A stop at Rockefeller Lookout on the Palisades Interstate Parkway affords drone-like views of Spuyten Duyvil down below At anchor Saturday morning were the construction vessel Argo and the Vane Brothers tug Philadelphia with a light tanker barge. Argo is working on the Champlain Hudson Power Express Champlain Hudson Power Express cable which will make an important turn here towards its final destination and is occupying roughly the same spot where we photographed the larger Ariadne cable-laying vessel a few weeks ago but Ariadne has now moved back up to the other end of this segment of the cable off Rockland County.

Spuyten Duyvil is the point where the old Spuyten Duyvil Creek and the Harlem River Ship Canal connect with the Hudson River and is crossed by a railroad swing bridge used by Amtrak’s Empire Service and by the Henry Hudson Parkway up above. Separating the Bronx from Manhattan ,this marks the northern extreme of the North River as I define it, though some will use this moniker for the estuary as far up as Tappan Zee or even Albany. The name Spuyten Duyvil comes from old Dutch and has something to do with the devil, but the precise meaning or origin is not known.