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{{Infobox river
| name = East River
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<!---------------------- IMAGE & MAP -->
| image = East River and UN.jpg
| image_size = 325px
| image_caption = The East River and the [[headquarters of the United Nations]] in [[Manhattan]], as seen from [[Roosevelt Island]]<br>(December 2006)
| map = Wpdms terra east river.jpg
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| map_caption = The East River is shown in red
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<!---------------------- LOCATION -->
| subdivision_type1 = Country
| subdivision_name1 = [[United States]]
| subdivision_type2 = State
| subdivision_name2 = [[New York (state)|New York]]
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| subdivision_type5 = Municipality
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<!---------------------- PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS -->
| length = {{convert|16|mi|km|abbr=on}}
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<!---------------------- BASIN FEATURES -->
| source1 = [[Long Island Sound]]
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| source1_coordinates = {{coord|40.800172|-73.791995|display=inline}}
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| mouth = [[Upper New York Bay]]
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| mouth_coordinates = {{coord|40.700357|-74.003842|display=inline,title}}
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| tributaries_left = [[Newtown Creek]], [[Flushing River]]
| tributaries_right = [[Westchester Creek]], [[Bronx River]],<br />[[Bronx Kill]], [[Harlem River]]
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The '''East River''' is a
==Formation and description==
{{see also|Hell Gate}}
Technically a [[
[[File:PSM V28 D451 Hell gate new york.jpg|thumb|325px|left|A navigation map for [[Hell Gate]] from {{circa|1885}}, after many of the obstructions had been removed
The section known as "Hell Gate" – from the [[Dutch language|Dutch]] name {{lang|nl|Hellegat}} meaning either "bright strait" or "clear opening", given to the entire river in 1614 by explorer [[Adriaen Block]] when he passed through it in his ship ''Tyger''<ref name="fed420">{{cite fednyc}} pp.419–20</ref><ref name=wolfe /> – is a narrow, turbulent, and particularly treacherous stretch of the river.
The river is navigable for its entire length of {{convert|16|mi}}.
The broadness of the river's channel south of Roosevelt Island is caused by the dipping of the hardy [[Fordham gneiss]] underlying the island under the less strong [[Tuckahoe marble|Inwood marble]] which lies under the river bed.<ref name=concrete90 />
===Islands===
[[Roosevelt Island]], a long ({{convert|2|mi|km|adj=on}}) and narrow ({{convert|800|ft}}) landmass, lies in the stretch of the river between Manhattan Island and the borough of [[Queens]] roughly paralleling Manhattan's East 46th–86th Streets. The abrupt termination of the island on its north end is due to an extension of the [[125th Street Fault]].<ref name="concrete90" /> Politically, the island's {{convert|147|acre|km2}} constitute part of the borough of Manhattan. It is connected to Queens by the [[Roosevelt Island Bridge]], to Manhattan by the [[Roosevelt Island Tramway]], and to both boroughs by a [[Roosevelt Island station|subway station]] served by the [[F (New York City Subway service)|F train]]. The [[Queensboro Bridge]] also runs across Roosevelt Island, and an elevator allowing both pedestrian and vehicular access to the island was added to the bridge in 1930, but elevator service was discontinued in 1955 following the opening of the Roosevelt Island Bridge, and the elevator was demolished in 1970.
The largest land mass in the River south of Roosevelt Island is [[U Thant Island]], an artificial islet created during the construction of the [[Steinway Tunnel]] (which currently serves the [[7 (New York City Subway service)|subway's 7 and <7> lines)]]. Officially named Belmont Island after one of the tunnel's financiers, the landmass owes its popular name (after [[Myanmar|Burmese]] diplomat [[U Thant]], former [[Secretary-General of the United Nations]]) to the efforts of a group associated with the guru [[Sri Chinmoy]] that held mediation meetings on the island in the 1970s. Today, the island is owned by New York State and serves as a migratory bird sanctuary that is closed to visitors.
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