There’s a Nyack Village Board Workshop at 6p. The regular meeting at 7:30p includes a special presentation on the Esposito-Gesner trail in South Nyack as part of the Hudson Valley Greenway.
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Beijing Olympics single scull silver medalist and eight-time US national team member Michelle Guerette is the guest speaker at the River Rowing Association Annual Benefit dinner on March 13 at the Nyack Center.
The dinner follows the RRA’s charity fundraiser Pull With Purpose for the Nyack Center earlier in the day.
by Cliff Weathers
New York State Parks officials announced today that they plan to close 55 parks and historic sites and reduce services at other parks to help shrink the state’s $8.2 billion budget deficit. Several parks and sites located in Rockland County will be affected. The cuts are reportedly in addition to park services cuts implemented over the past two years, which included reduced services at Nyack Beach State Park. The affected parks and sites include: Continue reading →
Filed under: Biking/Outdoor, Environment/Going Green, General, Rockland County, Waterfront/Parks/Rec by Cliff Weathers
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Join a rowing relay team to raise money for The Nyack Center on Sat 3/13.
The River Rowing Association and the Nyack Center invite the community to join the Pull with Purpose Row-a-thon. Participants aged 13 and up compete in a relay race of teams on rowing machines for two hours. It all takes place at the Nyack Center, 58 Depew Ave. in Nyack on March 13 from 9a – 12n.
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by Dave Zornow
Nyack’s crumbling marina will be getting a $150,000 grant from the NY Department of State for the design and construction of a new ramp and a dock for canoes, kayaks and rowing shells.
The three-to-one matching grant is one of a dozen awards announced by New York’s Secretary of State Lorraine Cortés-Vázquez to commemorate last year’s Hudson-Fulton-Champlain Quadricentennial celebration. “These docks will bring people to the water and will be key elements in the revitalization efforts of [New York's] waterfront communities,” says Cortés-Vázquez.
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by Dave Zornow
Nyack, Jan 2 — Elections, fireworks, parking, boating, sailing, ROMPing and drinking were some of the big stories of last year. Here’s our countdown of Nyack’s Top 20 news and views of 2009.
This list is based on Google Analytics reports of NyackNewsAndViews site traffic., NyackNewsAndViews averages about 40,000 pageviews with about half of all adults 25+ reading NyackNewsAndViews on a regular basis (hover for details).
Although these are the “top stories” by popular demand, we all know the best performer isn’t always the winner on American Idol. Feel free to click the comment link and add your own suggestions to the list. Or topics you think deserve more attention in 2010.
Editor’s Note: On Dec 17, the Upper Nyack Village Board unanimously voted to abandon a proposed zoning amendment that would have allowed residential development at Petersen’s Boatyard.
by Trina Hunn
Upper Nyack, Dec 16 — I live in Upper Nyack in the historic Van Houten Landing neighborhood and practice law in New York City. My family moved here two years ago from South Nyack and has lived in the area now for almost ten years. We love this town, its eccentricity, its deep sense of community, and its beauty. One factor that influenced us in purchasing our home in Upper Nyack is its location within walking distance to the historic Petersen’s Boatyard. We have even enjoyed the pipe dream that one day we would own a boat that would be moored steps away from our home at the boatyard.
While I admire the tenacity of the Van Houten Landing Association in fighting the proposed zoning change of Petersen’s Boatyard, and while I would prefer that the boatyard be preserved forever in its present form, I respectfully disagree with the neighborhood’s opposition to the proposed zoning change. Continue reading →
By Doug Foster
It was the last meeting of the current Village Board, and they ended with with perhaps the most productive meeting in its history.
In two, 5-0 votes the Board enacted both a new zoning ordinance and a new waterfront park plan, the result of thousands of hours of work by many dedicated residents.
Filed under: Village Hall, Waterfront/Parks/Rec by Doug Foster
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by Dave Zornow
Upper Nyack, Dec 11 — Upper Nyack is the rare community that prefers a grandfathered, industrial site to higher rateable residential homes. The majority of the 150 residents who packed the Upper Nyack Elementary School last night made it clear they were against any development that would threaten the status of the 200 year old Petersen’s Boatyard.
By Jen White
On December 10th, the Nyack Village Board will take an enormous step toward finally improving the Villages waterfront. The Village Board, in the last meeting of both this year and this board makeup, will vote on whether to endorse the waterfront master plan, a plan that has taken almost three years to develop. This plan is the end result of four large public meetings, a number of small public meetings and is the culmination of many redraws based on public input.
The consensus plan features a much larger green space area for play, moving the parking away from the Memorial Park side of the park and over to the Marina side of the park, thus removing a large chunk of concrete that continuously leaks petro-chemicals into the Hudson. The removal of pavement is a move supported by all local and statewide environmental agencies and organizations.
Nyack, Nov 27 — After a day of conspicuous consumption on Thanksgiving, the three day weekend is a good time to get some exercise.
There are more than 1,200 miles of multi-use trails to bike, walk, run, cross-country ski, and sometimes ride horses in NY State. The Park’s And Trails NY (PTNY) TrailFinder website lists 16 paths within 25 miles of Nyack including the Joseph B. Clarke Rail Trail in Orangetown, Hook Mountain/Nyack Beach State Park, the Orange County Heritage Trail near Woodbury Commons and the North & South Country Trailway in Westchester/Putnum.
