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	Spuyten Duyvil Creek - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Spuyten Duyvil Creek, also known as the Harlem River Ship Canal, is a one-mile-long channel connecting the Hudson and Harlem Rivers in New York City, separating the island of Manhattan from the mainland.
		The neighborhood called "Spuyten Duyvil" lies to the north of the creek.
		The construction of the ship canal to the south of the neighborhood in 1895 turned Marble Hill into an island, and when the original creekbed was filled in, in 1914, Marble Hill became physically attached to the Bronx, though it remained part of the borough of Manhattan.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Spuyten_Duyvil_Creek (147 words)

	Spuyten Duyvil Creek -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Spuyten Duyvil Creek originally flowed north of Manhattan's (Click link for more info and facts about Marble Hill) Marble Hill.
		The construction of the ship canal to the south of the neighborhood in 1895 turned Marble Hill into an island, and when the original creekbed was filled in, in 1914, Marble Hill became physically attached to the (A borough of New York City) Bronx, though it remained part of the borough of Manhattan.
		"Spuyten Duyvil" means "Devil's Whirlpool" in (The West Germanic language of the Netherlands) Dutch.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/S/Sp/Spuyten_Duyvil_Creek.htm (120 words)

	Pepper of the Earth - The Home Office Record & Mostly Daily Gazette » The Duyvil Made Me Do It
		Spuyten Duyvil is dog-friendly, if you swing that way, and Bill and Warren had brought along Ludwig and Mabel - dachshund and poodle - as a cunning way to meet girls.
		The jukebox at Spuyten Duyvil is one of those wonderful non-commercial propositions, packed with dusty old jazz tunes and crinkly obscure bluegrass and wilfully-obtuse avant rock.
		“Spuyten Duyvil,” from the Dutch, means either “Devil’s whirlpool” or “to spite the Devil,” depending on how much you have in your mouth when you’re trying to say it.
	www.web-ho.com /blog/index.php?p=17 (597 words)

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		Spuyten Duyvil is tucked into the corner of the Bronx at the Hudson and Harlem Rivers, first stop beyond Marble Hill, that strange piece of Manhattan that resides on the mainland.
		After Spuyten Duyvil Creek was filled in, the NYCentral was relocated along the Harlem and Hudson Rivers, with the leftover track retained as a trainyard until the late 1960s.
		Much of western Spuyten Duyvil and its northerly neighbor, Riverdale, have a rather 'unfinished' quality as some sidewalks are absent, wide two-lane roads suddenly narrow to one, and dead-end or proceed through in a manner not jiving with printed maps.
	www.forgotten-ny.com /STREET%20SCENES/spuytenduyvil/spuyten.html (2348 words)

	History of WaHI: Spuyten Duyvil Creek - Washington Heights & Inwood Online
		The creek’s significance is revealed through local Native American legends, an era of Dutch settlement, and laborious years of altering its natural course for commercial purposes.
		The Lenape Indians called the banks of the Spuyten Duyvil Shorakapok, which has commonly been translated as “the sitting down place” or “the place between the ridges.” With an abundance of oysters, fish, waterfowl, and a diversity of other creatures, this region was an ideal hunting and fishing ground for the Lenape.
		Written accounts of the creek first appear in the year 1609, when Henry Hudson and his crew may have briefly anchored their ship, Half Moon, in the Spuyten Duyvil.
	www.washington-heights.us /history/archives/000471.html (2505 words)

	THE BRONX MALL Cultural Mosaic - The Bronx... Its History & Perspective
		In the days after Hudson, the island of Manhattan was separated from the mainland by a small erratic creek that the Dutch called Spuyten Duyvil, and which the English thought meant "Spitting Devil," though they were never certain about its meaning.
		This Spuyten Duyvil creek separated Manhattan from the land beyond and became the boundary of two counties.
		Although the winding course of Spuyten Duyvil Creek around Marble Hill has long since been filled in and a wider ship canal had been blasted through the rock to provide easy passage for coal barges to the East River, the political boundary remains.
	www.bronxmall.com /cult/series (530 words)

	Waterwire.net
		Extending from the Hudson River at the North and the East River to the South, the Harlem River is approximately 8 miles long, depending on the body of water between Manhattan and Randalls and Ward's Island is identified as the Harlem or the East River.
		What had been until a century ago the swamps and islands of Spuyten Duyvil Creek, Marble Hill, and Tibbet’s Brook along the Bronx waterfront are formed from Cambrian-Ordovician Inwood marble that eroded as the Harlem trickled back and forth along it.
		By this time it was well understood that as the Spuyten Duyvil Creek flowed into the Hudson the strait connecting to the East River was a treacherous stream.
	www.waterwire.net /Resources/archives.cfm?ContID=1264 (981 words)

