Community news and opinion for Nyack, NY
by Dave Zornow For those of you old enough to remember Johnny Carson and Carnac The Magnificent, this random list might sound like it had been stored in an envelope in a mayonnaise jar under Funk And Wagnalls porch. Twenty years after Carson's last show, lists are now more likely to be found on … [Read more...]
by Dave Zornow Nyack, March 31 -- Two Nyack River Villages wrote to the Tappan Zee Bridge project director last week with concerns about higher tolls, lost tax revenue, missing mass transit and improperly vetted environmental impacts. "The Village of Nyack asserts that the [TZB draft … [Read more...]
by Dave Zornow The Tappan Zee Bridge Greenway, an ambitious initiative by Greenburgh Town Supervisior Paul Feiner and White Plains Councilwoman Milagros Lecuona to turn the existing TZB into a path for pedestrians and bikers, died a quiet death last week when the NYS Department of Transportation … [Read more...]
"Your Thruway Bridge is now formally open with another 25 miles of the longest, safest, best-engineered super highway in the world. Another historic chapter to the rich heritage of New York State and its cross-state thruway." It's hard to believe, but this vintage promotional footage from the NYS … [Read more...]
Nyack, March 6 -- Hours before a final NYS DEC public hearing about United Water's plan to build a desalination plant in Haverstraw, the water company received a vehement scolding from New York State Assemblywoman Ellen Jaffee (D-Suffern) about misleading ads running in a local newspaper. Calling … [Read more...]
by Dave Zornow Although there’s no truth to the rumor that Andrew Cuomo ends each Tappan Zee Bridge meeting with the words, “May The Political Force Be With You,” he did perform a feat worthy of Obi-Wan Kenobi last week. New York’s governor used only four words to inspire the public, … [Read more...]
by Dave Zornow Nyack, Feb 16 -- The NYS Comptroller's Office made it official: no good deed goes unpunished. The State Comptroller has cited the Village of Nyack for insufficient oversight of the Nyack Center when it paid for a summer program for Nyack School District kids from lower income … [Read more...]
NYSDOT Green Lights DEIS; Environmentalists Fume $16 Tolls On The Way? by Dave Zornow Nyack, Jan 27 -- The New York State Department of Transportation released the Tappan Zee Bridge Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) this week and found no reason to back off Governor Cuomo's … [Read more...]
Nyack, Jan 26 -- On Saturday and Sunday mornings after the bars close, Nyack's sidewalks are a mess, covered in cigarette butts, litter -- and worse. Nyack's Village Board is considering a revised parking plan that would generate new revenue to clean up the streets while also giving the evening … [Read more...]
by Dave Zornow Nyack, Jan 25 -- When members of the Occupy Rockland movement drive home from their meeting tonight in Spring Valley, it's more likely that they will be listening to Aerosmith than Adele. Although local support for Occupy Wall Street is about equal to the national average, … [Read more...]
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