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A history of a changing waterfront landscape People come to Nyack’s Memorial Park for many reasons. Some fish along the shoreline or walk onto...
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A Sophisticated Store in a Muddy Village In the 1890s, boys still played ball in vacant lots along Main Street, cattle wandered nearby, and...
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When the Cars Came to Nyack By the early twentieth century, the Hotel St. George stood at the center of life along Burd Street....
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How a riverfront hotel rose with the steamboat era and became the center of village life. On a summer evening in the 1890s, Burd...
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How a 1955 plan to expand Memorial Park into the Hudson River, then reinvent it as a marina, restaurant, and heliport, collapsed and left...
Arts
A century before shared city bikes, Nyack had its own version of a hometown ride, the “Nyack Bike.” These bicycles were not app-based or...
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A local story of slavery, labor, and life after emancipation The Old Stone Meeting House In Upper Nyack, completed in 1813, was built in...
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Hidden beneath streets and buildings, Nyack Brook still flows. In a few places, it breaks through, offering rare glimpses of a lost landscape. What...
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A devastating factory explosion killed workers and shook the village. Yet the disaster may also have spared Nyack’s waterfront from decades of industrial pollution....
History
When the Randolph era ended, the 1879 brick building at Main and Franklin began a new phase of adaptation. Many residents today associate 143...