Spuyten Duyvil Creek

It eventually reached what was then the Spuyten Duyvil Creek, where the Harlem and Hudson Rivers met at the northern end of Manhattan.

The two teenage boys knew how to swim, and one, confident he could handle the currents of Spuyten Duyvil Creek, jumped in from a bridge at Inwood Hill Park in Upper Manhattan.

In a bend of Spuyten Duyvil Creek at the very northern tip of Manhattan, the green space serves views of the Henry Hudson Bridge spanning from a tree-lined spit of Inwood Hill Park to a rock face bounding the northwestern Bronx.

When the competitors — who, typical of open-water swimmers, had eschewed wet suits — rounded the bend from the Spuyten Duyvil Creek into the Hudson River, they experienced a sudden rush of warmth, as if hopping into a hot tub.

The bridge spans the Spuyten Duyvil Creek between Manhattan and the Bronx.