Lower New York Bay

Beach of the bay from the Wolfe's Pond Park

1: Hudson River, 2: East River, 3: Long Iceland Sound, 4 Newark Bay, 5: Upper New York Bay, 6: Lower New York Bay, 7: Jamaica Bay, 8: Atlantic

The Lower New York Bay is a bay outside the harbor of New York City. With the Upper New York Bay it is connected by the strait The Narrows. This is the outer part of the New York Bay and connects the Port of New York and the Atlantic.

Location

The bay forms a triangle that is open to the Atlantic. On the western side lies the island of Staten Iceland and New Jersey, the bay extends to the Sandy Hook peninsula. On the eastern side there is Brooklyn, the bay here ranges up to the top of the Rockaway Peninsula. On the southern side of the bay is divided into the Raritan Bay and Sandy Hook Bay. Due to their shape and position, and therefore provides the Lower New York Bay little protection for ships, only behind The Narrows is protection granted.

There are numerous parks and beaches on the bay. These include Brighton Beach and Coney Iceland in Brooklyn, the beaches of Sandy Hook, Breezy Point and the parks Jacob Riis Park, Wolfe 's Pond Park, Great Kills Park and the Cheesequake State Park in Old Bridge.

In the bay there are two small artificial islands at the mouth of the Hudson River, in the district of South Beach on Staten Iceland. Hoffman and Swinburne Iceland Iceland were built as a quarantine island to immigrants with contagious diseases to separate arrived at Ellis Iceland.

Additional information is found in the bay and on the banks of numerous lighthouses. Are located on the coast of New Jersey Chapel Hill Rear Range Light, Conover Beacon, Great Beds Light, Navesink Twin Lights and Sandy Hook Light. Are located on the coast of New York Coney Iceland Light, New Dorp Lighthouse, Princes Bay Light and Staten Iceland and Light in the bay are the Old Orchard Shoal Light and the West Bank Light.

Physical parameters

In the bay there is a river estuary in the few large rivers such as the Hudson River and the Newark Bay and Kill Van Kull to the Passaic River and Hackensack River through the strait The Narrows and drain the Arthur krill. The water through the large opening to the Atlantic a relatively high exchange and a high salt content. The pollution from the rivers and the harbor is reflected in the high nutrient concentration and the high bacterial load in the water. The mean tidal range in the bay is around one meter.

History

The first Europeans sailed into the bay, the Italian Giovanni da Verrazzano was. He sailed on behalf of the French king Francis I in 1524 into the bay and anchored off Staten Iceland. After he was named the Verrazano -Narrows Bridge over The Narrow. In the coming years, further explorers, although not explored or described the bay came. It was only when Henry Hudson arrived in the bay in 1609 examined and he described it and then sailed up the Hudson River high. He published the first complete description of the bay.