History
Nyack History A to Z explores the village’s past one letter at a time. This week, national attention focused on the underground tunnels beneath...
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Was the destruction of St. Joseph’s Seminary an accident — or an act of anti-Catholic hatred? Flames lit the hillside above the Hudson as...
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How Rockland County farmers rushed millions of berries to New York City In early June, the air along Nyack’s waterfront carried a signal that...
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A landform once stood in downtown Sparkill. Not a distant ridge or Hudson River bluff, but a steep, flat-topped rise beside the railroad tracks....
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A history of a changing waterfront landscape People come to Nyack’s Memorial Park for many reasons. Some fish along the shoreline or walk onto...
History
A Sophisticated Store in a Muddy Village In the 1890s, boys still played ball in vacant lots along Main Street, cattle wandered nearby, and...
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When the Cars Came to Nyack By the early twentieth century, the Hotel St. George stood at the center of life along Burd Street....
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How a riverfront hotel rose with the steamboat era and became the center of village life. On a summer evening in the 1890s, Burd...
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How a 1955 plan to expand Memorial Park into the Hudson River, then reinvent it as a marina, restaurant, and heliport, collapsed and left...
Arts
A century before shared city bikes, Nyack had its own version of a hometown ride, the “Nyack Bike.” These bicycles were not app-based or...