The upstate New York animator behind The Aura of Upstate on turning a podcast into an animated show — and making great films with no studio behind him.
Hundreds of Hudson Valley creatives and small business owners gathered at Scenic Hudson's Northside Hub for a magical evening.
Nearly 300 people joined ConnectHV's first outdoor meetup at Water Street Market in New Paltz for food, drinks, and Hudson Valley community connections.
Dramatic Hudson views, world-class architecture, and a waterfront that runs late.
Dramatic Hudson views, one of New York's great architectural inheritances, and a waterfront that keeps late hours.
Newburgh has some of the most dramatic views along the Hudson, its streets climbing straight up from the water to a ridge of Federal, Italianate, and Greek Revival rowhouses that make up one of New York State's largest historic districts.
The city's twentieth century was hard, with economic decline brought on by the loss of industry and communities torn apart by misbegotten experiments in urban renewal. But it’s also produced a Newburgh unlike any other Hudson Valley city: waterfront nightlife, an unmatched architectural fabric, and a diverse community of artists, makers, entrepreneurs, and community leaders.
Newburgh was a significant location in the American Revolution, an epicenter of American architecture and landscape design, and a city that has countered a difficult history of redlining and disinvestment with a strong sense of community and a commitment to the future.
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Some of the artists, photographers, designers, and builders who call Newburgh home.
Newburgh is home to a diverse community of creatives, professionals, community organizers, and entrepreneurs.
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Leon Trammell began his journey on a modest farm and went on to establish Tramco Inc.
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Wilford H. Welch, author of In Our Hands and The Tactics of Hope, has spent over five decades exploring global challenges.
What's on, what's open, what's worth your time.
The days the city fills its streets, the press telling its story, and the landmarks that reward the climb up from the river.
Annually, May
A free street festival that opens Newburgh's outdoor season each May — an urban art market, a farmers market, a wellness fair, live music, and food vendors spread along Broadway for the day.
Annually, June
The city's signature street festival, held each June along Broadway — four stages of music and dance, monumental public art, historical tours, and more than 125 food and craft vendors lining the hill toward the waterfront. Its name nods to Newburgh's past as one of the first electrified cities in the world.
Annually, Labor Day weekend
The city's longest-running festival, a multi-day celebration of Newburgh's immigrant communities at Delano-Hitch Park with international food, carnival rides, and fireworks.
Annually, late September
A free, self-guided art weekend with a hundred-plus artists opening studios across the city, overlapping the international Terrain Biennial that fills storefronts, fences, and porches with outdoor work.
Annually, October
A downtown performing-arts fringe presented by Safe Harbors of the Hudson at the historic Ritz Theater and nearby venues, with dozens of productions spanning theater, improv, puppetry, music, and dance. Launched in 2025 as the Mid-Hudson Valley's first fringe festival.
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The primary local weekly covering City of Newburgh government, schools, development, and community news, published online at timeshudsonvalley.com.
Regional daily
The mid-Hudson's daily paper of record, Middletown-based, with the most thorough day-to-day reporting on Orange County, including Newburgh.
Weekly newspaper
A Newburgh-based weekly newspaper focused on the Latino, African-American, and Caribbean communities of the Mid-Hudson Valley.
East End · since 1850
The fieldstone Hasbrouck House where Washington spent the final stretch of the Revolution, ended the Newburgh Conspiracy, and created the forerunner of the Purple Heart. Bought by New York in 1850, it was the first historic site preserved by any U.S. state.
Newburgh Landing
A revitalized riverfront boardwalk with sweeping views across to Beacon, Mt. Beacon, and the Newburgh-Beacon Bridge, lined with restaurants and a marina. The city's social hub, and one of the latest-running nightlife stretches in the Valley.
Olmsted & Vaux
Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux's final collaboration — a 35-acre park the pair designed for free, on the condition the city name it for Newburgh-born landscape pioneer Andrew Jackson Downing.
Grand Street · NHL
Alexander Jackson Davis's monumental 1835 Greek Revival temple, fronted by four 37-foot columns — his only surviving church in the style, and a National Historic Landmark long the focus of a preservation campaign.
Montgomery Street
An 1830 Greek Revival mansion with a 40-foot columned porch, built for a Hudson River shipping magnate and now the museum and archive of the Historical Society of Newburgh Bay and the Highlands.
