My Grandfather was an ice man he would deliver ice to homes and businesses ( kinda like what Ralph and Alice had on the honeymooners they had an ice box ) long before refrigerators but anyways he would tell me stories of how the water between Manhattan and Jersey would freeze,,,,,,,it would freeze so solid that they had horses pulling wagons across from one side to the other,,,,,I wish I had some pictures,,,,,,anyway my Dad would tell me that he could remember from when he was a young kid ( born 1930 ) that water being frozen from New York to Jersey,,,,,what a time and sight that must have been