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East River. Coordinates: 40.700°N 74.005°W. East River. East River (foreground) and the headquarters of the United Nations in Manhattan (background) seen from Roosevelt Island in December 2006. Aerial map of New York City with the East River shown in red. Location.
A video of the Eastern United States taken by the crew of Expedition 29 from the International Space Station as it passed over the region in 2011 A map of the Eastern United States. The Eastern United States, often abbreviated as simply the East, is a macroregion of the United States located to the east of the Mississippi River. [1]
The name "Hell Gate" is a corruption of the Dutch phrase Hellegat.It first appeared on a Dutch map as Helle Gadt. [2] The name was originally applied to the entirety of the East River, by Dutch explorer Adriaen Block, the first European known to have navigated the strait, who bestowed the name sometime during his 1614–1616 voyage aboard the Onrust circumnavigating Long Island, from its ...
New York City Waterfalls along the East River Greenway at Pier 35. The greenway runs along the East Side, from Battery Park and past South Street Seaport to a dead end at 125th Street, East Harlem with a 1.0-mile (1.6 km) gap from 41st to 60th streets in Midtown where pedestrians use busy First and Second Avenues to get around United Nations Headquarters between the Upper East Side and Kips ...
The East River Tunnels are four single-track railroad passenger service tunnels that extend from the eastern end of Pennsylvania Station under 32nd and 33rd Streets in Manhattan and cross the East River to Long Island City in Queens. The tracks carry Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) and Amtrak trains travelling to and from Penn Station and points ...
Lists of crossings of the East River. For crossings of the East River, a tidal strait in New York City, United States, see: List of fixed crossings of the East River (bridges and tunnels) List of ferries across the East River. Categories: Lists of geography lists. Crossings of the East River.
Marsha P. Johnson State Park (formerly and also known as East River State Park) is an 11-acre (4.5 ha) state park [2] in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn in New York City, New York, U.S. The park stretches along the East River near North 7th, 8th, and 9th Streets, with views of the Williamsburg Bridge and Midtown Manhattan .
For the river on the Isle of Wight, see Newtown River. Newtown Creek, a 3.5-mile (6-kilometer) long tributary of the East River, [1] is an estuary that forms part of the border between the boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens, in New York City.