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The East River is a tidal strait in New York City connecting Upper New York Bay on its south end to Long Island Sound on its north end. It separates Long Island (the boroughs of Queens and Brooklyn) from the island of Manhattan and the Bronx.

In reference to its connection to Long Island Sound, it was once also known as the Sound River.

The river is spanned by eight bridges, which from north to south are:

• Throgs Neck Bridge
• Bronx-Whitestone Bridge
• Hell Gate Bridge
• Triborough Bridge
• Roosevelt Island Bridge (east channel only)
• Queensboro BridgeQueensborough Bridge and Midtown Manhattan, New York The Queensboro Bridge is a cantilever bridge over the East River in New York City. It connects the neighborhood of Long Island City in the borough of Queens with Manhattan, passing over Roosevelt Island
• Williamsburg BridgeThe Williamsburg Bridge is a bridge in New York City across the East River connecting Manhattan at Delancey St. with the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn on Long Island at Interstate 278. Construction on the bridge began in 1896. and opened on Decemb
• Manhattan BridgeEast River The Manhattan Bridge is a suspension bridge that crosses the East River in New York City. This bridge was completed on December 31, 1909 and was designed and built by Polish bridge engineer Ralph Modjeski with the deflection cable design by Leo
• Brooklyn BridgeThe Brooklyn Bridge is one of the oldest suspension bridges in the United States, spanning the East River from Manhattan to Brooklyn. 6016 feet (1834 m) long, it was opened for use on May 24, 1883, after 14 years of construction. On that first day a total.

A total of thirteen tunnelSwitzerland subway. canal tunnel. A tunnel is an underground passage. When designed for use by traffic, it may be called an underpass . It may be for pedestrians and/or cyclists, for general road traffic, for motor vehicles only, for rail traffic, or fors run under the East River. Two of them, the Brooklyn-Battery TunnelThe Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel is a toll road in New York City which crosses under the East River at its mouth and connects the Boroughs of Brooklyn and Manhattan, passing under but providing no access to Governor's Island. It consists of twin tubes, carryin and Queens-Midtown Tunnel, carry automobile traffic. One carries inter-city and commuter railroad traffic connecting to Penn StationFor the Pennsylvania Station in Newark, New Jersey or Baltimore, Maryland, see Pennsylvania Station (Newark) or Pennsylvania Station (Baltimore). Pennsylvania Station is one of New York City's main railway stations. Commonly known as "Penn Station," it is. The remaining ten carry subway traffic .

The Bronx River drains into the East River in the northern section of the strait.

North of Ward's Island , it is joined by the Bronx Kill. Along the east of Ward's Island, at approximately the strait's midpoint, the it narrows into a channel called Hell Gate, which is spanned by both the Triborough Bridge and the Hell Gate Bridge. On the south side of Ward's Island, it is joined by the Harlem River.

The East River contains a number of islands, including:

• Upper section
  • Riker's Island
  • North Brother Island
  • South Brother Island
• Lower Section
  • Ward's Island and Randall's Island (joined by landfill)
  • Roosevelt Island
  • U Thant Island (Belmont Island)

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