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1 Rivers and Streams

• Alley Creek
• Bronx River
• Coney Island Creek
• Dutch Kills
• English Kills
• Fresh Kills
• Gowanus Canal (formerly Gowanus Creek)
• Hackensack River
• Hudson River ( North River)
• Hutchinson River
• Luyster Creek
• Main Creek
• Maspeth Creek
• Newton Creek
• Passaic River
• Rahway River
• Raritan River
• Richmond CreekRichmond Creek may refer to: Richmond Creek in Staten Island, New York in the United States Richmond Creek in Suffolk County, New York.
• Sherman Creek
• Smith Creek
• Springville Creek

2 Tidal Straits

• Anchorage Channel
• Arthur KillCarteret, New Jersey in the background. A small creek is visible in the foreground. The Arthur Kill kill is old Dutch word for "water channel") is a tidal strait separating Staten Island from mainland New Jersey. Throughout history, it has also been known
• Bronx KillBronx Kill is a narrow strait in New York City delineating the southernmost extent of The Bronx and separating it from Randalls Island. It connects the Harlem River to the East River. See Kill (body of water). New York City.
• Buttermilk ChannelThe Buttermilk Channel is a small tidal strait, approximately one mile long and one-fourth of a mile wide, separating Governors Island from Brooklyn in Upper New York Bay. Historically it has been a busy shipping lane and the most convenient access to the
• East RiverThis entry is about the East River in New York City. For other uses, please see East River (disambiguation). 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 separat
• Grass Hassock Channel
• Harlem RiverThe Harlem River is a tidal strait in New York City that flows 8 miles between the East River and the Hudson River, separating the borough of Manhattan from the Bronx and Queens. Part of the current course of the Harlem River is the Harlem River Ship Cana
• Hell GateHell Gate is a narrow tidal channel in the East River in New York City in the United States. It separates Ward's Island and Astoria, Queens. It was spanned in 1917 by the New York Connecting Railroad Bridge (now called the Hell Gate Bridge , which connect
• Kill Van KullThe Kill Van Kull is shown here in red, connencting Newark Bay with Upper New York Bay The Kill Van Kull is a tidal strait approximately 3 miles long and 1000 feet wide separating Staten Island and Bayonne, New Jersey. The name kill comes from an old Dutc
• Long Island Sound
• The Narrows
• Pumpkin Patch Channel
• Rockaway Inlet
• Spuyten Devil