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Great Egret on the southern shore of Staten Island on Lower New York Bay. The geography of New York City is characterized by its coastal position at the meeting of the Hudson River and the Atlantic Ocean in a naturally Coney Island, Brooklyn is visible in the background.

Lower New York Bay is the section of New York Bay outside of The Narrows that flows directly into the Atlantic Ocean via Hudson Canyon, an underwater channel that flows southeast from Lower New York Bay for hundreds of miles into the Atlantic Ocean. New York Bay is the collective term for the marine areas surrounding the entrance of the Hudson River into the Atlantic Ocean. See also Geography and environment of New York City The Narrows is the tidal Strait separating the boroughs of Staten Island and Brooklyn The Hudson Canyon is a Submarine canyon that begins from the shallow outlet of New York Harbor (at the mouth of the Hudson River) and extends

Roughly triangular in shape, it is bounded on the north by Staten Island and Long Island and on the south by mainland New Jersey. Staten Island (ˌstætənˈaɪlənd is a borough of New York City situated primarily on the island of the same name Long Island is an island located in southeastern New York, USA, its western shores directly across from Manhattan, from which the island stretches New Jersey ( is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States. Besides the Hudson River (which empties in to the Lower Bay through the Narrows), the bay is fed by the Arthur Kill and the Raritan River, as well as by several smaller streams. The Hudson River, called Muh-he-kun-ne-tuk, the Great Mohegan by the Iroquois, or as the Lenape Native Americans called it in Unami The Arthur Kill (from the Middle Dutch word kille, meaning "riverbed" or "water channel" is a tidal Strait separating The Raritan River is a major river of central New Jersey in the United States.

The section of the bay near the confluence of the Arthur Kill and the Raritan is called Raritan Bay. Raritan Bay is a Bay located at the confluence of the Raritan River and the Arthur Kill between the U The bay opens out to the ocean between two spits of land, Sandy Hook in New Jersey and Rockaway, Queens on Long Island. Sandy Hook is a barrier peninsula, approximately 97 kilometers (between 6 and 7 miles in length and 800 meters (0 New Jersey ( is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States. The Rockaway Peninsula, also known as The Rockaways, is the name of a peninsula of Long Island, most of which is located within the borough of Queens Long Island is an island located in southeastern New York, USA, its western shores directly across from Manhattan, from which the island stretches

Historically, the Lower Bay has been the primary means of marine access to New York Harbor, and more recently to Port Newark-Elizabeth Marine Terminal. Not to be confused with Port Elizabeth New Jersey Port Newark-Elizabeth Marine Terminal is the name for the port facility in

Since the time of the Lenape Native Americans, the Lower Bay has provided a rich fishing ground, but in the 20th century it was restricted due to pollution. The shannon (later named Delaware Indians by Europeans were in the 17th century organized bands of Native American peoples with shared cultural and linguistic Native Americans in the United States are the indigenous peoples from the regions of North America now encompassed by the continental United States The twentieth century of the Common Era began on In the 19th century, the shallow shoals on the south shore of Staten Island were a rich oyster bed. The 19th century of the Common Era began on January 1, 1801 and ended on December 31, 1900, according to the Gregorian calendar The common name oyster is used for a number of different groups of Bivalve Mollusks most of which live in marine habitats or Brackish water.

The bay contains several popular beaches at Brighton Beach and Coney Island in Brooklyn, as well as the beaches of Sandy Hook, Breezy Point/Jacob Riis Park, and Great Kills Park all of the Gateway National Recreation Area. BrightonCOOPsJPG|thumb|Newly built luxury condos on Brighton Beach]]BrightonSchool1438 Coney Island is a Peninsula, formerly an island in southernmost Brooklyn, New York City, USA with a Beach on the Atlantic Ocean Brooklyn (named after the Dutch town Breukelen) is one of the five boroughs of New York City. Sandy Hook is a barrier peninsula, approximately 97 kilometers (between 6 and 7 miles in length and 800 meters (0 Breezy Point is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens, located on the westward end of the Rockaway Peninsula, between Rockaway Jacob Riis Park in the New York City borough of Queens, is part of the Jamaica Bay Unit of the Gateway National Recreation Area, and managed Gateway National Recreation Area is a 26607 acre (10767 km² National Recreation Area in the New York City metropolitan area.