Mike Diago remembers Lodger, Leon Johnson’s community enclave in Newburgh, whose various functions ranged from restaurant to soup kitchen, gallery to print shop, book bindery, community center, business incubator, and teen workshop.
By Mike Diago
If you walk north from Broadway in Newburgh up the quieter side of Liberty Street, you’ll reach a spot where the bluestone pavers bulge over the roots of a Norwegian Maple—the largest tree on the block. Under its canopy, there’s a 19th-century, three-story rowhouse with a storefront, number 188.…
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