Arts
by Dave Zornow This week the Nyack Sketch Log is one year old. Author/artist Bill Batson’s weekly sketches and short essays have captured our...
Hi, what are you looking for?
Nyack News & Views
All posts tagged "Nyack History"
News
by Tal Axelrod Eating fish from the Hudson River was once safe and healthy. But according to the EPA, that’s no longer the case:...
News
by the Palisades Interstate Park Commission Today is National Lighthouse Day! It was on this day in 1789, that Congress approved an Act for...
Arts
by Bill Batson This house was saved from destruction in the early 1970s by an ad-hoc coalition that included neighbors, Rotarians, labor unions, students...
Mario Cuomo Bridge
Nyack Aug 4 — That Big Bridge whose tolls are going to triple is the subject of two current historical exhibitions — and a...
News
by Loisa Fenichell Where North Broadway in Upper Nyack ends, Nyack Beach State Park begins, offering 76 acres to leisurely stroll, jog, walk your...
News
by Bill Batson “This church is a miracle.” That is how the wife of the pastor of Hollingsworth Memorial, Evangelist Myrtle Jones, has described...
News
by Bill Batson The YMCA is such a ubiquitous institution they practically own a letter of the alphabet. The Y gained global brand identification...
Mario Cuomo Bridge
by Bill Batson The next two exhibits at Hal Parker’s Corner Frame Shop present important pieces of Nyack history — an appropriate topic for...
News
by Bill Batson When a gas main exploded on North Broadway on Thursday June 21 releasing a 25-foot pillar of flame, it was the...