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Stories of and about the village of Nyack, New York

Nyack’s Halloween Parade is Looming

It’s that time of year again. 

 Nyacks Halloween Parade is Looming

This guy is Awesome

 

While most people get the costume out of the closet from last year, many Nyackers choose

to toil  year long on which Halloween will help them place in Nyack’s “Famed”  Halloween

Contest. 

For some, this is the best/most interesting thing to happen in Nyack all year.

If you are over nine and you can’t wait for gate night to be over to you so you can

dress up like a cartoon character, a zombie, or a whore… this is the article for you.

 Nyacks Halloween Parade is Looming

While 9 times out of 10 a store bought costume will win you a prize, Nyacker’s insist on getting

creative so they can brag all year long about their ingenious costume.  Sometimes that

is a super typical costume like a witch with a wart, and sometimes it Buzz Lightyear on

a cardboard horse.

 Nyacks Halloween Parade is Looming

Geez, I really hope this guy has kids.

 A plus for effort either way dude!

Here are a few more shots of Local’s getting their Yocal on…..

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Yup

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This one is a great reenactment of a typical Friday downtown

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OMG This is SO Nyack..I can't even stand it. Perfect

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OMG this is what happens inside the houses

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If this doesn't remind you of home, you are not from Nyack

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Super adorable!!

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Hott

Awesome.

I personally haven’t dressed up for Halloween since I was twelve.  I find the whole ritual

very odd and slightly off putting. 

Yet I am always a fan of ridiculous-ness, so bring on the floats, pervs, and  face paint.

Nyack, lets see who has the best Spongebob Square pants THIS year.

Nyack’s Halloween Parade is Schedule for Oct 22, 2011. 5:30 PM

**If anyone post the best costume- ridiculous picture from the festivities will send you a full size

snickers bar in the mail, no questions asked.

Nyack’s*~Bi~*Annual Mayoral Race

 

It’s that odd year again, when the Village of Nyack votes for some poor soul to

run our little town into the river. This year we have a Man vs. Woman race.

Yay, battle of the sexes time.  I feel like its the seventies all over again

Anyway, the two candidates are Richy Kavesh and Jennifer Laird White.

 

Here are some pictures from their facebook accounts:

 

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Candidate #1

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Candidate #2

Ugg, bozos.

 

I can tell you right now, I am not voting for either of them.

 

 

I am going to write-in my own candidate.

On the bottom of the voting page I am going to scribble; 

 

RENT IS TOO DAMN HIGH GUY, Jimmy McMillan. 

 

You know him, the African-American dude with the black gloves and

the Kernel Sanders goatee.

 

 

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Better Candidate

 

If he is not gearing up to take Obama’s job already, he may take Mayor of Nyack

instead of Mayor of New York City (candidate 2009). We have 5 Nyacks just like

New York City has 5 boroughs. We are right on Hudson River, just like the New

York.  And we have just as many peoples hand in the cookie jar as NYC too!

Its a perfect fit.

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Rosie goes Oprah Winfrey Network in 40 Days

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I like Rosie O’Donnell, sometimes.

I mean she lives in Rockland Co., New York to start.

She is ridiculously famous for pissing people off, having zero shame, and being a lesbian.

And on top of all that, she has been a household name for 15 years.

She is super famous, does whatever she wants, and somehow manages to be relevant.

 

Unfortunately the down side to Rosie O’Donnell is she does and says really stupid things.  

Like telling the press she wanted to eat M&Ms and popcorn inside a federal court room while

gawking at Martha Stewart’s Insider Trading Scandal.  BTW, I could only imagine how much

that pissed Martha off! I wonder how many times the sound of Rosie eating it up haunted her

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Then there was that time she fought with Magnum PI …

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Oy Vey Rosie, sorry, but nobody gets over on Thomas Sullivan Magnum IV,

I don’t care if you are big ole Rosie O’D herself.

 

When Rosie isn’t on her blog, or on Insider Tonight, she is writing books.

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Rosie should stick to what she knows; being bossy, adopting kids, and Broadway.

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Daytime Television also works very well for Miss O’Donnell. I have to admit, she

is REALLY good at pissing people off, like at a professional level.

So, being a person who has pissed off a person or two, I can appreciate what

she does for a living.

That doesn’t mean I am a lesbian, a dumb 9-11 conspiracy theorist, or ever

going to watching ‘StakeOut 2′ or ‘A League of their Own’ EVER AGAIN.

 

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And I am Not Watching This Either!

 

But I will watch Rosie attempt to take the reigns over at OWN in Oct 2011.

I believe she will do a nice to decent job of creating a show without all the extra

twatage of ‘The View’.

 

ON A SIDE NOTE -

I am sorry, but their is no way I can buy Whoppi Goldberg as a woman on ‘The View’. It’s just not believable. I think they hired a homeless man to impersonate Whoppi Goldberg. Barbara it’s time to pack it up, or at least stop hiring transvestites.

 Rosie goes Oprah Winfrey Network in 40 Days

 

BACK TO ROSIE

Honestly, Rosie works best when nobody else is allowed to talk.  Unless its Oprah,

but even that can’t last more than a few minutes, or episodes.

Well, it should make for really good television for a few years.

Think ‘The Ellen Show’ with a Liberace K-Mart twist. Or Ellen in sweatpants.

I’m not sure which way Rosie is going yet.

