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Rhinebeck (village), New York

Rhinebeck is a village in the town of Rhinebeck in Dutchess County, New York, United States. The population was 2,657 at the 2010 census.[2] It is part of the PoughkeepsieNewburghMiddletown, NY Metropolitan Statistical Area as well as the larger New YorkNewarkConnecticut.

"Rhinebeck, New York" redirects here. For the town, see Rhinebeck (town), New York. For other uses, see Rhinebeck.

Rhinebeck, New York

United States

1834

Gary Bassett (D)

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1.53 sq mi (3.95 km2)

1.51 sq mi (3.90 km2)

0.02 sq mi (0.05 km2)

200 ft (61 m)

2,697

1,790.84/sq mi (691.52/km2)

UTC-4 (EDT)

12572

36-61346

0962436

The postal ZIP code is 12572. U.S. Route 9 passes through the village.

Geography[edit]

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 1.5 square miles (4.0 km2), of which 0.02 square miles (0.05 km2), or 1.31%, is water.[2]


Via U.S. Route 9 it is 17 miles (27 km) south to Poughkeepsie, the county seat, 5 miles (8 km) north to Red Hook, and 26 miles (42 km) north to Hudson. Rhinecliff, with its Amtrak station, is 2 miles (3 km) to the west, along the Hudson River.

Education[edit]

It is within the Rhinebeck Central School District.[14]

author

Emma R. Alban

film poster artist

John Alvin

Speaker of the Wisconsin State Assembly

Alexander Ahab Arnold

wealthy author and businessman, famous for being a casualty of the sinking of the RMS Titanic

John Jacob Astor IV

wealthy businessman and philanthropist

Vincent Astor

writer, editor and style icon

Joan Juliet Buck

lieutenant governor of New York and former U.S. Congressman

Antonio Delgado

filmmaker and wife of the lieutenant governor of New York

Lacey Schwartz Delgado

comic book writer and co-creator of The Perhapanauts

Todd Dezago

author

KL Going

gardener and horticulturist

Amy Goldman Fowler

painter and creator of the Dinotopia series of books

James Gurney

film and television actress

Grayson Hall

actor

Joseph Mazzello

22nd Vice President of the United States, died in Rhinebeck and buried in Rhinebeck Cemetery

Levi P. Morton

playwright and librettist

Richard Nelson

10th and 16th governor of Mississippi, and congressman from Mississippi[15]

John A. Quitman

mayor of New York City

Jacob Radcliff

American actress

Emma Roberts

former head of the Genovese Crime Family

Anthony "Fat Tony" Salerno

cousin of Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Margaret Suckley

writer and educator

Elizabeth Weston Timlow

American-Canadian singer-songwriter

Rufus Wainwright

National Register of Historic Places listings in Rhinebeck, New York

Rhinebeck Village Historic District

Nancy Kelly, Rhinebeck's Historic Architecture

Nancy Kelly, A Brief History of Rhinebeck

Edward Smith, History of Rhinebeck

Rhinebeck: Echoes of Two Centuries

Official website

Town of Rhinebeck

Rhinebeck Area Chamber of Commerce

Franklin D. Roosevelt address at the dedication of the Rhinebeck Post Office

Consortium of Rhinebeck History Digital Collections