East River

English <dab!> thumb|East River (foreground) and the headquarters of the United Nations in Manhattan (background) as seen from Roosevelt Island in December 2006 Etymology en east river New York City From being a river-like channel lying east of en Manhattan New York City Proper noun East River 1 en channel city/New York City r/New York Harbor at the narrow end of sound/Long Island Sound separating isl/Manhattan from isl/Long Island. en Hell Gate en 2010 Emily St. John Mandel The Singer’s Gun Picador (2015) 223 The East River moved over the bedrock riddled with the tunnels of deep underground trains and connected with the Hudson, flowing southeast past the Statue of Liberty, out of New York Harbor and out into the Atlantic. Translations French: fr East River f Russian: ru Ист-Ри́вер m