Hudson River

NEWBURGH, N.Y. - A 10-year-old boy clambered out the window of a minivan and swam to shore after his mother on Tuesday drove into the frigid Hudson River, killing herself and her three other children, officials said yesterday. Lashaun Armstrong was the only survivor after his mother, Lashanda Armstrong, plunged the van into the river in this gritty city of 30,000 people, 60 miles north of New York City. When the van hit the water about 8 p.m., it was just past high tide and the Hudson was flowing swiftly to the south, pulling the vehicle 25 yards out into the rain-swollen river, Fire Chief Michael Vatter said.

Funeral services for brothers Steven and Daniel Altman and Daniel's son Douglas will be at 10 a.m. tomorrow at Temple Sinai, 1401 N. Limekiln Pike, Dresher. Burial will be in Shalom Memorial Park, Huntingdon Valley. The Altmans died Saturday when a single-engine plane piloted by Steven Altman collided with a helicopter over the Hudson River in New York City. The pilot and five Italian tourists aboard the helicopter also were killed. The accident is under investigation. Daniel Altman, 49, of Dresher, and Steven Altman, 60, of Ambler, had flown from Wings Field in Blue Bell to Teterboro Airport in New Jersey to pick up Douglas Altman, 15. They planned to fly from there to the Jersey Shore.

Historian Jill Jonnes had pored over thousands of records in the vast dusty archive of the Pennsylvania Railroad in Harrisburg by the time she found what she was looking for. In a huge century-old leather-bound ledger, her eyes fell upon an index reference in tiny script - a clue to a treasure trove of files on a Gilded Age drama set in Philadelphia and New York. The confidential letters and memos told the story behind the PRR's monumental effort to build a system of electrified tunnels under the Hudson River, Manhattan, and the East River to Long Island, all meeting at the magnificent Pennsylvania Station.

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Chelsea Clinton's wedding Saturday evening along the Hudson River in Upstate New York will be under a no-fly zone. Local airspace will be restricted from 3 p.m. Saturday to 3:30 a.m. Sunday, said the Federal Aviation Administration. Clinton , the daughter of former President Bill Clinton and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, will wed investment banker Marc Mezvinsky in Rhinebeck, about 90 miles north of New York City. The FAA website said the restriction would be in place for "VIP Movement.

Like a middle-aged Huck Finn, W. Lee Savage, an artist in residence for two weeks at Rosemont College, has traveled a long and varied road - and river - with frequent stops along the way to think, talk at length and change course, if necessary. The maker of The Hudson River and Its Painters, a documentary made for the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Savage also has worked as an advertising executive, an illustrator, an animator, a writer of children's books and an art historian.

New Jersey Sen. Frank Lautenberg says that if a stadium is built on Manhattan's West Side, it might have an adverse impact on New Jersey, including the possibility of more sewage being dumped in the Hudson River and more traffic in and out of the state. Lautenberg is among the growing chorus of people voicing worries over the building of the proposed stadium that would lure the New York Jets from their East Rutherford, N.J., home at Giants Stadium. In letters sent last week to the Environmental Protection Agency and the Federal Highway Administration, Lautenberg asked both agencies to determine whether the stadium would pose serious problems for the Garden State.

An agreement was reached yesterday that will allow the USS New Jersey, the Navy's most decorated battleship, to return to its namesake state to be turned into a museum. U.S. Sen. John Warner (R., Va.), chairman of the Armed Services Subcommittee on Seapower, agreed to substitute the USS Iowa for the New Jersey on the Naval Registry. Federal law requires that two Iowa-class battleships be listed on the registry. "There is no more fitting tribute to New Jersey's courageous men and women of the Navy than to have a battleship in the state dedicated to educating students in their honor," U.S. Sen. Robert Torricelli (D., N.J.)

The widow of boxer Beetha-vean Scottland is suing New York City officials, contending they allowed her husband to be beaten to death during a fight aboard an aircraft carrier in the Hudson River. Denise Scottland says in her lawsuit the officials permitted the fighter to be "unreasonably and violently pummeled" during the bout on June 26, 2001. The 26-year-old light heavyweight from North Brentwood, Md., was knocked out by undefeated George Khalid Jones in the last 37 seconds of a nationally televised 10-round fight aboard the Intrepid, a floating air-sea museum.

Gov. Whitman has always been quick to defend New Jersey against benighted jesters who had the temerity to poke fun at her state. No Jersey joke - especially one leveled from across the Hudson River - went unchallenged by our cheerleader-in-chief.. . . Remarkable as it may seem, the prospect of promotion to a federal job apparently has chastened our governor. Now that she has been nominated to head the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and faces a vetting and grilling by the Senate, she has gone circumspect on us, eschewing interviews and ignoring provocations that in the past would have been fightin' words.

NEW YORK - Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Tuesday that he hoped the subway would be extended underneath the Hudson River to New Jersey "in somebody's lifetime" after a top transit official said it would be too expensive. Bloomberg, whose administration more than a year ago pitched the concept of extending the No. 7 train to the Garden State, was responding to comments by the chief of the city's subways, who said he couldn't see extending the system under the river "in our lifetime" or "anybody's lifetime.

