Community news and opinion for Nyack, NY
The death of Fleming Taylor has put Nyack's Starbucks (store #7449) on the map. Marketing guru Tim Manners wrote a nice piece about our Starbucks, and how it serves as a model for the chain for future success. There is a sense of community at the coffee house, and it's more than just the … [Read more...]
There's alot of money for improving America's infrastructure in the Obama Administration's stimulus package. But instead of bucks there's bupkiss for building a new Tappan Zee bridge. The Tri-State Transportation Campaign says the TZB gets its some funds ($234 million) but those dollars are for … [Read more...]
The long wait for Nyack's newest restaurant is over. Main Essentials, located on Main Street between Midland Ave. and the Wachovia bank, opened a couple weeks ago. It is Enrique Almonte's second restaurant, who grew up in Haverstraw and started a vegan, Caribbean restaurant there. The food is … [Read more...]
Early retirement buyouts for county employees will cut $3.75 million from Rockland County's budget in 2009. About two in ten employees of the 610 employees eligible for early retirement elected to take the buyout offer. County Executive C. Scott Vanderhoef told the Journal News "we've met our … [Read more...]
Irving Feiner, a legendary Nyack school/property tax reform advocate, died January 23 at age 84. Feiner has a long history of activism, and actually is mentioned in Wikipedia for his court case against New York State on his claim that his First Amendment rights were violated when he was … [Read more...]
All registered Democrats in that reside in the Village of South Nyack are invited to attend a Democratic Caucus for the purpose of nominating candidates for office in the South Nyack election to be held on Wednesday, March 18, 2009. The following offices are up for election: Mayor: 2-year … [Read more...]
Local officials will speak out against the MTA's proposed June increase in fares for trains, tolls, buses and subways on Friday morning at the Metro-North station in Pearl River. Rockland legislators including Sen. Thomas Morahan, Assemblywoman Ellen Jaffee, Assemblyman Kenneth Zebrowski and … [Read more...]
The Village of Nyack and the Nyack Parks Conservancy host a public meeting on Wednesday January 21 at 6pm in the Nyack Center to discuss plans for Memorial Park. The Nyack Parks Conservancy will present plans to rework the present site to make better use of the recreational space for both … [Read more...]
The need to be part of todays remarkable events in some way brought me to the little barn on Mill Street in Nyack late this afternoon. The old stable slowly, but issistently, being converted to an exhibit celebrating the 19th century Underground Railroad seemed like an appropiate place to be on … [Read more...]
Happy Martin Luther King Day! Nyack is a pro-Obama town and between MLK day and the inauguration, there will be plenty to do this week. It is time to celebrate being an American. Riverspace has a two day celebration starting today at 10am. To follow Obama's call to action today, you can give … [Read more...]
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