The steamboat/ferry Chrystenah on the Hudson River near Nyack. Typewritten note says,"The steamboat Chystenah, built by William Dickey at the foot of Main Street in 1865-1866. The Chystenah ran between Peekskill and New York with stops at Nyack...
Nyack north of Main Street is pictured from above the Hudson River. Along the waterfront, the old ferry terminal, later restaurant, is on the left. Near the right is the Nyack Boat Club. The old Nyack High School, the hospital, and Oak Hill...
This view of the south side of Main Street shows the telephone building, John Bartels - a beer seller, and Bryants Shoes. All of the buildings are covered with American flag bunting for some occasion or parade. Bryants Shoes was at 93 Main Street...
Parades & processions; Flag bearers; Flags; Holidays;
Forty men are carrying a huge flag down South Broadway, near the corner with Cedar Hill Avenue. This postcard has the date written on the front, an unusual feature, and suggests that this was a Labor Day parade.
A wagon is standing on Broadway near the corner with Main Street in Nyack, and several men are talking. Businesses line the west side of the street, including Smith-Quidor & Company, a department store.
(Left to right) Betty McGoldrick, Isabel Knipe, and Anne Weishaar read a Good Housekeeping magazine. All lived in or near Nyack. The occasion of the picture is not known.
George Bryant, once a Village of nyack trustee, owned a shoe store on the south side of Main Street near Cedar Street and the Village Restaurant ( then Bartel's).
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.
In this photo, all the skaters are on the far side of the pond, near the houses. Was the other area prepared for ice harvesting? The ice house would have been off to the right. Photo made from a John Scott slide.
In this time exposure, roadway lights gleam like jewels and headlights appear as long stings of light. The lights reflect on the ice in the river near the Grand View shore.
The plaque identifying and commemorating the Onderdonk House in Piermont, NY is mounted on a rock. It says, "On May 4, 1783 General George Washington and Governor George Clinton landed near here on their way to Tappan to meet with Sir Guy Carleton,...
This play area on Jefferson Street was built by parents and children. It was near both grace Episcopal and St. Ann's churches. Unfortunately, it was dismantled a few years later.
Highland Avenue runs along the hillside above the Village of Nyack. (In part, it is Route 9W.) in the picture is the section near the present-day Nyack College.
Before computers, the card catalog was an integral part of the Nyack Library and located near the reference desk. Librarian Susan Weekly talks with a young patron.
