Ellen Murphy's Blog Posts

Nanuet Mall Eaten by Dinos
Stop by the site of the soon-to-be-built Shops At Nanuet to watch the demolition of most of The Nanuet Mall. The two demolition excavators taking down the old Boscov's building on ...

Weleda Is Leaving Palisades!
Word is out that the charming Weleda spa and store at 1 Closter Rd. in Palisades, with its soothing ambiance, will shut down sometime this summer. What a loss to Rockland County! W...

Hear The Wind Blow Dear
The crazy weather (read Global Warming!) seems to embody the mercurial, fun loving spirit of Gemini. Playful and ever-changing-eternally engaged in Kerry flip flops, the astrologic...

New TZ Bridge May Destroy These Homes
    Nyack resident Elijah Reichlin-Melnick, who recently ran for a seat on the Orangetown Town Board, posted this today on one of the Nyack blog sites, ...

Rockland Ice Festival Coming Up
The annual Knickerbocker Ice Festival, celebrating Rockland Lake’s 19th century ice industry, will be held January 28-29 at Rockland Lake State Park. For a mere $250 donation...

FREE medications at ShopRite
Here’s a little-known fact….ShopRite pharmacies are here to help ease the pain of cold and flu season with a program that offers to fill a prescription for antibiotic ...

From Nyack to the Holiday Train Show
The New York Botanical Garden’s Famous Holiday Train Show is a wonderful experience for kids of all ages, and only about 30 minutes on the Thruway, the TZ Bridge and down the...

Nyack Is Tag Sale Perfection
If you live in Nyack it's a fantastic locale to stage a tag sale because there's so much foot traffic and lots of "out-of-towners" driving around this fun old village. Every weeken...

New City Retreat Lake Lucille
I showed an interesting old house at Lake Lucille this week, and got hooked into the old-fashioned atmosphere that still prevails there! Eighty homes are included in the tight-knit...

Nyack Native Son A Continuing Influence
Nyack’s celebrated native son, Edward Hopper, has left his mark on so much of our culture that we sometimes take it for granted…. “Hopperesque” is an evocative term often...

Piermont Fashions For A Cause
The Tappan Zee Thrift Shop in Piermont is having it’s annual fashion show on April 15th (arrgggh! Tax Day, a good time to buy from a thrift shop!)….7 PM at St. John’s Church...

“Hair-raising” Fund-raising Event at Nyack Center
The Nyack Center will benefit from a really fun event on Saturday, April 2nd. MB Salon and Spa on Main Street (great place, terrific stylists!) will extend a “thank you” to the...

Green Living Began In Rockland
Did you know that the “back to Earth” movement in the US took off from a home base in Rockland County? Ralph Borsodi, an economist and philosopher who came to dislike city li...

Before The Mall
Pop quiz for fans of Old Nyack ….how many of these stores do you remember? Peterzells….Zabriskis….Newberrys Five and Ten…. The original Woolworth store…. The Eagle (and...