• in 1767, Union Street first connected Poughkeepsie, New York, to the Hudson River?
• due to a lack of freight crossings of the Hudson River, trains must take a 280-mile (450 km) detour, the Selkirk hurdle, to cross into New York City from the south or west?
• the pump station built to supply Hudson River water to Albany, New York, is now home to a brewpub, planetarium and the city's visitor center?
• the Map of Rensselaerswyck shows that Kiliaen van Rensselaer originally named areas around the upper Hudson River, near Fort Orange, after the women in his life?
• the first child of European descent born along the Hudson River was born on Beeren Island near Albany, New York?
• before restoring ferry service across the Hudson River between Newburgh and Beacon, NY Waterway had to strengthen the boat's hull so it could withstand river ice?
• after Moses Collyer built his retirement home (pictured) in Chelsea, New York, he cowrote the definitive history of the sail era in Hudson River navigation?
• John Champe, American Revolutionary rebel double-agent sent to capture Benedict Arnold, was spotted and chased from the landmark the Three Pigeons by fellow rebels, before diving into the Hudson?
• Mike Davis envisioned making recreational boats available on the Hudson River in New York City after seeing how boats could be rented in Istanbul and rowed on the Bosporus?
• Moodna Creek (pictured), a tributary of the Hudson, was originally known as "Murderers' Creek" after a family was massacred on its banks?
• Wood's Monument at West Point was used as a navigational aide for ships passing down the Hudson River?
• preservationists moved the Boscobel mansion 15 miles (24 km) up the Hudson River to save it?

Facts on topics related to Hudson River

New York City

• African-American gay and transgender Ali Forney, once homeless himself, had a homeless LGBT youth center in New York City named after him for his work helping other youths?
• architecture critics praised the Art Deco Ghostbusters Building, in New York City, when it opened in 1929?
• Australian singer Lana Cantrell, a 1968 Grammy Award nominee for Best New Artist, later became an entertainment lawyer in New York City?
• Edgar Allan Poe wrote "The Raven" while living at what is now called Edgar Allan Poe Cottage in the Fordham section of The Bronx in New York City?
• Hal the Central Park Coyote got his nickname from his temporary lair in Hallett Nature Sanctuary (pictured) in Central Park, New York City?
• Leo Tolstoy's play The Living Corpse played in New York City in both Yiddish (1911) and German (1916) before it was ever presented there in English (1918)?
• New York City authorities asked the Museum of Sex not to locate itself within 500 feet of a church or school?
• New York City has been working on the Second Avenue Subway project since 1919?
• New York City's Ramaz School, with 1,100 students in 2007, was named for Rabbi Moses Margolies and founded by his grandson Rabbi Joseph Lookstein, whose son was in the opening class of six in 1937?
• New York City's Central Park West Historic District contains only one building not felt to contribute to its historic character?

Manhattan

• Manhattan's Rose Hill neighborhood was the original site of Madison Square Garden, where millionaire Harry K. Thaw killed architect Stanford White over Evelyn Nesbit?
• Mayor of New York City Ed Koch was sworn into office on New Year's Eve 1977 in the Manhattan home of David Margolis, president of Colt Industries, a firm founded in 1836 by Samuel Colt?
• Nicola Kraus is said to have modeled Mrs. X in The Nanny Diaries on several women who lived at 1000 Park Avenue on Manhattan's Upper East Side?
• Tom Wolfe's book Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers was set at a party hosted by composer Leonard Bernstein in which Manhattan socialites mingled with the Black Panther Party?
• 66th Street in the New York City borough of Manhattan was once proposed by Donald Trump as the site of a 150-story building that would have been the world's tallest?
• five rowhouses on East 78th Street (pictured) between Third and Lexington Avenues are among the oldest townhouses on Manhattan's Upper East Side?
• Laurie D. Cox performed the first comprehensive tree census in New York City in 1915, finding that most street trees in Manhattan were in bad condition?
• St. Jean Baptiste Catholic Church was started in a rented hall above a stable on Manhattan's Upper East Side?
• all of the buildings on Pomander Walk in Manhattan are replicas of a Broadway stage set?
• an 1847 New York state law led to bodies buried in Manhattan graveyards being dug up for reburial in Brooklyn and Queens?

New York

• 14 of the 16 founding congregants of New York's Peekskill Presbyterian Church were women?
• Albany, New York, has a life-size sculpture of its coat of arms (pictured) that was sculpted by a local political cartoonist?
• BBC journalist Leonard Miall worked on psychological warfare in New York and San Francisco with the Political Warfare Executive during World War II?
• Bernt Carlsson, the last United Nations Commissioner for Namibia, died in the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing in 1988, while travelling to the signing ceremony of the Namibian independence agreement in New York?
• Colonel J. Thomas Scharf, who served in both the Confederate Army and Navy, later became New York's Chinese Inspector?
• comedian Russ Meneve co-founded the "New York Comedians Coalition" in order to negotiate better payment for New York's comedians?
• Franz von Rintelen, a German spy living in New York during World War I, used pencil bombs to sabotage Allied shipping?
• Jack Womack's 2000 alternate history novel Going, Going, Gone is set in two converging parallel versions of New York?
• New York Governor David Paterson's press secretary Errol Cockfield Jr. was previously Albany bureau chief of Newsday?
• New York Assemblyman Gregory R. Ball proposed a measure offering free education for United States military veterans?

Rockland County, New York

• Sloat's Dam is the only remaining intact dam on the Rockland County stretch of the Ramapo River?
• The Homestead, one of the oldest buildings in Haverstraw, New York, has been home to a state legislator and congressman, the county sheriff and the local school superintendent?
• the Haverstraw King's Daughters Public Library is the oldest chartered public library in Rockland County, New York?

Poughkeepsie, New York

• in 1767, Union Street first connected Poughkeepsie, New York, to the Hudson River?
• the Vassar Institute in Poughkeepsie, New York, now used for a local arts center, is on the former site of a brewery?

Hudson Valley

• Locust Grove, Samuel F. B. Morse's home near Poughkeepsie, was the first Hudson Valley estate to be designated a U.S. National Historic Landmark?
• the Poughkeepsie Trust Company building has been described as the Hudson Valley's first modern skyscraper despite being only six stories high?
• the Reformed Church of Beacon has the only manual-tracker pipe organ in the Hudson Valley?
• the Survival of the Shawangunks is a Hudson Valley triathlon which requires competitors to carry their running shoes as they swim?
• the South Woods at Montgomery Place near Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, are the oldest oak forest in the Hudson Valley?
• unlike other Dutch Colonial stone houses in the Hudson Valley, the Wynkoop House has no stone with the builder's initials?