This mall is not dead. Weekends are busy. Weekdays quiet like most malls are anyway with school and work.

I went to college nearby in the late 1980s and this was our "goto" mall. The movie theater was the best of the 4 within 20 miles. I think this mall is not dying but will never have the luxury brand stores due to the area it's in. It has adapted to the economic level of the Hudson Valley- very middle of the road.

The Poughkeepsie Galleria was our closest mall. I went most right around the time that they implemented the "must be 18" rules and I was just turning 18. I remember them being especially anal about it, and being ID'd three or four times every time I walked around that mall, even into my 20s. Seems like it was a good business move on their part, making enemies of all the younger people with poor money habits. I see the MB18 signs are still up too. Seems to be working out for them.

This mall is far from dead. Go on a weekend or around a holiday. It’s packed. I wish it were less busy most of the time. The mall in Kingston you showed really is dead.

i go to this mall all the time! gamestop, the movie theater, and of course auntie anne's pretzels. i never thought of it as a dead mall in the slightest

Thanks for the video; I look forward to it each week!

my hometown of wappingers right near this mall is the only place I know still trying to hold onto those early 00s “go out and do stuff” vibes.

This was my early teen "mallrat" mall in the late 80's. Used to bike ride the 5 miles with my buddy to hang out, eat cheap hotdogs, and go to that one head shop. Haven't been there in years... barely recognize it now!

I remember this mall from my childhood. Soo much time spent at the arcade it had back a few decades ago.

Looks like it's doing pretty well to me. Don't think it's dying at all. It obviously will take some time to fill the spaces of the former Sears and JCPenney. I could definitely see Primark going in one of those.

The nostalgia hit me hard, I used to go with my parents in the 90's, the fountain was amazing throwing coins in making wishes, and Time Out arcade had real games. Thank you for the video!

The old movie theater was called Hoyts. You use to be able to look down from the food court down on concessions. Where Best Buy is now its a small version of what it was. All of H&M and Old Navy were also a part of Lechmere. You did some good research.

In the 90's we spent so much time in this mall and South Hills Mall down the street.

An additional note on my first comment. The flashback photos were awesome! I'm feeling old now! G Fox actually made me gasp! I was just a kid, but remember it all so vividly! Thank you.

If you go on the weekend it’s pretty busy, more so the food court and Best Buy. During the week it’s kinda dead tbh… it’s the best time to shop lol

Grew up with this mall, going often in the 90s and early 00s. The interior looked and felt so much better with all the large fointains and planters that have since been removed

Hi! I really love your mall walkthroughs! Growing up, I went to the Poughkeepsie Galleria sometimes and the Newburgh Mall fairly often, but the mall I went to the most was the Galleria at Crytal Run in Middletown. I would really love if you could do that mall since there's very little footage of it on KZfaq. It always seemed like it was close to dying when I was a teenager, but now it may be improving (from what I've heard, since I don't live in NY anymore). Anyway, great job on these videos! And I would love to see arcade videos! I always take a peak inside them when I go to the mall too lol

It’s been dead for years 🤣😂 -The 845

Tom, your vids and voiceovers are ultimate relax and enjoy mode. You remind me a bit of the guy that does the “Rhetty for History” channel. Thanks for the vids!

I was Poughkeepsie in the 2000s working for IBM. I liked South Hills Mall better, even at that time even though that was a dead mall then. I don't remember the layout of this mall for some reason.

Again, very nice! The ads on the escalators and the home improvement ads at the entrance to the mall are kind of tacky, but overall seems like a nice place. Funny you mention about the cost of the indoor gokart track-when I saw it I said to myself that I bet it was expensive to do, thus almost never used by people.

I live very near this (under 2 miles away). I think the Montgomery Ward was a combo of the DSW/RPM and Dicks Sporting Goods.

