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Poughkeepsie, NY -- U.S. city in New York
Population (2000): 29871
Housing Units (2000): 13153
Land area (2000): 5.144693 sq. miles (13.324694 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.552889 sq. miles (1.431975 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 5.697582 sq. miles (14.756669 sq. km)
FIPS code: 59641
Located within: New York (NY), FIPS 36
Location: 41.700093 N, 73.922905 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
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Poughkeepsie (disambiguation)

Poughkeepsie is a city in Dutchess County, New York, United States.

Poughkeepsie can also refer to:

  • Relating to Poughkeepsie, New York:
    • Poughkeepsie (Metro-North station), a railroad station in the city
    • Poughkeepsie (town), New York, a town surrounding the city
    • The Poughkeepsie Tapes, a 2007 film based in and named after the aforementioned city.
  • Poughkeepsie, Arkansas, an unincorporated area in Sharp County, Arkansas

Usage examples of "poughkeepsie".

A few of the crews were bedding in Poughkeepsie hotels, but most of them were in the boathouses, in special quarters.

From the opposite side of the river, from Poughkeepsie, came the tooting of auto horns, faint cheering.

Wisconsin and the first Poughkeepsie shell of Dartmouth trying to keep from being last.

Columbia had pulled away from Dartmouth, and Navy was on even terms with the crew that was rowing its first race in a Poughkeepsie Regatta.

I said quietly: “If I took you in to a Poughkeepsie dentist right now, he'd say you were just imagining things.

I looked at Risdon and decided he was pretty intelligent for a Poughkeepsie plainclothes-man.

The chief and I were talking when Captain Latham's messenger reached the Poughkeepsie police station.

And last year he asked a lot of questions about the Poughkeepsie Regatta—and Burke commenced to get worried.

I recognized two of Risdon's men, from the Poughkeepsie police, one at each of the doors leading to the decks.

Orleans to Poughkeepsie, via airport limo and plane and train and taxi.

Even as head of research and development at Sandberg Pharmaceutical outside of Poughkeepsie (not a job to shake a stick at, she'd reminded him on the dozens of occasions when he wanted impetuously to quit), he'd obsessed about being an entrepreneur.