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“There’s a man outside making a picture,” exclaimed Helen Hayes’ daughter Mary while looking out the window of their home, Pretty Penny, on North...
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Standing at a mere 5’2”, Clarence Lexow earned the moniker of the “little Nyack Senator with amusing whiskers and a grand top hat.” Nevertheless,...
Nyack People & Places
It was a spectacle that drew a crowd on a Sunday afternoon in 1885. Two women, Mrs. Shakespeare and Mrs. Harris, took matters into...
Arts
When I draw a building, the inhabitants are mostly strangers to me and the people who built the structure are like phantoms who interact...
History
It can’t be, but it is. There was once a glass house built by a sun-worshipping naturist in Nyack. Evelyn Word Provost Leigh built...
History
Part 4–– Midcentury Decline & A Stunning Rebound by Mike Hays Recap If you wanted to know what was going on in Nyack, the...
History
Part 3 ––Walkers, Bikers, Coaching Parties, & Life at the Hotel by Mike Hays Recap If you wanted to know what was going on...
History
Part 2- Restaurateur George Bardin Hosts a Presidential Dinner Recap If you wanted to know what was going on in Nyack, the St. George...
History
Part One: Bustling Burd St. & the Founding of the St. George Hotel by Mike Hays If you wanted to know what was going...
History
by Mike Hays Marydell Faith and Life Center summer camps in Upper Nyack enabled inner city kids during and after the depression to experience...