Nyack People & Places
by Mike Hays It was May 1886, and a 8 ½-foot, 239 pound sturgeon was suspended from a tree for villagers to view in...
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Arts
by Mike Hays “There’s a man outside making a picture,” exclaimed Helen Hayes’ daughter Mary. It was November, 1939, at Pretty Penny, the family’s...
News
by Bill Batson This year, St. Philip’s A.M.E Zion Church on the corner of North Mill and Burd Streets celebrates 160 years of worship....
History
by Mike Hays Arthur Halliman, foreman of the Nyack Evening Journal, felt everything rocking in the newspaper office two blocks away from the American...
History
by Mike Hays Nyack is no North Pole, but historically it has not lacked in wintertime attractions. Not only was Nyack port to the...
News
by Bill Batson Yesterday, people of all races and religions gathered for the observance of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday at Pilgrim...
News
by Bill Batson Were it not for an assassin in Memphis in 1968, our nation’s Nobel Prize winning champion of nonviolence would have turned...
History
by Mike Hays Before the first Tappan Zee Bridge and the George Washington Bridge, there was a winter express route across the Hudson River...
News
by Bill Batson The Y gained global name recognition by opening over 2,500 branches across the United States since 1851. But one could argue...
History
by Mike Hays The boys were back in town. The soldiers and sailors in their khaki and blue uniforms could be seen in Nyack...