Abandoned Dutchess Center in Poughkeepsie, NY
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- The only store that’s open here is Aaron’s and they don’t look like they are doing much business here in this empty shopping area. The Blockbuster Video closed down probably in 2010 when the original company went defunct. Payless closed in March 2019. I’m not sure when all the other stores closed down but that ShopRite looked like it closed down like 10-15 years ago. There isn’t a lot of info about the Dutchess Center online, that’s all I can give you really lol
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I used to work at that Blockbuster! So weird to see people exploring this as abandoned now! I wish y’all could have gone inside lol would have been dope and eerie to see inside now. I used to go get lunch at that Chinese buffet too. The one across the parking lot used to be a Walgreens (or maybe a Rite Aid, I forget, it’s been so long!) There was also a mega Kmart there but that was the most recent store to close, and there was also an furniture rental store next to Payless as well. So weird this whole plaza is just sitting there empty now.
The one thing I didn't do was go at the back of the Blockbuster, the door could have been open in the back. Plus the other stores there too. I'm guessing Habitat for Humanity took over Walgreens or Rite Aid over there at some point and then they closed down. I filmed the Kmart there in a separate video if you wanna see that, it's in my collection. Aaron's is the only current store that is open there right now and I don't know how much longer they are gonna be open in that location, they might move to a better spot. It's depressing to see a shopping plaza that once used to be thriving a long time ago now just a shell of its former self.
I used to go shopping in plaza plaza at Kmart on the buffet 2000 the buffet 2000 go get the movies from the blockbusters the shopping at ShopRite when I was little Kmart used to have a diner in it we used to eat there when I was with my mom I was little girl I'll shop there all the time on my life now I miss Kmart can somebody explain why did the buildings go out of business cuz somebody tell us why it went out of business well it looks like they need to fix up the place now put more stores back in there again it looks like a ghost town only Burger King in that area now and Walgreens what are the business I said why why did I go out of business I just love going there and to pick up my prescriptions is why why did I go out of business I miss Kmart I love going shopping Kmart
@@gailvazquez9745 I remember that little diner in Kmart, I remember Kmart used to have a car repair shop on the side, next to the garden supply entrance, you can still see garage doors.
As a kid in the 80's I remember when the Blockbuster used to be an actual movie theatre. It was called Dutchess Cinema. I remember going to the blockbuster in the late 90's thinking: "wow, this used to be a movie theater but now thanks to progress we have a Blockbuster! Can't get much more advanced that renting DVD's" little did I know.
After the Kmart left, that mall was unfortunately as good as dead. I have good memories of this area and it is so sad to see what the modern times have done to the Dutchess County shopping centers
I can only imagine what it used to look like when it was booming. Sad to see, yes. It looks like a homeless person is living there at the back of the abandoned ShopRite
Really sad. It used to be booming
I remember when that Shoprite closed in like 2000/2001... Although it closed, all the other stores remained in business until the last 5 years.
That's what I was thinking, that they must have closed in the early 2000s. They might have relocated to the Shoppes at South Hills that's also in Poughkeepsie, NY. There was also a Kmart there as well that closed like 5 years ago, looks like it's gonna become a Target store
Caldor closed in 2000 also.
This plaza used to be the go-to shopping plaza. So sad it looks like that now.
I know, looks depressing. The only store that's open there now is Aaron's and they probably won't last long there. I think they should move out and the place should be demolished for something else
Great video......That shopping center was hopping back in the day. I remember as a kid when the abandoned Kmart was Grants department store and shop rite was always packed. I used to get my haircut at Raffael’s barber shop there and Leeds department store was down from there and then Walgreens was there. Payless shoes used to be Shoe-Town and Buffet 2000 was originally Dragon Lady Chinese restaurant. Cero Italian restaurant was next to blockbuster which originally was the Dutchess Cinema. I hope they tear down that whole plaza and put in a super Walmart which that area could use. Behind the old Kmart is an an abandoned garden center/nursery as well. What a shame that area of the Town of Poughkeepsie has become.
