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Mid Hudson Times, Wednesday, September 13, 2017
City breaks ground on long-awaited skate park
By SHANTAL RILEY
[email protected]
The City of Newburgh has finally broke
ground on a long-awaited skate park at
Delano Hitch Park. The skate park has
been eight, long years in the making.
“This is about our family,” said state
Senator Bill Larkin Jr. at a ground-
breaking ceremony on Friday. “Let’s go
skating.”
The 5,620 square-foot skate park is
being constructed in the northwest corner
of Delano Hitch, next to the Newburgh
Activity Center at Washington and Lake
streets. Construction is expected to wrap
up in December, said city Director of
Community Development Ellen Fillo. “We
anticipate an opening soon after that,”
said Fillo.
The park will feature smooth skating
areas, stairs, benches, rails and ledges. A
small horseshoe pit will be removed at the
site during construction, Fillo explained.
An adjacent playground will remain.
“After so many fits and starts, we are
finally going to build the skate park that
so many young people have requested,”
Newburgh Mayor Judy Kennedy stated in
an email following the ceremony. “I count
this as a great win for Newburgh.”
The $600,000 skate park was paid for
with $500,000 in federal Community
Development Block Grant (CDBG)
funding and $100,000 of New York State
Dormitory Authority funding through
Sen. Larkin’s office.
The skate park was first championed
A new skate park at Delano Hitch Park will feature stairs, benches, rails and ledges. (Courtesy City of Newburgh Planning Dept.)
by a group of Newburgh youth skating on
a paved area behind Dunkin’ Donuts on
Broadway and Wisner Avenue. The area
was eventually closed off by the property
owner.
“Young skaters used to plead with
the city council,” skate-park supporter
Roxy Royal recalled. “We used to fear our
children would get hit in the street,” she
said, noting all the young skateboarders
skating in city streets.
After years of efforts to secure
financing for the park, skate-park funding
was reallocated to pay for street lights
and street video surveillance following a
bump in homicides last year. Many young
skaters who lobbied for the park had, by
Boil-water notice in effect for Liberty St., Elmwood Pl
The City of Newburgh has issued a
boil-water alert for residents using city
water in a two-block area on Liberty
Street between Elmwood Place and
Nicoll Street, and on Elmwood Place
from Liberty Street to Powell Avenue.
The alert was triggered by a 12-inch,
water-main break caused by a private
contractor at Elmwood Place and Liberty
Street earlier this week. “We were
required to issue this notice because we
lost pressure,” City Manager Michael
Ciaravino said on Monday night.
“The
Orange
County
Health
Department recommends that all water
from this supply be rapidly boiled for at
least two minutes prior to use for either
drinking or food preparation purposes,”
a city press release stated Monday.
Affected residents may also use bottled
water until the notice is lifted, the city
states.
The boil notice affects about two dozen
properties. City Water Superintendent
Wayne Vradenburgh said lab tests may
take days to produce results allowing the
county to approve a lift of the boil-water
notice.
“We will continue to test the quality
of our water and work diligently with the
Orange County Health Department to
ensure the safety of our water supply,”
the city statement read.
To view a map of affected residences,
visit the City of Newburgh website at
Cityofnewburgh-ny.gov and click on the
boil-water notice posted to the homepage.
Contact the City of Newburgh Water
Department at 845-565-3356 or the Orange
County Health Department at 845-291-
2331 for more information.
- Shantal Riley
then, moved away from the city and onto
college.
But, at a meeting held by the city
Planning Department in July, a new crop
of skaters expressed their opinions on
a proposed skate-park design. “We just
want it to get built,” said skater Treasure
Jackson, cutting to the chase.
Created by Grindline Skateparks, the
skate park design allows for a build-out
of the park if and when the city can
procure additional funding in the future,
Fillo said.
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