That movie theater 😍 such a throwback

Pyramid built a Whole lot of these in a cookie cutter design in the Northeast between 1985-95 ( very similar to the Middletown Galleria in Middletown, NY and a couple of malls I used to visit in the early 1990’s in western Connecticut)

The mall close to where I live used to have a Sears. It had an Overstock for a while where the Sears used to be but now that's gone too, and some of the stores around the anchor area are vacant. It's kind of sad, and I hope another anchor comes in someday...

i went to marist college back in the mid-2000s, and the galleria was a regular weekend trip for my friends and i. we loved wandering around, flirting with the dudes in local bands who worked at h&m, zumiez, and the cell phone kiosk, eating at ruby tuesday or at nathan's in the food court, and i even had a celebrity sighting once (ric ocasek from the cars walking around electronics boutique - he had the sunglasses on and everything!), the mall was obviously much busier back then, but still looks like it's doing okay. thanks for the trip down memory lane!

Wow! I miss the Poughkeepsie Galleria. I moved away almost two years ago and it was the same. During the week it was always quiet but during the weekends and Christmas season there’s a lot of hustle and bustle. Now! The outdoor strip mall next to it is dead. The Anchor store there is now an At Hone. Poughkeepsie Galleria lives on. I miss it.

This is a beautiful mall. Lots of natural light. I like all the nooks and crannies, makes the walk interesting. Ownership has kept it in tip top shape.

I was there in 2007 ! I was homeless in Poughkeepsie NY it was thriving and busy then

I remember Arthur’s Treachers Fish and chips. It was on the right side as you come I the food court. I also remember the Kmart that was attached. I wanna say Montgomery Ward took over that spot. I remember that hallway when you showed the MW clip.

Nice video 😊

Wow this was great to watch even though I actually visited back in July. My first job was at Montgomery Wards and then I worked at that JCPenney for nearly 10 years. Btw the fountain wasn’t spectacular, but the old art displays they had hanging from the ceiling there and in the middle were pretty cool. In February 2006 the parking deck collapsed which why there are a lot of those 7 foot clearance things all gathered in one area.(you went under in the video so you cant see) Snow plows piled too much snow and the thing was built like sh** so boom… no one was hurt but at least one car was destroyed. Oh man I loved this place growing up. Btw this mall has triple the arcades it had when I worked there. At one point it was just the “time out” Also random memory of a giant wooden Indian statue being near the smell of cinnamon but not auntie annes.

Oh my, this is my mall! Living only a few miles away, funny thing is, haven't set foot in there so many years now. I have visited the property to shop at some anchor stores or see a movie, but that's it.

I worked at a mall a few years back in Washington State. Everyone kept saying malls were dying. While some are dying, many malls are doing well, including the one I worked at and most of the malls owned by the company. In the spring, summer, and fall weekends are very busy. On a Friday and Saturday night during summertime it was packed. It was also not a very safe environment, with gangs of punk kids, drugs, fights, shoplifting, etc.... I do enjoy "mall walking" in the morning before it opens to the public.

The regal has been there as far back as I can remmebr. When I was little it was much smaller. You'd enter to the lobby which then had a staircase leading down to the snack area. You'd snake around the snack bar to a hallyay leading to the theatres. Regal when through this big expansion, adding more projectors and redoing the layout. They also were palnning on installing an IMAX, but didn't go through with it due to lack of funds.

Great video I have been watching a few u tubes on dead & its seems like the one store that stands strong is Bath and body Works. I noticed that my favorite store Build a Bear was there.

The developer of the malls was the Pyramid Co out of Syracuse.

Regarding the JC Penney fountain photo, there's a bucket of adhesive in the foreground which would mean they are constructing. I wonder if that's the original fountain or a remodel occurred.

I haven't been to that mall in over a decade. I remember that and the (now defunct) South Hills Mall it essentially replaced. When I worked out in Wappingers Falls I'd sometimes go in there after work before commuting back home to CT. It doesn't look as lively here as when I was last there, but a far cry from some of the other malls in CT, NY, and MA.

At 31:33 the picture you show was taken on top of the parking deck on the other side of the mall. The glass atrium had escalators inside it. It was removed.

Pancake Factory was a TGIFs and Ruby Tuesdays for a while. The food is big draw for the local workers in the area.

