History
“Nyack is a lively village in winter,” Rockland County Journal, 1857 After a snowfall quiets the landscape, a new sound emerges—the shrieks and shouts...
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History
The Story of Pierre Bernard & Summer Baseball in Nyack Pierre Bernard, who formed the Clarkstown Country Club in Nyack, was an unusual and...
Arts
“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...
History
The Tappan Zee Playhouse, housed within a historic 1911 movie theater located at the corner of South Broadway and Church Street, drew crowds to...
History
Recap In the previous parts of the history of the St. George Hotel, we examined its founding, learned about its founder, restauranteur George Bardin,...
History
Nyack wears its history proudly, etched in the graceful lines of Victorian homes and the enduring façades of 19th-century brick structures. Yet, time, weather,...
Nyack People & Places
Polio has reared its ugly head again in 2022 as it did frequently every summer so many years ago when it crippled and killed...
Arts
by Bill Batson In the contest to draw an audience for the arts, Rockland County is David to the Goliath of New York City....
History
by Mike Hays It was the charity baseball game of the century. A motorcade of buses and cars from New York City brought stars...
Arts
by Bill Batson Legend has it that when Helen Hayes MacArthur first saw this fine example of Italianate architecture on North Broadway, her husband,...