The upcoming Peekskill Repair Cafe was advertised with a wonderful article in the Peekskill Herald sharing stories of past successes at the two Peekskill Repair Cafes that have come before. To read the article, click on the headline below.
“The Value Of Repair: Stories Behind The Peekskill Repair Cafe,” Peekskill Herald, Oct. 31, 2025.
A local writer enjoyed her experience at the 2nd Ellenville Repair Cafe so much she decided to write an article about it for the Shawnagunk Journal.
To read the article (it is behind a paywall if you don’t have a membership) click on the linked title below.
"Ellenville Celebrates Hudson Valley's Powerful Repair Movement,"Shawnagunk Journal, October 25, 2025.
The Mamaroneck Repair Cafe was featured in the local Mamaroneck Observer in advance of their next October cafe this past month. The article featured a roundup of past cafes and gave information on the upcoming one as well. To read the article, click on the title below.
"Repair, Reuse, Revive - Celebrating Sustainability at the Repair Café,"The Mamaroneck Observer, October 29, 2025.
A guest at a past Mamaroneck Repair Cafe happily shows off her repaired necklace.
The New York Times did an in depth story, ‘On the Menu in New York: One Repair, Coming Right Up’, focused on our neighbor in NYC, the El Barrio Repair Cafe in Harlem. This piece was the NY entry in their “50 States, 50 Fixes” series on environmental fixes in every state. Thanks to our network of cafes, New York State has more repair cafes than any other in the U.S (and we were the ones who let them know that!). They also sent a photographer to the Ossining Repair Cafes for additional photos to accompany the article which can be read here.
‘Tigermeenie’ was fixed at the Ossining Repair Cafe in November which was featured in this article.
The first Repair Cafe in Ellenville on Saturday, August 16th was covered by the Shawnagunk Journal on August 23rd in an article entitled, “A Busy Day of Fixing Things at the Ellenville Repair Cafe.”
To read the article, go here.
The new Millerton Repair Cafe which is debuting on October 25th was featured in the August 20th edition of The Millerton News. To read the article, go here.
The Hudson Independent’s coverage of the recent Irvington Repair Cafe, “At a Repair Cafe, the Fixer Uppers Do Their Thing,” was in the August 2nd issue of the paper online. To read the article, visit https://thehudsonindependent.com/at-a-repair-cafe-the-fixer-uppers-do-their-thing/.
The Rivertowns Dispatch covered the recent repair cafe in Irvington which was held at the Eileen Fisher HQ (also located in Irvington). The article was in the August 1, 2025 issue of the paper, page 11.
RCHV was asked to create and deliver a textile case study in our network for the 5th International Repair Cafe Conference online. RCHV Coordinator delivered the half hour case study during the zoom conference which is now up online at https://youtu.be/901Vj7ZKQYY; the clip featuring RCHV starts at about 29:30.
The new Monroe Repair Cafe which opened at the end of June was featured in a July 1, 2025 article in the online news site The Photo News. To read the article, click here.
Toss it? No Way…Bring it to the Repair Cafe