Chip City Cookies is opening its first Rockland County location at the Palisades Center in West Nyack on Oct. 10. To sweeten the news, the first 100 customers will get a free cookie with any purchase.

It's not just the shopping that makes West Nyack's Palisades Center a destination spot for families (though, seriously, who can resist four full floors of restaurants and shops?). Palisades Center is ...