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  Upper New York Bay - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It is connected to Lower New York Bay on the south by the Narrows.
Upper New York Bay, sometimes called Upper New York Harbor or the Upper Bay, is the northern area of New York Harbor inside the Narrows.
Entering the Upper Bay by a passenger ship provides for the first glimpse of the Statue of Liberty and became the hallmark image representing the immigrant experience during the late 19th and early 20th century.
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 New York Bay - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
New York Bay is the collective term for the marine areas surrounding the entrance of the Hudson River into the Atlantic Ocean.
Its two largest components are Upper New York Bay and Lower New York Bay, which are connected by the Narrows.
The term New York Harbor is sometimes taken to be identical to New York Bay.
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 New York Harbor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
New York Harbor is a geographic term that refers collectively to the bays and tidal estuaries near the mouth of the Hudson and adjacent rivers in the vicinity of New York City.
Since the 1950s, New York City proper as a commercial port has been almost completely eclipsed by the container ship facility at nearby Port Newark-Elizabeth Marine Terminal in Newark Bay, which is the largest such port on the Eastern Seaboard.
New York City is still serviced by several cruise lines, commuter ferries, and tourist excursion boats.
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 New York City
New York City is at the heart of the New York metropolitan area, with a population of around 22 million.
Prior to 1898, New York City consisted of Manhattan and the Bronx, which was annexed by the city from southern Westchester County in two separate actions: the western portion in 1874, and the remaining portion in 1895.
Upper New York Bay is surrounded by Manhatttan, Brooklyn, Staten Island, and the coast of New Jersey, and is connected by the Narrows between Brooklyn and Staten Island to Lower New York Bay, which is partially surrounded by Brooklyn, Staten Island, and the coast of New Jersey, and is open to the Atlantic Ocean.
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 MSN Encarta - Ellis Island
From Ellis it passed to New York State; it was bought from the state by the federal government in 1808, and for a time it served as the site of a federal arsenal.
In 1993 the State of New Jersey sued the State of New York, asserting that the portions of the 11-hectare (27-acre) island that had been filled in between 1898 and 1905 were part of New Jersey.
New Jersey based its claim on an 1834 agreement that established the boundaries between the two states.
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 New York City   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
New York City : At 309 square miles, New York City is the largest city in the United States, and one of the largest in the world.
New York City went on to become (after the American Revolution) the first capital city of the United States (1785-1790), and (later) "The Big Apple".
The New York Mets fared a bit differently than the Yankees did in the early years of baseball.
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 MSN Encarta - Manhattan (New York)
Manhattan (New York), borough of New York City, coextensive with New York County, southeastern New York, at the head of Upper New York Bay.
The main economic hub of New York City, Manhattan is one of the world’s leading commercial, financial, cultural, manufacturing, medical, and tourist centers.
The Upper West Side, located adjacent to the western part of the park and including a portion of Riverside Dr., is another major residential area.
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 Upper New York Bay   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Upper New York Bay, sometimes called Upper New York Harbor or theUpper Bay, is the northern area of New York Harbor inside the Narrows.
The reef was historically one of the largest oyster beds in the world and provided a staple for the diet of all classes of citizens of New York until the end of the Nineteenth Century,when the beds succumbed to pollution.
Entering the Upper Bay by a passenger ship provides for the first glimpse of the Statue of Liberty and became the hallmark image representing the immigrant experience during the late Nineteenth Century and early Twentieth Century.
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 About New York City   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
New York City is subdivided into five boroughs that are coextensive with five counties of New York State.
A fleet of English warships seized New Amsterdam in the same year, and the settlement was renamed New York in honor of the duke.
From 1785 to 1790 New York was the seat of the U.S. government.
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 New York Bay. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
New York Bay is divided into Upper and Lower Bay, which are connected by the Narrows, a strait (c.3 mi/4.8 km long; 1 mi/1.6 km wide) separating Staten Island from Brooklyn.
Upper Bay, c.5.5 mi (8.8 km) in diameter, is joined to Newark Bay (to the west) by Kill Van Kull and to Long Island Sound by the East River.
Historically one of the world’s busiest harbors with port facilities on all shores, the New Jersey waterfront is now the most active (see Port Authority of New York and New Jersey).
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 Upper New York Bay - Definition up Erdmond.Com
Upper New York Bay, sometimes called Upper New York Harbor or the Upper Bay, is the northern area of New_York_Harbor inside the Narrows.
The reef was historically one of the largest oyster beds in the world and provided a staple for the diet of all classes of citizens of New_York_City until the end of the 19th_century,when the beds succumbed to pollution.
Entering the Upper Bay by a passenger ship provides for the first glimpse of the Statue_of_Liberty and became the hallmark image representing the immigrant experience during the late 19th and early 20th_century.
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 Liberty Island --  Encyclopædia Britannica
It was one of the original 13 states and is one of the six New England states.
county, northeastern New Jersey, U.S. It constitutes a low-lying coastal region bounded by the Hackensack and Passaic rivers to the west, Newark Bay to the southwest, Kill Van Kull to the south, and Upper New York Bay and the Hudson River to the east.
New York holds a preeminent position among the 50 states of the nation.
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 MSN Encarta - Search Results - New York Bay   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
New York Bay, inlet of the Atlantic Ocean, southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River.
Enclosed by New Jersey and the New York City...
Oyster Bay (New York), town, Nassau County, southeastern New York, on Long Island; settled 1639, incorporated 1653.
