To know Beacon is to know people who moved in from elsewhere. The first European to do so was Madam Brett, who left Manhattan for the upstate wilds in 1707, essentially “founding” Beacon. It’s been much the same ever since, with the pandemic accelerating the one-way northbound traffic and the city keeping up as best it can.
For the Many, a progressive activist group, has launched a Hudson Valley campaign to ban non-owner-occupied vacation rentals listed on sites such as Airbnb.