Newburgh, New York
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Wikimedia Commons: City of Newburgh, New York Newburgh / nu b r / is a town/city located in Orange County, New York, United States, 60 miles (97 km) north of New York City, and 90 miles (140 km) south of Albany, on the Hudson River.
Newburgh is a part of the New York urbane area. The Newburgh region was first settled in the early 18th century by the Germans and British.
During the American Revolution, Newburgh served as the command posts of the Continental Army.
Prior to its chartering in 1865, the town/city of Newburgh was part of the town of Newburgh; the town now borders the town/city to the north and west.
East of the town/city is the Hudson River; the town/city of Beacon, New York is athwart the river; and it is connected to Newburgh via the Newburgh Beacon Bridge.
The entire southern boundary of the town/city is with the town of New Windsor.
2.2 Newburgh Colored Burial Ground At the time of European contact the region of Newburgh was occupied by the Waoranek, a branch of the Lenape.
The region that became Newburgh was first explored by Europeans when Henry Hudson stopped by amid his 1609 expedition up the river that now bears his name.
In 1743 a ferry at the foot of First Street had been established between Newburgh and Fishkill Landing. In 1752 the territory had been surveyed by Cadwallader Colden and titled "Newburgh" after Newburgh in his native Scotland. Shipyards were established and docks and warehouses lined the waterfront.
Newburgh was the command posts of the Continental Army from March, 1782 until the latter part of 1783. While the army was camped at Newburgh, some of its senior officers began the "Newburgh conspiracy" to overthrow the government.
Washington received the famous Newburgh letter from Lewis Nicola proposing that he turn into king here.
In honor of his refusal of that suggestion, Kings Highway, the north-south street on which the Newburgh command posts is located, was retitled Liberty Street. Woodcut of Newburgh horizon from Hudson in 1842, with Dutch Reformed Church, then with its initial dome and lantern The year 1793 saw Newburgh's first newspaper, The Newburgh Packet.
When Rockland County was split from Orange County in 1798, Newburgh and the other suburbs north of Moodna Creek were put in a redrawn Orange County.
Newburgh thus lost its status as the governmental center of county to Goshen.
The former Ulster County courthouse still stands as Newburgh's old town/city courthouse building (currently used as municipal office space).
By 1793 there were four sloop lines operating out of Newburgh.
By 1819 a steamboat on Cayuga Lake connected Newburgh stage lines with Ithaca.
In 1830 Richard Carpenter of Newburgh had the steamboat William Young assembled at Low Point; it ran between Newburgh and Albany. Prosperity returned with the arrival of the barns s.
The Erie Railroad charter was amended April 8, 1845 to allow the building of the Newburgh Branch, running from the chief line near Harriman north-northeast to Newburgh, also on the Hudson River.
The branch opened January 8, 1850. It was later used as a connection to the New York and New England Railroad via a car float operation athwart the river to Beacon, New York.
Newburgh was chartered as a town/city in April 1865.
Newburgh had telephone service in 1879. In 1883 there was a steamboat landing on Second Street.
With its situation on the Hudson River, midway between New York City and Albany, it became a transit hub and an industrialized center.
Nutt made this comment about Newburgh: "The year 1891 finds us the most grow town/city on the Hudson, with people full of spirit of enhance enterprise, with enhance establishments comparatively unequalled, and with apparently every factor and requisite to ensure its bright future as a manufacturing and commercial town/city of importance..." Newburgh was home to the second Edison power plant, installed to power 126 lamps at the Orange Woolen Mill, and was the second American town/city (after New York's Pearl Street) to have a street lighted using electricity. Broadway, which at 132 feet (40 m) in width is one of the widest streets in the state of New York, runs through the town/city culminating with views of the Hudson River.
Newburgh was one of the first metros/cities in the nation to fluoridate its water in 1945. A town/city on a slope over a body of water with larger buildings at the left and center right.