I’d rather see something else go there instead of a Walmart. No offense but I hate that store lol. I used to work in one and they treat their employees like crap. And besides, they are one of the reasons a lot of these department stores like Kmart and others are not open anymore.
@Ernest Zane Are you a subscriber on my channel? I haven't seen you on here before
@@TimurD1905 Sorry you a bad experience when you worked for Walmart but I must say I still think that’s a great idea. It would put a jolt in that area and create jobs and at the moment other than Aaron’s it’s abandoned eyesore. Dutchess County only has one Walmart and it’s in the southern part of the county and a new one would be great in that area. Another alternative would be a Dave & Buster’s and a Target or a Best Buy or both would be nice.
@@TimurD1905 By the way keep up the great work you’re doing with your videos.
@@johnranieri5065 I would put a Target store with Dave & Buster's. I prefer Target stores more, they are clean and organized
The Block Buster building began as a Movie Theater where we first saw 2001 a Space Odyssey.....in 1976.....
Wow, this shopping center has some history behind it. Too bad nowadays old shopping centers are not really doing so well with internet shopping taking over
1976 is when we moved to Poughkeepsie. The Kmart there was pretty fancy way back. I remember it had a car service center (which not many Kmarts had) as well as a cafeteria. I also remember Edwards supermarket and Caldor as well. Sad to see what happened to Poughkeepsie.
You guys might not know but the Blockbuster was originally a movie theater called the Dutchess Cinema! I was a little kid when I saw The Omen and Jaws there back in the mid 70s! And the liquor store next door was a Chinese Restaurant, I can't remember the name, but it was a very good one. And we shopped in that Shop Rite, it was the biggest market at one time in the area. We drove there from Pleasant Valley where we lived. And of course Carrolls Burgers, long out of business that I remember as a very young boy in the early 70s, was at the entrance of the Dutchess Center, then it became some other fast food stores over the years.
Yeah, one of my other subscribers mentioned that the Blockbuster used to be the Dutchess Cinema. I believe that ShopRite closed in the early 2000's
This place used to be lively, I remember going to the Blockbuster a lot when that was around. It and Kmart gone just make the area feel like a ghost town sort of.
There's a such a stark contrast in how busy Plaza 44 is compared to the Dutchess Center, quite sad really. I don't even know if Aaron's is still open there either
I can't believe how empty this is.....I used to go to that buffet.....Pretty sad!
Yeah it sure is, I'm pretty sure this shopping center was doing pretty well in the 80s and 90s. That ShopRite was pretty interesting though, do you know when that closed down?
@@TimurD1905 Not sure.....It was a happening place in the 80's and 90's
@@TimurD1905 Shop rite closed late 90s or 2000. Caldor was across the street where stop and shop is now, I think they closed in 98'. I miss kmart! They used to have a little eatery/diner in there that was the joint. I remember when you could buy cigarettes in kmart and a fishing license. It was so packed in that plaza in the 90s especially around holidays. It's such a shame it went out!
@@rebo4479 Oh wow, I had a feeling that ShopRite closed a long time ago. Btw Caldor closed down in 1999. I can imagine that place being that busy during those times, now that place is ghosted. The only store that’s open there is Aaron’s and I bet you they barely have any customers over there.
@@TimurD1905 The kmart was on the right side, the Jackson Hewitt moved to the left side. That's what it was. It never used to be a shoprite cause the stop and shop right across had been there for a while.
I actually ate at the buffet 2000 when I was 10 years old with my family. Still remember it like yesterday. Also when I was a kid I once did something to the shoes at the payless I won't say what it was because I was a kid then and I was being stupid but let's just say if you were one of the customers who tried on one of the shoes I messed with I'm very sorry as it must have hurt. As well as I used to shop at the Kmart like every week for years was very upset when they closed. As for the shoprite I was only in there once as a child I was like 3 or 4 so don't remember too well. Also forgot to mention the reason why the Jackson Huuit is connected to the Kmart is because I used to be a restaurant.
