Behold! Oh, the rivers of New York! From the Hudson to the East, along downtown Manhattan to the edges of Brooklyn, from Governor’s Island to the extremities of Queens, it is easy to loose oneself daydreaming of how the first inhabitants must have felt approaching this city. What did Henry Hudson feel ascending on this island?

Right now at one of my favorite museums of this city, The Museum of New York, one can loose themselves viewing historic images of the city’s waterfront and its transformation during the 20th century. View images that catalogue the city’s edges and how much the tides have changed…

and just an aside…123 years ago today, the Statue of Liberty was dedicated to New York Harbor by President Cleveland