Spuyten Duyvil Creek
Americannoun
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It eventually reached what was then the Spuyten Duyvil Creek, where the Harlem and Hudson Rivers met at the northern end of Manhattan.
From New York Times • Dec. 6, 2021
After flowing over the dam, the brook then meandered south, eventually reaching the Spuyten Duyvil Creek, where the Harlem and Hudson Rivers met at the northern end of Manhattan island.
From New York Times • Feb. 16, 2016
Needing additional space, however, Columbia bought 26 acres in 1921 on a rocky hilltop at the narrow neck of Manhattan, above the estuary known as Spuyten Duyvil Creek.
From New York Times • Sep. 26, 2015
On the night of the 14th thirty flat-bottomed boats stole quietly up the Hudson, passed the American forts undiscovered, and made their way through Spuyten Duyvil Creek into Harlem River.
From The Hudson Three Centuries of History, Romance and Invention by Bruce, Wallace
The Macomb mansion, a fine house even to-day, once the home of Major-General Alexander Macomb, the "hero of Plattsburg," still overlooks the waters of Spuyten Duyvil Creek.
From The New York and Albany Post Road From Kings Bridge to "The Ferry at Crawlier, over against Albany," Being an Account of a Jaunt on Foot Made at Sundry Convenient Times between May and November, Nineteen Hundred and Five by Hine, C. G. (Charles Gilbert)
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