Millions of people in New York and New Jersey consider the Hudson River
as familiar as their own backyard yet only have a superficial knowledge
of the landscape and land use of this river's waterfront. This beautiful
book deepens readers' understanding with an aerial portrait of the
river's shores from the Battery, at the southernmost tip of Manhattan,
to the river's origin near Albany. Focusing on man-made sites rarely
seen by those who travel along the river's banks -- some of which can
only be seen aerially -- the book showcases the shore area's vanishing
(or vanished) avenues, prisons, power plants, quarries, parks, condos,
and redevelopments. Up River's photos and accompanying succinct text
tell the story of how this river was used in developing industry and
modern America from Revolutionary times through 19th-century
exploitation of the waterfront to the beginnings of environmental
activism that protects famous vistas from the quarriers of the
Palisades.