Cars line the north side of Nyack's Main Street in front of these businesses: Glynn's Shoes, Old Village Hall Coffee Shop, and Stern's Groceries. At the right is the 1873 Onderdonk building. This side of the street stayed intact during the Urban...
This is a photograph of a page of Cole's "History of Rockland County, N. Y." Dr. Jacob Outwater Polhemus, a stern looking man with mutton chops, was a popular physician and founder of Nyack Hospital. At one time, he owned the house at 44 Fifth...
Two young men and a woman sit at the stern of a sailboat. On the left is Leon Yates and on the right, Ronnie King. The woman in the center is Mrs. Jim Lipscomb, a member of the Nyack Boat Club.
Abe Stern peers out of his convertible coupe and his hound appears just behind him. He is identified as a Spring Valley policeman and the chief of the Ramapo police in the 1930's.
The center building was the Nyack Village Hall for many years. The police station was on the ground floor. On its left was Glynn's shoes, featuring Florsheim and Stride-Rite. On the right was Stern's Meat Market, which advertised Coca-Cola.
In 1967, the Nyack Village Hall was at 134 Main Street, between Glynn's Shoes and Stern's Meat Market and Groceries. The police station was on the ground floor and the offices of the village government were on the second. This building is now the...
Gene Brown, author of Birds over Bear Mountain and a life-long resident of Upper Nyack, talks about his childhood, his education at the Upper Nyack School and the games and recreational activities children played in the Van Houten's Landing...
Suspended from a ceiling beam is a full hull skeletal boat model made by Robert Hart Felter of Nyack in about 1840. Felter was a boat builder and an author of a history of boats, shipping, and boat building along the Hudson River. This model was...
A man sits in the stern of a rowboat, a large wooden bucket at his feet. A young boy in a wide-brimmed hat and a dark jacket pulls back on the oars. The surface of Rockland Lake is calm and in the back on the right is one of the huge ice houses...
This ca. 1840 full hull skeletal model was built by Nyack boat builder Robert Hart Felter. This model was assembled from hand cut pieces of wood. The length is 45 inches from stem to stern. The beam is 13 inches and the depth, 5 inches. This was...
