Sherman Creek, New York
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Sherman Creek Inlet is a small body of water in the New York City borough of Manhattan, New York.
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Sherman Creek is named for a family that settled in the area in 1807. The Creek was originally called the Half Kill when the Dutch occupied the area. Prior to the dredging of the Harlem River in 1895, Sherman Creek was a tidal creek surrounded by wetlands that extended to present-day Nagle Avenue.
Sherman Creek was dredged along with the Harlem River. The northern shoreline of the creek was configured to facilitate coal barge deliveries to the Sherman Creek Generating Station, a coal-fired power plant that was constructed in 1908. The southern shoreline served recreational boating clubs that were part of a network of Harlem River boating clubs called 'Sculler's Row'. Prior to 1950, the Harlem River, including Sherman Creek, was a major center for rowing and other water sports. Many boating clubs were closed in the 1960s. The Fordham University boathouse, the last remaining boathouse at Sherman Creek, burned in 1978. As active boating uses left the area, Sherman Creek gradually filled in with sediments from the Harlem River. Today, Sherman Creek is a mud flat that is exposed at low tide.
