The Hudson Valley repair cafe movement was featured in The Hudson Valley Viewfinder Magazine. To read the article, click on the title below.
“Why the Region’s Repair Cafes Continue to Boom”, The Hudson Valley Viewfinder, March, 2026.
A variety of RCHV cafes were featured in this piece, including Kingston, Newburgh, and Woodbury. Dave Zimel was filmed fixing lamps at Newburgh (above).
February’s Woodstock Repair Cafe was featured in The Overlook. To read the article, click on the title below.
“Tinker Time in Woodstock: A Repair Cafe Brings Neighbors Together,” The Overlook, February 13, 2026.
RCHV's ‘Zipper Queen,’ Michelle Elise, was featured on the NPR segment “Here to Help” on Sunday, February 16th.
To listen to the piece, click here.
Michelle Elise (right) fixes a tent with broken zippers at the Kingston Repair Cafe. She remembers this fix as one of her faves in this NPR piece.
The January Yorktown repair cafe was featured by The Yorktown News on January 29th.
To read the article, click here and click through to page 3.
“Repairs Carry On,” The Yorktown News, 1/29/26, p. 3.
The RCHV network of repair cafes, and in particular the TarryHollow Repair Cafe, was mentioned in the Wall Street Journal on 1/16/2026 in an article on retirement and ‘mattering,’ or doing important, satisfying volunteer work as a retiree. To read the article, click on the linked title below.
“The Retirement Crisis No One Warns you About: Mattering,” Wall Street Journal, 1/16/2025.
RCHV Coordinator and our network of cafes was quoted and mentioned in The Cool Down, an environmental website. To read the article, click on the linked title of the article below.
‘Innovative business sets out to solve major problem with household waste,’ The Cool Down, Dec. 25, 2025.
The December 6th Monroe Repair Cafe was featured in The Photo News, pictured below.
The Columbia NE Repair Cafe group was praised in a recent letter to the editor of the Times Union, who also thanked the paper for their recent positive coverage about the Schenectady Cafe.
To read the article, click on the title below (in bold).
"Repair Cafés build Community while Cutting Waste," Times Union, Dec. 22, 2025.
Our growing network of repair cafes was featured by the ‘Inside Climate News’ newsletter in November. To read the article, click on the title below.
“A Growing Number of ‘Repair Cafes’ Are Popping Up Around the World to Curb Consumer Waste,” Inside Climate News, November 11, 2025.
The Times Union did a feature on the Schenectady Repair Cafe and the Repair Cafe Hudson Valley network of cafes in late November. To read the article, click on the article title below.
Fixing, sharing and building community at the Repair Café, Times Union, Nov. 24, 2025.
Toss it? No Way…Bring it to the Repair Cafe