Mister Antithesis
“Some people are contrarians all the time. Others only when they are right.” — Me
The East River
Technically, it connects the Upper New York Bay on its south end to the Long Island Sound on its north end.It’s an ESTUARY!
New York City’s rivers are more complicated even than that.
The East River really is a “tidal strait” — you could think of it as a natural canal. It doesn’t flow at all except tidally, like the chilaquiles at Shopsin’s.
But the lower part of the Hudson River is ALSO tidal — it’s the “estuary” you’re thinking of. Above Troy, N.Y., the northern part of the Hudson River really is a river, and of course a river flows into an ocean. The transitional region where the river meets the ocean is affected by tides from the ocean AND the flow of the river — and that’s called an estuary.
So New York City has two rivers and also no rivers. But they are not rivers in two different ways!
You can see that New York City was already pretty fucked up long before Williamsburg.