	In Search of the Spuyten Duyvil Creek - Wired New York Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Marble Hill used to be physically connected to Manhattan, with Spuyten Duyvil Creek and the Harlem River flowing around it.
		The blasted marble was used for landfill, and Spuyten Duyvil Creek was later filled in, thus anchoring the 51 acres to the mainland.
		Although the creek was filled in, I assume there is still the source of the creek supplying water.
	www.wirednewyork.com /forum/showthread.php?p=15050&mode=threaded (696 words)

	Spuyten Duyvil Press Releases
		NEW YORK, NY, September 15, 2003 — New York independent publisher Spuyten Duyvil is honored to present the first publication of a major work by the late, previously unknown Southern writer J. Hunter Patterson, The Banks of Hunger and Hardship (A Map of Time).
		A richly evocative, adventurous hybrid of memoir and visionary prose-poetry, The Banks of Hunger and Hardship is a coming-of-age story as well as a meditation on mortality—and immortality—compellingly told in a singular voice.
		By turns poignant, humorous and hallucinatory, the book vividly recalls the author’s experiences in the Georgia creek swamp that he extensively explored during his childhood and youth, following him into the larger world he entered as an adult and the more unpredictable landscape of his dreams and his elaborate imagination.
	www.spuytenduyvil.net /press/hunger.htm (580 words)

	Ossining (town), New York - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Frederick Philipse bought the area which presently constitutes the Town of Ossining from the Sint Sinck Indians in 1685.
		His manor extended from Spuyten Duyvil Creek on the border between present day Manhattan and The Bronx to the Croton River.
		The last lord of the manor, also named Frederick Philipse, was a Loyalist in the American Revolutionary War, so the State of New York confiscated the manor in 1779.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ossining_(town),_New_York (584 words)

	Spuyten Duyvil
		A district-formerly a village-of New York City, on the Hudson River, just north of Spuyten Duyvil Creek, the narrow channel which separates Manhattan Island from the mainland and connects the Hudson and Harlem rivers.
		After Lee evacuated Richmond, Spuyten Duyvil used her torpedoes to help clear the obstructions from the river.
		Following the end of the war, Spuyten Duyvil continued to clear obstructions from the James.
	www.history.navy.mil /danfs/s16/spuyten_duyvil.htm (456 words)

	History and Significance of the Northern Area (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Inhabitants would ford the shallow area of Spuyten Duyvil Creek, which separated Manhattan and the Bronx and was known as the “Wading Place.” A ferry service replaced the “Wading Place” in the mid-1600s.
		The course of the Spuyten Duyvil Creek, which was filled in the early 20th century, is still evident in the ring of lowland that circumscribes Marble Hill.
		The Spuyten Duyvil Creek connected the Hudson River with the Harlem River and defined the north shore of Manhattan until the Harlem River Ship Canal was built in 1895.
	www.arch.columbia.edu /hp/research/northernHistory.html (9131 words)

	Wrecks - Accidents - FATAL DISASTER ON THE HUDSON RIVER RAILROAD
		TERRIBLE accident occurred on the Hudson River Railroad near Spuyten Duyvil early in the evening of January 13th, by which a number of lives were lost, several passengers were more or less severely injured, and two palace-cars wrecked and burned.
		The train had passed Spuyten Duyvil and had gone about a third of a mile, when one of the air-brakes gave out and the train was brought to a stop about two hundred yards from Spuyten Duyvil curve.
		A number of people living in the neighborhood of Spuyten Duyvil Creek flocked to the scene, provided with axes, buckets, etc., and were indefatigable in their exertions to save life.
	www.catskillarchive.com /rrextra/wksdfl.Html (1090 words)

	The Gauge - Model Train Forum - Scale Railroad Discussion & Model Trains - View Single Post - How do you pronounce ...
		The folktale I've heard about the name was that when the English were on their way to attack the Dutch at NY, Peter Stuyvesant sent his friend Anthony as a trumpeter up along the river to warn settlers, sort of an earlier Paul Revere.
		When he reached the rain swollen creek now known as Spuyten Duyvil Creek, he couldn't locate the ferry operator, so decided to risk swimming across "in spite of the devil" to carry on his mission.
		The tale goes on to say the devil actually caught him by the leg in the middle of the creek and wouldn't let go until Anthony blew his trumpet louder than the wind, but he was unable to make it to shore and drowned.
	www.the-gauge.com /showpost.php?p=143172&postcount=8 (181 words)

	Ossining (village), New York - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 1685, the Sint Sincks sold their land to Frederick Philipse who incorporated it into his land holdings known as the Manor of Philipsburg.
		The Manor comprised of about 165,000 acres and extended from Spuyten Duyvil Creek at the tip of Manhattan on the south to the Croton River just north of the Village of Ossining.
		The land was leased to tenant farmers of Dutch, French, and English origin.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ossining_(village),_New_York (1325 words)

