New York Harbor, which is a tidally influenced estuary, subject to the mixing of salt water from the ocean with fresh water primarily from the Hudson River. It is divided at the Verrazano Narrows into Upper and Lower New York Bays.
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The short answer is “Yes!” The long answer is that it depends on when and where. Issues like sewage outflow and algal blooms keep many areas along the Hudson from being swimmable, particularly after rainfall.
Seawater from the ocean generally has a salinity level of about 35,000ppm. Freshwater draining into the Hudson River usually has a salinity level of about 25-50ppm.
New York City alone has nearly 23 km of beaches including Rockaway in Queens and Brighton Beach in Brooklyn, most of which are easily reached by bus or ferry from the city centre.
Saving the River's Fish. For schools of migratory shad, sturgeon, river herring, blue crab, menhaden and striped bass, the Hudson is an unimpeded corridor from the Atlantic to their ancestral spawning grounds.
The short answer is “Yes!” The long answer is that it depends on when and where. Issues like sewage outflow and algal blooms keep many areas along the Hudson from being swimmable, particularly after rainfall.