We are proud to announce our second winner in the hotly contested Hitchcock-on-Hudson contest, Barbara Capalbo of Yorktown Heights!
One astute blog follower has asked if Barbara and Chris DeMontravel, our other winner, will have to split the three book prize. No, Barbara, like Chris, also wins The Riverkeepers by John Cronin and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Denning's Point: A Hudson River History by Jim Heron, and Flyaway by Suzie Gilbert.
Barbara identified the required number scenes and provided wonderful commentary and contemporary images of some of the Hudson River locations that one can see through the dining car windows in Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest. Like Chris, Barbara went the extra mile in giving her answers, which were submitted just under the wire at 11:27 PM last night.
More about Barbara and her answers after the jump.
Barbara is as a lifelong resident of the Hudson River Valley, who has an abiding appreciation of the region's natural beauty and history. She is a former shop keeper in the river towns of Tarrytown, Peekskill, and Cold Spring. She enjoys traveling throughout the Hudson Valley with her husband and daughter. She resides in Yorktown Heights where she is involved in artistic and cultural endeavors relating to the Hudson Valley. Barbara says,"I've spent so many joyful happy carefree days at so many of the parks along the Hudson from Yonkers on up to Beacon. How fortunate we all are to have the beautiful Hudson River to enjoy. If all these river towns could speak, the stories they'd tell!"
Barbara was so excited about the contest she wanted to ride the train to get more photos:
If I'd had the time I would've taken the train down to Grand Central and back but I didn't think to do that till it was too late last night!
Here are Brbara's answers, with images, as she provided them:
Irvington-on-the-Hudson, NY, industrial waterfront - lumber yard & industrial factory complex seen as the train approaches and passes through Irvington and into/under the tunnel bridge -- home to Lord & Burnham, where some of the country's most famous greenhouses were manufactured -- now called the Bridge Street de velopment area
At least two views of the bridge and the Hudson as the train is going toward the bridge (it's in the distance) in the movie and then again from the window as the train passes by and the view looking back toward it. Tappan Zee Bridge, cantilever bridge across the Hudson River, Tarrytown, NY & then that is possi bly (as the train passes by) Pierson Park popular riverfront with ex pansive views of the Tappan Zee Bridge
For a few seconds in the movie "North by Northwest," at the beginning of the epic train journey, a strange scene flashes past outside the window: an island with a brooding, vaguely Scottish-looking castle on it. Riders bound north on Amtrak or Metro-North's Hudson Line today can see the same sight if they venture north of Cold Spring. A thousand feet out into the Hudson sits Bannerman's Island, with its strange ruins, looking like something out of a 19th-century engraving." (See NY Times).
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