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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Unscathed, his team scrambled for new digs across the Hudson River, growing into a major player in debt and equity financing for mostly small and midsize companies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026

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

Accident investigators are examining whether a bird strike might have led to a deadly helicopter crash last year in the Hudson River, killing six people.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026

Adriaen van der Donck was a lawyer who in 1641 transplanted himself to the Hudson River Valley, then part of the Dutch colony of Nieuw Nederland.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann