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The mouth of the Spuyten Duyvil Creek with the Henry Hudson Bridge (foreground) and the railroad's Spuyten Duyvil Bridge in the background Spuyten Duyvil Creek, King's Bridge, and Marble Hill area, 1777 military map 1842 view What was a southern meander of Spuyten Duyvil Creek is now a bay in Inwood Park.
Spuyten Duyvil (/ ˈ s p aɪ t ən ˈ d aɪ v əl /, SPY-tən-DIE-vəl [3]) is a neighborhood of the Bronx, New York City.It is bounded on the north by Riverdale, on the east by Kingsbridge, on the south by the Harlem River, and on the west by the Hudson River, [4] although some consider it to be the southernmost part of Riverdale.
[4] [5] [6] The Spuyten Duyvil Creek flowed around the neighborhood to the north, separating Marble Hill from the Bronx, and by extension, the North American mainland. Marble Hill became an island in 1817, when two small streams were dug up to form a narrow canal. The waterway ran from the Spuyten Duyvil Creek to the Harlem River. [4] [5] [6 ...
The Spuyten Duyvil Bridge is a railroad swing bridge that spans the Spuyten Duyvil Creek between Manhattan and the Bronx, in New York City. The bridge is located at the northern tip of Manhattan where the Spuyten Duyvil Creek meets the Hudson River , approximately 1,000 feet (300 m) to the west of the Henry Hudson Bridge .
Spuyten Duyvil, Bronx, a neighborhood just north of the Creek; Spuyten Duyvil station, a commuter railroad station that serves the residents of the Spuyten Duyvil neighborhood of the Bronx, New York via the Hudson Line; Spuyten Duyvil Bridge, a swing bridge that carries Amtrak's Empire Corridor line across the Spuyten Duyvil Creek between ...
The Riverdale–Spuyten Duyvil–Kingsbridge Memorial Bell Tower or Riverdale Monument is a memorial tower in Bell Tower Park located in the Riverdale section of the Bronx. It was completed on September 17, 1930 to commemorate World War I veterans from the neighborhoods of Riverdale, Spuyten Duyvil , and Kingsbridge . [ 2 ]
On 19 November 1864, the boat was renamed Spuyten Duyvil. On 25 November 1864, she successfully fired two torpedoes. Late in November 1864, Commodore Charles Stewart Boggs was placed in charge of Spuyten Duyvil, Picket Boat No. 6, and steam tug John T. Jenkins which had been chartered to tow the former vessels to Hampton Roads, Virginia.
[d] Between the train's location and the Spuyten Duyvil station the tracks ran through Rolling Mill Cut, which obstructed the view of the track beyond in either direction, a stretch Hanford considered particularly dangerous since the curve at the north end of the cut was further obstructed by Kilcullen's, a local hotel and tavern. [9]