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by Mike Hays You can call Jim Skelley, owner of Nyack Bicycle Outfitters, Mr. Longevity. His bike shop is probably the oldest Nyack business...
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by Mike Hays Southbound Exit 11 from the New York State Thruway and Route 59 Eastbound intersect at Mountainview Avenue, creating a busy, five-point...
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by Mike Hays The hand-painted, WPA-era murals that cover most of the upper part of the high-ceiling, art deco style Nyack Post Office have...
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by Mike Hays Marydell Faith and Life Center summer camps in Upper Nyack enabled inner city kids during and after the depression to experience...
Health & Wellness
by Mike Hays “Find your drishti,” Allison Egan Datwani asks of her yoga class at Birchwood Center in Nyack as they assume tree pose asana. Drishti,...
Arts
by Mike Hays On April 3, the Jacob Burns Film Center in Pleasantville will screen Marta Renzi’s feature-length film, Her Magnum Opus. The movie was filmed...
History
by Mike Hays Nyack’s first brewery, first cemetery, a school, its first east-west road, and a site with a Native American ghost legend were...
History
by Mike Hays Hal Parker has framed tens of thousands of oil paintings, watercolors, posters, photographs, line drawings, athletic jerseys, and other ephemera. Not...
History
by Mike Hays In the late 19th century, New York City’s leisure class re-made Nyack into a summer resort. The village population doubled in...
News
by Mike Hays In the late winter-early spring season, when maple sap begins to rise up from the tree roots to the branches, Native...