What body of water is Brooklyn on?

Brooklyn's water borders are extensive and varied, including Jamaica Bay; the Atlantic Ocean; The Narrows, separating Brooklyn from the borough of Staten Island in New York City and crossed by the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge; Upper New York Bay, separating Brooklyn from Jersey City and Bayonne in the U.S. state of New ...



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An industrial history helps define the Brooklyn area known as DUMBO—short for Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass—on the East River between the Brooklyn and Manhattan bridges.

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Technically it's legal to swim in the East River, although it's also strictly forbidden to actually enter the river. Legalities aside, Mike Dulong, senior attorney for the New York water quality advocacy group Riverkeeper, claims that the East River isn't as unsanitary as the average New Yorker might assume.

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