51st Street (Manhattan)
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51st Street is a 1.9-mile (3.1 km) long one-way street traveling east to west across Midtown Manhattan.
Permanent Mission of Equatorial Guinea, located on 51st Street west of 2nd Avenue
Sutton Place Synagogue (Jewish Center for the United Nations)
Greenacre Park
Venezuela consulate (left) and John Peirce Residence (right)
East River
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The East River is a saltwater tidal estuary or strait in New York City. The waterway, which is actually not a river despite its name, connects Upper New York Bay on its south end to Long Island Sound on its north end. It separates Long Island, with the boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens, from Manhattan Island, and from the Bronx on the North American mainland.
East River (foreground) and the headquarters of the United Nations in Manhattan (background) seen from Roosevelt Island in December 2006
A "bird's-eye" view of New York City from 1859; Wallabout Bay and the East River are in the foreground, the Hudson River and New York Bay in the background
The 1885 explosion
A panorama of the suspension section of the Robert F. Kennedy Bridge (left) and the Hell Gate Bridge (right), as seen from Astoria Park in Queens