What you want to see in this map is the line at the right which -when you enlarge the image- is labeled Spuyten Duyvil Creek. The first curve in the S is now the tidal basin in Inwood Hill Park. The creek then winds around Marble Hill, joining the Harlem River. To the left of Marble Hill is a thin line. That creek was dredged and the hillside blasted to form the Ship Canal, enabling freight to move via barge from the Hudson to the Sound (East) River.
Thanks to Great Lakes Mariner 5
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First, because it is Memorial Day, I’d like to reshare this post from 2015
called A Time to Remember. The story at the end of the post about a former
stude...
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