Lake Street
An 85,000-square-foot museum of more than 600 mostly American motorcycles — including an Indian for nearly every model year from 1901 to 1953 — plus three full-sized Walls of Death.
From waterfront restaurants to studios tucked into Broadway storefronts, Newburgh's business community is one of the densest and most varied in the Valley.
A cozy cafe open for lunch, dinner, and weekend brunch, featuring comfort food focused on charcuterie, salads, and classic American entrees.
Funky gastropub with 24 taps and 50 types of burgers, offering quality food for carnivores and herbivores alike.
Tacos & Tequila in the historic West Shore Train Station, with first-come, first-serve seating.
We are a Gift Shop located in the historic district of Newburgh.
Lost & Found is a warehouse-style vintage thrift and bulk buy experience in the Hudson Valley, focused on quality secondhand clothing, curated brand pulls, and raw bale sourcing. Blending sustainable fashion with creative culture, it offers everything from premium labels to affordable everyday finds. Built around community, sustainability, and the thrill of the hunt.
Mixture Inc. is a custom merch company proudly serving the Hudson Valley Region since 2003. Specializing in Screen printing , embroidery, and direct 2 garment printing. If you live in the Hudson Valley there is a good chance you own a article of clothing made by us. Mixture has 2 locations our main hub in Newburgh and our retail direct 2 garment center located at the water street market in New Paltz. We pride ourselves in what we do and our client list proves that .
Interior Design Studio focused on adding history to homes.
Design studio and publishing imprint based in Newburgh, NY. We specialize in working with cultural and educational organizations, artists, and collectors.
A historic 1895 factory reimagined as a mixed-use hub with creative studios, coworking spaces, retail shops, and loft apartments.
Newburgh is best known as a Revolutionary War city — home to Washington's Headquarters, the first historic site ever preserved by a U.S. state — and for one of the largest concentrations of intact nineteenth-century architecture in New York. Today it is equally known for its Hudson River waterfront, a growing arts and dining scene, and the long, block-by-block revitalization of its historic East End.
Newburgh's land was home to Munsee-speaking bands of the Lenape, part of the Algonquian peoples of the Hudson Highlands. The creek that runs through the city still carries one of their words — Quassaick, meaning "stony brook" — and the surrounding country, including the Waoraneck lands along Moodna Creek just to the south, was led by sachems such as Maringamus and Awessewe. The Lenape farmed, fished, and hunted the river and its tributaries until colonial land purchases — beginning with Governor Thomas Dongan's around 1683 — and the Palatine settlement of 1709 displaced them from the area.
Yes. Newburgh Landing offers a walkable riverfront promenade with panoramic views of the Hudson, Mt. Beacon, and the Newburgh-Beacon Bridge, plus a cluster of waterfront restaurants and a marina. It is the city's most popular spot for dining, strolling, and warm-weather festivals — and it stays lively later than almost anywhere else in the Valley.
It is Newburgh's largest historic district — roughly 445 acres with about 2,200 contributing buildings — covering much of the southeastern quarter of the city. Listed on the National Register in 1985, it holds more historic resources than any other federally recognized district in New York State, and includes Washington's Headquarters.
Newburgh sits about 60 miles north of the city on the west bank of the Hudson, roughly 90 minutes by car via I-87 (the Thruway) or I-84. There is no direct passenger rail into the city itself; many visitors take Metro-North's Hudson Line to Beacon on the opposite shore and cross the Newburgh-Beacon Bridge by car or rideshare.
Late spring through early fall is ideal, when the waterfront is busiest and the city's signature events run — the International Festival on Labor Day weekend, Open Studios in late September, and the Empanada Festival in October. December brings the Holiday Parade and Tree Lighting downtown.
The waterfront concentrates several restaurants — the upscale seafood spot Blu Pointe, the barbecue-and-live-music Billy Joe's Ribworks, and Hudson Taco in the historic 1909 West Shore train station. For dining off the water, Liberty Street is the city's restaurant row. You can browse the full list on the ConnectHV Newburgh directory.
World-class modern art, a boutique-lined Main Street, and incredible access to the Hudson Highlands.
Historic colleges, a thriving culinary scene, and the world's longest elevated pedestrian bridge.
The first capital of New York and a gateway between the Hudson and the Catskills.
America's oldest art colony, a music-history landmark, and a walkable village on the edge of the Catskills.
A whaling port turned design capital, where a mile of nineteenth-century Warren Street climbs from the river.
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