Observations on the Hudson River as it passes through New York City. The section of the Hudson which passes through New York is historically known as the North River, called this by the Dutch to distinguish it from the Delaware River, which they knew as the South River. This stretch of the Hudson is still often referred to as the North River by local mariners today. All photos copyright Daniel Katzive unless otherwise attributed. For more frequent updates, please follow northriverblog on Facebook or Instagram.
Memorial Day has come and gone, putting us in the cultural summer, with meteorological summer a few days away, and astronomical summer still a few weeks out. Commercial traffic has been light over the holiday, while the Fleet Week ships departed with much less fanfare than seen on arrival. A haze of smoke had descended on the city by Tuesday afternoon, as winds brought smoke from wild fires in the Canadian Maritime provinces.
USS Wasp made an early Tuesday departure from Pier 88, with sailors and marines lining the deck.Laura K Moran stood by to assistAs did NRN favorite the Margaret MoranAnd a Stasinos pusher with a Coast Guard 29 footer providing security in the backgroundCoral Coast had a light cement barge heading for Lafarge Ravenna on Memorial Day morningTimothy L Reinauer spent Memorial Day anchored off 96th Street with RTC 84 on the way back from Newburgh before heading for Carteret Monday nightHey, it’s Franklin! Franklin Reinauer, the smallest tug in the Reinauer fleet and not to be confused with the much larger B. Franklin Reinauer, made a rare trip down the North River Monday. Franklin was pushing the 300’ long RTC42 and coming back from the Innovative Surface Solutions dock south of Albany on unknown business.B. Franklin Reinauer was on the North River the next day, returning from Providence with a light RTC81 and anchoring off 72nd StreetBuchanan12 was on the way back north early Tuesday with empty hoppersPassing the Vane tug Philadelphia which spent Tuesday anchored off Edgewater with the light Double Skin 507 bargePhiladelphia and Double Skin 507 headed for the Harbor Tuesday evening, passing the anchored B. Franklin with a power boat squeezing by in betweenPoling-Cutler’s Marylin George returned from New London Tuesday morning with the Noelle Cutler barge light. They anchored off Riverdale for a few hours… And then headed back to the Harbor as Canadian smoke began to haze the RiverDonJon’s Thomas D Witte was heading north with empty hoppers Tuesday, probably to collect scrap in AlbanyCoast Guard 65’ harbor tug Hawser left the Bayonne station and headed up to the Coast Guard mooring south of the GW Bridge for the day.An NYPD 35 footer also was on the North RiverThe NYPD has more than one way to keep an eye on the RiverThis mystery boat was first seen on the River last November. It is a former Marin County, California sheriff’s boat, which has been only partly repainted. Does not ping on AIS and current owner is unknown. A pair of what appeared to be F35s or maybe F22s flew down the River Tuesday.
Memorial Day at the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument in Riverside Park
North River Notes 
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