Posted on 07/14/2020 12:53:15 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
Hundreds gathered in the Village of Suffern Sunday afternoon for a peaceful rally to show support for police officers.The rally started with words from a few keynote speakers, including Suffern Mayor Ed Markunas.
Participants also gave the pledge of allegiance, sang the national anthem and observed a moment of silence for fallen police officers.
The group then took to the streets for a peaceful march, waving flags and holding signs to show their support.
"With everything that's going on, how police are being ambushed and vilified, I felt that I couldn't sit any longer and just watch and do nothing about it. So I decided the only thing we can do is show support, show them that we can and that we have their back," says rally organizer Izzy Landau.
The rally wrapped up outside the police station, where Mayor Markunas painted a blue line on the street.
"We have to maintain law and order and the blue line will serve as a reminder to not only the residents, but to the police officers that serve our community as they drive in and out of this police station, that they recognize that they have support from our community and the leadership," says Markunas.
“The Salvation Army has a large training school, also Avon has a YYUUGGE plant there.”
Wasn’t there a place called the Red Apple Rest in Suffern? I remember my parents taking me there after apple picking at Maskers apple orchard.
The Red Apole was located further north, on Rt17 between Tuxedo and Harriman.
Yup. a big Japanese restaurant off Rt. 17, railroad, hospital, a Jackson Whites enclave complete with shotguns and banjo.
Oh, yeah, it was a Benihana. Originally it was the Motel on the Mountain which opened just as the NY Thruway was completed around 1958. When the family sold it in 1977, it became a gay bar. Interestingly, some of those “Jackson Whites” a mixture of Caucasian, Native and African heritages, technically they’re tri racial, whom my wife’s family is distantly related to protested, carrying signs saying “we got a Stag Hill near, don’t need a FAG Hill here!”
Another small historic tidbit, the Triumph dog food plant, alongside the RR tracks in Hillburn made lots of C Rations during WW2. I stumbled across one unopened can in of all places an old tobacco warehouse in Savannah, GA converted into an antiques mall.
Of the three clusters of Jackson Whites, the Hillburn one is the most assimilated; the Mahwah and Ringwood ones are bizarre.
That whole area kind of fell by the wayside when the Thruway came through; there is a LOT of history there (mostly related to iron mining). Between Suffern and Sloatsburg used to be Sterlington - nothing left there now.
I’m surprised the condition of the building even mattered; you’re buying the location (and I assume building a modern building there). Doesn’t seem very fitting for any year-round business as it was originally built.
Why my daughter was married the wedding party stayed at the Holiday Inn in Suffern. That’s about all I know about Suffern.
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