In 1963 the Newburgh Beacon Bridge was opened, carrying Interstate 84 and spanning the Hudson River, bypassing the Newburgh waterfront and the City of Newburgh altogether.
In 1962, Lloyd's Department Store became the first primary shopping center in the Town of Newburgh.
In 1964, the Mid Valley Mall opened, also outside of the town/city limits in the Town of Newburgh, and thriving many long-established small-town businesses away from the waterfront and downtown City of Newburgh.
Other retail shopping malls soon sprang up, all also outside the City of Newburgh, and the retail portion of the City was doomed.
The town/city continued to lose its previously well regarded retail zone along Water Street and Broadway to the suburban shopping malls, which did not share the City's congested parking and traffic enigma or the perceived rising crime rate.
The city's historic waterfront area, an region composed of a several square blocks which encompassed various historically momentous buildings, was completely completed between 1970 and 1973.
To this day, the blocks which slope down to the river remain open, grassy slopes, offering sweeping views of the Hudson but generating no property taxes for the city.
Below, the waterfront was advanced in the late 1990s after the town/city was once again able to secure grants from the state's Environmental Protection fund for riprap (a type of stone) to stabilize the shoreline.
City manager Joseph Mitchell attending the Newburgh City Council in 1961 In the early 1960s, town/city manager Joseph Mc - Dowell Mitchell and the council thriving nationwide consideration and the admiration of political conservatives when they attempted to require welfare recipients to pick up their payments at police headquarters.
Newburgh in the early 21st century is more racially diverse than it used to be, as a burgeoning Latin immigrant (mainly of Mexican descent) populace complements the city's sizeable African American contingent.
Pockets of poverty persist in the city, often mere blocks away from its many historical and architectural landmarks.
In addition to this, the town/city has been facing issues regarding illegal immigration, like many other metros/cities athwart the United States, ranging from overcrowded apartment buildings to mild ethnic conflict.
In spite of this Newburgh is experiencing a spurt of new businesses on its historic Liberty Street near Washington's Headquarters.
This is all in the midst of the redevelopment of East Parmenter Street in a partnership with Habitat for Humanity and a private developer to build 24 new homes.
The town/city has instead of the overhaul of the transit framework of the street.
Newburgh's preservation history can be traced all the way back to 1850 when Washington's Headquarters was designated a state historic site, the first in the country.
The Historical Society of Newburgh Bay and the Highlands was chartered by the State of New York.
The David Crawford House, on Montgomery Street, assembled in 1834 by Captain, is the current home of the Newburgh Historical Society.
The city's undivided preservation accomplishments began when the Dutch Reformed Church, a Greek Revival structure designed by Alexander Jackson Davis, was slated for demolition as part of urban renewal after the congregation left the decaying building in 1967.
The boss to stop it led to the evolution of a historic district, now the second biggest in New York State.
The church was added to the National Register of Historic Places three years later, and in 2001 became the city's second National Historic Landmark after Washington's Headquarters.
The town/city was designated a Preserve America improve in 2005 and it also signed an agreement with the State Office of Historic Preservation as a Certified Local Government community.
Its East End Historic District, recognized by the National Register of Historic Places as that and the Montgomery-Grand-Liberty Streets Historic District, has the most contributing properties of any historic precinct in the state.
The city's historic architecture, featuring historic designs by Calvert Vaux, Andrew Jackson Downing and Frederick Law Olmsted, has thriving a stable core of preservation-minded improve activists willing to invest spend time and cash in renovating property.
Located on Broadway, the Belknap home was assembled around 1750 as is the second earliest home in the city.
Newburgh Colored Burial Ground is a historic cemetery and nationwide historic precinct positioned at Broadway and Robinson Avenue.
Washington's headquarters, Newburgh, New York New York State Armory These homes on Chambers Street show the two faces of intact Newburgh: both historic, one newly renovated, the other exemplifying urban blight.
The town/city is on the west bank of the Hudson River.
