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by Mike Hays In the late 19th century, New York City’s leisure class re-made Nyack into a summer resort. The village population doubled in...
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by Mike Hays It’s the middle of the 19th century and a lone fugitive slave has missed his “safe house” while traveling through Nyack...
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by Mike Hays Giving your sweetie a sweet for Valentine’s Day has been a tradition since the Victorian era. And in the Village of...
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Before SUVs and all-wheel drive cars, navigating Nyack’s hilly unplowed roads in the winter was made possible using locally made horse-drawn sleighs. Nineteenth century sleighs...
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The Nyack Record Store Project Begins Jan 15 In Nyack, this Martin Luther King Jr. Day marks not just a remembrance of America’s foremost...
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by Art Gunther NYACK, N.Y. — It has been a long time since I haunted Nyack’s Main Street as a shopper. Once, my parents shopped...
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by Mike Hays One hundred years ago, Nyack experienced one of its coldest winters ever. December 1917 was already cold before December 30 when...
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by Mike Hays Christmas 100 years ago was a bittersweet time. America entered WWI in April. Many Nyack fathers, brothers, and sons were absent...
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by Dave Zornow This Friday marks the 62nd anniversary of the day New York State Governor Averell Harriman and Actress Helen Hayes joined the...
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by Mike Hays The beautiful Nyack Rowing Association boat house reduced to splinters. River Road washed out. Memorial Park covered with debris. The Hook...