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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 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 Much like Beth Harmon’s photographic memory of chessboards in Netflix’s The Queen’s Gambit, Upper Nyack’s Department of Public Works employees have...
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by Mike Hays Nyack is no North Pole, but historically it has not lacked in wintertime attractions. Not only was Nyack home to the...
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by Mike Hays Dancing, hats, noisemakers, all night openings, turkey sandwiches, pizza, swing bands, dinners, movies, dreams of ski jumping, parties at home, and...
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by Mike Hays Akimbo [def.}: adv. 1. With hands on the hips and arms turned outward, 1.1 (with other limbs) flung out widely or haphazardly....
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by Mike Hays Dr. Pierre Bernard whose visionary yoga club in Nyack foretold today’s interest in yoga, also jumped on the aviation craze in...
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Part 4–– Midcentury Decline & A Stunning Rebound by Mike Hays Recap If you wanted to know what was going on in Nyack, the...
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by Mike Hays For the last 16 years, Marydell Faith and Life Center, located at 640 N. Midland Ave. just beneath Hook Mountain, has...
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by Mike Hays We think of Black Friday as a relatively recent invention created by malls and e-tailers, but the idea of shopping after...