US Airways Flight 1549, which miraculously landed in the Hudson River in 2009, traveled slowly through South Jersey on Sunday, surprising bystanders along the way. "It's the strangest thing that's ever happened here," Don Bigley, owner of Ott's Tavern in Delran, said as the Airbus 320 went slowly down Bridgeboro Road. It soon got stuck in Moorestown, delaying it for an hour, before going through Haddonfield and Westfield. It's expected to cross the Delaware Memorial Bridge on Monday en route to a North Carolina museum, where it will be housed as a piece of American history.

US Airways Flight 1549, which miraculously landed in the Hudson River in 2009, traveled slowly through South Jersey Sunday, surprising bystanders along the way. "It's the strangest thing that's ever happened here," said Don Bigley, owner of Ott's Tavern in Delran as the Airbus 320 went slowly down Bridgeboro Road. It also passed through Moorestown, getting stuck for about an hour, and Haddonfield. The plane whose safe landing on the Hudson River captivated the world two years ago, rolled out of a North Jersey warehouse and across the Passaic River on Saturday morning to begin the trek to a North Carolina museum where it will become a piece of American history.

NEWBURGH, N.Y. - A 10-year-old boy clambered out the window of a minivan and swam to shore after his mother on Tuesday drove into the frigid Hudson River, killing herself and her three other children, officials said yesterday. Lashaun Armstrong was the only survivor after his mother, Lashanda Armstrong, plunged the van into the river in this gritty city of 30,000 people, 60 miles north of New York City. When the van hit the water about 8 p.m., it was just past high tide and the Hudson was flowing swiftly to the south, pulling the vehicle 25 yards out into the rain-swollen river, Fire Chief Michael Vatter said.

Riverboat Cruises Looking for a new kind of boat excursion? Here's ShermansTravel.com's list of the best places to take a riverboat cruise. 1. Amazon River South America 2. Danube River Europe 3. Hudson River and St. Lawrence Seaway N.Y., Canada 4. The Mekong Southeast Asia 5. Mississippi River 6. Murray River Australia 7. The Nile Africa 8. The Seine France 9. Volga River and Russian Waterways 10. Yangtze River Asia SOURCE: Houston Chronicle

'American Scenery" sounds like a bland title for an exhibition of landscapes, but don't be misled. This show of 116 paintings at the Reading Public Museum is exceptional - perhaps even extraordinary - for several reasons. First, the rest of the title, "Different Views in Hudson River School Painting," alludes to an important and insufficiently appreciated fact about America's first native-born art movement - that many of its artists recorded their favorite subjects again and again, under varying circumstances according to time of day, season of the year, and changing weather.

Chelsea Clinton's wedding Saturday evening along the Hudson River in Upstate New York will be under a no-fly zone. Local airspace will be restricted from 3 p.m. Saturday to 3:30 a.m. Sunday, said the Federal Aviation Administration. Clinton , the daughter of former President Bill Clinton and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, will wed investment banker Marc Mezvinsky in Rhinebeck, about 90 miles north of New York City. The FAA website said the restriction would be in place for "VIP Movement.

When Mark Lorenzini told his ex-brother-in-law he was going fishing below the Burlington Bristol Bridge, the response was: "What are you going to catch, a body?" In fact, 40-inch striped bass can be caught in the much-improved waters of the Delaware River. And misguided stories like this frustrate Patrick Starr, who sees the river as an overlooked gem - cultural, historical, and recreational - that is badly in need of a sponsor. His vision: a Tidal Delaware River National Recreation Area, 72 river miles from Trenton to Delaware City, managed by the National Park Service.

No tangible evidence marks English mariner Henry Hudson's accidental discovery 400 years ago of this "point of the land" at the confluence of a wide bay and the vast Atlantic Ocean - no landmark, no monument, not even an old piece of driftwood in a museum. Perhaps that's because this Shore resort has evolved into a plum destination for lovers of everything Victorian, and most of its early history was swept away with roiling tides and stubborn fires. This narrow cape, situated between the ocean and Delaware Bay, even took the name of a later explorer, Cornelius Mey. But that Hudson's Dutch ship, De Halve Maan (the Half Moon)

Funeral services for brothers Steven and Daniel Altman and Daniel's son Douglas will be at 10 a.m. tomorrow at Temple Sinai, 1401 N. Limekiln Pike, Dresher. Burial will be in Shalom Memorial Park, Huntingdon Valley. The Altmans died Saturday when a single-engine plane piloted by Steven Altman collided with a helicopter over the Hudson River in New York City. The pilot and five Italian tourists aboard the helicopter also were killed. The accident is under investigation. Daniel Altman, 49, of Dresher, and Steven Altman, 60, of Ambler, had flown from Wings Field in Blue Bell to Teterboro Airport in New Jersey to pick up Douglas Altman, 15. They planned to fly from there to the Jersey Shore.