More than 85% of the river’s islands have been eliminated and most of the river’s side channels have been filled in. About half of the river shoreline between Troy and the Mario Cuomo Bridge (formally Tappan Zee) has been engineered.
For thousands of years the Hudson River has supplied sustenance and transportation needs, notably so in the last 400 years.
Only since about 200 years however, have human activities, including federal, state, local, and private development, degraded the integrity of the Hudson River ecosystem…