From an airplane, most of the Village of Nyack is visible. At the foot of Main Street is the old marina with its "lighthouse," (once an oil storage tank) and the old ferry terminal.
A 2-and-a-half story building, its lower windows boarded up, sits at the southwest corner of First Avenue and Broadway. This was the first home of the Rockland Foundation, now Rockland Center for the Arts. The building was demolished in 1957. This...
The large Up-to-Date Laundry sits abandoned after a fire. This business was a mainstay in Nyack for close to 60 years.Its first location was at 108 Main Street.
The photographer snapped this image of New Street looking east. New Street parallels Main Street and is mostly garages and rear entrances for Main Street businesses. The Rockland Power and Light Building, now the Village Hall, is seen at the left.
The east side of Park Street, a one-block street in Nyack, had a garage where cars were washed; the building later became a bar. The house with the tower was the Perietti home, which was later demolished for a parking lot for the bar.
This cluster of brick and frame buildings, on Franklin Street between Burd and DePew Avenue in Nyack, was a jumble of small, local businesses. Far down at the right was the Opera House and just to its left, Wanamaker's Shoe Repair. Nyack's...
The back of a large, three-story house on Franklin Street in Nyack has laundry blowing in the wind. The number of fire escape ladders indicates it was a multi-family dwelling. It was destroyed during the Urban Renewal era. In October 1999 these...
This weather-beatened building no longer exists, and its exact location in Nyack hasn't been determined. Was it a blacksmith's shop? Was it behind the old Liberty Street School?
On the left, the Harmony Music Center occupied a house slated to be removed for Urban Renewal. Pictured is the area on the north side of Burd Street, between Liberty Street and Franklin Avenue. The area is now a parking lot and the back of the...
This may be Burd Street or Jackson Street in Nyack. The barn on the right has "No Parking" written on the door, and has signs for 7-Up and Nehi. On the left is a car wash and polish business. Another picture of this area is in "A Prelude to the...
Children play in a dirt driveway near some garages. Laundry hangs from apartments in the background. This location has not been identified but Nyack official Leonard Cooke tried to document places that would be destroyed by Urban Renewal projects.
This large house with a second story porch is in danger of falling down. Clapboards, railings, roofs, and doorways are all in need of repair and repainting. The lower level is a junk shop and on the sidewalk are a high chair, a wagon, and two...
On the left is a simple white frame house with stained glass detailing in the windows on the first floor. On the right is a beige stucco building with more than one entrance. One door is painted red and green. Both these houses were demolished for...
This unusual house has vertical clapboards, a chimney with several flues, a bargeboard, and side by side bay windows. It was originally the gatehouse for the David D. Smith property and later was owned by Nyack physician, Jacob Outwater Polhemus. A...
Seven joined houses on the east side of Bridge Street in Nyack have several similar details. Double brackets support the cornices, three windows look out from the second story, and each front porch is held up by three slender posts. The stairways,...
An artistic look at a house slated for demolition, looking up at the front porch. The shingles on this house are unusual, arranged in a rick-rack pattern. On the lower story they are green and on the upper story brown. Many family homes were...
