The first superhighways -- New York's Henry Hudson and Chicago's Lake Shore, San Francisco's Bay Bridge and its approaches, a good slice of the Pennsylvania Turnpike -- were built as part of the federal works program which was going to cure the depression.

The name: Henry Hudson.

There at the river's edge waited one Henry Greene, whom Hudson listed as a `` clerk ''.

* 1610 – Henry Hudson sails into what is now known as Hudson Bay thinking he had made it through the Northwest Passage and reached the Pacific Ocean.

* 1609 – Henry Hudson discovers Delaware Bay.

Henry Hudson put in to Dartmouth on his return from America, and was arrested for sailing under a foreign flag.

In 1609 Henry Hudson, on behalf of the VOC, outwitted his competitors by landing on the coast of New England in his quest for the Northwest Passage to Asia.

In its initial years Winslow Homer took a studio there, as did Edward Lamson Henry, and many of the artists of the Hudson River School, including Frederic Church and Albert Bierstadt.

However, Henry Hudson could only have come by on his voyage in 1607 ( if he had made an illogical detour ) and he made no mention of it in his journal.

* 1611 – The mutinous crew of Henry Hudson's fourth voyage sets Henry, his son and seven loyal crew members adrift in an open boat in what is now Hudson Bay ; they are never heard from again.

The Man Who Invented Rock Hudson: The Pretty Boys and Dirty Deals of Henry Willson.

* 1875 Henry James's Roderick Hudson

From Hudson Bay, in 1690 Henry Kelsey reached the lower Saskatchewan River, in 1754 Anthony Henday followed the Saskatchewan almost to the Rocky Mountains and in 1771 Samuel Hearne reached the Arctic coast at the Coppermine River.

The first recorded exploration by the Dutch of the area around what is now called New York Bay was in 1609 with the voyage of the ship Halve Maen or " Half Moon ", captained by Henry Hudson, in the service of the Dutch Republic, as the emissary of Holland's stadholder Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange.

The English explorer Henry Hudson sailed into Hudson Bay in 1611 and claimed the area for England.

* 1777 – American Revolutionary War: General Sir Henry Clinton leads British forces in the capture of Continental Army Hudson River defenses in the Battle of Forts Clinton and Montgomery.

In 1903, Amundsen led the first expedition to successfully traverse Canada's Northwest Passage between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans ( something explorers had been attempting since the days of Christopher Columbus, John Cabot, Jacques Cartier, and Henry Hudson ), with six others in a 45-ton fishing vessel, Gjøa.

* 1609 – Henry Hudson discovers Manhattan Island and the indigenous people living there.

* 1609 – Henry Hudson begins his exploration of the Hudson River while aboard the Halve Maen.

* 1609 – Henry Hudson reaches the river that would later be named after him – the Hudson River.

Ballwin is home to many schools within Parkway School District, including Claymont, Hanna Woods, Henry, Oak Brook, and Sorrento Springs elementary schools, and Parkway West High School.

Moses's project added new landfill west of the tracks, covered the New York Central rail line, and constructed the Henry Hudson Parkway.

* Central Riverdale ( The " downtown " of Riverdale – from Manhattan College Parkway to West 232nd Street and from the Henry Hudson Parkway to Riverdale Avenue and Waldo Avenue )

* Fieldston ( Riverdale south and east of the Henry Hudson Parkway, north of Manhattan College Parkway and west of Tibbett Avenue )

Housing in Riverdale ranges from multi-story apartment buildings dating from the 1950s and 1960s, such as The Century Building, 3333 Henry Hudson Parkway, and 555 Kappock Street to large, architecturally distinguished mansions built in the early 20th century, mostly in Georgian-and Tudor-revival styles, which recall scenes of " rural Connecticut " rather than the city.

In August 2008, Columbia University purchased an almost-completed apartment building by Henry Hudson Parkway for use as faculty housing.

* In the 2004 film Secret Window Mort Rainey's ex-wife lives in Riverdale, New York ; several camera shots show the Henry Hudson Parkway and glimpses of Riverdale

* Ron Blomberg ( born 1948 ), first Designated Hitter in baseball history, former NY Yankee, lived at the Whitehall ( 3333 Henry Hudson Parkway ).

Metro-North commuter railroad service is available at the Spuyten Duyvil station on the Hudson Line, located underneath the Henry Hudson Parkway and alongside the shore of the Harlem River at Edsall Avenue.

By car, Riverdale is commonly reached by the Henry Hudson Parkway ( Route 9A ), which bisects much of the neighborhood.

The Riverdale section of the Bronx is protected by the FDNY Fire Station # 52 or Engine 52 / Ladder 52, located at 4550 Henry Hudson Parkway East in Central Riverdale.

Moses, working with landscape architect Gilmore D. Clarke also added playgrounds, and distinctive stonework and the 79th Street Boat Basin, but also cut pedestrians off from direct access to most of the riverfront by building the Henry Hudson Parkway by the river's edge.

* Henry Hudson Parkway Authority, in 1940

The bridge is part of the Henry Hudson Parkway placarded as New York State Route 9A.

Meanwhile, Robert Moses preferred the route along the Hudson River because he was able to receive the land to build the Henry Hudson Parkway at no cost and use federal labor to construct the parkway.

The original single-deck structure was built for the Henry Hudson Parkway Authority by the American Bridge Company at a cost of $ 4, 949, 000 and opened to traffic on December 12, 1936.

Before I-478 was moved to the Westway project in 1971, that project was planned as I-695, which would have continued north along the Henry Hudson Parkway to the George Washington Bridge ( Interstate 95 ).

New York state appropriated a matching $ 2. 5 million and the state of New Jersey appropriated $ 500, 000 to build the Henry Hudson Drive, ( which would be succeeded by the Palisades Interstate Parkway in 1947 ).

New York state appropriated a matching $ 2. 5 million and the state of New Jersey appropriated $ 500, 000 to build the Henry Hudson Drive ( which would be succeeded by the Palisades Interstate Parkway in 1947 ).

It is bounded by Manhattan College Parkway to the south, Henry Hudson Parkway to the west, 250th Street to the north and Broadway to the east.

The Spuyten Duyvil Bridge is a railroad swing bridge that carries Amtrak's Empire Corridor line between New York City and Albany and the Henry Hudson Bridge a steel arch toll bridge that carries the New York State Route 9A to Peekskill.