Thanks for your story, appreciate it. Did you ever go to the Blockbuster Video there? I used to go to the one in Parsippany, NJ way back but I believe it's a restaurant now
@@TimurD1905 No never was in the blockbuster.
@@doe9de995 Hmm I see, probably wasn't the best Blockbuster location
Should just bulldoze it and start over with all new modern infrastructure and buildings
If the buildings are in good shape, they can still renovate them I guess and turn them into something else
This place looks so much worse in person. They gotta put something in there
I agree, the ShopRite could be the worse out of all the closed/abandoned stores there.
Ya, I used to work in the old K-Mart there, That was a Shop Rite to the left with the Arches in front...
Somebody bought the property with the EXPRESS purpose of killing any competition for Stop & Shop across the way.....
We need to pass a law prohibiting abandonment of commercial property....And that grey building Way to the left was Leeds Department store.....
That's where Dad bought his First above ground swimming pool.....
Yeah I agree about prohibiting abandonment of properties such like this but it's just so many places I been to that have been abandoned/closed. At least some of them have been converted into different stores/restaurants and such
Our family used to shop at Big Ben's on Main Street( who remembers THAT place?)...then K-Mart opened and we went there. Ghosts of the past.......
When did Big Ben store close down?
@@TimurD1905 back in the early 70s, then they tore it down, my dad would go to Big Ben to get tubes to fix our tv
@@willielarimer7170 That sounds pretty cool
I remember Big Ben's. That goes way back, like my hairline.
I remember going to that same Kmart on the weekends
Hmm, there’s only a handful of Kmarts left now. Probably like 20 something left in the United States. Same as Sears, pretty sad
This was my childhood Kmart and I miss it :( and today I drove by here Aaron’s is gone now too the only thing their is burger king
@TD3 , All BLOCKBUSTER videos closed in 2010 😞 / only one still open in : Bend Oregon “ Private franchise “
How’s that even possible, privately francises owned?
Payless all went out of business. I used to go to the one on FRM and it is now a christmas ornament shop.
What's FRM?
OMG I worked in that Blockbuster.
That’s awesome man, I can’t even remember the last I been inside a Blockbuster. It’s been so longgg. I also remeber Hollywood Video, I don’t know if you remember that store too
@@TimurD1905 I literally was what they called the "Shift leader" in that exact Blockbuster from 2005-2006 (Not proud of this). It was a shit job. Interestingly though, that Blockbuster location was a pornographic theater (one screen) during the 1970s-early 1980s. If you ever make it inside the office in the back you will find a floor to ceiling mural of Jack Nicholson from the "Shining" poster painted on the wall. The former DM had an employee paint it there for him, (He was a piece of shit asshole scumbag FYI).
@@markcoviello6104 That’s pretty interesting, so did this store close in 2010 like the rest of them?
So did I!!! Omg when did you work there? Lol small world 😂 maybe we know some of the same people!
@@nicolefindra689 That's crazy hehe. This is one of my reasons why I love to do filming, I love hearing other peoples stories and opinions of places. That's another perspective to hear from.
Never heard of this place
Yeah, me either until I found the sign of the shopping plaza. This place used to have life a long time ago I'm pretty sure, now there's almost nobody there.
I checked the Wayback Machine and the Poughkeepsie location was delisted from ShopRite's website in late Jan of 2001. So it'd been abandoned for 20 years when this was shot!
That's insane, I knew this was a ShopRite. And I knew it had to be abandoned for a long time judging by the inside conditions
I grew up coming over here... it’s crazy....
Yeah, it’s like a ghost town now over there. I wonder what will happen to this center
Wow...I remember in the last 80's when Woolworths was in that mall and Shop Rite ,then K- mart .I don't understand why that place don't keep stores for too long open.There's lots of people whitout cars and they used to depend going there to that small 🤷♀️
If is due to the problem of taxis, Poughkeepsie should do something to bring more taxis companies.
