East River

noun

1. a strait in SE New York separating Manhattan Island from Long Island and connecting New York Bay and Long Island Sound.

Example Sentences

While other presidential candidates have stretched the truth, only one has kidnapped it, bound and gagged it, put it in a barrel and tossed it into the East River.

From Los Angeles Times

The team took 1 litre 'grab samples' of surface water every 3 miles from the East River along the middle of Long Island Sound to The Race, where it meets Rhode Island Sound.

From Science Daily

Like all of the enslaved people who settled into the rented presidential household on Cherry Street near the East River, Ona would have shared rooms on the third floor.

From Literature

He was planning to drive across the East River to the company’s headquarters in the Chrysler Building, where he would check in with his dispatchers who manage his crews.

From New York Times

The police diverted vehicles from the area as protesters hung a pro-Palestinian banner from the bridge over the East River.

From New York Times