Looks as though a hamburger stand is set to open on some awesome ground.

"It's kind of a complete 180 when you look at it," said Craig Fishel, a Clarkstown North High School graduate and Palisades resident, who is opening the new restaurant with his father.

Probably the most obvious change at the location are the black-tinted windows of the porn store, which never were replaced with clear windows.

Still, brown paper was put up over them to hide construction at the location, where workers yesterday could be seen milling around on the roof and indoors.

Store owners around the new restaurant were glowing about the prospects of a non-porn-related business, saying they were happy to know that their customers won't have to see an adult bookstore across the street.

A state Supreme Court justice stopped a Queens-based adult entertainment business from opening the bookstore in 2006, and the company soon gave up on its development plans.

"I prefer the burger shop over the porn shop 200,000 times over," said Jean Chery, owner of Jean Advance Auto Repair, which is next door to the new restaurant.

Chery, who has run his business in the village for nearly 28 years, said he frequently had protested the opening of the adult bookstore at village meetings.

He said Nyack has been known for its antique stores and restaurants, not porn - and he wanted to keep it that way.

Remember all those slasher films where building on a burial ground would unleash all kinds of bad spirits and chainsaw-wielding maniacs? Well, I wonder what could be unleashed in this case.

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