Rescue Me: 2 Liberty Street

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This building is located at 2 Liberty Street, directly in front of the Liberty Street School. Right now it is pretty much a shell as the roof has collapsed. Liberty Street is the focus of the revitalization epicenter in Newburgh. This property would be a great addition to the movement. It was bought in 2004 by Hudson Valley or Renaissance LLC for $15,000 from the City of Newburgh. Today it just sits vacant, deteriorating, and doing nothing for the community.

If you need a little inspiration for what this place could become, check out this before and after in Brooklyn.

Newburgh is New York State’s second largest historic district after NYC. Newburgh literally has hundreds of dilapidated and abandoned buildings just begging for someone to come scoop them up and restore them. I’ll continue to post my own photos, but if you have a particular building you would like to see saved, email me the photo of any building you appreciate that you would like to see rescued!

 

4 Comment

  • This is one of the problems with the City of Newburgh, they sold this building for $15,ooo dallors 9yrs ago now the owners want 3 times that amount, what happen to the rule that the new owner had 18 months to repair it ? Now they’er trying to make a profit off the building without putting anything into it this is crimial. I’m a commerial and residential capenter, experienced in all types of construction and I’ve grown up in Newburgh and will love to take on some of buildings here,but because of these pratices it blocks out people like me from coming to the rescue of Newburgh.

  • This is one of the problems with the City of Newburgh, they sold this building for $15,ooo dallors 9yrs ago now the owners want 3 times that amount, what happen to the rule that the new owner had 18 months to repair it ? Now they’er trying to make a profit off the building without putting anything into it this is crimial. I’m a commerial and residential capenter, experienced in all types of construction and I’ve grown up in Newburgh and will love to take on some of buildings here,but because of these pratices it blocks out people like me from coming to the rescue of Newburgh.

  • Please everyone keep your eye on the Liberty Street School, a Frank Estebrook building that has been derelict for years. It has gone back and forth between the city and Dr. Jerome H. Blue who, for the second or third time took possession of the building on March 25, 2013. He has, I believe 4 months before he must commence work on the building. I heard he plans on making it into condos or low income rental units. That quadrant could be really beautifulas the entry into the Heights. Tear down the building that has collapsed and put in a community garden, reinvigorate the school (a tremendous amount of work needed) and turn that beautiful building with the arch into a restaurant and bookshop for the neighborhood.

  • Please everyone keep your eye on the Liberty Street School, a Frank Estebrook building that has been derelict for years. It has gone back and forth between the city and Dr. Jerome H. Blue who, for the second or third time took possession of the building on March 25, 2013. He has, I believe 4 months before he must commence work on the building. I heard he plans on making it into condos or low income rental units. That quadrant could be really beautifulas the entry into the Heights. Tear down the building that has collapsed and put in a community garden, reinvigorate the school (a tremendous amount of work needed) and turn that beautiful building with the arch into a restaurant and bookshop for the neighborhood.