SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
THE 13 COLONIES LIFE IN EARLY AMERICA
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N New York
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E New York
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NE New York
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W New Hampshire
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Hudson River flows from the Hudson Valley into New York Bay, becoming a tidal estuary that separates the Bronx and Manhattan from Northern New Jersey. The Harlem River, another tidal strait between the East and Hudson Rivers, separates Manhattan from the Bronx.
Detailed explanation-2: -High in the Adirondack Mountains a river begins. It starts at Lake Tear of the Clouds. The river’s journey is 315 miles long. It ends at New York City near the Atlantic Ocean.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Hudson River was the location of an emergency commercial airplane landing known as the Miracle on the Hudson. Pilots Chesley Sullenberger and Jeffrey Skiles ditched an Airbus A320 on the river and saved all 155 passengers and crew on January 15th, 2009.
Detailed explanation-4: -The West Side of Manhattan refers to the side of Manhattan Island which abuts the Hudson River and faces the U.S. state of New Jersey.