"On the Hudson River and Long Island Sound, huge steamboats became floating palaces offering accommodations equal to those of the best hotels," Richard Elliott writes. Events like President Grant ...

George Murdock, a lighthouse keeper in Kingston, failed to return to his wife and children one night after rowing to the mainland for groceries. The next morning, his body was found floating in the ...

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The pilot of the doomed helicopter that crashed into the Hudson River was a Navy veteran — and posted chilling video of himself last month proudly flying in the same type of chopper over Lower ...

At 3:17 p.m., multiple 911 calls reported a helicopter crash in the Hudson River near the New Jersey coastline at Pier A Park in Hoboken, New York Police Department Commissioner Jessica Tisch said.

Officials have identified all six people aboard the sightseeing helicopter that crashed into the Hudson River near New Jersey as investigators scour the murky water for additional parts of the ...