 

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PS

**If I can make one request, please get in a fight with Nate Berkus

of ‘The Nate Show”.  He is so freaking boring. He seems like he is a

terrible person. How many times can you put a folding table in a

studio and be called a ‘lifesaver’.

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Unwatchable. You can insult him, save his career, and have  

Oprah thank you for it later.

If you can’t get Nate to fight with you, I know Charlie Sheen is available.

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Would LOVE to see you two go.

I think and, by think, I mean I’m 95 percent positive, you can take him.

I would love to see you get his tail. OMG.

PPS

And if you go toe to toe with Oprah I will personally volunteer at

Soup Angels Nyack Kitchen, feeding the homeless for one month straight.

Its total given that this will happen, its just a  matter of when, where, and how.

I predict it will happen with in the first 8 months.

 

 Rosie goes Oprah Winfrey Network in 40 Days

The Mall is A Flooding, Again.

Welcome back, Sinkholes

 The Mall is A Flooding, Again.

by Carol A. McIlmurray

 

I am so tired of this Palisades Mall

Location.

I sneeze, it floods.

Throw a water ballon at the garage, it floods.

I remember when I was just a little seven

year old, the Mall was only a twinkle in 

some corrupt contractors eyes. My mother was driving her white Ford Escort

(which she detested, but that is surely is an whole other website).  She was veering

off Bobby Lane onto Route 59 (as pictured) after a rain shower.

 

The Year was 1988.

 

As we turned onto Route 59 the car almost go caught in the flood

waters three times , and skided out of control, momentarily floating.

The water levels were approximately the same as this picture

(taken on this past Sunday, Aug 27, 2011).

It smelled bad, it looked bad, and what is even worse; was there

was a plan to build the second largest Mall in America, right

there. Between the flooding, sewage, and cemetery on the hill,

a man and his team dreamed of building the largest Mall in the

world, right there in that spot.

A Mall so large that the budget could not afford to decorate,

or build any type of walls over the air ducts.

 A Mall so ugly it would have no shame robbing the surrounding

businesses’ traffic from 20 miles away.

A Mall so hideous (even though it has an Apple Store, Sephora,

and an IMAX), its only viable future is being swallowed by a 

large sinkhole.

I give it four years.

God, I love Rockland, BUT

COME ON, ROCKLAND!!!!

 

 

Attention New Yorkers

This is what a hurricane should look like

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To RoMp or nOt To RoMp…..

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Reconstructing the Face of Nyack

 

Nyack has been undergoing a major facelift over the past few months.

New sidewalks, new layout, and of course new business in tow.

 

There have been all sorts of rumors of which businesses are coming to Nyack.

Here is the Short List:

 

 Reconstructing the Face of Nyack

 

 

IN THE SPACE WHERE VERTIGO’S CARCASE NOW LIES, we heard Carmine’s of

New York City Fame was in talks to take over. Then we heard that BLACKBEAR’S

ugly sister THE THIRSTY TURTLE was coming in.

NOW we hear that another unnamed bar dead set on putting the POURHOUSE

out of business is slated to set up shop inside VERTIGO’S hull.

 

POURHOUSE has famously stopped traffic at BLACKBEAR, CASA, O’MALLEY’S,

and the now defunct BRUXELLE’S.

 

Speaking of BRUXELLE’S we heard a steakhouse was going to set up camp in that

space. Now the rumor on the street is THE PEARL RIVER SALOON is going to

put in THE NYACK SALOON at BRUXELLE’S old place. At least they will have

parking for that outrageous rent.

 

BAUMBERGER’S chinese buffet is almost complete. By Fall 2011 expect an new

overpriced restaurant with tailormade portions to open for business across

from the presently-for-sale O’Donahue’s (O’D's is Nyack’s oldest bar and family

run since 1964) Bar and Restaurant.

 

If that is not enough scoop, there is more. The Old Woolworth’s Building is under

renovation as I write this. Half of the first floor is already designated to be a

Greek Restaurant.

 

So Nyack’s new facelift should be up and operational by January 2012. But

according to the surgeon’s, Nyack is already complaining that she needs a new

nosejob!! Before the end of 2012 she wants a surgery called “THE SUPERBLOCK”.

 

Oy vey Nyack!! If only you had some Municipal Parking all this surgery business

would be put to rest. Reconstructing the Face of Nyack

 

 

-CC

We booked another show

We booked another show at Johnny Apollo’s this fall. Show dates will in

September 2011.

Women in History NYACK, NY 10960

Nyack is a village nestled on the banks of the Hudson River, a short 25 miles

from New York City.  It is known for the Arts, and has been home to several

revolutionary women in American Art.  It has been home to actress Helen

Hayes, author Carson Cullers, Madonna, and most recently Rosie O’Donnell.

 

Among other notable female residents were a mid-1800′s postmistress, one

of the USA’s 1st female physicians, and the 1st female Supreme Court Clerk.

Nyack was also home to the late Ms. Martha MacGuffie, the 1st female Plastic

Surgeon.  It has also been home to suffragette Caroline Lexow, African-America

Millionairess Cynthia Hesdra , and Countess  Alexandra Tolstoy.

THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO CAME OUT!!

 

‘The Painted Lady Returns’ was a great success. We are going to show again at Johnny

Apollo’s this fall.

Pics from the event will be posted this week.

                                                                   -JA