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Wait a minute. Isn’t River Hook the name of the Hester Haring Cason Preserve, a public preserve owned by the Village of Upper Nyack...
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In the April 18, 2022, Flashback Friday, the e-publication of the Historical Society of Rockland County, a photograph dated 1887 along with a newspaper reprint...
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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. –Marcel Proust You don’t have to travel far...
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The hand-painted, WPA-era murals that cover most of the upper part of the high-ceiling, art deco-style Nyack Post Office have survived intact for nearly 90...
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Undercliff, the iconic 22-room, Gilded Age mansion at 649 N. Broadway in Upper Nyack that was built in 1885 by Arthur C. Tucker, lasted...
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by Mike Hays One of the saddest events of Nyack history is the day the melodic bells of the Bell Memorial Tower in South...
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by Mike Hays It’s unclear why the Nyack Postal Service chose April 1, 1899 as the day to switch from having villagers picking up...
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by Mike Hays Undercliff, or Underclyffe as it was styled in 1885, was an estate house named for its presence near or ‘under’ Hook...
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by Mike Hays It was the charity baseball game of the century. A motorcade of buses and cars from New York City brought stars...
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by Mike Hays During the Gilded Age, Rockland Lake ice, known for its purity, was so beloved in New York City that it was...