Up River: Man-Made Sites of Interest on the Hudson from the Battery to Troy

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Millions of people in New York and New Jersey consider the Hudson River as familiar as their own backyard yet only have a superficial knowledge of the landscape and land use of this river's waterfront. This beautiful book deepensreaders' understanding with an aerial portrait of the rivers shores from the Battery, at the southernmost tip of Manhattan, to the river's origin near Albany. Focusing on man-made sites rarely seen by those who travel along the rivers banks some ofwhich can only be seen aerially the book showcases the shore areas vanishing (or vanished) avenues, prisons, power plants, quarries, parks, condos, and redevelopments. Up Rivers photos and accompanying succinct text tell the story of how this river was used in developing industry and modern America from Revolutionary times through 19th-century exploitation of the waterfront to the beginnings of environmental activismthat protects famous vistas from the quarriers of the Palisades.