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SERVING NEWBURGH AND NEW WINDSOR
Affordable housing
Planning board approves Mid Broadway project
Free PFOS
blood testing
Tests offered to
residents in November
By SHANTAL RILEY
[email protected]
The site of the future Mid-Broadway housing complex.
By SHANTAL RILEY
[email protected]
After years of setbacks, a long-delayed
plan to build an affordable-housing
development on Broadway was approved
by the City of Newburgh Planning Board
this month.
The Mid-Broadway Project is expected
to see the building of 91 affordablehousing apartments and two retail
spaces, including a 12,000-square-foot
grocery store between Johnston and
Lander streets. The planning board
voted to approve the project at a meeting
on Oct. 18.
The vote was made two weeks after
attorneys for developer Mill Street
Partners presented the city with a notice
of default, threatening a $31-million
lawsuit if it did not follow through with
a land development agreement approved
in 2012.
The action was triggered, in part, by
the planning board’s decision to table a
vote on the approval of the project last
month. In September, the Newburgh
City Council also tabled a resolution in
support of the project, which attorneys
said Mill Street needed in order to receive
financing from the state. The council,
however, voted to provide support for
the project at its meeting on Oct. 10.
The building is designed to house
one-, two- and three-bedroom units.
The building will offer green-energy
features including a geothermal system,
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The New York State Department of
Health is offering free blood tests to
City of Newburgh residents throughout
the month of
N ove m b e r.
WHERE: Cornerstone
The tests are
Family Healthcare,
being offered
located at 147 Lake Street,
following PFOS
Newburgh, NY
contamination
of the city
WHEN:
water supply
Tuesday, Nov. 1
earlier
this
Wednesday, Nov. 2
year.
Thursday, Nov. 3
Residents
Saturday, Nov. 12
may schedule
Saturday, Nov. 19
blood-test
appointments
WHERE: Harper Health
by calling the
at Cornerstone Family
state DOH at
Healthcare, located at 290
518-402-7950.
Broadway, Newburgh
Tests will be
administered
WHEN:
at Cornerstone
Monday, Nov. 7
F a m i l y
Thursday, Nov. 10
Healthcare on
Lake Street and
For appointments: call
Harper Health
518-402-7950 or email
on Broadway.
[email protected]
The tests are
being offered
after months of heated effort by local
and state officials to have free blood tests
made available for city residents exposed
to perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) in
city drinking water.
PFOS was detected in and around
the city drinking-water reservoir at
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