Newburgh, N.Y.: Onetime Jewel of the Hudson River
As many New Yorkers discovered during the pandemic, this Orange County city doesn’t just have good bones, it is magnificent and still fairly affordable.
By Julie Lasky
Dec. 16, 2020
Eight years before she moved up to Newburgh, Cher Vickers started a blog called Newburgh Restoration. Writing from the Bronx and then Amityville, N.Y., she sang the praises of this city of 28,000 in Orange County that not so long ago was called the “murder capital of New York.” Many of the posts featured luscious Victorian houses some intact, others not so much each a representative of the state’s largest historic district outside of New York City.