Guidebook for Newburgh
Drinks & Nightlife
Mrs Fairfax - excellent craft beers & pub food, with beautiful garden
Two Alice's - large cafe with wifi, good snacks & sandwiches, locally sourced handmade icecream
Seoul Food - Korean Cafe with lovely garden
Cafe Pitti - waterfront bistro serving excellent pizzas & other Italian food, chef was trained by an Italian master chef, since returned to Europe, & the chef from Ecuador now runs it with his wife & son, great hospitality
The Wherehouse
119 Liberty StMain St in Beacon is a highly walkable street lined with cafes, restaurants, live music bars, art galleries, antique stores, etc - walk all the way to the Roundhouse (outdoor restaurant/bar & hotel) which is a magnificent designer's dream rehab of an abandoned factory sitting right on a rushing creek heading into a waterfall & whirlpool, facing a man-made waterfall in front. Spectacular!
159 locals recommend
Beacon
Main St in Beacon is a highly walkable street lined with cafes, restaurants, live music bars, art galleries, antique stores, etc - walk all the way to the Roundhouse (outdoor restaurant/bar & hotel) which is a magnificent designer's dream rehab of an abandoned factory sitting right on a rushing creek heading into a waterfall & whirlpool, facing a man-made waterfall in front. Spectacular!
No tickets, no cover charge, no minimum drinks!
A disused 19th century button factory dismantled & moved, creating a legendary music venue/art gallery, the Falcon according to the NY Times is the “Village Vanguard of the Hudson Valley” with a programming consisting of jazz, blues, rock, folk, world music & contemporary chamber music.
Two spectacular decks present incredible views of Marlboro falls - it's a venue that rivals Beacon's Roundhouse - & wins!
86 locals recommend
The Falcon
1348 Rte 9WNo tickets, no cover charge, no minimum drinks!
A disused 19th century button factory dismantled & moved, creating a legendary music venue/art gallery, the Falcon according to the NY Times is the “Village Vanguard of the Hudson Valley” with a programming consisting of jazz, blues, rock, folk, world music & contemporary chamber music.
Two spectacular decks present incredible views of Marlboro falls - it's a venue that rivals Beacon's Roundhouse - & wins!
Front Street
Front StreetColorful restaurant-bar scene overlooking the marina & Hudson river
Arts & Culture
Washington Place
Washington PlaceDia: Beacon put Beacon & Newburgh on the map, pulling the twin cities out of post-industrial depression.
468 locals recommend
Dia:Beacon
3 Beekman StDia: Beacon put Beacon & Newburgh on the map, pulling the twin cities out of post-industrial depression.
Parks & Nature
Designed by Frederick Law Olmsted & Calvert Vaux (designers of Central Park, Manhattan) on condition it be named after their mentor Andrew Jackson Downing, an illustrious local architect/landscape designer.
Shelter House Café
123 Carpenter AveDesigned by Frederick Law Olmsted & Calvert Vaux (designers of Central Park, Manhattan) on condition it be named after their mentor Andrew Jackson Downing, an illustrious local architect/landscape designer.
Getting Around
Enterprise Rent-A-Car
451 Fishkill AveSightseeing
300 year old water mill & dwelling place restored as a small museum - the earliest known surviving Jewish dwelling in the US - built by Luis Moses Gomez, a Sephardic Jewish merchant & trader, whose ancestors had fled Portugal & Spain for France & England, escaping the Spanish Inquisition. Upon arrival in 1703, he bought land then built his home where several native American trails converged - he & his sons collected fur, quarried limestone & milled timber to send down the Hudson river.
Gomez led the way for other Jewish pioneers to settle the Hudson Valley. Together he & his cohorts financed & constructed the Mill Street Synagogue in lower Manhattan, America's oldest Jewish congregation, with Gomez (the leader of the financing effort) serving as its first president a year later.
Do call ahead to ensure a guide is available (small voluntary donation goes towards preservation efforts).
No restrictions on photographers taking pictures inside. The introductory 10 minute video is excellent.
About 10mins north of Newburgh on Route 9W.
10 locals recommend
Gomez Mill House
11 Mill House Rd300 year old water mill & dwelling place restored as a small museum - the earliest known surviving Jewish dwelling in the US - built by Luis Moses Gomez, a Sephardic Jewish merchant & trader, whose ancestors had fled Portugal & Spain for France & England, escaping the Spanish Inquisition. Upon arrival in 1703, he bought land then built his home where several native American trails converged - he & his sons collected fur, quarried limestone & milled timber to send down the Hudson river.
Gomez led the way for other Jewish pioneers to settle the Hudson Valley. Together he & his cohorts financed & constructed the Mill Street Synagogue in lower Manhattan, America's oldest Jewish congregation, with Gomez (the leader of the financing effort) serving as its first president a year later.
Do call ahead to ensure a guide is available (small voluntary donation goes towards preservation efforts).
No restrictions on photographers taking pictures inside. The introductory 10 minute video is excellent.
About 10mins north of Newburgh on Route 9W.
Shopping
Broadway
BroadwayHispanic produce market
Machu Picchu, Peruvian restaurant
Brazilian restaurant