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by Mike Hays On a Sunday stroll along Nyack’s North Broadway as the leaves begin to turn and fall, blue houses emerge from behind...
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by Mike Hays The aroma of smoldering seaweed perfumed the September air in the hills above South Nyack as the President arrived for a...
History
by Mike Hays The chainsaws worked overtime as workers removed 22 towering, 90-year-old linden trees along N. Broadway in front of the Summit School...
History
by Mike Hays A century ago, near downtown Nyack, the Haven Country Club was a retreat for professional women. Nyack had two other country...
Nyack People & Places
by Mike Hays England brought Win and Betty Perry together for the first time. They went to a student co-op mixer in September of...
History
The first Monday of September was declared a national holiday in 1894. But Labor Day 1918, at which point Americans were used to their...
News
Whether it’s baking desserts for his Hudson House restaurant, rowing nearly every day on the Hudson River, or carving new art deco bas reliefs,...
Food
The 150-year Saga of the House You Know As Home to Art Café by Mike Hays The Art Café and the red-and-blue painted Italianate-style house...
Arts
by Mike Hays Sparks fly in Eric David Laxman’s studio on Mountainview Avenue. Sanding is one of the final stages in the creation of...
Arts
How Edward Hopper’s Teenage Cycling in Nyack Led to a Little-Known Painting by Mike Hays The idea for the 1937 painting, French Six-Day Bicycle...