New York Harbor is a geographic term that refers collectively to the bays and tidal estuaries near the mouth of the Hudson River and adjacent rivers in the vicinity of New York City. In a narrower sense, the term is sometimes taken to refer specifically to Upper New York Bay. [[Image:Libertyskyline.PNG|thumb|300px|right|The Statue of Liberty, icon of the city, rises from Liberty Island in Upper New York Bay in front of the Lower Manhattan skyline. The Statue of Liberty was from 1886 until the jet age often the first sight of the city for European Immigration to the United States.]] In the broad sense, the term may be loosely taken to include the following bodies of water: *Upper New York Bay *Lower New York Bay *Newark Bay *The Narrows *North River (i.e., the lower Hudson River) *East River *Arthur Kill *Kill Van Kull *Jamaica Bay *Raritan Bay *Harlem River In socioeconomic terms, the phrase has historically implied the commercial activity of the port of New York City, including the waterfronts of the five boroughs and nearby cities in New Jersey on the Hudson River. Throughout most of its history, the harbor has been the most important port in the United States and furnished one of the principal means by which passengers and goods were transported to and from New York City and the rest of the country, particularly after the opening of the Erie Canal in 1825. [[Image:New_York_Harbor.jpg|thumb|300px|left|New York Harbor near Jersey City, New Jersey.]] 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 ferry, and tourist excursion boats. A persistent misconception holds that the harbor is largely devoid of marine life. In reality, it supports a great variety of thriving aquatic species. ==See also== *Marine life of New York Harbor *Geography of New York Harbor *Staten Island Ferry *NY Waterway New York City Ports and harbors of the United States
I'm drastically rewriting this page, as it contains numerous factual errors and irrelevant material. Moroever, I am consolidating the discussion of the waterways of New York around the existing page New York Bay, which is the more geographically correct term, and the pages Lower New York Bay and Upper New York Bay. --- User:Decumanus 05:00, 15 Jan 2004 (UTC)
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New York Harbor is a geographic term that refers collectively to the bays and tidal estuaries near the mouth of the Hudson River and adjacent rivers in the vicinity of New York City. In a narrower sense, the term is sometimes taken to refer specifically to Upper New York Bay. [[Image:Libertyskyline.PNG|thumb|300px|right|The Statue of Liberty, icon of the city, rises from Liberty Island in Upper New York Bay in front of the Lower Manhattan skyline. The Statue of Liberty was from 1886 until the jet age often the first sight of the city for European Immigration to the United States.]] In the broad sense, the term may be loosely taken to include the following bodies of water: *Upper New York Bay *Lower New York Bay *Newark Bay *The Narrows *North River (i.e., the lower Hudson River) *East River *Arthur Kill *Kill Van Kull *Jamaica Bay *Raritan Bay *Harlem River In socioeconomic terms, the phrase has historically implied the commercial activity of the port of New York City, including the waterfronts of the five boroughs and nearby cities in New Jersey on the Hudson River. Throughout most of its history, the harbor has been the most important port in the United States and furnished one of the principal means by which passengers and goods were transported to and from New York City and the rest of the country, particularly after the opening of the Erie Canal in 1825. [[Image:New_York_Harbor.jpg|thumb|300px|left|New York Harbor near Jersey City, New Jersey.]] 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 ferry, and tourist excursion boats. A persistent misconception holds that the harbor is largely devoid of marine life. In reality, it supports a great variety of thriving aquatic species. ==See also== *Marine life of New York Harbor *Geography of New York Harbor *Staten Island Ferry *NY Waterway New York City Ports and harbors of the United States
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I'm drastically rewriting this page, as it contains numerous factual errors and irrelevant material. Moroever, I am consolidating the discussion of the waterways of New York around the existing page New York Bay, which is the more geographically correct term, and the pages Lower New York Bay and Upper New York Bay. --- User:Decumanus 05:00, 15 Jan 2004 (UTC)
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