I'm so glad someone beefed this page up and added some of Newburgh's history.  We need some mention of the riots though  I did some research and interviews several years ago, and a friend of mine did a thesis at SUNY Plattsburgh about them.  I found significant violent outbursts in 1967, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1974, 1976, and 1978, with a mass school boycott following the riot in '78.  This was a huge part of the city's reputation when I was growing up there in the '80s, and it deserves some mention.  All my teachers at NFA used to talk about them.  Maybe I'll add something when I'm coherent enough to research it and write about it well.  It would go well after the Mitchell section. 

 Also, the politics section is pretty misleading.  Newburgh has Republican politicians, but I would bet that about 99% of the residents who are registered with a party are Democrats.  The bona fide Republicans in Newburgh are a tiny, bitter minority  I lived on Bayview Terrace for a while, where right-wing ex-cop buffoon Tom Kirwan lives, and there were a few people there who liked him, but they were all afraid to walk around the corner.  The rest of those fuckers moved to the town and NW decades ago.  I mean, New York City has a Republican mayor too, but that doesn't mean it's a Republican town.  We should find a more accurate way to phrase that section.  I mean, this is also the city that elected NY state's first Black female mayor.  If Republicans win in Newburgh, it's because the Dems suck and 90% of the population is totally alienated from politics.  dylan stillwood