{"id":142728,"date":"2026-02-23T15:05:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T15:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/142728\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T15:05:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T15:05:09","slug":"photos-verify-wild-tale-of-hudson-river-ice-rescue-after-family-drove-car-on-frozen-surface","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/142728\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos Verify Wild Tale Of Hudson River Ice Rescue After Family Drove Car On Frozen Surface"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was 109 years ago when the Hudson River became frozen solid for 40 days. Ferries couldn&#8217;t run, so adventurous souls drove their cars &#8211; and even raced &#8211; between New York&#8217;s Westchester and Rockland counties. <\/p>\n<p>The accident happened near the landing at Nyack. The car ended up submerged under 10 feet of water. <\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/aiello-6p-pkg-1917-huds-wcbsgvel-hi-res-still-00-01-0514.jpg#.jpeg\" data- \/><\/p>\n<p> Rescuers saved a family that crashed through the ice while driving on the frozen Hudson River in 1917\/CBS News New York<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/aiello-6p-pkg-1917-huds-wcbsgvel-hi-res-still-00-01-0216.jpg#.jpeg\" data- \/><\/p>\n<p> A photocopy of an article from 1917 and the previously unseen photographs\/CBS News New York<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was 109 years ago when the Hudson River became frozen solid for 40 days. Ferries couldn&#8217;t run,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142729,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":{"0":"post-142728","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-the-bronx","8":"tag-bronx","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-city","11":"tag-nyc","12":"tag-the-bronx","13":"tag-the-bronx-headlines","14":"tag-the-bronx-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}