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Barons of Broadway #17 In this seventeenth installment of Barons of Broadway, we explore the final chapter of the Moorings estate at 511 North Broadway...
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Performing elephants, gaily garbed singers, flame-lit dancing near a rock grotto, lectures, piano recitals, and movies brought the 4th of July weekend in 1932...
Nyack People & Places
Leroy Frost made and lost several fortunes in the stock market in the early 20th century. One of his enduring assets was his riverfront...
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by Bill Batson Legend has it that when Helen Hayes MacArthur first saw this fine example of Italianate architecture on North Broadway, her husband,...
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by Mike Hays Dr. Pierre Bernard whose visionary yoga club in Nyack foretold today’s interest in yoga, also jumped on the aviation craze in...
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by Mike Hays In the late 19th century, Nyack was visited by elephants, acrobats, and tightrope walkers. The village was a regular stop for...
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by Mike Hays The buzzing whine of prop planes and the whir of revving engines before filled the ears of residents living near the...
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by Mike Hays It’s a long way from Nyack to the Ringling Museum in Sarasota, Fl, once the winter home of the Ringling Brothers...
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Shadowcliff is the fifth of Nyack People & Places’ Barons of Broadway series, tracing how Upper Nyack farmland was converted to large estates by...
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by Mike Hays Nyack College, 1919 to 1972 Christian hymns did battle with yoga “om”s in Nyack Heights in between WWI and WWII. There...