Reviews & Comments
Beacon, NY
Not All It's Cracked Up to Be -
8/8/2010The person that called this place a jewel that needs to be polished got it somewhat right. It could be a jewel if not for the drug addicts,drug dealers, and bums hanging around Main Street,and small-minded backward citizens. Don't get me wrong,the galleries and restaurants are quite nice,but cater mostly to people coming up from Manhattan because they heard "what a cute,quaint little town Beacon is!" Most of these same galleries and shops are closed except on the weekends,and the middle of Main Street is a no-man's land with empty buildings and the aforementioned undesirables hanging out.Beacon makes a big deal of the fact that the DIA is here,but -newsflash!-DIA has no involvement with the town at all.
The school district is pretty low-rent as well,with people that shouldn't be teaching in the classrooms and a severe bullying problem in the schools.There are some decent folks here,but there are a lot of "trailer trash" types that take the shine off the apple,so to speak. This place is a lesson in all that glitters not being gold. They can decorate all the old abandoned factories with artwork and have all the "river celebrations"(where they drag Pete Seeger out and make the kids sing folk songs)but that doesn't change what this place really is--FAKE!