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by Mike Hays 100 years before the advent of shared city bikes, Nyack had its own spin on the concept called the Nyack Bike....
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History
by Mike Hays Southbound Exit 11 from the New York State Thruway and Route 59 Eastbound intersect at Mountainview Avenue, creating a busy, five-point...
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by Mike Hays The hand-painted, WPA-era murals that cover most of the upper part of the high-ceiling, art deco style Nyack Post Office have...
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by Bill Batson Thirty one years ago, physicist Larry Shaw rebranded March 14 as Pi Day to celebrate the seemingly infinite number 3.14159265359. In...
History
by Mike Hays In the late 19th century, New York City’s leisure class re-made Nyack into a summer resort. The village population doubled in...
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by Bill Batson “This church is a miracle.” That is how the wife of the pastor of First Church, Evangelist Myrtle Jones, has described...
History
by Mike Hays It’s the middle of the 19th century and a lone fugitive slave has missed his “safe house” while traveling through Nyack...
History
by Mike Hays Giving your sweetie a sweet for Valentine’s Day has been a tradition since the Victorian era. And in the Village of...
Arts
by Bill Batson My first Nyack Sketch Log, published on August 23, 2011, was an early exercise in truth telling. Liberty Street is Aptly...
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The three-story brick building at 86 Main Street in downtown Nyack has a long history of family-run businesses: the Luleich Bakery, from 1896 to...