Emergency Crime Scene and Biohazard Cleanup in Upper Nyack, NY

Upper Nyack is a small incorporated village in the town of Clarkstown, Rockland County, New York, on the western shore of the Hudson River just north of the village of Nyack and south of Rockland Lake State Park.

Upper Nyack exists as a separate village because of a tax revolt: in September 1872, its residents secretly rushed to incorporate on their own — just 25 days before Nyack's incorporation — after learning that downtown Nyack businessmen planned to fold them into a larger village and tax the outlying areas for downtown improvements.

The land's recorded history runs deep: two centuries before incorporation, Claus Jansen Purarent received a patent for 640 acres north of Tappan, part of which passed to the Tallman and Kuyper families.

Growth followed the arrival of the Northern Railroad of New Jersey in the mid-19th century, which turned the Nyacks into commuter and resort country.

The 2020 census counted 2,015 people in Upper Nyack, and New York State Comptroller figures put the village at roughly 780 households in 2020.

Remarkably, about 72 percent of Upper Nyack's total area of 4.4 square miles is water — the village's boundaries reach far out into the Hudson River, leaving only about 1.2 square miles of land.

Upper Nyack is protected by the Empire Hook and Ladder Company No. 1, a volunteer fire company established in 1863, before the village itself existed.

The village hall and village court sit on North Broadway, the historic main street that runs through the Nyacks along the Hudson.

Upper Nyack shares the 10960 ZIP code with Nyack, South Nyack and Grandview-on-Hudson, and although it lies in Clarkstown it is served by the Nyack Union Free School District — Nyack High School itself stands within the village.