I'm not sure as to why the ShopRite closed over here but I know there is another one in Poughkeepsie in the shopping center where the closed Kmart is, maybe for better location and marketing. The Dutchess Center looked like it used to be a nice shopping center back in the day but unfortunately there's no life there anymore with all those abandoned stores. I wouldn't be surprised in the near future if they demolish this whole place, although Aaron's is the only store that is still in business here
@@TimurD1905
It was full of life once.👍
@@rexfordruiz3265 Yes it was, it needs a revival of a new shopping center or something else
Back in my day..
Used to be the place to go to back in the day, now there is almost nothing there. Sad to see it like this
This could easily be a profitable area. The county needs to find investors.
It's been like this for a couple years now, just sad to see once a thriving spot back in the day just turn to absolutely nothing there
Right by Shoprite used to be Kmart ., worked there as an overnight freight associate for 2 months .. June -august 2018 .. once I found out they were closing I Quit , I ended up going to vassar hospital as my next gig .. Kmart closed down December 2018
Damn, I checked the hospital you work at and they have terrible ratings on Google. Is it really that bad?
Damn, I used to walk around the back of K-Mart and come down here all the time. That place has went to 💩 bro.
Yes, it certainly has. I'm pretty sure back in the day, Dutchess Center was booming with business in the 80s and 90s. Now it turned into crap like you said
Grew up not too far from here
There was a Caldor store in Poughkeepsie I believe a long time ago, I was hoping that one was still abandoned so I could film it but the only one I found abandoned so far is in Middletown, NY. Caldor was my favorite retailer back then
i have been here k mart closed about 2 years ago payless closed in 2019 but that was really the last store there i dont think there was a blockbuster im pretty sure that used to be a place were you could buy some random stuff but like rent it u know burger king is really the only thing there i dont think its haunted but i will say that they could do a lot around there tho but there was no shop rite that was there because there is a stop shop across the street so that cant happen and its been there for a while now but yeah that place is pretty dead go back at night there sometimes like car shows
What do you think it was if it wasn’t ShopRite? Cause it looks like an abandoned grocery store to me
@@TimurD1905 my mom told me it was another part of k Mart but when I was a kid I remember it was closed not broken down or anything like that but I see what your saying it definitely looked like one
@@exoticbrian1644 Yeah, could be
@@TimurD1905I think that part of Kmart (right side) was the car service center. I remember it as a kid and it was pretty big.
Wait bro, hasn't shop rite been closed before like 2011?
I'm not even sure but looks like it's been closed even before that by the state of the inside.
@@TimurD1905 shop rite has been closed for years one of the first to close there
@@kingbrent100 Looks like it could have been closed in the early 2000's. There's like no information on when that ShopRite closed down or any information at all, pretty strange
Great video,. Love the strip mall videos
Yeah man, me too. They are fascinating in some way, especially when they are abandoned for quite some time.
@@TimurD1905 where the restore store was , used to be a toy store called Leeds , my junior high , is just up the road
@@willielarimer7170 Nice, never heard of that store before
There used to be a movie theater and a shoe store there, where k mart was in the early 70s was Grants and shop rite, and the building across from blockbusters was a toy store, called Leeds,,, all early 70s
Oh wow, this place had some history to it. It’s sad that almost nothing is open there, different times now
I think Leeds later became Mirons, and then Best, and either radio Shack or Service merchandise later on.
@targetrender9529 my sister still lives in downtown Poughkeepsie, she told me the whole shopping center is gone now
That was a barber shop called Raffi L’s
Wow, I wonder when that barber shop closed
And the one after the barbershop was Walgreens
Habitat for Humanity used to be a Walgreens? That makes sense cause of the size of the property
Yeah it was shop rite
It's crazy how it's still sitting there abandoned, I think it's been abandoned for nearly 20 years!
Wonder what was there
What do you mean?
I spent allot of time in this mall
Do you know when Blockbuster Video and ShopRite closed down there? The ShopRite looked like it closed in the 90s-00s
Wrecking ball...then build a casino.
Thats a good idea or they can make an amusement center there for kids to go on rides and play games
It definitely needs to be demolished and rebuilt, like South Hills mall.