Sixty Miles Upriver: Gentrification and Race in a Small American City

An unvarnished portrait of gentrification in an underprivileged, majority-minority small city

Newburgh is a small postindustrial city of some twenty-eight thousand people located sixty miles north of New York City in the Hudson River Valley. Like many other similarly sized cities across America, it has been beset with poverty and crime after decades of decline, with few opportunities for its predominantly minority residents. Sixty Miles Upriver tells the story of how Newburgh started gentrif...