There’s a Nyack Village Board meeting Thurs at 7:30 which includes a special presentation on the Esposito-Gesner trail in South Nyack as part of the Hudson Valley Greenway.
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The New Yorker senior editor and staff writer Hendrik Hertzberg writes about receiving Catcher In The Rye as assigned reading when he was a junior at Suffern High School in a 2/17 blog post on The New Yorker’s Website.
My eleventh-grade clique at Suffern High School, in a corner of Rockland County, New York…was in transition from post-Civil War rural to pre-Vietnam War suburban. The year was 1959.
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“Only two months up and running, Café Barcel, in Nyack, seems to have established a sweet compact with locals,” writes Alice Gabriel in the NY Times. She offers high praise for the restaurant’s buñuelos and the rest of the restaurant’s Latin fusion fare. Continue reading →
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David Clayton-Thomas, the front man for the 1970’s rock’n brass band Blood Sweat & Tears, fell in love with a car. But as the expression goes — if you love something let it go…if it was meant to be, it will show up some day in a car show room…in Nyack?
The famous car in question is an Audi A8 Sport luxury sedan which Clayton-Thomas first purchased in 2001. He told the Toronto Globe and Mail it was love at first drive. Continue reading →
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Nyack, Dec 18 — Former Invesco portfolio manager Nidia Alexander knows what it takes to succeed in big business. Now she’s trying her hand at small business, opening Café Barcel on at 162 Main Street in Nyack.
“Yes, the economy is struggling,” Alexander tells business Website WestFair Online. “Nyack is having its share of struggles, too. But the economy has been through this before and has bounced back, and we are going to bounce back again.”
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The Halls and Jeanette Corvino are South Nyack neighbors with homes for sale. Jeffrey and Sharon Hall have listed their home with Wright Brothers Realty, but Ms. Corvino is trying to sell it herself as a “for sale by owner.” Here’s a NY Times case study in Nyack featuring the pluses and minuses of each approach. Continue reading →
The Orlando Sentinel has a piece about a chance meeting between two former Nyackers living under new names in new places. Both have influenced many who followed their work over the years.
“I’ve always loved this small-world story from a column years ago,” says Orlando Sentinel entertainment columnist Commander Coconut. “Local TV anchor Carole Nelson was having a pre-show chat with songwriter Rupert Holmes, a guest on her noon newscast, and noticed he was from Nyack, N.Y., a town she was familiar with, and after a bit, she looked at him more closely and said, “David Goldstein? Continue reading →
AAA New York has published a Bridges To Watch list based on structural examinations from traffic safety experts. The Tappan Zee edges out the Kosciuszko and the Goethals bridge as one of “three worst bridges” in the NY Metro area.
“[The] Tappan Zee tops the list due to its very poor physical condition and lack of shoulders. Made of substandard steel during the Korean War. Approaches built on piles made of wood that are constantly eroding,” says AAA Car and Travel magazine.
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Nyack, Nov 16 — “Green really is safer and better for your kids and for children the world over,” says author Lynda Fassa. She’s also the babies and families expert on Discovery Networks’ Planet Green channel. “Understanding the environment and our positive place in it is the gift we will leave for our kids.” Lynda and Hossein Fassa have opened Green Babies in Nyack as the flagship retail location for their online cotton baby clothes business. The storefront is at at 10 Piermont Ave near the foot of Main Street.
by Dave Zornow
Today’s Journal News editorial provides a good overview of Nyack’s post-election challenges.
The village’s problems are similar to other Lower Hudson Valley municipalities struggling through a rough recession. But as Nyack is a showcase village, its problems seem to loom larger.
Now, the mayoral winner, Richard Kavesh, must start team-building, so the new Nyack village board can avoid the rancor-fueled stagnation that has led to half-cooked decisions and molasses-slow action.
We learned a few things about ourselves in the last few months. Old rivalries can separate people who share the same goals. History, some of it private and deeply personal, is often the subtext for vigorous conversations between the players.
But it’s time to move on and begin anew.
by Graham S. Jones, II
The Super Block is a good idea, but it requires government funding and support which will be wonderful if and when it is obtained. In the interim, Riverspace, a great venue, is closed. The wonderful theater needs to be rescued by people with dedication to volunteering to operate the theater and the assistance of those with deep pockets.
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