The team existed from 1995 to 1996 and played its home games at Delano-Hitch Stadium in Newburgh.
The Night Hawks were one of the six original Northeast League franchises in 1995.
They lost the league championship to the Albany-Colonie Diamond Dogs three games to one.
[1] The team would feature former big leaguers, Joel Bennett and Ken Dixon They averaged better than 1,000 fans per game.
At the end of the 1996 season, new team owner Jeff Kunion, unhappy with the progress of plans to improve aging Delano-Hitch Stadium, decided to fold the team.