NEWBURGH – The City of Newburgh’s police headquarters is known to have structural issues and a serious mold problem and city officials have been struggling with finding alternative locations for law enforcement facilities.
The cost of constructing a new building is prohibitive, but Orange County may be coming to the rescue.
The county is currently leasing space in the former armory on Broadway and County Executive Steven Neuhaus and Mayor Torrance Harvey believe that building would make an ideal police station.
Harvey said it has a number of advantages.
“It would be a deterrent to crime, more visibility, almost central in the center of Broadway right in our downtown area, but it is not so far east or downtown on Broadway that you are almost at the river, which is where they are right now,” he said.
Neuhaus said a number of issues would have to be resolved with the current owners.
At present, the county district attorney, social services and probation departments lease space in that building.
