Nyack-Piermont Patch Readers: Thank You For Helping Us Grow

Thank you, Nyack-Piermont Patch readers, for taking time in your busy days to spend a few moments with Patch. We appreciate your visits and contributions, and we want you to know we take nothing for granted here. Thank you for helping us to grow and thrive this year.

Eight years ago, on Aug. 30, 2010, Nyack-Piermont Patch launched. We've come a long way, and you're a big reason why.

In August, Nyack-Piermont Patch recorded 20,211 visitors. For a combined population of less than 10,000 people in the two villages, that's a lot of readers! Our visitors hail from all the Nyacks, for sure, but many residents of neighboring towns also land on Nyack-Piermont Patch from time to time, too. That figure — compiled and verified through Google Analytics — includes readers on desktop, laptop, tablet, mobile and our app, and our visitors often access Patch on several devices over the month.

Here are some of the most-read articles on Nyack-Piermont Patch in August.

• Here's How Much You Need To Earn To Live In the Hudson Valley
• Nyack Man Accused in Home, Gift Store Burglaries
• Tourism Business Growing In Rockland: Report
• Work To Start On Shared-Use Path In South Nyack
• Police Investigate Bar Stabbing Report
• Train Kills Person In Rockland Overnight
• TIME Nyack Hotel Bankrupt
• Rocklander Hailey Baldwin Engaged To Justin Bieber

Got a news tip? I'm Lanning Taliaferro, your local editor. Nyack is one of my favorite places to visit (I live in Putnam County); I admit to being worried about driving through crowds of bicyclists on weekends but I am looking forward to walking across the Tappan Zee. Send your tips, ideas and questions my way at lanning.taliaferro@patch.com or if that's just too much to spell out, nyack@patch.com

Our readers also love Nyack-Piermont Patch's calendar of events — 2,313 visits were made to our calendar in August. Coming up soon on the calendar are the Central Nyack Community Block Party, the art gallery grand opening in Piermont and the Rockland Council for the Arts' Full Moon Party.

And I hope you're already working on your costume or float for the Halloween parade Oct. 27 (as usual we'll list all the winners here afterward and show some of the fabulous photos from the Nyack Chamber of Commerce). Here's one of our favorites from the 25th annual parade in 2012.

Nyack-Piermont Patch is enlivened by posts from community folks like the Valley Cottage Library. If you would like to post on Nyack-Piermont Patch, too, you may easily sign up for a free user profile. As a Patch user, you can post articles, events, jobs, and announcements. And the "rules of Patch" are easy to follow: "no abusive content, no commercial spam, keep it local, and be awesome."

What else is new? We've put more than 3,500 posts on Nyack-Piermont Patch's Facebook page since Jan. 1. If you haven't liked our page yet, please give it a try. If you're already on the page, please share with a friend. Reaching 2,500 fans would be a nice milestone for us.

If you own a local business and are interested in getting your message on Nyack-Piermont Patch or our nearby Patches, please visit the page and tell us what you need. One of our sales reps will be in touch.

Here's another fun fact about Patch: Did you know that Patch is among the 100 most trafficked websites in the United States? Patch ranks 91st on the most viewed websites in the country, according to Alexa. Nyack-Piermont Patch is part of a broad network, with 119 Patches in New York and more than 1,200 across the United States. That's a lot of local news.

Many news websites are limiting access to free articles, but Patch articles and events by our journalists and our users are always free to view.

We're thrilled you've made Nyack-Piermont Patch a part of your life. Thank you so much for your support and readership.

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PHOTOS/ Nyack Chamber of Commerce