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Mid Hudson Times, Wednesday, January 31, 2018
Schumer demands CSX fix railroad
crossings in New Windsor
I n B rief
Newburgh man faces child
pornography charges
On January 30, City of Newburgh Detectives,
working in conjunction with
agents for Homeland Security
Investigations, arrested a 33 year-
old-male after an investigation
into child pornography.
Arrested
was
City
of
Newburgh resident David Morse
whowas charged with promoting
a sexual performance by a child
and possessing a sexual performance by a child,
both felonies.
Stewart business skyrocketing
Senator Charles Schumer has asked CSX to address two deteriorated train crossings in New Windsor. One is located at Route
300 and Old Temple Hill Road.
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First responders and emergency crews also need to use
these crossings, Schumer stated. “The roads around the
tracks keep deteriorating, creating huge potholes,” said
New Windsor Town Supervisor George Green. “Cars are
blowing tires and breaking axels.”
The problem gets worse in the winter time, Green said,
with the ice and snow. “The issue is CSX hasn’t done a
good job of maintaining them, and they’re located on
state roads,” explained Green. “It’s been a problem for
years.”
The areas have been covered with blacktop in the past,
but it quickly disintegrated, Green said. About five years
ago, the New York State Department of Transportation
installed a rubberized crossing at the intersection on
Route 300. A few years later, Green said, “It came apart.”
The town has contacted CSX headquarters in Miami,
Florida, to appeal for help, Green said, to no avail. “We’ve
asked everyone for help,” he said, adding, “It’s a state
road. Why should we go to all this expense to take care
of a state problem? It’s our people getting their cars
damaged.”
Moreover, Green pointed out, the railroads are largely
unused. “I haven’t seen a train come through there in
years,” he said.
So far, CSX nor the state DOT have provided a
timeframe for any permanent repairs. “If I was the CEO
of CSX and I got a call from the senate minority leader
of the U.S. Senate, you can damn well believe it would be
taken care of it expeditiously,” Green said.
Air passenger business just keeps getting better
and better at Stewart International Airport, the
airport’s manager of Properties and Business
Development Michael Torrelli told members of
the Stewarts airport Port Authority of New York
and New Jersey oversight committee Tuesday. that
passenger levels have “skyrocketed.”
Year-to-date passenger levels hit 446,323 in 2017,
besting 2016’s number of 275,103 passengers. The
big boost can be attributed, he added, to marketing
not only Norwegian airlines arrival as a low-cost
overseas service but also to the boost in local
connections bringing travelers to Stewart.
And Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s recent backing
for the Port Authority to spend $27 million on a
federal inspection station at Stewart for overseas
travelers, has added to the airport’s marketability,
said members of the airport’s Stewart Airport
Commission.
-Wayne A. Hall
Dutch Church, City Club
plans on meeting agenda
The City of Newburgh in collaboration with
Hester Street would like to invite the community to
meet and discuss the future of the Dutch Reformed
Church (DRC), the City Club and the lot on 2
Montgomery Street.
The meeting is scheduled to be held on Wednesday,
February 21, from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Activity Center
– 401 Washington Street, Newburgh.
Wall that Heals coming to Newburgh
The Wall That Heals,” a replica of the Vietnam
Memorial, along with a mobile Education Center,
will be coming to Newburgh August 2-5. It will be
open 24-hours-a-day and free to the public.
The Wall honors the more than three million
Americans who served in the U.S. armed forces in
the Vietnam War and it bears the names of the more
than 58,000 men and women who made the ultimate
sacrifice in Vietnam.