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by Mike Hays “It shows how much one man can do,” said Judge Paul Phinney, in 1986, when the South Nyack fitness trail on...
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by Mike Hays Undercliff is the second the Nyack People & Places’ Barons of Broadway series tracing how Upper Nyack farmland was converted to...
Nyack People & Places
by Mike Hays Once an overgrown terminus of a forgotten railroad on Franklin Street, the Nyack Community Garden has become exemplary of the community-minded...
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by Mike Hays It was May 1886, and a 8 ½-foot, 239 pound sturgeon was suspended from a tree for villagers to view in...
Nyack People & Places
by Mike Hays “It all started with the willow trees,” says Karen Tarapata, of her journey from a concerned resident to becoming the Village...
Arts
by Mike Hays “There’s a man outside making a picture,” exclaimed Helen Hayes’ daughter Mary. It was November, 1939, at Pretty Penny, the family’s...
Nyack People & Places
by Mike Hays “I feel like a million bucks when I leave there,” says one regular customer about his haircut from Florim Sadriaj at...
News
The Story of Larchdell by Mike Hays The barons arrived like a flock of hungry migrating birds devouring Upper Nyack’s farmland by building large...
Nyack People & Places
by Mike Hays Mikki Baloy was born in a small Catskill town called Neversink. The town’s name comes from a Native American phrase (“mad...
Food
by Mike Hays There’s a photo from 1900 of the saloon owner Otto Hahn standing proudly on his porch beneath a large sign advertising...