Kristin Beuscher, Author at Pascack Press & Northern Valley Press

New book celebrates stories that shaped Westwood

February 14, 2026 Kristin Beuscher

The Westwood Heritage Society is proud to announce the release of “Did You Know? Stories and History of Our Hometown of Westwood,” by Helen Whalen, a new book celebrating the […]

The Park Avenue railroad crossing in the 1910s. The road coming up from the bottom right corner is Broadway, then called Railroad Avenue, and it meets up with Park Avenue, which runs horizontally. At far left we see a portion of the Mittag & Volger typewriter ribbon factory. Behind where the men are standing is the Park Ridge train station. The three-story, Second Empire-style building across from Broadway was a hotel.

‘The hearse received a glancing blow from the locomotive…’

February 14, 2026 Kristin Beuscher

PARK RIDGE—“A narrow escape from serious injury or perhaps from instant death occurred at the Park Avenue crossing of the railroad, Park Ridge, at about 6 o’clock Monday evening, when […]

Left: Mill Pond Park Ridge — Pascack Press "winter" illustration.

A century ago, Mill Pond ice was center stage

February 7, 2026 Kristin Beuscher

PARK RIDGE—Generations of people who grew up in Park Ridge spent winter days skating on Mill Pond. A future Olympian once skated there, too. This week we go back a […]

Sarah Vander Clute, a lifelong Hillsdale resident, who in 1935 sparked the formation of the Hillsdale Free Public Library.

Hillsdale Library loans its first book, 90 years ago

February 1, 2026 Kristin Beuscher

This is a story about what can happen when, instead of saying something should be done, a group takes action. We go, now, to Hillsdale in the year 1935. Miss […]

When this Hillsdale farmhouse was photographed on a winter day in 1914, it was already a historical property. The Forshee-Blauvelt-Peterson House on Piermont Avenue was built in the 1740s. It was demolished approximately five years ago.

A Hillsdale homestead raised prior to the Revolution

January 24, 2026 Kristin Beuscher

It was a snowy day on Piermont Avenue in Hillsdale, 1914, when this photograph was taken outside the Forshee-Blauvelt-Peterson House. This farmhouse, which stood at Piermont Avenue and Meadow Road, […]

Hillsdale’s Episcopal Church, Hillsdale Avenue and Trinity Place, at the turn of the 20th century. In January 1896, it was broken into and vandalized.

A burglary spree at Pascack, 130 years ago this week

January 16, 2026 Kristin Beuscher

PASCACK VALLEY—“The inhabitants of Park Ridge and Woodcliff are becoming alarmed at the numerous burglaries that have been perpetuated in the two villages within the last two weeks,” the New […]

TENAFLY - winter scene at station, 1920s

Before the suburbs: Tenafly’s railroad moment

January 12, 2026 Kristin Beuscher

TENAFLY—It’s a 1930s winter in this scene that looks at the Tenafly railroad station. Just look at those old cars! Today the Tenafly station stands as a historical gem in […]

Mrs. Buerk drove them away with her hickory club

January 12, 2026 Kristin Beuscher

EMERSON—“Mrs Emil Buerk of this village is gaining a reputation as an up-to-date woman of nerve and prowess,” began the New York Herald on Jan. 12, 1896. The story comes […]

The Campbell wampum mill—by then already a relic—on Jan. 1, 1901, 125 years ago this week. The mill, now long gone, was on the Pascack Brook near the bottom of Wampum Road.

Winter at the old wampum mill

December 27, 2025 Kristin Beuscher

PARK RIDGE—When the old Campbell wampum mill was photographed 125 years ago, on Jan. 1, 1901, it was already a relic of days gone by in the Pascack Valley. The […]

Hillsdale’s police force in 1928: James Holland, Charles Bulach, Chief Lawrence Foley, William Bulach, and Henry Koelsch. The starting salary for a Hillsdale police officer was $1,650, while the chief made $2,000 a year.

A century ago, a police booth was a Christmas gift to Hillsdale

December 21, 2025 Kristin Beuscher

Hillsdale’s iconic police booth — the first police headquarters in the borough — was a Christmas gift from the Board of Trade, an organization of local businessmen, in 1925. A […]