Lodger in Newburgh is hard to place in a tidy box. It is, in the broadest sense, a community incubator—a place where people come to break bread, learn crafts, hear music; a hub of collaboration where the Venn diagram of area creatives, farmers, and students overlaps.
Despite its oft-mentioned challenges, this river city is trying to pilot a course that brings economic development without rampant gentrification and disenfranchisement.
Rocky the stowaway owl brought Saugerties national
attention back in 2020, but its the town’s creative and entrepreneurial residents that really fuel its fire.
In March 2021, seasoned New York City restaurateurs Matt Kliegman and Noah Bernamoff purchased the former Swiss Hutte property in Hillsdale. The nearly 100-year-old, seven-acre property, which sits at the foot of Catamount Mountain, which reopen in April as a four-season, family friendly inn with 14 guest rooms plus a 75-seat onsite restaurant, 45-seat bar, swimming pool, saunas, and hiking trails.