East River
The East River is a saltwater tidal estuary or strait in New York City. The waterway, which is not a river despite its name, connects Upper New York Bay on its south end to Long Island Sound on its north end.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Channel
- Description: tidal strait in New York City
- Also known as: “Hellegat”, “Sound River”, and “The East River”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Wards Island and East River Arch Bridge of the New York Connecting Railroad.
Wards Island
Island
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Randalls Island and Wards Island are conjoined islands, collectively called Randalls and Wards Island, in New York City. Part of the borough of Manhattan, it is separated from Manhattan Island by the Harlem River, from Queens by the East River and Hell Gate, and from the Bronx by the Bronx Kill.
East River Arch Bridge of the New York Connecting Railroad
Bridge
Photo: Rhododendrites, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Hell Gate Bridge is a railroad bridge in New York City. The bridge carries two tracks of Amtrak's Northeast Corridor and one freight track between Astoria, Queens, and Port Morris, Bronx, via Randalls and Wards Islands.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Port Morris and Astoria.
Port Morris
Neighborhood
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Port Morris is a neighborhood geographically located in the southwest corner of the Bronx, New York City. The neighborhood is part of Bronx Community Board 1.
Astoria
Neighborhood
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Astoria is a neighborhood in the western portion of the New York City borough of Queens. Astoria is bounded by the East River and is adjacent to four other Queens neighborhoods: Long Island City to the southwest, Sunnyside to the southeast, and Woodside and East Elmhurst to the east.
East Harlem
Neighborhood
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East Harlem, also known as Spanish Harlem, or El Barrio, is a neighborhood of Upper Manhattan in New York City, north of the Upper East Side and bounded by 96th Street to the south, Fifth Avenue to the west, and the East and Harlem Rivers to the east and north.
East River
- Categories: strait, estuary, and body of water
- Location: Queens, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yiddish—“East River” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “النهر الشرقي”
- Armenian: “Իսթ Ռիվեր”
- Armenian: “Իստ Ռիվեր”
- Asturian: “East River”
- Azerbaijani: “İst-River boğazı”
- Balinese: “Tukad East”
- Basque: “East River”
- Belarusian: “Іст-Рывер”
- Bengali: “ইস্ট নদী”
- Breton: “East River”
- Bulgarian: “Ийст Ривър”
- Bulgarian: “Ист Ривър”
- Catalan: “East River”
- Cebuano: “East River”
- Chinese: “East Kang”
- Chinese: “东河”
- Chinese: “東河”
- Czech: “East River”
- Danish: “East River”
- Dutch: “East River”
- Esperanto: “East River”
- Esperanto: “Orienta rivero”
- Estonian: “East River”
- Finnish: “East River”
- French: “East River”
- Galician: “río East”
- Georgian: “ისტ-რივერი”
- German: “East River”
- Hakka Chinese: “Tûng-hò, New York Sṳ”
- Hakka Chinese: “Tûng-hò”
- Hebrew: “איסט ריבר”
- Hebrew: “איסט”
- Hebrew: “הנהר המזרחי”
- Hungarian: “East River”
- Indonesian: “East River”
- Indonesian: “Sungai East”
- Irish: “An Abhainn Thoir”
- Italian: “East River”
- Japanese: “イースト・リバー”
- Japanese: “イーストリバー”
- Japanese: “イースト川”
- Korean: “이스트 강”
- Korean: “이스트 리버”
- Korean: “이스트강”
- Latvian: “Īstrivera”
- Lithuanian: “Rytų upė”
- Min Nan Chinese: “East Kang”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “East River”
- Norwegian: “East River”
- Persian: “رودخانه ایست”
- Polish: “Cieśnina East River”
- Polish: “East River”
- Portuguese: “East River”
- Portuguese: “Rio East”
- Quechua: “Anti mayu”
- Russian: “East river”
- Russian: “East-river”
- Russian: “Ист Ривер”
- Russian: “Ист-Ривер”
- Serbian: “East River”
- Serbian: “Ist River”
- Serbian: “Ист ривер”
- Serbian: “Ист Ривер”
- Serbo-Croatian: “East River”
- Slovak: “East River”
- Slovenian: “East River”
- Spanish: “East River”
- Spanish: “Rio East”
- Spanish: “Río East”
- Spanish: “Rio Este”
- Spanish: “Río Este”
- Swedish: “East River”
- Tagalog: “Ilog Silangan”
- Thai: “แม่น้ำอีสต์”
- Turkish: “East River”
- Ukrainian: “Іст-Ривер”
- Ukrainian: “Іст-Рівер”
- Vietnamese: “sông Đông”
- Vietnamese: “Sông Đông”
- Welsh: “Afon y Dwyrain”
- Western Armenian: “Իսթ գետ”
- Western Frisian: “East River”
- Western Panjabi: “ایسٹ دریا”
- Yiddish: “איסט ריווער”
- Yiddish: “מזרחח טייך”
Places with the Same Name
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Astoria Heliport and Sunken Meadow.
Queens: Must-Visit Destinations
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