7:09 I was never book smart I'm money smart

That Arcade on the second floor next to American Eagle used to be Abercrombie and Fitch

This mall kind of reminds me of my old mall in Pittsburgh PA Town Center at Robinson. Robinson Mall was built around 2003.

I went here before Christmas and it was busy and packed with people

i went through just before september around 4. it had about 2-3 times as much foot traffic and the food court was packed. i went again in september on a weekend to pick up something from best buy. didn't go through but, i did have to park halfway down the parking lot. as for whether it's dying or not. i would say it's more in a stagnate state just avoiding go over the cliff atm.

Considering how many malls I have seen that are in poor shape, the Poughkeepsie mall looks pretty good. I remember when is was sometimes hard to find a parking spot especially during the holidays. My brother and family lived near by and I often stopped there, especially to visit Lechmere's and just walk around. The mall is located on a very busy highway, and kind of on a raised hill and easy to get to. They had good parking lot security, which you can't say for many malls of that era. Not a lot of competition, as there was nothing in the city of Poughkeepsie you would want to shop at, and downtown poughikee0s8e is (was) a mess. The area is home to Marist College, which my nephew graduated from and went to work at IBM, which has a large location in the Poughkeepsie area. The Newburgh Mall was the next closest mall, I wonder how that mall is doing.

this mall is very popular compared to kingston mall lol

Looks like a dying mall. I haven't been there in over 5 years due to illness. Sad to see all the malls going under. But Amazon IS a letting me get what I need without traveling on Rt. 9 which is a total mess and getting worse every year.

It's doing better than others, but compared to when I was in high school it's on the slow side. We spent many Friday nights there in the early 00s. There used to be some cool stores that I miss.

Its right on the border of dying, but compared to the South Hills mall (which is right next door) its thriving lol. This is more people than the last couple times I was there, but I haven’t been there in a few years. The target stays pretty busy, but people usually just go there and don’t actually go into the mall.

Try the Jefferson valley mall, Yorktown that’s a dead mall most stores boarded up macys is the anchor store Sears was the other, along with a J.C. Penney

The original Filenes and Jordan Marsh were too fancy for our town. Pancake Factory is a local diner/breakfast shop, the original location is 12 or so miles away

Dude I like your videos.. funny thing is theirs a really dead mall right next to this. The south hills mall is really dead, and if you drove 20 minutes south on Rt 9 you’ll see the remains of the dutchess mall

I was recently at this mall. It’s not a dead mall. The food court is very busy during the week.

I remember when it was built. The development company put a lot of money in the campaigns of politicians who were in favour of it. It got built and they were all thrown out of office at the next election. I could never figure out why a new mall was needed when South Hills Mall was next door. But, South Hills was already dying by the time this place was built. In Middletown the Orange County Mall was totally dead when the Galleria was built there.

Yeah, if anyone out there has photos of what the theater looked like before it was renovated, would love to see those 🥺 Like the inside of it. That was my childhood 😭

Pancake Factory is a local family owned restaurant with another location about 15 minutes north of the mall. It used to be Ruby Tuesdays. Poughkeepsie Galleria is the mall I grew up with, it definitely is a dying mall with constant rumors of it being closed and sold. There are not to many vacant stores, but with two anchors closed and the quality of the stores not being great it doesn't have much to offer. When I lived in the area we would go to either Danbury or Westchester Mall if we needed to really shop.

I want to see you go around the RPM racetrack

Some signs of rot near the closed anchor stores and the "stores" that show up when a mall is dying. It does seem to be struggling to survive with low to mid end stores. The mall itself looks well maintained inside if a bit bland.

I don’t think it’s a dying mall but maybe a struggling mall. However it does have Macys, Target and Best Buy as anchors and the food court was open and seemed to be doing well.

As a radio disc jockey at WKIP I once was the person that told others in our group of 3 where to hide the $2000 check for The Amazing Kreskin in 1989 to try to find after doing a mental show in the center court of this mall.and indeed he did find it upstairs at G Fox in a thermos bottle that we put his check of $2000 in the thermos bottle …that was a lot of fun. Anyone remember that show or me as a weekend radio announcer?

also the Montgomery ward auto center is still there in its old design

My home mall since 1998 and still is..

