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Hudson City
State: NY
Year established: 1874
Latitude: 42 deg 15
min 7 sec N
Longitude: 73 deg 48
min 32 sec W
Height above sea level: 46 feet Original construction:
current 30-foot dressed stone/brick square red tower in west front of dwelling on stone pier
Status:
active aid to navigation
Light characteristic:
flashing green every 2.5 seconds visible for 4 nautical miles
Notes:
The light is called "Hudson City" in the USCG Light List and on the NOAA chart, "Hudson River" on the post card, and "Hudson-Athens" in the NPS Historic Light Station Inventory and the USCG Historic Light Station List.
More information:
 http://www.cr.nps.gov/maritime/light/hudson.htm
http://www.uscg.mil/hq/g-cp/history/WEBLIGHTHOUSES/LHNY.html
http://www.hudsonlights.com/hudson.htm
Bachand, Robert G.,Northeast Lights - Lighthouses and Lightships - Rhode Island to Cape May, NJ, (Norwalk, CT: Sea Sports Publications, 1989), pp. 347-349
U.S. Coast Guard, DHS, LIGHT LIST
Volume I, ATLANTIC COAST. St. Croix River, Maine to Shrewsbury River, New Jersey, (Washington, DC:U.S. Government Printing Office, 2004), p. 346
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