On Saturday, Sept 24th at 9am, the Newburgh Rowing Club will be hosting the 1st Annual Great Five Mile Kayak Challenge at Ward Brothers Park in Newburgh, NY. The event will commemorate the “Great Five Mile Rowing Match” of 1867 and will support increased public access to the Newburgh waterfront, assist with our shoreline restoration efforts, and allow us to continue to offer our Learn-to-Row Programs to the surrounding communities. Click here for more details.
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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 […]

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Photo by Newburgh photographer TeeJay Melvin. Add your own photos depicting city life to the Newburgh Restoration Flickr pool to be used on the blog, or email me. **Flickr users please do not forget to remove disabling of downloading of pictures otherwise, I can’t use them** Please do not take photos for your own use without consulting the photographer.


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 […]