The big local controversy recently was whether Nyack should have its traditional fireworks display on New Year's Eve. Evoking many close and divisive decisions by our Supreme Court, the Village Board on August 28 voted 3-2 not to fund the fireworks on New Year's Eve. Voting against, citing … [Read more...]
How to Recycle Different Types of Plastic
This article was taken from about.com The confusion over what we can and cannot recycle continues to confound consumers. Plastics are especially troublesome, as different types of plastic require different processing to be reformulated and re-used as raw material. Some municipalities accept all … [Read more...]
2010 Auto Green Might Be Red, White And Blue
If there was a list for the highest Prius per capita town's in America, Nyack would certainly rank in the top ten. But Toyota's automotive green grip on the village might be in for a challenge if GM can have their new hybrid Volt road-ready for the announced production date of 2010. GM celebrated … [Read more...]
Snuff those gas leaf blowers
I know that I'm not the only one who hates those mind-numbingly loud gas powered leaf blowers. Other people have talked to me about it. Look, we're in a compact village with small lots, and there are a couple dozen properties close by that when those things are running, I have to close all … [Read more...]
Nyack TZx Stop Moves on Monday 9/15
Attention commuters: Nyack's downtown Broadway stop for the Tappan Zee Express is on the move. The TZx stop at South Broadway and Depew is moving two blocks south. Beginning Monday, September 15th, Coach USA and Tappan Zee Express buses will stop at the corner of South Broadway and Cedar Hill … [Read more...]
Pretty Penny Hosts Nyack Parks’ Fundraiser
Pretty Penny is the place for for an early evening event to benefit the Nyack Park Conservancy on Saturday, September 13 from 6p to 8p. Nicholas Quenell of Quenell Rotschild, whose landscape architectural projects include Governors Island, Henry Hudson Park, Ghiardelli Square and the Cloisters, will … [Read more...]
New Style on Main Street
There's a major makeover for Main Street in the works complete with benches, new crosswalks and altered access to the municipal parking lot by Riverspace. Landscape architect Michael Hakim from Hakim Associates in Harrington Park, NJ presented sketches and photographs describing the three-year … [Read more...]
Sept Means Back To School (Taxes)
Nyack Resident Irv Feiner received his 2009 school tax bill last week. And taking a page from Network's Howard Beale, he's as mad as hell and not going to take it anymore. September 4, 2008 It is pointless to write another polemic outlining the injustices of the property tax system. It is time … [Read more...]
Nyack’s New Look: Tonight
Plans for Nyack's downtown streetscape will be on public display Thursday night at 7pm in the Nyack Center. The new design, more than three years in the making, is a collaboration of the village's Merchant's Committee, the Chamber of Commerce and the Nyack Village Board. … [Read more...]
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