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by Bill Batson The Nyack Library is an example of one of the most epic philanthropic gestures of the early 20th Century. Andrew Carnegie...
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by Bill Batson More than 200 years ago, Nicholas Green and Tunis Depew sowed the seeds that would become the Nyack Library. A membership fee...
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by Bill Batson When we turn on the faucet or flush the toilet, the water always flows. We may not know the exact source, or...
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by Bill Batson Two years before Abraham Lincoln was sworn in as president, St. Philip’s A.M.E. Zion Church was founded in 1859 by abolitionist John...
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by Bill Batson The building in Haverstraw that was the subject of Edward Hopper’s 1925 painting “House by the Railroad” still stands proud. The...
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by Bill Batson The man who built this house, with the benefit of slave labor, laid much of the foundation for the village we...
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by Bill Batson Not every beautiful old house in Nyack merits its own historic marker. For other properties, the traditional historic marker is not...
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by Bill Batson This is the house where Martin Luther King would have slept. Were it not for an assassin in Memphis in 1968,...
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by Bill Batson Until recently, painters in Nyack were second-class artisans. Nyack’s musicians could fine-tune their instruments at Long Island Drum Center. Local writers...
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by Bill Batson In 1884, Nyack, NY was a bustling river community and the commercial heart of Rockland County. This sketch is from a...