Hudson River

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• New Tappan Zee bridge project installs first noise, air, vibration monitors in Rockland

  Zee Constructors have placed the first devices to monitor noise, vibrations and air quality on the Rockland County side of the Hudson River as part of the $3.9 billion bridge replacement project, said state officials on Wednesday.The device was installed at 5/22/13 Read more »

• Tappan Zee Bridge construction: Hudson River sludge an environmental challenge for builders

  measures to lead the industry in environmental stewardship and to protect endangered species and other wildlife in the Hudson River," said Duschang.The measures are key to making sure the dredging doesn't dirty the Hudson River with muck and silt that might   Read more »

• OUT THERE: Upper Hudson opening to canoeists

  -- After a big easy sweep across a flat-water pool on the upper Hudson River, Allison Buckley made sure she chose a better channel through the oncoming rapids than the previous canoe that hung up on a submerged rock.She also checked that her partner in front   Read more »

• Bannerman Castle: Take a summer tour of the historic Hudson Valley attraction

  of the most striking sights on the Hudson River, Bannerman Island's castle is a high-walled ruin topped with turrets that looks as if it were built to repel catapult attacks. In reality, the century-old structure, located in the waters between Beacon and Cold   Read more »

• Health care firm seeks to run Suffolk clinics

  that they'd provide increased services to East End residents, including dental and mental health care.Jeannette Phillips, a Hudson River board member, said her firm has expanded care in Coram since it took over last May, hiring more doctors and nurses , renovating   Read more »

Around the web

• West Point cadet helps rescue two stranded in Hudson River

  12:00 PM - 05/23/13 Last updated: 12:08 PM - 05/23/13 WEST POINT -- A West Point cadet dove in the Hudson River last night and swam out to help two stranded kayakers until rescuers arrived. The cadet was identified as Sam Mo, Class of 2016, from Great Neck, 1:01 PM from Times Herald-Record Read more »

• U.S. sergeant charged with videotaping female cadets

  of discipline and respect. Women have been enrolled at the two-century-old institution, on a commanding bank of the Hudson River in upstate New York, for nearly 40 years. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, who is to deliver the commencement address at West Point 5/22/13 from Globe and Mail Read more »

• Akiko Busch on Citizen Science: An Excerpt from The Incidental Steward

  connection to the river goes a little deeper. Every year, my friend Doug Reed participates in “A Day in the Life of the Hudson River,” during which environmental educators team up with schoolkids to collect sediment samples, test water quality, identify fish, 5/22/13 from Yale Press Log Read more »

• 1963 Kentucky Derby: Chateaugay's Big Day

  over the narrows linking Staten Island and Brooklyn, but the main span of that landmark structure across the gateway to the Hudson River and New York’s harbor hadn’t been completed in 1963 when another horse — one named for a small upstate New York town — 5/22/13 from The New York Times Read more »

• Metro-North Derailment/Collision and Attorney Advertising

  I’ve written on this subject many times in the past, in the wake of a Metrolink accident in California, a plane crash in the Hudson River and in Buffalo and a Staten Island Ferry collision with a pier. Do Attorney Anti-Solicitation Rules Work? (A Brief Analysis   from New York Personal Injury Law Blog Read more »