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» This article refers to the North River, the lower section of the Hudson. For other meanings, see North River (disambiguation).
North River describes the southernmost portion of the
Hudson River, between the states of
New Jersey and
New York in the
United States of America.
The origin of the name North River is generally attributed to the
Dutch, in describing the names of the rivers in their American
Nieuw Nederland colony as designating what is now the Hudson as the
North River, the
Connecticut as the
Fresh River, and the
Delaware as the
South River.
Another story of its origin, much less circulated, has it that the earliest explorers, observing the two large streams joining at the tip of Manhattan Island, designated one the "North" River and the other the
"East" River, based on their observed geographical directions from
New York Harbor.
In modern commercial usage, however, the North River is the part of the river from the Hudson River's mouth to approximately the "bend" where the Hudson River turns from south-southwest to south at about 30th Street in Manhattan, and near the northern boundary of
Hoboken, New Jersey.
Piers along the Hudson shore of Manhattan were known as
North River piers, even if upstream of the "bend" and were designated in shipping notices as (for example) "Pier 14, N.R." Piers above
14th Street have a number equaling the street number plus 40. Thus North River Pier 41 is at
Houston Street. Pier 81, used by
Circle Line is at West 41st Street, and North River Pier 94 of the
New York Cruise Terminal is at West
54th Street.
The term North River was used in many news articles about the arrival in 1912 of the
RMS Carpathia with survivors of the
RMS Titanic to the
Chelsea Piers between
23rd Street and
Little West 12th Street.
The massive
North River Wastewater Treatment Plant opened in phases between 1986 and 1991 on 137th to
145th Street in
upper Manhattan.
However usage except by maritime enthusiasts has dwindled with the demise of ocean-going terminals in lower Manhattan and Hoboken. In 1998, the city and state of New York opened the joint 550 acre
Hudson River Park which stretches from
59th Street to
the Battery.
Hagstrom Company maps, generally considered the standard in the
New York metropolitan area, formerly designated this lower part of the Hudson as
North River and above that as
Hudson River. Recent editions of these maps following the acquisition of Hagstrom by the Langenscheidt Publishing Group omit the North River name.
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