T IMES
MID
HUDSON
Vol. 31, No. 30
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JULY 24 - 30, 2019
Broadway
in your
backyard
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Newburgh residents cite concerns at public hearing
Almost every seat in the City of
Newburgh’s Activity Center at Delano-
Hitch Park was filled on July 16, after the
Planning Board held a public hearing to
hear residents’ opinions on the possible
granting of a special use permit to
revitalize the Regal Bag Building on Water
St. and to create a parking lot across from
the Regal Bag Building at Broad St.
If this permit is granted, the blacktop
of this parking lot would replace the
greenery that leads to Newburgh’s
Historic District. This project is being
helmed by philanthropist Bill Kaplan.
Before the public hearing began,
Justin Dates, a landscape architect for
the engineering and consulting design
firm Maser Consulting, presented the
proposed actions that this project would
take.
“We have a project site made up of
three tax parcels that equal about 5.2
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SERVING NEWBURGH AND NEW WINDSOR
Future of historic bag factory at stake
By ILYSSA DALY
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acres in size,” said Dates. The plan called
for a complete overhaul of all six floors
in the Regal Bag Building. The top floor
would be used as an assembly space.
Floors five, four, three, and two would all
be repurposed into artist studios. Dates
proposed that there would be 20 studios
per floor, to account for 80 studios in
total. The ground level of the Regal Bag
Building would be for storage purposes.
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Cooling off
Bygone
era
Gully’s, once a staple
of city nightlife, slowly
sinks into the Hudson
By ILYSSA DALY
Blistering summer afternoons were
soothed by savory food and chilled beer.
Head banging to live music. Colorful
dance parties. Uncontrollable laughter
with friends and family. Unforgettable
nights that, turned into, well, nights
that you’d have no memory of. This all
happened at Gully’s Restaurant during its
heyday in the 1990’s and 2000’s.
To put it simply, Gully’s was a diamond
in the rough. It was opened by Ralph
Rizzio with the help of Gail Guimares
more than 30 years ago. It didn’t take
long to become an extremely popular
destination in Orange County.
Before Gully’s was bought by Rizzio, it
was used as a barge that would run various
materials up and down the Hudson River.
Then, after it was purchased, Rizzio
turned the barge into a restaurant and
bar, complete with space for dancing and
live music that floated on the Hudson
River, right on Newburgh’s waterfront.
As of now, the barge sits on the Hudson
River, discolored and decrepit. The barge
is held to land by the miracle of some
dirty rope and a crane. But, it’s clear--
the former restaurant is slowly sinking
With temperatures climbing high into the 90s, the Delano Hitch pool was popular this past Friday and Saturday.
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