In the summer of 1988 I worked at a stereo/music store that was on the 2nd level across from the food court. For the life of me, I can’t remember what it was called. Does anyone remember?

Thats my mall lmao....The Poughkeepsie Galleria is a indoor flea market!!

I'd say compared to your other videos this mall is hopping!

this mall looks near identical to the walden galleria in Buffalo, NY which opened 2 years later in '89, same development company I would imagine

Shout out to kirwans game store, love of Magic began here.

The Galleria Mall has busy and slow days...😊😊

The indoor racing and Regal cinema both have been there for a long time. They may have changed names/ownership over the years, but they've been there for probably a decade, maybe more. And yes, the racing place is very expensive for what it is.

I love this mall I love Poughkeepsie its a lot If good food there

I go for the hot topic only tbh

We'll all remember this mall as the mall where mega man by jay eazy was filmed

07:26 Don’t worry…Mega Man drops January 7th!

I miss my childhood store called BIG K IT WAS FROM 1970,S

Dying? Where? The entire mall was full save, for a couple store fronts and looked to be quite busy to me. I would actually rate this one as thriving.

I haven't been there since 2011😮

I am not shore about the price of the one lap.never priced it but I watched a lot of the so-called races while waiting. and I never seen any one do 1 lap. It was always at least 5 laps or more

We need a large arcade. Dave & Busters around One

My husband got into a fight in the entrance to that mall when he was younger 😂😂😂😂

I haven't been there in 30 years but I'm trying to remember if any of the stores were original spent a lot of time in that place and I was a teenager and I'm pretty sure the jewelry stores are original

O forgot about the parking garage collapsed a few years ago under weight of snow. That kinda made the news

Do those stores even make any real money?

TILT was on my two malls I used to go too.

Anchor store is 5 Below.

THIS IS MY MALL! It’s in pretty good shape but it is dying. A bunch of hype beast stores are moving in and that’s never a good sign…

Compared to the Hudson Valley Hall, this is one happening place.

The movie theater was always there. They remodeled it probably 10 15 years ago. Used to have its own entrance right into the lobby from the outside course new seating think they even added some screens. The pancake factory fairly new used to be Ruby, Tuesdays. As far as the factory, if anything cheesecake factory should not have been allowed there is 1000s and thousands of factories so I don’t think cheesecake factory can say you can’t use the word factory in your name.

The thing i dislike about that mall now, is that there are no music or book stores there any longer. The same goes for the old South Hills Mall, no music, or book stores at all, and i love book stores, as well as music stores, where i can get good records, CDs, or cassette tapes.

Actually, there is a community of gamers that do watch home/arcade gameplay, so give it a try!

If you ever get up to Binghamton, check out the Oakdale Mall (now Oakdale Commons). It's undergoing a major facelift in an attempt to revive it. Only 1 anchor spot is empty now and still a lot of empty spots inside, but several big projects underway.

They probably don't want people to see construction going on in the former JCPenney since a new business is coming in.

As someone who was raised in Poughkeepsie and left in my twenties: It's very funny to see how much pride people from Poughkeepsie have. I worked there during the week, and it was NEVER this empty. You might be delusional if you think this mall isn't dying lol

This is a beautiful undead mall

this mall really hasn't changed much in 20 years, but it also has alot of the modern shit thats popular everywhere these days. Shame the Sbarro closed, also the Regal Movie Theatre was there in 2004.

The elevator didn't used to have frosted stripes on glass, thats atrocious

Its dying, it needs better franchises, they had Starbucks and didn't last. They have to tear down the parking garbage. Have shops that want to go to. I think . Woodbury commons and Palisades ruined my mall

7:26 no one gonna bring up mega man drops Jan 7th?

The parking lot you were driving under collapsed in the 90s and if you drove up there you would have thought you were on a roller-coaster