The race is on to keep a 150-year-old lighthouse from crumbling into the Hudson River

Associated Press

HUDSON, N.Y. (AP) — The Hudson-Athens Lighthouse is in danger of toppling into the water, and advocates for the 150-year-old lighthouse in the middle of Hudson River are urgently trying to save it. Turbulence from passing commercial ships is speeding the deterioration of its wooden supports below. The Hudson-Athens Lighthouse Preservation Society is raising money to place a submerged steel curtain around the lighthouse. The ambitious preservation project could cost up to $10 million. The threat is so great the National Trust for Historic Preservation has placed the lighthouse on its 2024 list of the country’s most endangered historic places.