Hudson River
The Little Red Lighthouse Swim takes long-distance swimmers on a journey through the currents of the Hudson River. Find out more about it here.
Chelsea Pier 66, Hudson River.
This lightship was submerged for three years in the Chesapeake Bay before its current owners acquired it. Now you can get drunk on it and throw launch parties devoted to underwater objects.
Hudson River.
Seven hundred of them, to be exact. The habitats resemble small concrete igloos and were made by inmates at Cumberland County Penitentiary to house fish in the Garden State North Reef.
Hudson River.
When the wooden pilings at the edge of Manhattan known as alligators, are knocked loose, they become treacherous floaters, ready to ram into anything that crosses their path.
Hudson River, The Rockaways, Coney Island.
Despite the pollutants that surround our city, fish like shad and striped bass are increasing in number. Underwater New York is committed to building relationships with organizations that have a vested interest in the health of our waterways. This is why.
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This refers to a current pattern, not a cultural trend. When Battery Park City was built in the 1970s, it rerouted the current in the Hudson, which now scrapes the protective layer of mud off the top of the Lincoln Tunnel. If the tunnel ever becomes exposed, the Port Authority will have to worry about potential cracking, shifting, and terrorist threats.
East River, Hudson River.
Much of the water near the shore and around Liberty Island is less than ten feet deep. This makes us think of that Edie Brickell song (but now we’re dating ourselves).
Hudson River.
Toxins found in the Hudson River show up in the bodies of blue crabs, which is why the DEC limits how many crabs New Yorkers–especially children and women of child-bearing age–should eat!
Hudson River.
Every day, 2200 tons of sediment is carried through the Hudson from upstate. It’s this silt that gives the Hudson its dismal brown hue.
Hudson River.
Contributor Said Sayrafiezadeh and his wife, Karen, celebrated their marriage by tossing a bottle of mementos, including his therapist’s business card, into the river.
Hudson River.
In the fall of 2015, students in the New School for Drama's intermediate playwriting class wrote a wish, a stone, or a missive, put it in a plastic tube, and chucked it into the Hudson where Bank Street meets the river. What do these objects long for, release, or need to say? Where will their scribing surface?
Hudson River.
In honor of the puzzle's 40th birthday on July 11, 2014, a tugboat towed a huge, inflatable Rubik's Cube down the Hudson River. What memories does it trigger? Watch its trip here.
Hudson River.
A cabin cruiser and a 19th century sailing ship get it on.
Hudson River.
In 1865, a train carrying passenger baggage plunged over the Peekskill drawbridge, which was open, and plummeted into the river. Two young stowaways survived.
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As reported by Gothamist, this barnacle-encrusted Citi Bike might have been in the Hudson for nearly six months before it was returned to a dock. Who? What? Why? How?