Flagpole installation inPoughkeepsie, NY

Flagpoles in Poughkeepsie

The county seat and largest city in Dutchess County, with county government, a large hospital, and a ring of college and technology employers around it. We cover Poughkeepsie and the Dutchess County area, including Main Street and the downtown, the Walkway Over the Hudson and the Mid-Hudson Bridge, Vassar Brothers Medical Center, the Bardavon, Locust Grove, and Vassar College, Marist University and the IBM campus out in the town.

Wind here. Poughkeepsie sits in an inland, river-exposed area, which works out to roughly 115 mph under the code your town uses. That figure decides how wide and how thick the pole has to be, so we check it against your address before we quote. Poughkeepsie's constraint is the river, not the map. The figure is the flat 115 mph that runs across the whole of upstate, but the Hudson is wide and open here, so a riverfront or bluff-top site has nothing upwind of it and gets sized as exposed rather than as a downtown address. The river is still tidal this far up, and stays tidal for nearly eighty miles further, up to the dam at Troy, so the bank rises and falls twice a day and the ground beside it is wetter and looser than the street two blocks uphill. Downtown is a nineteenth-century Main Street with the buildings hard against the pavement and very little working room, so the position and the approach are agreed on site before anything is ordered. Away from the water Dutchess County is genuinely hilly, over two thousand feet in the northeast corner, and a ridge-top address up there is not the valley-floor job the county figure describes.

Most of the people who call us from Poughkeepsie are city and county facilities, the hospital and the medical offices around it, college and school buildings, churches, veterans posts, technology and manufacturing employers and Main Street commercial frontage.