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In 1835, Lieutenant Thomas Gedney of the Survey of the Coast (renamed the United States Coast Survey in 1836 and the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey in 1878) discovered a new, deeper channel through the Narrows into New York Harbor.
The nonprofit Billion Oyster Project launches, working with people across the five boroughs to restore one billion oysters to New York Harbor by the year 2035. Read more about our story.
This is what New York was to the world—a great oceangoing port where people ate succulent local oysters from their harbor. Visitors looked forward to trying them. New Yorkers ate them constantly.
History. The Statue of Liberty on Liberty Island in New York Harbor. The Native Lenape people were the inhabitants of the New York Harbor before the European arrival in the region in the 16th century. The natives used the complex waterway for travel and fishing.
New York was briefly part of the Dominion of New England and then became a Royal Colony following the Dominion’s collapse. By the end of the French and Indian War, New York was allied with the Iroquois Confederacy and New York City was one of the most profitable port cities in Colonial America.
The blast was a historic moment, representing the largest controlled explosion ever at the time and transforming the waterways of New York Harbor. The Army Corps, in collaboration with Cornish miners and using steam drills, excavated tunnels under Hallet's Reef and placed charges deep into the rock.
Hudson River Park’s piers were once part of one of the busiest working waterfronts in the world. In this gallery, you’ll find photos of our waterfront’s past life at the heart of New York City’s maritime economy — and often, at the center of world events as well.
When Henry Hudson arrived in 1609, there were some 350 square miles of oyster reefs in the waters around what is today the New York metro area, containing nearly half of the world’s oyster ...
The ship lay buried in mud for two centuries as New York City grew up around it. The last time it sailed along the East Coast and pulled into the harbor on the west side of the island,...
In Heartbeats, author John Waldman covers the arc of history of New York Harbor from its pristine origins through the ravages of the industrial era to its remarkable comeback today. First published in 1999, the volume won a New York Society Library Award.