Community news and opinion for Nyack, NY
Rockland County is home to the largest non-profit multi-arts center in New York. The Rockland Center For The Arts (RoCA) has three galleries, a two acre sculpture park, a summer day camp, year-round performance and more than 100 courses and workshops. But despite 60 years serving the community, the … [Read more...]
Nyack, Dec 4 -- The "As Others See Us" series looks at stories about Nyack as others see us from articles and stories in blogs and news media. Here are two recent posts which give us two views of how Nyack's Edward Hopper viewed the world. One is from a fellow artist, the other provided by a … [Read more...]
Nyack, Nov 16 -- A day after the public comment period closed on the scoping plans for a new Tappan Zee Bridge, WNYC published a story called "When — and Where — Did Transit Over The Tappan Zee Bridge Go?" documenting how nine years of planning and rationale about mass transit mysteriously … [Read more...]
by Victoria Fedden We stopped because the traffic wasn't even at a crawl. It was a parking lot and we were starving and the exit was right there so I said, just get off here because at least I know where to go. I think. I think I still remember, because how long ago was 1989? But secretly it was … [Read more...]
A chance encounter by the author of IWillOnlySayThisOnce.com blog profiles Nyack's Community Garden on Franklin Street at Depew. "We passed a beautifully kept garden in Nyack, NY, fenced in, with vegetables and flowers growing in abundance. We also saw people working in the garden. We decided to … [Read more...]
If he had residency, there's no doubt that the author of The Smoking Nun could run for mayor. The "pop culture with a saucy slant" blog offered up three posts which our own Chamber of Commerce would be hard pressed to beat when it comes to your basic Nyack booster-ism. We took a spontaneous … [Read more...]
A producer at CNBC's Squawk Box recalls the heyday of the Nanuet Mall. "I remember when one of its anchor stores used to be a Bamberger's, when the parking lots were packed on weekends, and my first day of selling clothes at the Express," says CNBC's Stephanie Landsman. "Now, it's a crumbling … [Read more...]
If you are hiking The Hook this weekend, NorthJersey.com suggests you stop and see the history, too. The website of The (Bergen) Record newspaper offers this step-by-step, play-by-play account of a forgotten quarry and an old cemetery you'll find near the Knickerbocker Fire Station at Rockland … [Read more...]
The Wall Street Journal turned its business focus on Nyack this week visiting the village and about a dozen merchants downtown. If you live in the village, reading the story isn't going to tell you much you don't already know -- although it's always interesting to get an outsider's … [Read more...]
After spotting some ruins in the hills overlooking the Palisades, ScoutingNY.com published an online pictorial of a once great mansion on the Hudson. The website -- which has nothing to do with the Boy Scouts and everything to do with scouting movie locations -- offers this teasing … [Read more...]
Artist's Reception
Feb 5 from 2-5p
40 South Franklin St
Nyack, NY 10960
(845) 727-1240Hal Parker, Proprietor
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