Poughkeepsie, New York

	Poughkeepsie
	City
	Downtown Poughkeepsie from across the Hudson River
	Official name: City of Poughkeepsie
	Name origin: U-puku-ipi-sing: "the reed-covered lodge by; the little-water place" in Iroquois
	Nickname: Queen City of the Hudson
Country	United States
State	New York
County	Dutchess
	Wikimedia Commons: Poughkeepsie, New York
	Website: http://www.cityofpoughkeepsie.com

Bird's eye view of Poughkeepsie, New York

Poughkeepsie (pronounced /pəˈkɪpsiː/) is a city in New York, which is in the United States. It is the county seat of Dutchess County, New York. The city sits along the Hudson River, between New York City and Albany.

The Poughkeepsie Bridge is in this city. It was an early state capital of New York before the capital moved permanently to Albany.

v t e Municipalities and communities of Dutchess County, New York, United States
County seat: Poughkeepsie
Cities	Beacon \| Poughkeepsie
Towns	Amenia \| Beekman \| Clinton \| Dover \| East Fishkill \| Fishkill \| Hyde Park \| LaGrange \| Milan \| North East \| Pawling \| Pine Plains \| Pleasant Valley \| Poughkeepsie \| Red Hook \| Rhinebeck \| Stanford \| Union Vale \| Wappinger \| Washington
Villages	Fishkill \| Millbrook \| Millerton \| Pawling \| Red Hook \| Rhinebeck \| Tivoli \| Wappingers Falls
CDPs	Amenia \| Arlington \| Brinckerhoff \| Crown Heights \| Dover Plains \| Fairview \| Haviland \| Hillside Lake \| Hopewell Junction \| Myers Corner \| Pine Plains \| Pleasant Valley \| Red Oaks Mill \| Spackenkill \| Staatsburg

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