The public is invited.
By Nancy Peckenham
This Sunday, the public is invited to attend a kick-off of the Holiday season with a celebration of the Greening of Broadway, a concept promoted by a group of business and civic leaders to reclaim a key section of the city’s battered landscape.
Earlier this month, the Greater Newburgh Partnership unveiled its plans to bring in better lighting and security cameras to a section of the city that extends north from mid-Broadway. Buildings are scheduled for demolition and ideas are being tossed around about the best use for the large city-owned parcels of empty lots.
Work soon started on the project, with volunteers and city workers tearing down a chain link fence that obstructed the area and cleaning and leveling the abandoned lots. On Tuesday landscapers and city DPW workers could be seen planting fir trees on the empty lot, a sign that a ‘greening’ was at hand.
The greening of Broadway was underway on Tuesday as workers planted a dozen evergreen trees.
Get involved in what’s happening in your city by dropping by this Sunday at 3:30 pm to Broadway between Lander and Johnston Streets for what organizers of the Greater Newburgh Partnership say will be “community, celebration, refreshments.’
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