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Pollepel Island. Coordinates: 41°27′19″N 73°59′20″W. The island and castle viewed from atop Breakneck Ridge. Pollepel Island / pɒlɪˈpɛl / is a 6.5-acre (26,000 m 2) uninhabited island in the Hudson River in New York, United States. The principal feature on the island is Bannerman's Castle, an abandoned military surplus warehouse.
Camp sites. 66. Website. Schodack Island State Park. Schodack Island State Park (formerly known as Castleton Island State Park[ 5]) is a 1,052-acre (4.26 km 2) state park that spans portions of Rensselaer, Greene, and Columbia counties, New York. [ 2] The park is located between the Hudson River and Schodack Creek, and was opened in 2002.
Iona Island is a 556-acre (2.25 km 2) island of the Hudson River in the town of Stony Point, New York, on its west bank. The island is located approximately one mile (1.6 km) south of the Bear Mountain Bridge and is separated from the Hudson's western shore by mudflats and freshwater tidal marshes. It is part of Bear Mountain State Park ...
Schermerhorn Island, a former island in Bethlehem, New York. Schodack Island, in Schodack, New York. Shad Island, [4] a former island in Coeymans, New York. Stomy Island, within the village and town of Green Island, Hudson River on both sides, north of Center Island [5] Van Rensselaer Island, a former island [3] in Rensselaer, New York.
The eastern bluebird is New York's state bird The following list of birds of New York included the 503 species and a species pair of wild birds documented in New York as of August 2022. Unless noted otherwise, the source is the Checklist of New York State Birds published by the New York State Avian Records Committee (NYSARC) of the New York State Ornithological Association. These species ...
Designated NYSRHP. June 23, 1980. Olana State Historic Site is a historic house museum and landscape in Greenport, New York, near the city of Hudson. The estate was home to Frederic Edwin Church (1826–1900), one of the major figures in the Hudson River School of landscape painting. The centerpiece of Olana is an eclectic villa which overlooks ...
July 12, 2024 at 4:35 PM. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency needs more fish data to determine whether PCB pollution cleanup in the upper Hudson River will meet the agency's original cleanup ...
Riverkeeper studies the water quality of the Hudson. The river water is measured for salinity, oxygen, temperature, suspended sediment, chlorophyll and sewage. As of 2008, it is estimated that each year New York City's 460 Combined Sewer Overflows (CSOs) dump more than 27 billion gallons of raw sewage into the river and New York Harbor. [27]