Crowds gathered on a cold December 15, 1955 for the official opening of the Tappan Zee Bridge. There are flags, a color guard, and a band. Cameramen stand atop cars. Many cars and a bus are in line in the eastbound lane, ready to drive across the...
Sixteen women stand with placards which spell out: SAVE OUR VILLAGES! Jane Schwartz - S, Helen Mitchell - A, Isabel Stancliff - V, Barbara Keil - E, Meg Miller - O, Edith Powers U, ? - R, Rose Keane - V, Hortense Calisher/Hefflefinger - I, Marge...
Land is being cleared for the NYS Thruway. On the top is a caterpillar, in front a bucket from a steam shovel, and on the right, an odd-looking tractor. See also Nyack Library images #4654 and 4655.
The Gaylor House was a splendid colonial with a wide front porches on the first and second stories and large dormer windows. When it was moved, vines that were climbing up the porch and the side were moved too.
One South Nyack house has been moved to make room for the building of the Thruway, leaving a gap along the street that paralleled the railroad tracks. The larger house in the back on the right was the Ray (Buddy) Christian family home.
While this picture was in the Dr. Rooney collection, it may have been taken by contractors or state officials. It is captioned: #37, Looking East at Ramp, Route 303 Interchange. At the top of the hill in the background, the roadway drops down...
Overlooking the destruction of the Village of South Nyack is this Cape Cod-style house sitting on the hillside above Route 9W. Much of the village was demolished to make room for the NYS Thruway.
An aerial view shows the complexity of the staging area at Gassy Point, where materials were assembled and then floated downriver to the Tappan Zee Bridge construction site.
A few workers tend to the crane that is rearranging the landscape for the building of the New York State Thruway. A huge triangular girder is in the foreground.
South Nyack Village Hall and annex, and a construction trailer, stand at the corner of Broadway and Cornelison Avenue. The path of the New York State Thruway is in the foreground.
When houses were destroyed or moved in South Nyack for the construction of the New York State Thruway, parts were left behind. Here are brick steps, all that remains of a family home.
