For most underwater archaeologists, the big dream these days is finding a shipwreck full of gold and antique treasures.
It is an area rich in history, where buildings from the 19th century are almost common, and three of the four restaurants I visited are housed in such antique treasures.
One of them, mayor Luigi de Magistris, has quickly become a symbol for the innovators, looking beyond the city's clichés and bringing a bit more order while preserving its antique treasures.
But in the last few weeks, the family has quietly put the penthouse, once home to one of the great private collections of Italian Renaissance art and still full of antique treasures, on the market to a select group of brokers, discreetly keeping it off the shared broker listing system operated by the Real Estate Board of New York.
It was a convent for 252 years, and today it's the neighborhood's principal upscale hotel, offering 58 elegant rooms and suites filled with Spanish antique treasures and modern amenities.
Marion Harris was, by her own account, a Connecticut housewife and antiques dealer when, in 1993, a hunt for old-fashioned treasures struck gold.
Imagine an antique bronze treasure chest with 265 gold coins, a 17th century Spanish emerald and gold ring, hundreds of cherry-sized gold nuggets, diamonds, rubies, emeralds, sapphires, Pre-Columbian gold animal artifacts, ancient Chinese carved jade figures and an important turquoise bead bracelet excavated in 1898 from Mesa Verde.
Children will learn about serving tea in the Victorian era and make an antique-looking treasure box to take home.
This is both a church and a true American antique, worn, treasured, passed down, home to 27 decades of contemplation, quietly abiding through the hurricanes of life.
WEST NYACK Rockland Center for the Arts Artt, Antiques and Treasures".
