North River (Hudson River)

You are standing by a waterway that the early Dutch settlers named the North River, a title they used to distinguish it from their South River, which is known today as the Delaware. While most people now call this the Hudson River, the original name persists in the maritime industry and on nautical charts to describe this specific tidal stretch between Manhattan and New Jersey. You are effectively walking along a drowned river valley carved by ancient glaciers, where the water flows in two directions because it is an estuary connected to the Atlantic Ocean. Two high tides and two low tides pulse through these waters every single day, pushing the current as far north as Troy.