The bucket of the bulldozer is used as a battering ram to knock down a small frame house on South Broadway in Nyack. In the background are spectators, who stand in front of an A & P market. This was the Christie house.
A whole block of Nyack's business district, from Main Street south to Burd Street, was demolished for the Urban Renewal Project. A crane and a bulldozer of the Frank Frontino Excavating Company break down a wall on Main Street. The old Nyack...
Trucks and earth movers remove the upper part of Mount Moor in West Nyack to make way for the huge shopping mall called Palisades Center. The small Mount Moor Cemetery, which was preserved, is at the middle left.
This is one of a number of images that Dr. Rooney labeled, "Path of Thruway" or "Path of Destruction." It certainly is a visual image of the desolation left by the bulldozers. The railroad station is left in place, as is the Blue Flame Restaurant...
The South Nyack Station is isolated in the rubble and the bulldozers are getting close. Compare this picture with Nyack Library image #4665, which shows the Blue Flame, a restaurant, still standing.
After the bulldozers went through the area, two buildings remain standing in downtown South Nyack. The business district was demolished to make room for the New York State Thruway.
This image is composed of handwriting on lined paper and on white paper two black and white photographs are affixed. The bottom left photograph depicts a bulldozer sitting on top of a pile of debris. A bare tree sits in the middle of the debris....