	Travel to Bronx - New York - USA - History - WorldTravelGate.net®-
		From that time one-family houses and row houses were built, hundreds of apartment buildings restored, and several apartments converted to cooperatives and condominium units, permitting more residents of the southern Bronx to own their homes.
		As commuting by automobile became more convenient, high-rise apartment building were erected in southern and eastern neighborhoods along the new roads, including Sound view, Castle Hill, Spuyten Duyvil, and Riverdale.
		Co-op city, a complex of 15,372 units built in the northeastern Bronx between 1968 and 1970, housed sixty thousand persons and was among the largest housing developments in the world.
	www.americatravelling.net /usa/new_york/bronx/bronx_history.htm (1193 words)

	Bryant, William Cullen. Picturesque America; or, The Land we live in. (1872-74) -- Selections. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It is an island, very narrow of its southern or bay end, broadening in its centre to a width of two miles, and narrowing again at its northern extremity.
		On its eastern side, eight miles from the Battery, is the mouth of the Harlem, a mere bayou of East River, which, running west and then northerly, connects by Spuyten-Duyvil Creek with the Hudson, forming the northern boundary of the island, which, on its eastern side, is eleven miles long.
		The artist also gives us a glimpse of Spuyten Duyvil near the Hudson, the tall escarpments in the distance being the well-known Palisades of the Hudson.
	digilib.nypl.org /dynaweb/hudson/wwm985/@Generic__BookTextView/1339 (2356 words)

	Charles G. Brophy Real Estate - Riverdale, NY – Riverdale
		Many of Riverdale’s landmarks are named from their languages; &ildquo;shorrack-kappock,” the Native American name for the ridge known today as Spuyten Duyvil, inspired Kappock Street.
		The King’s Bridge connected Manhattan with the mainland, and was the point at which the road from the city divided into the three major routes to the north: the post roads to Albany, White Plains, and Boston.
		The steep ridge south of Riverdale, overlooking the entry of the Harlem River into the Hudson, was called Spuyten Duyvil by the Dutch.
	brophyrealestate.com /riverdalehistory.html (438 words)

	Macombs Dam Bridge
		Alexander Macomb, a merchant of large means and varied activities obtained from the City of New York in December, 1800, a grant of the bed of Spuyten Duyvil Creek east of the Kings Bridge at an annual rent of $12.50.
		He had also previously purchased considerable land, mostly swamp, bordering on the creek, and built a four-story grist mill west of the bridge and extending over the creek.
		In connection with acquiring land in Macombs Dam Park for widening the right of way of the Spuyten Duyvil and Port Morris Railroad, the New York Central agreed to build stairs leading from the bridge to that part of the park west of the railroad.
	mlloyd.org /Gen/macomb/text/amsr/macombs.html (3942 words)

	Encyclopedia: Spuyten Duyvil train station (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Spuyten Duyvil train station serves the residents of the Spuyten Duyvil neighborhood in New York City's borough of The Bronx via Metro-North Railroad's Hudson Division line.
		It is 11.1 miles from Grand Central Terminal and travel time to Grand Central is approximately 23 minutes.
		In modern usage, Spuyten Duyvil is the name of a subsection of the Riverdale section of the Bronx in New York City, named after Spuyten Duyvil Creek, a Dutch name meaning perhaps Devils Whirlpool, on its southern border.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Spuyten-Duyvil-train-station (446 words)

	Spuyten Duyvil Creek
		Spuyten Duyvil Creek, tidal channel, now a ship canal, c.1 mi (1.6 km) long, SE N.Y., in New York City.
		It separates the northern tip of Manhattan island from the mainland and connects the Hudson and the Harlem rivers.
		It is crossed by the Henry Hudson Bridge and the Amtrak Railroad Bridge; the line was restored to its mainline passenger function in 1991.
	www.factmonster.com /id/A0846379 (132 words)

	Spuyten Duyvil (New York) - News - Web Software & Hosting
		When Anthony reached the tip of Manhattan Island, there was no ferry to take him across the tide water creek which connects the Harlem and Hudson Rivers at the tip of Manhattan Island.
		Conscious of his important mission, Anthony decided he would swim across that creek in spite of the devil (in spuyt den duyvil).
		And the creek where Anthony met his fate was called Spuyten Duyvil.
	gigfoot.net /lol/legends/713.html (267 words)

	Enclave - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The construction in 1895 of the Harlem River Ship Canal isolated Marble Hill, a small portion of the northern tip of Manhattan (New York County).
		Initially an island, it was later physically connected to the Bronx by the filling of Spuyten Duyvil Creek.
		It remains politically part of Manhattan, to which it is connected by the Broadway Bridge.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Enclave (3322 words)

	Queens North Shore Photo Tour - Wired New York Forum
		Much of the 13 miles of waterfront is inaccessible due to the airport, industry, a pollution control plant, and private ownership; but the rest is in reasonably good condition.
		The other problem is Flushing Meadow, but to be fair to Moses, this place was a huge ash dump with a 90 ft high pile nicknamed Mt Corona before Moses transformed it.
		The two lakes (Meadow Lake is the largest in NYC) are artificial, and the creek which drained the entire wetland was dammed.
	www.wirednewyork.com /forum/showthread.php?t=4175&goto=nextnewest (1326 words)

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	Spuyten Duyvil Creek - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
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