping areas with a mix of national chains and mom-and-pop businesses.
Built up in the 1960s when IBM arrived, the center has begun to show its age, but Mr. D’Alessandro has a vision for its revitalization. Still in the proposal stage, his plan consists of street-front shops and restaurants and rerouted, landscaped roads with roundabouts to alleviate traffic.
“Walkability is key,” he said. “The goal is to have more of a Main Street vibe.”
What You’ll Find
Other than the old IBM campus and Hopewell Junction’s center, East Fishkill is primarily residential, more densely populated in the northwestern neighborhoods of Fishkill Plains and Hillside Lake, and in parts of Wiccopee, farther south. To the east, the Stormville section, site of Stormville Mountain, has a more rural feeling and, in some places, Hudson Valley vistas.
Housing stock reflects the town’s evolution: ranches and raised ranches from the 1960s and 1970s, colonials from the 1980s, larger colonials in subdivisions built in the 1990s and higher-end developments, like Taconic Oaks, the Legends and Four Seasons Estates, built in the 2000s. Many lots are an acre or larger.
Kathy Martin, East Fishkill’s assessor, said the town has 9,033 single-family homes, 395 two-family homes, 20 three-family homes and 11 rental buildings. There are no condominiums or co-op apartments.
What You’ll Pay
Bonnie Christman, an associate broker at Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices, said housing prices typically start in the $200,000s (“for something that needs a lot of work”) and can, on occasion, reach around $1 million.
The market is robust, said Suzanne DeCosta, an associate broker at Houlihan Lawrence, with well-priced homes often receiving multiple offers. “It’s a strong seller’s market,” she said. “Inventory is low at almost all price points, and the buyer pool is active.”
As for property taxes, Ms. Christman said the annual bill for a home valued between $500,000 and $600,000 might be $12,000 to $14,000.
Data from the Hudson Gateway Multiple Listing Service indicated that, as of Feb. 14, there were 89 single-family homes on the market, from a three-bedroom, 1,784-square-foot raised ranch, built in 1977 on 1.04 acres and listed at $130,000, to a nine-bedroom, 6,140-square-foot Georgian colonial, built in the late 19th century on 17.62 acres and listed for $1.3 million. There were three two-family homes for sale, priced at $325,000, $365,000 and $368,700. No rental apartments were available.
During the 12-month period ending Feb. 14, the median sale price for a single-family home was $370,450, up from $369,000 the previous 12 months. For multifamily homes, the median was $325,000, down from $448,725 the previous 12 months. The median monthly rental was $1,750, down from $2,000 the previous 12 months.
The Vibe
“People here are friendly, family-oriented and community-driven,” Ms. DeCosta, a 23-year resident, said. “They will hop on a cause like nothing I’ve ever seen.”
There are plenty of recreational options, from the spring-fed lake and sandy beach at Red Wing Park; to Julie’s Jungle, an accessible playground; to the 60-acre Hopewell Recreation Park, where the Fishkill Creek flows alongside ball fields and sports courts. The park holds activities like a summer concert series, an annual Community Day and senior programs in the East Fishkill Community Center.
Pedestrians and bicyclists can enter the William R. Steinhaus Dutchess Rail Trail at the trailhead at Hopewell Depot, a restored former train station, for a 13.4-mile journey to the Walkway Over the Hudson. The 270-acre Fishkill Farms, in the southwestern part of town, offers seasonal pick-your-own produce, Yoga on the Farm sessions, a community supported agriculture program and more.
A popular gathering spot is Tiramisu, an Italian restaurant in a Hopewell Junction strip mall. On Wednesday nights, the owners, Artie and Christina Carozza, and Mr. Carozza’s brother Frank sing Italian classics.
“When you go,” Ms. DeCosta said, “everyone you know seems to be there, too.”
The Schools
Most of East Fishkill is served by the Wappingers Central School District, which also serves portions of LaGrange, Fishkill, Wappinger, Poughkeepsie, Kent and Philipstown. With nearly 11,000 students, the district is among the largest in the state.
Students in kindergarten through sixth grade attend one of 10 neighborhood elementary schools, then move on to Wappingers Junior High or Van Wyck Junior High for seventh and eighth grades. High school students go to John Jay High School, Roy C. Ketcham High School or Orchard View Alternative High School.
José L. Carrión, the superintendent of schools, said that on the 2019 state assessments, 49 percent of the district’s fourth-graders were proficient in math and 49 percent were proficient in English language arts; statewide equivalents were 50 percent and 48 percent. Mean SAT scores for the district’s 2019 graduating class were 559 in evidence-based reading and writing and 551 in math; statewide equivalents were 531 and 533.
Small parts of East Fishkill are zoned for the Arlington Central School District, to the north; Carmel Central School District, to the south; and Pawling Central School District, to the southeast.
The Commute
Whether they work nearby or in the city, East Fishkill commuters who choose to drive have several access points on and off Interstate 84 and the Taconic. Those who prefer the train can drive approximately 20 minutes southwest to catch Metro-North’s Hudson Line at Beacon, where peak trains to and from Grand Central Terminal take 72 to 90 minutes and round-trip fares are $35 off-peak, $46 peak and $475 monthly. They can also drive about 20 minutes southeast into Putnam County to catch Metro-North’s Harlem Line at Southeast, where peak trains to and from Grand Central take 80 to 93 minutes, and fares are $30 off-peak, $40 peak and $437 monthly.
The History
In the 1920s, a group of 55 Finnish immigrants in New York began looking for a summertime escape from the city. In 1926, they pooled their money and, for $20,000, bought 336 acres on the western edge of East Fishkill, straddling Fishkill and Wappinger. They called their community Summer Vacation Farm Cooperative, but soon shortened the name to Lomala, Finnish for “vacationland.”
By the end of the year, said Richard Soedler, the site director at the East Fishkill Historical Society, they had built a 27-room hotel (cost: $5,043) and a sauna ($495), and within five years, 20 homes on individual lots. In 1930, they added a hexagonal dance hall. By the mid-1950s, 47 families lived in Lomala, some year-round.
Today, the neighborhood is marked by a suspended wagon wheel with the word LOMALA in white letters, following the curve of the rim. Its leafy streets — about eight of them — are lined with roughly 100 homes. As of 2016, Mr. Soedler said, 7 percent of the occupants were of Finnish descent.
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