Big news: At 11 a.m. Friday, Nyack will have a record store again.
I remember the days when Nyack had a big record shop.
Unless my memory is truly failing me, it was Pic-a-Disc at Main and Franklin, in the space now home to Murasaki Japanese restaurant.D.S.Z. Barbers. I can’t recall the name of it, but it It was a pretty substantial place.
But it left town many years ago, moving to Nanuet — in the small strip center on Route 59 that’s home to the kids’ barber, Tiny Trims — before disappearing altogether.
More recently, there was the nearly invisible subterranean Vinyl Lounge on Broadway, but that’s closed.
Now Nyack singer-songwriter Jennifer O’Connor, who already has her own record label, Kiam, is expanding the brand by opening The Kiam Records Shop in a much more visible location: 95 Main Street, next to the Olde Village Inn. (To call for info: 845-353-5426)
O’Connor, an established artist, who mad two well-received albums for Matador and three other independent discs, moved to Nyack from Brooklyn in 2012. She’s already started presenting music at Prohibition River. Now she’ll be selling (and buying) new and used vinyl albums, books, clothing, and more in her new shop across the street from the restaurant.
It looks like O’Connor’s really committed to Nyack.
If you can’t be there when the doors open, please stop in sometime soon to check out O’Connor’s shop. (I hope to get there sometime on opening day.)
There’s a party from 6-9 p.m., when Doug Gillard (Guided By Voices, Nada Surf, Death of Samantha), will stop in before his show at Prohibition River to sign records and possibly play a few songs.
It’s good to shop small, and shop local. I’m betting you’ll find something for somebody on your holiday gift list — and maybe for yourself. And you’ll save yourself a trek to Brooklyn or Manhattan.
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Pic-A-Disc was in the space currently occupied by Murasaki, not the barber shop. Right intersection, wrong corner
Yes, you are correct. I hoped somebody would have a better memory than I. Thanks.