Melanie Delgado

Artist. First Place: Melanie Delgado

2025 Readers' Choice Awards Results

July 1, 2025

Chronogram Readers’ Choice Awards—née the Chronogrammies—turns six this summer, officially old enough to blow out its own candles and demand a second slice of cake. What started in those hazy, hand-sanitizer-soaked months of 2020 as a morale boost for local businesses has matured into the definitive popularity contest for the Hudson Valley’s best and brightest. Tens of thousands of readers weighed in again this year, clicking, tapping, and occasionally arguing with spouses over 350,000 individual ballots spread across 278 categories.