Newark Bay is a tidal bay at the confluence of the Passaic and Hackensack Rivers in northeastern New Jersey. It is home to the Port Newark-Elizabeth Marine Terminal, the largest container shipping fac
Port Newark is seen in the foreground looking northeast across the bay to Jersey City and the Manhattan borough of New York City.
Upper Bay Bridge and Newark Bay Bridge. New Jersey Turnpike and Interstate 78. Oak Island Yard and Port Newark in foreground with Bayonne and Staten Island seen in the distance.
The CRRNJ Newark Bay Bridge, demolished in the 1980s, crossed to Elizabethport, seen in the distance.
Bergen Point looking northwest to Elizabeth Marine Terminal
New York Harbor is a tidal body of water forming the upper part of New York Bay within the New York–New Jersey Harbor Estuary. Located on the East Coast of the United States at the mouth of the Hudson
Newark Bay
…and Rockaway Point is approximately 11 miles (18 km) away and reached by tidal straits dredged to maintain shipping lanes. Newark Bay is connected to Upper New York Bay by the Kill Van Kull and to Raritan Bay by the Arthur Kill. The names of the channels reflect the period of Dutch colonialization. The area around the…
Upper New York Bay highlighted in red. It is connected to Lower New York Bay on the south by the Narrows. Ellis Island (north) and Liberty Island (south) are shown in the northwest corner of the bay.
New York Harbor and Upper New York Bay (right), Hudson River (lower left), and East River (upper left) in April 2013
Wallabout Bay and East River (foreground), Hudson River (at right), Upper New York Bay (left) and Newark Bay in the distance in April 1981
New Amsterdam, 1660: early East River docks along left bottom; protective wall against the British on right. West is at top. (Castello Plan redraft)