Yeah, remember Hurricane Gloria in 1985? I was at home in College Point with my great-grandmother while my grandparents were on vacation upstate when that one was predicted to possibly come right into the harbor packing 150+ mph winds. I wasn't about to go all the way into Manhattan to school! The rest of my family was evacuated from Ocean City, NJ. As it was, Gloria took a turn to the east, cut straight across Long Island, and went right up the Connecticut River, causing massive amounts of damage. I seem to recall clean-up efforts taking a couple of *years* to completely finish.

A major hurricane going right up the Hudson River would cause unimaginable damage to the NYC metro area.