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The Story of Miller Dairies by Mike Hays The clinking of glass bottles and the firm snick of a silver insulated metal box lid...
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by Mike Hays First a creaking. Then a sudden crescendo of metal-on-metal screeches, wood timber groans, and grinding brakes filled the air as tons...
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Shadowcliff is the fifth of Nyack People & Places’ Barons of Broadway series, tracing how Upper Nyack farmland was converted to large estates by...
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by Mike Hays Before the first Tappan Zee Bridge and the George Washington Bridge, there was a winter express route across the Hudson River...
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by Mike Hays During the Great Blizzard of 1988 when only one milkman was able to make a few of his deliveries, 879 cans...
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by Mike Hays Once upon a time, one of the largest and most important local industries in Nyack was ice harvesting, so called because...
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by Owen Voutsinas-Klose Why does Nyack have a perpetually vacant pedestrian mall in its downtown? How did Nyack’s housing projects come to be, and...
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by Mike Hays After a snowfall quiets the landscape, there’s a noise. The shrieks and shouts of children riding sleds. Nyack took special pride...
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By Mike Hays Before SUVs and all-wheel drive cars, navigating Nyack’s hilly unplowed roads in the winter was made possible using locally made horse-drawn...
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by Mike Hays Electricity was in the air on Friday night July 8, 1887. The full moon paled by comparison. Villagers celebrated. Bands paraded...