Nyack News And Views

04/25/2025

Frank LoBuono shares his memories of being in Rome during the conclave which elected Pope Francis.

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Frank LoBuono shares personal memories of Pope Francis.

04/25/2025

Our roundup of events this week features a movie premiere, Nyack Fresh Market Grand Re-Opening, John Turturro at ArtsRock, Ramapo High School student show at Edward Hopper House, and Nyack Restaurant Week.

Our roundup of events this week features a movie premiere, Nyack Fresh Market Grand Re-Opening, John Turturro at ArtsRock, Ramapo High School student show at Hopper House, Nyack Restaurant week and more.

04/25/2025

The first Nyack street fair of the year was a rocking good time with Coheed and Cambria. Our ace photographer, Andrea B. Swenson, was on hand to capture all the sights and sounds of the day.

Enjoy a rocking good time with Coheed and Cambria and all the beautiful people that made Nyack's first street fair of the season, frame by frame.

04/23/2025

In today’s , Mike Hays continues the Barons of Broadway series with the story of Alvin Johnson who acquired James A. Bennet’s Gilded Age villa in 1918.

Barons of Broadway #32 In this episode, we return to J.A. Bennet’s Gilded Age villa at 309 North Broadway, which Alvin Johnson acquired in 1918. His family lived there for the next ninety years. Johnson, the son of a Danish immigrant who brought his family to rural Nebraska in a prairie schooner, ...

04/18/2025

Our roundup of events this week includes a film premiere, the NYACK NAACP gala, and the return of Nyack Restaurant Week.

Our roundup of events this week features a movie premiere, the Nyack NAACP gala, the return of Nyack Restaurant week and more.

04/18/2025

Frank LoBuono examines whether we are now no longer innocent until proven guilty.

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Frank LoBuono suggests that we are no longer innocent until proven guilty.

04/16/2025

In today’s , Mike Hays has an exciting announcement - The Great Nyack House Tour returns for the first time since 2019 on Saturday, May 10.

04/11/2025

Recently Frank LoBuono interviewed four members of the steering committee for Indivisible Rockland, the local chapter of the National Indivisible organization, on his podcast BEING FRANK .

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Frank LoBuono describes what democracy looks like after interviewing Indivisible Rockland.

04/11/2025

Ross Benjamin makes a case for why Nyack should reconsider putting a cannabis dispensary in downtown.

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I support cannabis legalization and responsible adult use. But I don’t think it makes sense to place a dispensary in the heart of downtown Nyack. This isn’t about prohibition. It’s about priorities. Frank LoBuono recently argued that opposition to the new dispensary is rooted in stigma and fea...

04/11/2025

As part of an organized nationwide protest effort hundreds of demonstrators swarmed the intersection of Route 59 and South Middletown Road in Nanuet on Saturday, April 5. Our globe-trotting photographer Andrea Swenson was back to capture all of the action.

As part of an organized nationwide protest effort — known as Hands Off — designed to combat a wide range of the Trump administration’s policy agenda, hundreds of demonstrators swarmed the intersection of Route 59 and South Middletown Road in Nanuet on Saturday, April 5. Our globe-trotting phot...

04/11/2025

Our roundup of events this week includes Nyack’s first flower market, the first Nyack street fair of the year, and a film premiere.

Our roundup of events this week features Nyack’s first flower market, the first Nyack street fair of the year, and a film premiere.

04/09/2025

In today’s , Mike Hays continues the Barons of Broadway series with James A. Bennet and his house which was a masterpiece of Gilded Age design.

Barons of Broadway #31 The intricate details of the colorful Queen Anne Victorian at 309 North Broadway in Upper Nyack continue to amaze villagers today, just as they did when it was built in 1887. Owner James A. Bennet—a man as distinctive as his house—and architect Horace Greeley Knapp created...

04/04/2025

Frank LoBuono remembers the first time he smelled ma*****na.

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Frank LoBuono remembers the first time he smelled ma*****na.

04/04/2025

This week in the Villages, we take a closer look at opposition to a new dispensary opening at the old Starbucks location, a proposed new building on Broadway and a bunch of new restaurants opening.

This week in the Villages, we take a closer look at opposition to a new dispensary opening at the old Starbucks location, a proposed new building on Broadway and a bunch of new restaurants opening.

04/04/2025

Our roundup of events this week includes the Nyack International and JCC Jewish Film Festivals, violinist, Joshua Brown presented by ArtsRock, and a screening of No Other Land.

Our roundup of events this week features film festivals, classical music, an evening of poetry, and a screening of No Other Land.

04/02/2025

In today’s , Mike Hays shares the story of the spring shad runs and what may have led to their decline. https://nyacknewsandviews.com/blog/2025/04/the-shad-runs-of-nyack-a-vanishing-hudson-river-legacy/

03/28/2025

Frank LoBuono asks why Trump supporters refuse to see the red flags.

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Frank LoBuono asks why Trump supporters refuse to see the red flags

03/28/2025

Our roundup of events this week includes a special movie music event, the Nyack International and JCC Jewish Film Festivals, and Michael Ian Black in Coversation with Pete Dominick presented by Indivisible Rockland.

Movie buffs will be in seventh heaven with the Nyack International and JCC Jewish Film Festivals. Indivisible Rockland Presents Michael Ian Black. ArtsRock presents the History of Movie Music.