With a space shuttle fly by, a Flash Sketch Mob, a N. Broadway fire and a year-round Farmer’s Market, it was a year of firsts. And then we had a hurricane.
Thanks to photographers Arnold Roufa and George Potanovic, Jr. and Kris Burns for sharing some of their photos from 2012.

On Apr 27, the Space Shuttle Enterprise made a U-Turn in the skies above Nyack on its way to a landing at JFK Airport.
Credit: ©2012 Dave Zornow

The Nyack Marketing Association, a coalition of downtown merchants, businessses and non-profits, created a new design for a “brand new Nyack” to complement the completion of the Main Street streetscape project.



paint and draw Broadway as part of the world’s first Flash
Sketch Mob. Credit: ©2012 Arnold Roufa

The blaze was caused when an O&R contractor struck a low-pressure gas main. Credit: ©2012 Dave Zornow

Fireworks on the Fourth of July at Nyack’s Memorial Park.Credit: ©2012 Arnold Roufa

In June, the Rockland Water Coalition collected 24,000 signatures to protest United Water’s plan to build a desalination plant in Haverstraw.
Credit: ©2012 George Potanovic, Jr.

Hopper Happens 2012 included pop-up galleries, projections and films in unlikely places.
Credit: ©2012 Kris Burns.
The Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in Palisades held their annual “hands on and up close” Open House in October. Credit: ©2012 George Potanovic, Jr.
