In addition to its Uptown Kingston headquarters, the newspaper has offices in Catskill, Greene County; and Rhinebeck, Dutchess County.
In 1827, he was appointed Pastor of the Reformed Dutch Church, Rhinebeck, New York.
The site for the bridge, as originally proposed was between Kingston Point and downtown Rhinebeck, and the design was initially a suspension bridge almost identical in appearance to the Mid-Hudson Bridge.
In addition to his role as a hotelier and restaurateur, Balazs is currently revitalizing The Locusts, a historical private estate and retreat in Rhinebeck, NY; as well as restoring the farm operations on the property, which supplies fresh produce and farm-raised meats to The Standard Grill in New York City.
By 1850, locally prominent landowners the Livingston family owned the house, using it as a support building for their nearby Grasmere estate.
Livingston died at Montgomery Place, Rhinebeck, Dutchess County, New York, an estate left him by his sister, to which he had removed in 1831.
After years in work camps to pay back the cost of passage, in a failed attempt by the British to produce naval stores on the lands of the Livingston family in today's Columbia County, some of the Germans settled in today's Rhinebeck, swelling the population of an area lightly settled by the Dutch a few decades before.
At the age of 7, John left his home to reside with his uncle, John B. Romeyn, then pastor of the Reformed Dutch Church in Rhinebeck, New York.
Old Stone Church or Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Peter, Rhinebeck, New York, listed on the National Register of Historic Places
In 2013, Penelope played the role of Deborah in the Harold Pinter play A Kind of Alaska at the Cocoon Theatre in Rhinebeck, New York.