June 11, 2023 - 12:00 PM
71°F / 22°C
Walking tour of Nyack, New York via the following route: east on Main Street → south on South Broadway → east on Cedar Hill Avenue → north on Piermont Avenue → Memorial Park → Nyack Marina → north on River Street → west on Main Street.
During this walk, there was a Gay Pride street festival as well as a related political rally in the downtown area, drawing big crowds that I had not anticipated.
Highlights:
00:00 - Walking east on Main Street
02:20 - First Church
02:40 - Historic Underground Railroad marker, Nyack Brook
07:12 - Political rally with Rockland County Executive Ed Day speaking
08:36 - Entering Gay Pride street festival
10:23 - Walking south on South Broadway, Gay Pride festival continues
11:05 - First Reformed Church of Nyack
13:00 - Nyack Center
14:21 - Nyack Berea Seventh-Day Adventist Church
16:14 - Walking east on Cedar Hill Avenue
17:21 - Walking north on Piermont Avenue
18:47 - Entering Memorial Park
19:30 - World War I Memorial
22:51 - Mario Cuomo (Tappan Zee) Bridge viewing platform
26:03 - Nyack Memorial Park Inlet Bridge
27:23 - Nyack Marina
28:46 - Walking north on River Street
29:27 - Walking west on Main Street
From Wikipedia:
Nyack is a village located primarily in the town of Orangetown in Rockland County, New York, United States. Incorporated in 1872, it retains a very small western section in Clarkstown. The village had a population of 7,265 as of the 2020 census. It is a suburb of New York City lying approximately 15 miles (24 km) north of the Manhattan boundary near the west bank of the Hudson River, situated north of South Nyack, east of Central Nyack, south of Upper Nyack, and southeast of Valley Cottage.
Nyack is one of five southeastern Rockland County villages and hamlets that constitute "The Nyacks" - Nyack, Central Nyack, South Nyack, Upper Nyack and West Nyack. Named after the Native Americans who resided there before European colonization, the village consists mostly of low-rise buildings lying on the hilly terrain that meets the western shore of the Hudson River. Adjacent South Nyack is the western terminus of the Tappan Zee Bridge, connected across the Hudson River to Tarrytown in Westchester County by U.S. Interstate 87, an important commuter artery.
The village is approximately 1.6 square miles (4.1 km2) in area, over 50% of which falls within the Hudson River. It is in the Nyack Public Schools.