There are some notable hills in outlying areas, such as Overlook Terrace in the city's southeast corner and Mount St.
The lowest altitude in the town/city is sea level along the river; the highest is roughly 690 feet (210 m) on Snake Hill along the city's southern boundary with the Town of New Windsor.
Newburgh is positioned at (41.503193, 74.019636). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 4.8 sq mi (12.4 km2).
As of the 2010 United States Census, there were 28,866 citizens , 9,030 homeholds, and 6,051 families residing in the town/city of Newburgh.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 33.2% under the age of 18, 12.7% from 18 to 24, 28.8% from 25 to 44, 16.1% from 45 to 64, and 9.2% who were 65 years of age or older.
The 2000 census found that two of the city's five census tracts are among the poorest in the entire state.
In 2004 the state declared it one of the state's five most "stressed" cities, based on a mix of statistics like families headed by single mothers, abandoned buildings, unemployment, inhabitants under the poverty line and grownups without a high school diploma. Newburgh has seven propel officials, a mayor and six town/city council members, four propel by ward to four-year terms, staggered so that the mayor and two at-large councilmembers are up for re-election one year and four others, by ward, two years later.
It was anticipated that in November 2007, Newburgh voters would decide on whether to split Newburgh into eight wards and elect one councilmember from each ward.
In 1915 it became one of the first American metros/cities to delegate routine governmental authority to a town/city manager.The mayor accepts all legal process and often serves as the symbolic head of the city, but other than that has no special powers or part .
The town/city manager, who appoints all other town/city officials subject to council approval, serves at their pleasure.
In January 2009, Jean Anne Mc - Grane, the first woman to hold the position, was fired for, among other issues, withholding an unfavorable federal report on the city's mishandling of two HUD grants from the City Council in the midst of the consideration of a $6 million bond, the 2009 town/city budget and the 2009 CDBG funds.
The town/city has had five mayors and eight town/city supervisors (five if two who served twice are counted only once) since 2000.
Ciaravino was appointed City Manager of Newburgh on May 19, 2014 by unanimous vote of the City Council. A recurring complaint has been that, clean water taking direction from council, some town/city supervisors have exploited divisions among members to turn it into a rubber stamp for their policies and actions and render themselves unaccountable.
There have been proposals to change the situation by assigning council members to or eliminating the town/city manager's position.
In May 2016, the town/city requested help for its PFOS contaminated waterworks under Superfund; The origin of the contamination is unknown. Representative Sean Patrick Maloney demanded Emergency Action after EPA announced PFOA and PFOS Standards for Drinking Water, and called Stewart Air National Guard Base being "the most likely source" of contamination. These tensions were only aggravated when the council chose the city's Republican chairman at the time, Harry Porr, as the new town/city manager.
Even with demographics and urban trends favoring Democrats, the voters of the town/city had until recent years regularly voted athwart party lines.
The late Thomas Kirwan- Republican, a resident who served in the New York State Assembly until 2008 and was re-elected in a prosperous comeback bid in 2010, by one of the smallest margins in state history (15 votes).
Accordingly, the Council is now 5-0 Democrat the first time in memory one party monopolizes the City government.
An autonomous documentary was made in 2004 about the mayoral race in Newburgh, called Saving Newburgh.
Newburgh has now declared itself a sanctuary city. The City of Newburgh is protected by the firefighters of the City of Newburgh Fire Department which has 70 members and operates out of two citywide firehouses.
Newburgh's Fire Department is one of the earliest chartered departments in New York State being established by an act of the young state council on March 24, 1797.
The earliest Newburgh fire companies were the Protection Engine Company, Cataract Engine Co., Washington Engine Co., and Empire Hook & Ladder.
In March 1889, the town/city purchased and installed a undivided electric telegraph fire alarm fitness with 23 alarm boxes placed around the city, these boxes are still in service today.
