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-as of [27 JUNE 2024]–
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-[the narrows] is the ‘tidal strait’ separating the boroughs of ‘staten island’ and ‘brooklyn’ in [new york city]-
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(it connects the ‘upper new york bay’ and ‘lower new york bay’ and forms the principal channel by which the ‘hudson river’ empties into the ‘atlantic ocean’)
(it has long been considered to be the maritime “gateway” to ‘new york city’ and historically has been one of the most important entrances into the harbors of the “port of ‘new york’ and ‘new jersey'”)
(“the narrows” was most likely formed after deposition of the ‘harbor hill moraine’ about 18,000 years ago prior to the end of the last ‘ice age’)
(previously ‘staten island’ and ‘brooklyn’ were connected and the ‘hudson river’ emptied into the ocean through the present course of the ‘raritan river’, by taking a more westerly course through parts of present-day northern ‘new jersey’, along the eastern side of the ‘watchung mountains’ to (‘bound brook’ / ‘new jersey’), and then on into the ‘atlantic ocean’ via ‘raritan bay’)
(a build-up of water in the ‘upper bay’ allowed the river to break through to form ‘the narrows’ less than 12,000 to 13,000 years ago as it exists today)
(the first recorded european entrance into ‘the narrows’ was in ‘1524’ by ‘giovanni da verrazzano’, who set anchor in the strait and was greeted by a group of ‘lenape’, who paddled out to meet him in the ‘strait’)
(in ‘august 1776’, the british forces under ‘william howe’ on ‘staten island’ undertook an amphibious operation across ‘the narrows’ and landed in ‘brooklyn’, where they routed washington’s army at the ‘battle of long island’)
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(in 1964 ‘the narrows’ was spanned by the ‘verrazano-narrows bridge’, the longest ‘suspension bridge’ in the world at the time [and still the longest ‘suspension bridge’ in the ‘united states’ by length of the ‘main span’])
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