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Known as Kings County, it is separated from Manhattan by the East River and borders the borough of Queens to the north and the east.
Bay Ridge, bordered to the west by the water of the Narrows, still affords its residents a grandstand seat to beautiful views.
The New Utrecht Reformed Church, (1827 84 Street) is a Georgian Gothic structure constructed in 1828 as the center of the original Dutch settlement.
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 Liberty, Statue of --  Encyclopædia Britannica
colossal statue on Liberty Island in the Upper New York Bay, U.S., commemorating the friendship of the peoples of the United States and France.
New York is the most ethnically diverse, religiously varied, commercially driven, famously congested, and, in the eyes of many, the most attractive urban centre in the country.
Standing sentinel in New York Bay is the Statue of Liberty, which many consider the symbol of New York if not of the United States itself (see Liberty, Statue of).
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New York Harbor Police boat Patrol capturing pirates / Thomas A. Edison, Inc.
This was probably filmed in the southern part of the Upper New York Bay looking towards the Narrows, with Fort Lafayette partly visible in the far background.
The subject is a simulated capture by the police gunboat "Patrol" of three "pirates" in a rowboat.
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 Lower New York Bay Definition / Lower New York Bay Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Lower New York Bay is the section of New York BayNew York Bay is the collective term for the marine areas surrounding the entrance of the Hudson River into the Atlantic Ocean.
It connects the upper and lower sections of New York Bay and forms the principal channel by which the Hudson River empties into the Atlantic Ocean.
Lower New York Bay is the section of New York Bay outside of the Narrows and open directly to the Atlantic Ocean.
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 Oyster Bay New York - Local area business directory. Local services.
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Oyster Bay Cove, New York Oyster Bay Cove is a village located in Nassau County, New York.
Upper New York Bay Upper New York Bay, sometimes called Upper New York Harbor or theUpper Bay, is the northern area of New York Harbor inside the Narrows.
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 New York Naval Shipyard   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The New York Naval Shipyard, popularly and unofficially known as the Brooklyn Navy Yard, was at different times in its history also officially designated as the New York Navy Yard and United States Navy Yard, New York.
The former New York Naval Shipyard is located 1.7 miles northeast of the Battery on the Brooklyn side of the East River in Wallabout Basin.
The East River is 14-mile long tidal straight that connects Long Island Sound with New York Upper Bay and seperates the western end of Long Island from the New York mainland.
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 The Political Graveyard: Hudson County, N.J.
Interment at Bayview - New York Bay Cemetery.
New Jersey state senate 31st District, 2004; died in office 2004.
U.S. Representative from New Jersey 14th District, 1955-57; defeated, 1956; superior court judge in New Jersey, 1967-72.
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 AllRefer.com - Ellis Island, United States (Miscellaneous U.S. Geography) - Encyclopedia
Ellis Island, island, c.27 acres (10.9 hectares), in Upper New York Bay, SW of Manhattan island.
Government-controlled since 1808, it was long the site of an arsenal and a fort, but most famously served (1892–1954) as the chief immigration station of the United States.
In 1998 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that, pursuant to an 1834 interstate compact, only the original 3.3 acres (1.3 hectares) belong to New York, the remainder (created by landfill operations) belongs to New Jersey.
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 NY/NJ Baykeeper: Protecting The Hudson-Raritan Estuary
The best known part of the Estuary (You can view it from Manhattan's Battery Park), the Upper Bay is fed by the Hudson and East rivers, and is the busiest harbor complex in the world.
It is enfolded by New Jersey's Hudson County, Staten Island, Brooklyn, and Manhattan and drains into the Lower New York Bay.
The Hudson Riverkeeper is active on the river, and Baykeeper works with this partner on land use, port development, industrial and municipal CSO pollution, access and other issues, especially on the New Jersey side of the river.
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 EPA: Federal Register: Security Zones; New York Marine Inspection Zone and Captain of the Port Zone
Background and Purpose On September 11, 2001 three commercial aircraft were hijacked and flown into the World Trade Center in New York City, and the Pentagon, inflicting catastrophic human casualties and property damage.
In addition, the ongoing hostilities in Afghanistan and growing tensions within Iraq have made it prudent for U.S. ports and properties of national significance to be on a higher state of alert because the al Qaeda organization and other similar organizations have declared an ongoing intention to conduct armed attacks on U.S. interests worldwide.
The Coast Guard is establishing temporary security zones around the Stapleton Homeport Pier in Upper New York Bay, the New York City Passenger Ship Terminal and Intrepid Museum in the Hudson River.
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 Free Term Papers on New York City
New York is on the eastern coast of America and consists mainly of islands, located at where the Hudson River meets Upper New York Bay and the Atlantic Ocean.
Since the decline in the garment industry which was prominent in New York, many of the unskilled have not been able to get a job.
New York City manages one of the largest urban park system in the country, with 10,725 hectares of playgrounds, fields, tennis courts, and beaches.
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Never-before-known details of the Quaternary geology and its antecedent topography in the New York Harbor waterways west of Upper New York Bay are being revealed by our geologic and geophysical surveys.
These rocks include schist, gneiss and serpentinite just west of the Upper New York Bay and the Triassic-Jurassic Newark Group sandstones and shales intruded by the Palisades diabase sill and associated basaltic sills in western Kill van Kull and Newark Bay.
This study was guided by maps and cross sections from an earlier compilation of the pre-1999 boring data presented in the USACE New York District's 1999 Feasibility Report for New York and New Jersey Harbor Navigation Study.
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