11/22/21 4:20pm

You are cordially invited to the THIRD annual shopping crawl in the City of Newburgh! 

Spend the day strolling between shops and restaurants all while enjoying the unique experience the city has to offer. Purchase one-of-a-kind gifts while enjoying sales, specials, and a chance to win various raffle prizes!

Due to Covid-19 the event took a break in 2020. For this year, 2021, we are so pleased to announce that 40 businesses will be participating in Shop Small Saturday, four of which opened this year alone! Many of these locations were once closed to the public for decades. Now they will be opened for all to enjoy and gather in celebrating new beginnings in Newburgh. 

This is an opportunity to support local businesses, coming together to strengthen our community and shopping districts. 

What: Shop Small Weekend
Where: Downtown City of Newburgh. Register at Grit Works, 115 Broadway
When: November 27 and 28, 2021, 11am-5pm

Small Business Passports:

  1. Register and sign up for your Shop Small Passport in Grit Works, 115 Broadway, starting at 11am.
  2. Get your passport stamped at every business* you visit. For every 5 stamps you earn you will receive one raffle ticket. Look for the white and blue balloons. *Restaurants require purchase. 
  3. Bring your stamped passport back to Grits Works or Newburgh Mercantile prior to 7pm for your chance to win a raffle prize basket.

Participants Include:  

2 Alices Coffee Lounge, APG Pilates, Attallah Drip, Blacc Vanilla, Blanca’s Tailoring, Craft Draft, ColorCube, Cream, DMU Music, Estilo Muñeca, Field Trip, Casa De Fxdes, Gnostic, Grit Works, Krispy Kuts, Hale’s Hardware, Hendley & Co, Hudson Valley Beauty Lab & Medi Spa, Hudson Valley House Parts, Kabil & Noil, Krispy Kuts, Liberty & Beauty, Liberty Street Bistro, M. Lewis Boutique, Mama Roux, Ms. Fairfax, Newburgh Art Supply, Newburgh Brewing Company, Newburgh Flour Shop, Newburgh Mercantile, Newburgher HQ, Next Wave Food Truck, North Plank Road Tavern, Seoul Kitchen, Shapiro’s Furniture Barn, Society of Lash, Spirits Lab Distilling Co, Terrace Tavern, Toasted, Wherehouse Restaurant, Yoga with Bibi and more! 

Please distribute widely. We can’t wait to see you there! 

Check out the turn out from 2019 and 2018.

05/20/20 9:48am

April 30th 2020, This IS Newburgh from Ruedi Hofmann on Vimeo.

Sadly, Ruedi Hofmann, Ann Stratton, and their family is leaving Newburgh. They have done some amazing projects while they were here, one of my favorites being Pivotal Newburgh. Their neighbors are going to miss them too. On April 30th they got a text from their neighbor. This video shows what followed.

In Ruedi’s words, “What else is so amazing to see in the video, in this little group there is such tremendous diversity of age, religion, race, gender identity. Amazing and wonderful. God, we will forever miss what we have found in Newburgh.”

Photo by Newburgh photographer Walt.

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02/24/20 11:30am

Photo by Newburgh photographer TeeJay Melvin.

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02/04/20 7:00am

The Newburgh Community Land Bank is accepting RFP’s for 102-104 Washington Street. A vacant shell that is just around the corner from the Liberty Street corridor and Washington’s Headquarters. This is an exciting opportunity to bring another building back to life in this central corridor. According to the Land Bank:

The goal is to encourage a project that builds upon and complements the recent growth in the City of Newburgh, while maximizing the development potential of the site through historic preservation, adaptive-reuse, and/or new construction. Project proposal should maximize the highest and best use of the site, with appropriate commercial, residential or mixed-uses, and create an inviting street presence on Washington Street near the downtown Liberty Street Corridor. Projects with a community-oriented component, providing amenities such as affordable housing, community space or similar, will be given special consideration

Clinton Hotel in 1906

If you would like to read an article about the history of the building, click here.