Nyack People & Places
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...
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A truck containing hazardous chemicals overturned on 9W around 1975, polluting a natural spring in Grand View that was the source of an 80-year-old...
Nyack People & Places
Even many long-term village residents have no memory of a large iconic mural in downtown Nyack. “Welcome to Nyack” was painted by Nyack High...
Nyack People & Places
Before SUVs and all-wheel drive cars, horse-drawn, locally-made sleighs navigated Nyack’s hilly unplowed roads in the winter. Nineteenth century sleighs were not like those depicted...
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Leroy Frost made and lost several fortunes in the stock market in the early 20th century. One of his enduring assets was his riverfront...
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When 88 meant XOXO One hundred years before internet dating was invented, telegraph operators at the Nyack and Piermont train stations fell in love over...
Nyack People & Places
“Once, my parents shopped here, back when there was no suburbia nearby and downtowns were meccas with a bunch of shoe stores, several pharmacies,...