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| image_caption = East River (foreground) and the [[headquarters of the United Nations]] in [[Manhattan]] (background) seen from [[Roosevelt Island]] in December 2006
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The '''East River''' is a saltwater [[Estuary|tidal estuary]] or [[strait]] in [[New York City]]. The waterway, which is actually not a river despite its name, connects [[Upper New York Bay]] on its south end to [[Long Island Sound]] on its north end. It separates [[Long Island]], with the boroughs of [[Brooklyn]] and [[Queens]], from [[Manhattan]] Island, and from [[the Bronx]] on the North American mainland.<ref name=encnyc>Hodges, Godfrey. "East RIver" in Jackson, pp.393–93</ref>
Because of its connection to Long Island Sound, it was once also known as the ''Sound River''.<ref>[[John Montresor|Montrésor, John]] (
==Formation and description==
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