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Healthy Community Model

Small Town, Big Ideas

The Center’s Healthy Community Model, located in the hamlet of Hurleyville, NY is a comprehensive effort to reimagine what it means to be a fully inclusive and sustainable community. This pedestrian-friendly and vibrant Main Street provides access to a variety of experiences and ways to connect, along with an abundance of creative outlets and learning opportunities.

Throughout the last decade, The Center has developed major partnerships with local government, the Open Space Institute, the State University of New York educational system, as well as a number of individuals and private foundations to transform the economically depressed hamlet of Hurleyville into a viable, fully integrated Main Street that includes new business ventures and job opportunities. Some of its major components include the Hurleyville Performing Arts Centre, Gallery 222, Fiber on Main artisan studios, and a fully-accessible Rail Trail. Other elements include universally-designed residences, retail and service businesses including the Hurleyville General Store, and various eateries including a gastro pub, and a salumeria, La Salumina.

Hurleyville is also home to The Center for Discovery’s Discovery Innovation Green Team (DIG IT) program, which engages teens in a dynamic initiative dedicated to the environment and equity. Teens with and without developmental disabilities work side-by-side, learning from each other while building key skills. Together they undertake environmental service projects that have an immediate and tangible impact on the well-being of our local, national, and global communities today and into the future. This equity-focused mentorship program is unlike any other and serves as a transformative model for inclusion and sustainability.

Accessible to everyone, the Hurleyville model is paving the way for all individuals to lead healthy, sustainable and productive lives. A truly healthy community.

Hurleyville’s Local Businesses

Make a day out of it and visit Hurleyville’s other local shops and restaurants along Main Street. Things-to-do, sights to see, and places to eat for the whole family!

The Hurleyville Sentinel® People everywhere are discovering that The Hurleyville Sentinel is the best way to stay up to date with all that's happening in "the liveliest little hamlet in the Mountains
Fiber on Main Located on Main Street, Fiber on Main is a fiber arts studio that hosts various fiber art workshops with regional artisans from the Catskills, Northeast PA and the Hudson Valley. In add
Gallery 222, located right on Main Street. Throughout the year, Gallery 222 showcases a variety of artists, photographers and more, providing a creative and visually appealing space.
Hurleyville General Store The General Store offers a unique selection of local Catskills products, greeting cards, children's STEM and interactive toys, housewares, jewelry, soaps, candles and more!
Rail Trail In 2012, The Center for Discovery® partnered with the Open Space Institute (OSI), a New York-based conservation organization dedicat­ed to preserving scenic, natural, & historic landscape
Hurleyville Basketball Courts Open to individuals of all ages, the basketball courts are located right off of main street at the entrance to the Rail Trail, and feature complimentary public parking.
Hurleyville Performing Arts Centre The Hurleyville Performing Arts Centre is an event and arts center where multi-cultural, intergenerational, & all abilities are represented through art