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Rum-running Submarines off Croton Point?

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Rum-running Submarines off Croton Point?

A 1924 aerial photograph taken by a Manhattan map-making firm purports to document evidence of submarine activity in the Hudson River near Croton Point. According to Ellen NicKenzie Lawson's book Smugglers, Bootleggers and Scofflaws: Prohibition and New York City, the image shows "two submarines below the surface of the Hudson River, each 250 feet long and 600 feet apart."

The photograph emerged during Prohibition's height, when "Rum Row"—a smuggling corridor stretching from Nantucket to New Yo

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