TIMES
MID
City
homicide
Newburgh resident dies
in Benkard Ave. shooting
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Vol. 28, No 13
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MARCH 30 - APRIL 5, 2016
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‘Beautiful space’
‘People’s Waterfront’ opens for 2016 season
By SHANTAL RILEY
[email protected]
A shooting on Benkard Avenue took
the life of a 51-year-old man last Friday. It
is the first homicide this year in the City
of Newburgh, and the second shooting
to take place on Benkard Avenue in little
more than two months.
Glenton A. Wright was killed when he
was shot near 50 Benkard Ave. on March
25. City of
Newburgh
WHAT: Public forum on
police said
gun violence in the City of
the incident
Newburgh
took
place
WHEN: 12 p.m., Sat., April 2
around
9:15
WHERE: City of Newburgh
p.m.
There
Activity Center, 401
were
no
Washington St.
other
people harmed
in the shooting. Wright was pronounced
dead at the scene.
City residents describe Wright as a
gentle, family man. “The only thing he
was guilty of was getting out of the car,”
said Omari Shakur at a City of Newburgh
Council meeting Monday. Calling on parents, he said, “You need to get control of
your children. The children are running
the streets.”
Wright’s widow attended the meeting bereft and leaning on crutches. “My
10-year-old had to witness this,” she said,
not giving her name. “My baby, I don’t
know what to tell him… This is not fair.
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Shantal Riley
The “People’s Waterfront” at the former Consolidated Iron site on the Hudson River.
By SHANTAL RILEY
[email protected]
A rugged, scenic stretch of waterfront
was opened up to the public earlier this
month. The “People’s Waterfront” offers
more than seven acres of open field and
stunning views of the Hudson River.
“It’s a beautiful space,” said Newburgh
City Planner Ali Church on Saturday.
Visitors walked the parcel for the
first time since it came off of the
Environmental Protection Agency’s
National Priority List of Superfund
sites. “It has been remediated to the recreational level,” said Church.
The land hasn’t yet been developed
to the level of a municipal park, said
Church, but once the land was deemed
safe by the EPA, “the idea was to just
open it up to the public.”
Standing in the park at the edge of
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the Hudson River over the weekend, visitors were treated to views set against
the Hudson Highlands. “I’m glad it’s all
cleaned up,” said Dave McTamaney at
the river’s edge. “It needs some clearing,” he said, swatting at clumps of wild
sumac.
McTamaney said he didn’t want to see
the site become over-developed. “I don’t
want to see it turn into a place where
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