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At midnight on May 29, four huge ceremonial watch fires will light up Rockland County night skies as they have for the last 35...
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Edward Hopper’s famous painting Nighthawks is one of the most iconic American paintings of the 20th century. The question arises as to whether Hopper depicted an actual...
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Nearly 200 years ago, a fire destroyed a large Catholic seminary and church in Upper Nyack just before it opened. Surprisingly, some cheered when...
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It was a spectacle that drew a crowd on a Sunday afternoon in 1885. Two women, Mrs. Shakespeare and Mrs. Harris, took matters into...
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Picture postcards served as the text messages and Snapchats of their pre-digital time. Thousands of different images appeared–and still do–on postcards, from natural wonders...
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Most of us give little thought to two adjoining block-length structures that we have passed thousands of times on Main and Bridge Streets in...
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Clausland Mountain, located between Nyack and Sparkill, is named after a Native American who took on the Dutch name Jan Claus. Despite its geographical...
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Scenes: Nyack – De Graff’s drug store, Old Gedney Street Lock-up Date: Night of June 4, morning of June 5, 1891 Personae: John Harrington, stranger, Gorge Miller,...
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Part 1 The History of Gedney Street in the 19th Century For about 50 years, a small, shabby building, not much more than a...
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Aromas of peach, apple, and melon reached the drawing rooms of Nyack’s mid-century Victorian homes during springtime in the 1860s when thousands of local...