Follow us on Twitter or our RSS newsfeed or join the NyackNewsAndViews group on Facebook.
Nyack’s Hook Mountain Growers and Dr. Pamela Yee were featured on WNYC last week in a story about the medicinal aspects of bitter melon, a tropical fruit which is every bit as bitter as its name implies. Yee is co-owner of Hook Mountain Growers, a farm where “all plants are biodynamically, organically, and sustainably grown.”
As both a physician and a farmer, Yee can speak to the health implications of bitter melon — a delicacy which fits into the “acquired taste” category.
Filed under: As Others See Us, Health, People, Rockland County by admin
Would you like to be the first to leave a comment?
Link directly to this entry
New York, July 22 — WNYC’s “Anecodotal Census” series on the Brian Lehrer show looks at Rockland County this morning at 10a. Two guests will discuss changes to the Haitian and Hasidic communities in Rock Co.
WNYC is at 93.9 FM and 810 AM. You can hear the show streamed live at WNYC,org or listen to a podcast after the broadcast.
Tarrytown native Paula De Angelis grew up on the Hudson but now finds a different river near her home. A scientific writer and consultant who has worked in the United States and in Norway for 30 years, Dr. De Angelis muses about Oslo’s Akerselva River in her blog and how it compares to the Hudson.
“Both are beautiful rivers that wind their way through city, town and countryside alike. The Hudson River, over 300 miles long, starts in upstate New York at Lake Tear of the Clouds in the Adirondack Mountains and ends in the Upper New York Bay, which is the New York harbor area between New York City and New Jersey,” she says. “The Akerselva river flows through the city of Oslo, having started its journey at Maridalsvannet in the forest area north of Oslo. It empties into the Oslo fjord.”
To read more about De Angelis memories of the Hudson and her new hometown waterway, visit A Tale Of Two Rivers.
Nyack, July 1 — The NY Times says it’s time to stop watching the river and get out on the water and go for a glide. Even if you don’t know nuthin ’bout sailing, there’s a role for you as “rail meat” to balance out a crew.
The Nyack Boat Club is featured in a story about a beautiful Friday night sail on a perfect early summer evening. Continue reading →
Nyack, June 18 — If you’ve ever walked along the river at Nyack Beach State Park and looked and wondered where Tarrytown ends and Sleepy Hollow begins — or which building on the eastern shore is the famous prison in Ossining — there’s at least one person on the other side asking similar questions about Nyack.
Krista Madsen, who writes a column for Tarrytown.Patch.com, writes about her recent visit to Nyack and her east side perspective on life on this side of the Tappan Zee Bridge.
MuseumChick.com, a blog about museums and world travel, offers a top ten list of things to do in Nyack. Check out her list and compare it to your own personal favorites. Feel free to click comment and add a recommendation or two. The list includes: Continue reading →
The newspaper formerly known as The Bergen Record (NorthJersey.com) writes about how Nyack has changed — and the role that taxes and tolls played in its growth.
More specifically, why the world outside Nyack sees one community but how we have come to refer to ourselves as The Village, Upper and South Nyack (and West and Central, too).
“As time passed, more and more problems surfaced and more and more mistakes were made. In the south, this unfavorable set of circumstances was compounded by the perception that the improvements, and the money it cost to make them, benefited neither them nor their property. The simmer morphed into a boil.
by Dave Zornow
Why is Ely, Minnesota cooler than Nyack, NY? Let me count the reasons: 94,917 to be exact. That’s how many more votes Ely has than Nyack in BudgetTravel.com‘s online poll to determine the Coolest Small Town in America.
Now, I’d hate to accuse this former mining outpost on the Canadian border of stuffing the ballot box, but this little town with a big chamber of commerce has almost 26 times as many votes as it has residents (2,000 census 3,724).
BudgetTravel.com says a “cool small town” must fewer than 10,000 people and has to be on the upswing. “It’s a place that’s beginning to draw attention and new residents because of the quality of life, arts and restaurant scene, or proximity to nature,” says BudgetTravel. “And cool doesn’t mean quaint. We want towns with an edge, so think avant-garde galleries, not country stores.”
Ely may outnumber Nyack in bears, but we outnumber them in bars. In fact, we even have a bar named after a black bear. They can’t touch us in the arts and the Hudson and the Palisades round out our nature pedigree.
We’d all like to think that Nyack is a happening place. But generally speaking, something pretty significant needs to happen in Nyack to get the attention of the NY Times three times in the same week.
Apparently it did — 90 years ago. That’s when the “Clarkstown Country Club” was the home base of Pierre Bernard, a.k.a. “Oom the Omnipotent,” or as the NY Times puts it “the P. T. Barnum of Hudson Valley yoga.”
The producers of MegaMall, a documentary about the Palisades Center, talk about the impact of the mall on Rockland County in an interview at SmartPlanet.com. The film includes scenes from town hall meetings and interviews with residents, mall officials and activists. Melanie D.G. Kaplan spoke with producers Sarah Mondale and Vera Aronow about their 14 years in-the-making film chronicling the mall’s journey from a toxic waste dump to one of the largest shopping centers in the U.S.