As horses were phased out of service, Ringgold Hose on Colden Street was the first of Newburgh's companies to get a motorized fire truck in 1907.
As early as 1915, editorials were calling for the establishment of a paid fire department to assure the response necessary for a densely populated and heavily commercial and industrialized city like Newburgh.
In 1934, the volunteer companies disbanded, and a experienced department was instituted by resolution of the City Council.
The First Baptist Church of Newburgh was established in 1834. Richard Charlton was sent from England to be a missionary to the citizens of New Windsor in then Ulster County (later Newburgh in Orange County).
The first Catholic service in Newburgh took place around 1816 when Mass was said in the home of Henry Gilmore on Western Avenue (now Broadway) by Rev.
Philip O'Reilly made Newburgh the base from which he served other communities. St.
A contemporary church building was instead of in December 1842 and formerly dedicated by Bishop John Hughes of New York in 1849.
During his tenure the Newburg Wheelman's Club Building, designed by Newburgh architect Frank E.
In 1957, a new elementary school housing both male and female students was assembled at 157 Liberty St.
It is positioned in the Town of Newburgh, not the city.
In 2005, the Archdiocese of New York decided to close St.
The citizens of the church, and of the Newburgh improve as a whole, rose up in protest and the Archdiocese withdrew the proposal.
Father William Scafidi, the pastor and arguably the most prominent improve leader in Newburgh at that time, was transferred by the Archdiocese to a church church in Liberty, New York.
In December 1908, Father Francis Fabian, pastor of Immaculate Conception Parish in Rondout visited Newburgh.
Seeing that there the town/city had only two churches serving a large Catholic population, Fr.
Meetings were held and funds were raised and on April 22, 1909, Archbishop John Farley of New York appointed Fr Fabian pastor of the new congregation.
The church interval so quickly that two year later excavation was begun for a new contemporary church on a hill east of the rectory.
Services were continued in the old chapel until September 1, 1913 when the new church was dedicated.
Gallo came to Newburgh to minister to the spiritual needs of the Italian-speaking citizens who had been attending Mass at St.
The first Mass was jubilated in the new church on the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, December 8, 1913. Rev.
See also: Poughkeepsie Newburgh Middletown urbane region Colleges and universities In 1978 students at Newburgh Free Academy, the city's enhance high school, boycotted classes.
Newburgh is served by the Newburgh Enlarged City School District. The small-town high school is called Newburgh Free Academy or "NFA", and is the biggest enhance high school in Orange County.
It serves approximately 3,000 students in grades 9-12 from the Newburgh area.
Two universities are positioned in Newburgh, Mount Saint Mary College and the Newburgh ground of SUNY Orange.
House of Representatives (March 4, 1895 March 4, 1899) and Governor of New York State (1900 1904) Newburgh, New York was ranked more dangerous than 95 percent of US metros/cities by website Neighborhood - Scout, based on 2012 FBI crime data. This group also ranked Newburgh as the 10th most dangerous place to live in the United States based on the same 2012 dataset. It was ranked at number 12 in the previous year's rankings. In 2010, the New York Times wrote an extensive article on gang activeness in Newburgh. Metro North Railroad is accessible via the Newburgh Beacon Ferry amid peak hours joins to the Hudson Line, with incessant service to Westchester County and Grand Central Terminal in New York City.
There is also service on Metro North Railroad close-by in Salisbury Mills-Cornwall on the Port Jervis line to Hoboken Terminal and Secaucus Junction in New Jersey with a connection to Penn Station in New York City.
Short Line, part of Coach USA, provides daily service down Route 32 to Central Valley and points in New Jersey and New York City.
New York State Route 32 and U.S.
New York State Route 17 - K and New York State Route 207 also reach their easterly termini inside town/city limits.
Interstate 84 passes just north of the town/city and the New York State Thruway is not far to the west.
Delano-Hitch formerly served as the home field for the Newburgh Black Diamonds and Newburgh Nighthawks baseball teams.
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