Welcome to beaconny.town, a home online for everyone who lives in Beacon, works here, or keeps coming back.
beaconny.town is built on Xenia, a platform from Yo-Do Software. Xenia was the ancient Greek bond between guest and host: a promise to trade stories and goods, to look after the stranger at your door and be looked after in turn. Its symbol was the crossroads, which is where our "X" comes from. That's the idea here: one local crossroads where the whole community meets.
What beaconny.town Does for Locals
The big search and review sites treat Beacon as inventory. Your favorite bakery, the contractor your neighbor swears by, and the folk night at the Howland end up scattered across a dozen apps, if they show up at all.
beaconny.town brings it together in one place, so you spend less time searching and more time on Main Street, on the mountain or down by the river. Ask Xen, our local search, for a plumber, a Pilates class, a lawyer or a quiet place for dinner, and the answers come from here, not from everywhere.
Everything below is free for residents and businesses:
- A web page for every business in Beacon, part of more than 750 local places, from Main Street shops to trailheads
- A community calendar of what's happening around town: concerts, gallery talks, library programs and markets
- Hyper-local search, focused on Beacon
- A voice in how beaconny.town grows and changes
What It Does for Visitors and Businesses
Beacon welcomes visitors every week of the year: day-trippers off the Metro-North, art lovers headed to the galleries, and hikers bound for Mount Beacon. They help Main Street support as many restaurants, galleries and shops as it does. But the businesses that last here are the ones neighbors use on a Tuesday, not just on a sunny Saturday.
beaconny.town is built to help with both. For visitors, it makes a day trip easier to plan and easier to enjoy: find lunch near the train, a trailhead with parking, a public restroom, or something to do when it rains. For businesses, it's a free listing that locals and visitors actually see, and a way to reach neighbors all year.
Getting Started
- Create a free account with Google, Apple or your email. Choose "I live here" for the Resident view, or "I'm visiting" for the Guest view, and you'll get the home page that fits you, plus Xen.
- Ask Xen. Tap the X at the bottom of any page and ask where to get coffee, which trail suits your group, or what's happening this weekend.
- Own a business? If your free listing needs an update (hours, photos, a new phone number), contact Yo-Do Software and we'll fix it.
- Have an event? Send it our way so it lands on the community calendar.
This is just the start. We're glad you're here, and we'd love to hear what would make beaconny.town more useful to you.