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Chapter 9 Perspectives, Page 120
Although trains and motor traffic on bridges may hurry over the Hell Gate waterway, boats still must fight its currents and whirlpools. Despite many attempts to tame it, the Hell Gate remains the most dangerous part of the harbor. This was the perilous setting for novels by Washington Irving and James Fenimore Cooper. The Hell Gate is the stuff of legend. (Courtesy Granard Associates / F. W. Duffy)
Bridge photographer Dave Frieder, from the top of the Manhattan Bridge, captures a day in the late 1990s on the lower river. In contrast to the crowded river scene of a hundred years before, (see page 50) it seems eerily quiet. A few years later, dust, smoke, and ash from the World Trade Center would obscure this view. The river remains at the vortex of world events. (Courtesy Dave Frieder)
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