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Beaver Frolics in the Hudson Outside Former Trump Buildings

August 5, 2019 | 12:43 PM
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A beaver swam in the Hudson River on Monday morning around West 71st Street, a happy sight that would have been unthinkable just over a decade ago. Ralph Stone took the photos above and below just after 10 a.m. as he walked his dog. He said he’s never seen beavers before in the area.

The beaver is the official New York state mammal, because the animals were ubiquitous in the state when Europeans arrived, and the beaver trade was key to the local economy.

But as humans do, we trapped too many and cut down too many forests, and the beavers died off fast. For over 200 years, they disappeared from the area around the city.

Luckily, the waters around the city have gotten cleaner in recent years, inviting all sorts of wildlife back to the area, including whales. A few beavers have returned to the New York City area in the past decade. In 2007, a beaver was spotted in the Bronx River.

But where are your pals, beaver friend?

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Darwin Bearhead
Darwin Bearhead
3 years ago

How fantastic is that?!!! Hudson rehab & beaver resurgence!

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Marianne
Marianne
3 years ago

I hope he has a girlfriend!

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Charles Klein
Charles Klein
3 years ago
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Why do we think he’s a he?

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Steven
Steven
3 years ago

Tell him to stay away from anyone named Astor.

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LeaveItTo
LeaveItTo
3 years ago
Reply to  Steven

Astor was a latecomer to the beaver trade. To get the real skinny, read Russel Shorto’s “The Island at the Center of the World.” It’s a fascinating history of the founding of New York in the Dutch period. Full of insight about the beaver trade and lot’s more.

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Julia Spring
Julia Spring
3 years ago
Reply to  LeaveItTo

Great book. A lot of it based on old government record books in Albany gradually
translated from handwritten Old Dutch, more from records of the Dutch trading company (don’t remember its actual name) in the Netherlands.

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Adrian Benepe
Adrian Benepe
3 years ago
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damn–you stole my line!

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Adrian Benepe
Adrian Benepe
3 years ago

Stay away from Astor Place…

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Barbara Adler
Barbara Adler
3 years ago
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Hey Adrian, that’s pretty funny.

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Smh128
Smh128
3 years ago

Love!

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Chrigid
Chrigid
3 years ago

All the wildlife we welcome to our shores with such joy will disappear again if the Williams Pipeline is allowed to dredge up the harbor for fracked fuel we don’t even need.

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tim
tim
3 years ago

the goats, the hawks, and now the beaver(s) – love these wildlife stories WR, nice!

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NYYgirl
NYYgirl
3 years ago

😍

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Cbuescher
Cbuescher
3 years ago

Avesome, welcome home!

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Adrian
Adrian
3 years ago

My first time seeing a beaver was in Jacksonhole, WY. I never thought I would hear of one floating in the Hudson. I hope this trend keeps up.

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JerryV
JerryV
3 years ago

I do hope that hope that beaver and friends are not scouting the Hudson with a plan to dam it up. Actually, the Hudson at this point is too brackish for beavers to settle down. My information has it that the beavers had been planning a return for a long time but that they refused to do so while the Trump building signs were still up in this area.

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Tom M
Tom M
3 years ago
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Actually, the only reason they’re coming back it to help Drain the Swamp. Long overdue. : )

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Shelley R. Goldberg
Shelley R. Goldberg
3 years ago

Leve it to Beaver!

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bobby
bobby
3 years ago

<3
Scout on a Mission

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PaulCons
PaulCons
3 years ago

Big props to Pete Seeger and the Clearwater, whose activism to clean up the Hudson makes this possible.

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Eulanda
Eulanda
3 years ago

I think that’s Beautiful , I love animals💕.

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Semira Rose
Semira Rose
3 years ago

Love this article! made my day! Welcome beaters to Hudson River!

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Mary Glascock
Mary Glascock
3 years ago

I believe I saw a beaver in Highbridge Park on the Manhattan side this Memorial Day weekend.

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NearNoraEphron’sPlace
NearNoraEphron’sPlace
3 years ago

Thanks, WSR, for a sliver of good environmental news. Hi, little guy!

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Carol McCoy
Carol McCoy
3 years ago

I seen a few beavers many times in Central Park at the waterfalls around the ramble area the past few weeks.

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Sean
Sean
3 years ago

Ward was too hard on the beaver.

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murphy
murphy
3 years ago

wow a beaver
i guess you never saw one because you always were playing video games
they have been damming streams on staten island for years…nyc you know

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Peter Ko
Peter Ko
3 years ago

I go biking along the Hudson River Greenway from time to time and I have also seen a beaver along 125th street! I’m not sure if it’s the same beaver but it was just upstream of the Fairway market.

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