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Vol. 28, No 41
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SERVING NEWBURGH AND NEW WINDSOR
Mill Street Partners threaten $31M lawsuit City police
By SHANTAL RILEY
[email protected]
Mill Street Partners has threatened to
sue the City of Newburgh over what it
describes as the breach of an agreement
to build a mixed-use, affordable-housing
development on Broadway.
“We thought that everybody agreed that
both the city and Mill Street had entered
into the (land development agreement)
and both parties would uphold their
respective commitments,” said Mill
Street attorney David Cooper of Zarin
and Steinmetz.
Cooper appeared before the Newburgh
City Council last week, days after the
city was served with a notice of default
threatening a $31-million lawsuit.
The “Mid Broadway Project” site is
located on Broadway between Lander and
Johnston streets, and slated to include 91
affordable-housing apartments and two
retail spaces, including a 12,000-squarefoot grocery store.
The
site
requires
extensive
environmental remediation to remove
rubble, fuel tanks and portions of old
foundations located underground. The
property will also need clean-up of
chemicals from a former dry-cleaning
business.
“Mill Street has diligently pursued its
approvals, as it is required under the LDA,
and has provided the city with every piece
of information, technical study, analysis,
empirical data, plans etc. that have been
asked of us throughout that process,”
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Feast of Saint Francis
awarded
grant to
investigate
non-fatal
shootings
By SHANTAL RILEY
[email protected]
Rev William Damroth, pastor of The Church of St. Francis of Assisi in Newburgh, blesses the pets of parishioners, Saturday, as part of the
church’s observance of the Feast of St. Francis of Assisi. More photos on page 42.
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City of Newburgh Police will begin to
focus on non-fatal shooting cases thanks to
a grant from the New York State Division
of Criminal Justice Services. A year-long
pilot program will assist city police by
paying for two investigators and one crime
analyst completely devoted to the task.
“The City of Newburgh, for no cost,
will get two investigators and one crime
analyst for least for one year,” said city
Police Chief Dan Cameron.
The unit will be made up of one
City of Newburgh Police detective, a
detective from the Orange County District
Attorney’s Office and one crime analyst.
The unit will use long-term investigation
techniques more likely to yield a
“dangerous person not committing just
one crime but multiple,” said Cameron at
a meeting of the city council last week.
“Across the state, and actually across
the nation, uncooperative shooting victims
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