Hudson River

British  

noun

1. a river in E New York State, flowing generally south into Upper New York Bay: linked to the Great Lakes, the St Lawrence Seaway, and Lake Champlain by the New York State Barge Canal and the canalized Mohawk River. Length: 492 km (306 miles)

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Hudson River Cultural  

1. River that runs north to south in New York state.

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Explored by Henry Hudson in the early seventeenth century.

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He and fellow pundits Joe Hart and Micah Richards swapped their microphones for oars and took to the Hudson River in New York.

From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026

The wreckage of a New York sightseeing helicopter that crashed into the Hudson River, killing six people, showed signs of a bird strike, investigators said on Thursday.

From Barron's ● Jul. 16, 2026

It’s now the ideal spot for eagle-eye vistas of sunset over the Hudson River to New Jersey, and the Chrysler and Empire State buildings between the glass forest of more recent skyscrapers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 12, 2026

As time went on, he also started a large farm upstate, and when he wanted a country house for his family, he helped an architect to design an extravagant villa overlooking the Hudson River.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026

A train line goes up and down Manhattan very close to the Hudson River!

From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman