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Barons of Broadway #12 In a stunning twist in 1958, the carriage house at Under Elms, Wilson Foss’s grand estate, became the home of...
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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 Mike Hays The aroma of a clambake permeated a grove of trees near the Northwest corner of Rockland Lake in 1874 as some...
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by Mike Hays If Nyack was once called the “Gem of the Hudson,” then the gem of that gem must have been the 4.9-mile...
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by Mike Hays “We certainly need it. I don’t see how there can be any opposition. Go to it and do it quickly.” This...
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by Mike Hays “A-l-l A-b-o-a-r-d” was announced so loud that it could be heard from the ferry landing to the top of the Nyack...
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by Mike Hays 3 sharp blasts from the Peerless Finishing Company’s factory whistle announced that Harry Atwood, birdman extraordinaire, would fly his biplane on...
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by Mike Hays Widewater is the fifth of the Nyack People & Places’ Barons of Broadway series, tracing how Upper Nyack farmland was converted...